Model: Mary at Select Models

Make-up: Maddie Austin

Hair: Valerie Benavides

Creative direction and styling: Naomi Mdudu

Photographer: Paul Whitfield

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I'll admit it. I'm a big sucker for Covetique. Launched last year, the website delivers a finely tuned assortment of pre-owned pieces from your favourite brands (think Stella McCartney and Isabel Marant for purse-friendly prices) and with that in mind, I come baring good news.

If you were wondering where I've been over the last few days, this is it. As of this season The Fash Pack is teaming up with Covetique to serve as their first official fashion week insider. I'll be reporting backstage and front of house at all of the big shows in London and Paris on the Covetique blog and on their Twitter and Instgram (covetiquefashion) accounts too.

Stay tuned for updates!

Image by Abi Marvel

Last week the lovely Abi Marvel invited me, and four of my favourite bloggers, to play dress up at The Outnet offices. The idea behind the afternoon was for us to pick out our favourite pieces from the retailers' current offerings that reflected how we would dress for three specific summer occasions.

The first was a day out shopping and I opted for a bright pink neon Christopher Kane dress from a few seasons ago, which, after a lot of convincing from the girls and the Outnet team, I fell in love with. As someone who doesn't tend to steer to far from black, opting for pink and neon was a big step out of my comfort zone but I'm now convinced.

Next up was a festival theme so true to form I chose a fringed Maison Martin Margiela gillet, teamed with a simple tee from Alexander Wang, lattice tank from J. Crew and the most amazing chain mail necklace from Fiona Paxton. Saying that, my favourite outfit of the afternoon was a black Emanuel Ungaro halter neck dress that I still can't stop thinking about.

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My name is Naomi and I am a magazine junkie, no seriously, but despite my penchant for a magazine or six, I can either take or leave the summer issues. Last week I did my regular skim through the latest issues and the features sounded familiar. Why? Well, because they're the same stories that they are at this time every year.

Don't believe me? Have a look through the July issues of your favourite magazines and you'll be hard pressed to find a feature that is not along the lines of giving last minute tips to get that summer body or holiday skin tips and the like. Don't get me wrong, naturally these are issues that come along with the summer weather but it's as if for three months every year readers are no longer interested in wider features. Instead, our concerns are perceived as stopping at whether to go for a full Brazilian wax or French.

Eva Wiseman spoke about something similar in a recent article for the Guardian online, where she wrote that magazines seem to be in a time warp, with cover stories not generally breaking new ground beyond 'her diet, what she's wearing and who she's going out with.'

Am I the only one desperate for a shake-up?

Naomi Mdudu/The Fash Pack

Model: Kika Rose at Models 1

Creative Director and Stylist: Naomi Mdudu

Make-up artist: Maddie Austin

Hair stylist: Valerie Benavides

Photographer: Paul Whitfield

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Image by Naomi Mdudu/The Fash Pack

Image by Naomi Mdudu/The Fash Pack