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Helen Draycott Advertiser 10 Feb 11
Walsall’s very own Mr England is set to make his acting debut on the silver-screen after landing his first-ever movie role.
Vaughan Bailey, who originally hails from Bentley, will star as a hunky male stripper in the gritty British movie Rough and Ready.
The 23-year-old will play the character of ‘Mr Excalibur’ after a successful screen test for the role in the film, which is being shot in Yorkshire and London.
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Walsall College 13 Jan 11
A Walsall College Hairdressing student has recently snipped to success in the hairdressing industry, by opening a brand new salon in Walsall.
Rachel Randhawa, a second year Foundation Degree in Salon Business Management student, has used the skills she has been acquiring on her course to open the Lussh Hair & Beauty salon on George St in St Matthews Quarter, Walsall.
Staffed entirely by former Walsall College students, Lussh Hair & Beauty will specialise in providing a high quality service to customers, offering the full range of hair, beauty and nail treatments…
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BBC Black Country 5 Jan 11
As we wrap up in the winter weather, a display at Walsall Museum shows how women managed to keep warm but stay fashionable in the mid-20th century.
The exhibition called ‘A Chill in the Air’ includes winter clothing from the 1920s to the 1960s. The woollen dresses, skirts, jumpers and cardigans are part of the museum’s Hodson Shop collection.
The collection is made up of the unsold stock of a small draper’s shop that traded in Willenhall until about 1970…
Business
Diane Parkes B'ham Mail 21 Dec 10
Walsall fashion designer Luke Roper has taken a top industry prize in the year his company celebrates its tenth birthday. The former Shire Oak School pupil saw his menswear brand Luke win the Young Fashion Brand of the Year 2010 at the Drapers Awards.
And while the 33-year-old creator, whose design studio is in Aldridge, is pleased to receive the award he is certainly not sitting on his laurels as 2010 and 2011 look to be big years for the company…
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Helen Draycott Advertiser 2 Dec 10
A Walsall College fashion student is hoping to be crowned queen of the catwalk after her designs made it through to the finals of a prestigious competition.
Rosannah Hines, who is studying HND Fashion, is one of just 10 finalists who have cut, sewn and out-stitched hundreds of other students to battle for the title of Young Designer of the Year…
Feature
Advertiser 25 Nov 10
'I want to be the Gok Wan of hairdressing'
A hairdresser from Walsall is out to prove he is head and shoulders above the rest as he tries to launch his own TV programme.
Stylist David James can usually be found in his salon in Lichfield Road, Walsall Wood. But the enthusiastic 26-year-old is aiming to get on the television – and be the hairdressing world’s answer to Gok Wan…
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Daily Mail 29 Sep 10
A Walsall model has gone from sidewalk to catwalk after being plucked from a life on the streets to be crowned ‘Mr England’.
Vaughan Bailey, 23, has enjoyed a glitzy lifestyle rubbing shoulders with the stars since winning the prestigious title.
But just a few years ago, Mr Bailey was forced to sleep on park benches and rely on handouts from friends…
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Express & Star 18 May 10
When 36-year-old Mandy Dosanjh from Chuckery was hand-picked by fashion guru Gok Wan as the one most in need of a makeover out of all the Black Country applicants for his show Gok’s Fashion Fix, she could not help but feel insulted.
But after undergoing the Gok experience, Mandy now says it has totally changed her life and self-image…
See Mandy on Gok’s Fashion Fix on May 25 at 8pm on Channel 4
Feature
Mercury 24 Feb 10
Brownhills Supermodel Erin O’Connor has teamed up with Hovis to help keep models looking good, feeling good and eating healthy. The model who founded The Model Sanctuary, an oasis for models away from the catwalk, is supporting the trend and has worked with Hovis to devise a ‘British Fashion Wheat’ sandwich using bread made from flour milled from 100% British Wheat which will be on offer to models at the secret location…
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Lucy Siegle Observer 24 Jan 10
A home workers’ collective in Delhi is sparking a revolution in the rag trade. Brownhills supermodel and Traid spokesperson Erin O’Connor reveals how it is giving thousands of skilled women the chance of a better life.
I have by no means met an exhaustive list of top models, but enough of them to be slightly on edge as I trudge through the horizontal sleet on my way to meet Erin O’Connor. In the event, any fear is needless because she really is different. She is warm, funny and at no point stares at me as if she can’t believe someone with hat-hair has the audacity to make eye contact. She is also pleasingly self-assured, so I’m surprised when she admits she was “full of nerves and trepidation” when she turned up in East Delhi to meet women working in the garment trade who are part of an innovative and revolutionary ethical fashion experiment…