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Mimi Spencer

Mimi Spencer writes on matters of style - fashion, beauty, women's issues, food, restaurants, showbusiness, entertainment, celebrity, travel and the curious ways of the world

June 2010

  • Finca el Moro

    Set your family free: rural bliss in Spain

    Mimi Spencer's clan find peace and harmony on a remote finca in the Andalucian hills

May 2010

  • Visitors enjoy dining outside alfresco style in the North Laine area of Brighton UK June 2007

    Brighton: the insider's guide

    Where to eat, swim and fly your kite in Britain's coolest town

May 2009

  • Nice bit of skirt

    No longer the preserve of teens and Wags, a skirt that stops above the knee is now the uniform for every woman. Mimi Spencer explains the new rules for legs

March 2009

  • Michelle Obama, Christina Hendricks and Kate Winslet

    The end of thin

    Has a love of voluptuousness triumphed over size-zero mania? Anti-dieting author Mimi Spencer says it has

June 2008

  • Is breast really best?

    What's happened to the bosom? Once kept safely under wraps, now - pushed up, plunging and proud - it's paraded as never before. But can you have too much of a boob thing, asks Mimi Spencer

February 2008

  • 50 fashion questions you should be asking right now

    Stumped by spring's new clothes? Fashion expert Mimi Spencer has set up wonderstuff.co.uk, a website dedicated to answering those conundrums of style that can keep a girl awake at night. Here, she explains what to buy and what not to wear this season

December 2007

  • The year our handbag habit got out of control

    Selfridges reports that the average price of its designer bags is now £850 - up 55 per cent since 2005. Stop for a moment. £850. For a bag. Have we gone round the twist? asks Mimi Spencer

October 2007

  • Ohmigod! I forgot to bleach!

    Wax, bleach, laser all you like: the moustache rules OK.

September 2007

  • Grown-up chic, belts and big knits, jodhpurs and jackets - yes, it's time to put your clothes back on

    Big changes are afoot in the fashion universe this season - hemlines have dropped, jackets are back and there's minimal flesh on display. It's a scary time for Wags. By Mimi Spencer.

August 2007

  • Just popping out to the sex shop ...

    These days, shopping for an erotic DVD and a pair of fluffy handcuffs is just like browsing at Dolce and Gabbana, says Mimi Spencer.

May 2007

  • How to be a fashionable foodie in six easy steps

    Mimi Spencer on the latest developments in food ethics, allotment sorrel and the most expensive way to get drunk.

April 2007

  • Is green the new black?

    Do you know the difference between lo-carb and low carbon? Are your knickers fairtrade? Is your chard organic? Take our eco quiz and find out your green rating. By Mimi Spencer.

March 2007

  • The easiest, cheapest way to update your look for spring? A silver shift!

    There are some odd things in the shops right now. Winkle-pickers. Urban turbans. Articulated metal leggings. Neon. What's a girl to do? What's a girl to wear? You have questions. Mimi Spencer has answers.

January 2007

  • Tobago

    To Spain again or Tobago?

    They'd done the usual camping trips and the villas on the Med. But was it worth getting the family to spread its wings? Mimi Spencer put it to the test.

December 2006

  • Drakes hotel, Brighton

    Mr and Mrs Smith got married

    ... in the most heavenly hotel, naturally. For this is the couple who have left no duvet unturned in the search for places providing that personal touch. Mimi Spencer plays gooseberry.

  • TV and radio blog
    Even at Christmas, the devil has the best tunes

    Spinal Tap's spoof satanic song may have been dropped by the BBC - but this one goes all the way up to 11.

  • How shopping has taken over our lives

    Mimi Spencer on the nation's new compulsive disorder.

November 2006

October 2006

  • A legend in its own lunchtime

    It may not serve the showiest food in town, but Le Caprice, 25 years old this month, still pulls in the A list. Mimi Spencer drops by to meet the regulars, and asks - what's so special about Table Nine?

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