Sex And The City

Introducing my brand new dating blog Sex And The Style Editor

Style Editor Alison Tay takes her new hairstyle for a spin

Style Editor Alison Tay is the real Carrie Bradshaw, and has the prom dress to prove it!

It was a Saturday night, and The International Man Of Mystery in my life and I were at his West London shag pad discussing our brands.

(That makes us sound like TomKat or Brangelina. We don’t usually spend Saturday nights watching Shaun Of The Dead and discussing our brands. It was just that once. And for the record, he brought it up.)

I was still trying to forget that BBC1 had just asked me to be the poster girl for the new Bridget Jones generation of single-and-loving-it women, (“How does the BBC even know you’re single?” howled my girlfriends in disbelief), but as always, he had a smoother, more seductive spin on the situation.

“You’re Sex And The City, aren’t you?” he said without recognising the irony of being my real life Mr Big. “You’re Sarah Jessica Parker if she was living in London…”

He has a point. Like Carrie Bradshaw, I’m a party-loving fashionista about town who’d rather spend her hard-earned salary on the Mulberry bag of the moment than a mortgage. And like Carrie, I too have an extensive closet of fabulous fashion lust-haves, an inner circle of glamorous girlfriends in my corner, and even my very own Mr Big.

In fact, all that’s missing is my own sex column. Until now.

Welcome to Sex And The Style Editor, a super-stylish take on dating, sex, relationships, love and lingerie, including the very best hot date looks, first date locations, dirty weekend destinations, 60 second summaries of classic and hot-off-the press dating manuals, and my very own Adventures In Dateland.