The Miranda Holder

The Miranda Holder The Feel Good Fashion Coach
A Style & Spirit Guide for the Modern Goddess
Fashion Columnist for the

International Stylist, Freelance Writer & Presenter

Fashion & Beauty Editor for International Excellence Magazine and Streets Magazine

Delivering luxury fashion and personal styling, colour analysis and makeup in London and beyond.

06/09/2026

The cutest hack in the royal playbook, and it isn’t really about photographs.

Watch her feet. The serene face, the perfect posture, and underneath, the fastest little shuffle you’ve ever seen. A swan gliding across the water, paddling like anything below.

That’s most of us, isn’t it? Graceful on the surface, paddling underneath. The lesson isn’t that the paddling stops when you get good at this. It’s that it happens to everyone, even her, and the composure is real anyway.

Try the shuffle at the next wedding. Nobody will notice. That’s rather the point.

Mx

Yesterday I told you I’d decided what to do with all this quiet. So here it is.The September Homecoming... thirty days o...
03/09/2026

Yesterday I told you I’d decided what to do with all this quiet. So here it is.

The September Homecoming... thirty days of coming back to myself, shared as I go, and you’re invited.

Not a glow-up. Goodness knows we’ve all been sold enough better versions of ourselves... this is the opposite. This is about remembering the woman who was here all along. Four little menus: morning, day, evening, and one just for romancing your ordinary life. Pick at least one small thing from each, that’s the whole game. Two minutes counts. Hard days count double. Nothing costs a penny, and every bit of it fits inside a real midlife life, because that’s the only kind I’ve got.

There’s a mission each Monday, a pamper night when you’ve earned it (you have), and three chapters to the month... remember who you are, return to her, then rise as her.

Save this post, it’s your map for the month. I’ll be living it daily on my stories... the practices, the wobbles, the very quiet kitchen. And each morning there’ll be a voice note waiting in my Homecoming channel... the closest seat in the house.

And if you want to begin tonight, comment RETURN and I’ll send you my Coming Home Ritual... the exact one I’ll be doing with you.

We begin. Love Mx

03/09/2026

The quiet arrived on Monday… my daughter flew to Dubai, my son leaves for university, and for the first time in almost thirty years the house is just mine.

So I’m doing something with it. This September I’m giving thirty days to coming back to myself, and I’m sharing the whole thing as I go. I’m calling it the September Homecoming.

Every day, a handful of small ways back to choose from… movement, nourishment, intention, energy, and the little rituals that make an ordinary day feel like yours again. Nothing expensive, nothing that needs more than two minutes on the hard days, all of it built for real midlife lives. I’ll be sharing what I’m doing, what’s working, and the wobbles too, daily on my stories and here on the grid.

If your own house has gone quiet, or you’ve lost yourself somewhere in the years of being everything to everyone… follow along and come home with me. We’ve just begun, and it’s not too late to start.

Love Mx

The house has never been this quiet.My beautiful 18 year old, not so little girl, Lily, has just flown off with her Dad ...
02/09/2026

The house has never been this quiet.

My beautiful 18 year old, not so little girl, Lily, has just flown off with her Dad to start her new adventure living in Dubai and Jack returns to University… it’s bittersweet. On one hand I am so proud of them both as they step into the next chapter of their lives and am so excited for what their future brings them, on the other, I am heartbroken and grieving the cycle that has just ended.

And that’s ok….

If my heart didn’t ache this much, it would be a bit odd. Motherhood is a mixed old bag of emotions and it’s what at least half of us around here knowingly signed up for, but at times it can be pretty damn tough and this is one of them.

This photo is from Spain last week... the day Lily left the holiday early to begin her new chapter in London before moving half way across the world. Someone caught the hug, and I’m glad they did, because it says everything I couldn’t.

Everything is right. The moves are right, the timing is right, everyone is exactly where they’re meant to be. But grief doesn’t check whether the change was good before it moves in… and right now I’m learning to hold both at once.

I know everything will be absolutely fine, better than any of us could ever have imagined even. But right now it’s about letting myself feel it all without judgement, and looking back at the life we made together that brought us here, with a grateful heart.

So it’s just me. Me, three dogs, four cats, five chickens and a very quiet kitchen.

But I’ve decided what I’m going to do with all this quiet. I know exactly what this month needs to be….

I’ll show you tomorrow.

Love Mx

Coming back to yourself isn’t a one and done deal… I should know, it’s literally my brand.I landed in Spain tired. Nothi...
01/09/2026

Coming back to yourself isn’t a one and done deal… I should know, it’s literally my brand.

I landed in Spain tired. Nothing dramatic, just a very full year that had me giving my balance away in bits, and a mountain to get done before I could leave. So the summer became the practice again. Nothing fancy, nothing that cost a penny… the sea at sunrise, a notebook, slow mornings, rescue cats who decided I belonged to them.

And page by page, it worked. It always works. Not because I’m special, because the practice is… you don’t come home once, you keep choosing to return.

Summer showed me what I’m bringing home. What I do with it starts tomorrow, and I’d love you with me for that part.

Send this to the friend who needs her own comeback summer. Tell her it starts with one slow morning.

Love Mx

To the one who’s always fine.I wrote this list because nobody handed it to me. For a long time I held everyone and every...
30/08/2026

To the one who’s always fine.

I wrote this list because nobody handed it to me. For a long time I held everyone and everything up, and I believed falling apart was a luxury other people could afford... that showing emotion was weakness, that saying no needed a written excuse, that looking after myself could wait until everyone else was sorted.

It couldn’t. The feelings I kept pushing down didn’t politely disappear. They waited... and they grew. And somewhere along the way I learned, properly, that the strong one is allowed to be human too.

So these are the reminders I needed back then, written down for the woman who needs them today.

And if that woman isn’t you, you’ll know exactly who she is. The friend who holds everyone together and never once asks to be held. Send this to her instead of trying to find the words. Sometimes “I saw this and thought of you” is the whole message.

Love Mx

This kinda chic trend is the first fashion trend in years I’ve wanted to stand up and applaud… and I’m the woman who wro...
26/08/2026

This kinda chic trend is the first fashion trend in years I’ve wanted to stand up and applaud… and I’m the woman who wrote the columns.

Here is what I never put in any of them: chic was mostly a leash. A beautifully made one, but a leash… every “rule” was really an instruction to be smaller, quieter, more acceptable, and we called obeying it “good taste.” So when I see this trend calling ordinary, sovereign little acts chic, the early night, the unapologetic no, the solo table for one, I want to applaud, because that’s the definition I wish I’d been allowed to print.

Chic was never the outfit. It was always the woman who belongs to herself inside it.

Send this to the friend who apologises for going home early. Tell her the stylist said she’s the chicest one there.

Love Mx

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