Kit Focus: The Best Travel Mobiles

This week we take a look at some of the best solutions for keeping in touch whilst abroad, taking into account the typically extreme conditions a mobile phone is exposed to during an expedition in a tropical climate or a developing country.

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Kit Focus: Get Happy Feet with the Right Walking Boots

This week we take a look at some of the best waterproof walking boots on the market today. Outdoor enthusiast and Frontier LHQ intern Lucas runs through your options, including his pick of the bargain buys and some great advice on what to look for in a walking boot.

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Kit Focus: Tropical Waterproof Jackets

Today we take a look at some of the best waterproof jackets on the market today, specifically focussing on those designed for a tropical climate. The general trend with waterproof jackets is that with the increase in price comes better quality waterproof material, better breathability and windproof properties and with tropical jackets in particular, a more lightweight and durable design.

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Kit Focus: Backpacks

Today we take a look at some of the best backpacks on the market today. Whether you're on a tight budget or you've got cash to splash, we'll show you what's out there and where to get it.

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Gap Year Gear: Snow+Rock Kit List

Our friends at Snow+Rock have put together a list of some of the items perfect for many of the gap year opportunities on offer from Frontier.

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Frontier style: Festive Fashion

Frontier style has now caught the same festive fever as Into the Wild, so here are some great ideas for comfort, warmth and festive cheer this Christmas.

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Frontier Style: Season's Greetings

These last few weeks of the year are rife with nostalgia. Over on Into The Wild we have sought out the best of 2011 backpacking, reading and quizzing. Here on Frontier Style it’s time for a look back at the best seasonal trends 2011 has given us.

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Frontier Style: Frontier-project runway

This week's Into the Wild blog has had us looking into the work of our main projects, but here on Style it's not so much a question of what they 'do' as it is a question of what to 'bring'...

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FRONTIER STYLE: Thrill seek chic

With so many adrenaline junkies, hardcore hikers, thrill seekers, and so on, paying so little attention to their appearance, it is sometimes easy to slip into the common misconception that style and practicality aren’t the best of friends. It is our duty to reunite the two so that one day in the future we will have a world in which bungee puts the ‘jump’ in jumpsuit and skiing puts the ‘ski’ in skinny jeans.

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Frontier Style: Futurism

Last year the dawn of a new decade sent 2010's fashion trends into sci-fi and futurism overdrive. This year the trends seem to be less about gadgetry and more about future environments, with slogans and images from science fiction splashed across t-shirt fronts everywhere you look. Numerous designers are also weaving the tenets of evolutionary change into their clothing, creating garments that would be well placed in a future dystopia. 

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Frontier Style: Wild and Dangerous

Although this week’s focus on the deadliest and most dangerous animals may seem a million miles away from the fashion scene, this is not strictly the case. Today’s style actively combines contrasting clothing and accessories and has developed into a hybrid style - “pretty-tough”.   

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CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD - CARNIVAL-INSPIRED FASHION

Every year in the last weekend of August, London residents glue on their peacock feathers, slip on their sequinned bra tops, and take to the streets to celebrate sunny Caribbean culture in the conversely drizzly streets of Notting Hill. However, I’d like to offer you a way to incorporate the carnival spirit into everyday outfits and add a bit of Caribbean spice to your wardrobe all year round, whatever the weather.

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The Rise of Tech-couture

Designers and participants of the ’geek-chic’ trend have been rocking their long socks, baggy cardigans and oversized glasses for many a season. However, as is only to be expected with the inevitable advancement of technology, the trend has been getting steadily geekier and now ‘geek-chic’ seems to have evolved into a new trend altogether: to coin a phrase, this ‘tech-couture’ trend embraces nerdy gadgetry on a whole new level.

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FRONTIER STYLE: OUT OF AFRICA

This time for Africa! With such things as animal prints, tribal jewelry, canvas bags, kaftans and desert boots creeping into the high-street shops and designers such as Michael Kors drawing inspiration from a Kenyan Safari for his Spring/Summer 2012 collection, Frontier is more than happy to jump on the band wagon.

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Frontier Style: Internships Abroad

This week Frontier is focusing on the various different internship opportunities available to you abroad.

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