The dark side of following your dreams
Just because I have made my dream into a job doesn’t mean it is all glitz and glam (follow me on my Instagram feed). Running Mums in Heels is 90 percent pure joy, excitement, and learning. The other 10 percent is like that of peeling off [...]
New Year, New You – Fashion Trends 2017
by Kathy Patellis Schmidt, Style Etc. Boutique Yes, snow is beautiful and all that, but quite frankly I am done with winter and totally ready for spring. If nothing else because it means we can finally get that spring coat out and the winter boots off! [...]
Modern Mum Inspiration or how to stay eager for another winter month
As we quickly approach February, you'll soon realize you've exhausted many of your ideas to keep yourself motivated, inspired and excited about the new begging and the new year. You might have as well exhausted your go-to outfit combinations throughout this month and now you may [...]
S.U.P.P.O.R.T
By Becky Clifford / Photography Elizabeth D'Alessandro One thing that I think helps in this magnificent union of “mum” and “entrepreneur” thing is the process of creating a positive support system around you. You don’t even have to be both. We all need support. Yet sometimes [...]
What’s your one word theme for 2017
I recently read a story about a 60-year old woman walking into a store to buy shoes. After some time being offered by the 20- something sales girl platform shoes and high heel pumps, she turned and tapped the girl on the shoulder saying: I am [...]
The tale of Jing Su and her fashion moments at Maison Gassmann
Photography Elizabeth D’Allesandro / Styling Kathy Patellis-Schmidt When I meet Jing Su (Sophie for most of her friends in Switzerland) for the first time she reminds me of the exquisite pen-and-watercolor scenes from the Chinese folktale The Shell Woman and the King. Just like the beautiful Shell, Sophie [...]
New Experience – New You or winter massage therapy
By Anna Streule (Note from the Founder: Is our editor-in-chief becoming a beautyholic? Leave a note in the comments) You may not think that having a hot stone massage is a particularly big deal. And to some people it is not. To me, it was [...]
What makes mothers successful entrepreneurs
Photography by German Osorio Sometimes you go for a business meeting with the intention to get things done and move on, but things just click and it gets personal—like a first date gone really well. You know, the other person is just so cool and [...]
How to empower your own life and make a difference
or WHAT KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT It’s 4 am in the morning and lie wide awake in the middle of the bed, while my husband sleeps soundly on my side. I keep tracking in my mind what I have on my list for tomorrow: [...]
What do you get when you pair a tuxedo with stilettos?
by Becky Clifford As a child, the only tuxedos I saw were on my Ken doll or my dad when he got dressed up and my mom would joke about having to get his “tails” dry cleaned after he wore them to a church or [...]
The Globaltrotter in Heels
Marion Wild is one of our Modern Iconic Moms with a global mind, adventurous heart and a life on purpose. Today she lives with her family in Zurich, runs a contemporary art gallery and enjoys from time to time her short escape in serenity of the [...]
The new luxury or does age really matter
I don’t know about you but whenever I hear that age is just a state of mind I get kind of irritated. This is not because I am afraid of ageing or because I have lost my beautiful young body. In fact, most of my [...]