Blown up

Yeh so I think this guy is from some PR company, I don't know which one though....I admire the boldness and committment to be noticed, but this does come at a cost. I mean it was HOT in that catwalk hall, and this guy was decked out head to toe in full PVC or something, so when we found a puddle of water on the catwalk where he had been sitting it could only be explained as a 'creative' way to try to cool down....!?

So yeh we noticed him for more reasons than one.

Romeo Pires

Romeo Pires was one of my favourite shows of the week, both for the strong sense of style and the attention to detail in the cut, and drape of the clothes and the detailed prints used through out. There was a gothic and almost sinister look in the collection created by the loosely powdered white faces of the models complete with frizzy wild hair styles. This dark sense of style was executed in a stylish and edgy way with a monochrome colour palette setting the tone for the entire collection with splashes of bold colour and print work used through out.

One of my favourite prints resembled a scan of a baby in the womb, this image is then repeated in a circular pattern in a greeny/gold tone set against the deep blue colour of the flowing draped dresses and shirts.

One of the talking points of the show was the long and lean proportions of the shirts, trousers and skirts, the waist line of the trousers and skirts falling at the lower crotch and beyond, which in theory can sound rather tasteless but the cut and drape of the clothes allowed this feeling to never be present, this is reinforced in the styling of the collection, by pairing these daring bottoms with long over-sized shirts for both men and women.

All together I think this was a really inventive and well executed collection, and I predict great things from Romeo Pires. I'm already excited to see what he has in store for next season...

Behind the seams....

OMGZZ its Luke Worrall with dark hair, I didn't even recognise him at first...

Yeh fashion week can be this exciting.....

Some pictures from technical rehearsals, which I enjoyed because we could sit front row and snap away, gossip about the male models, and its a sneak peek of what everyone is waiting outside to come and see, there is an excitment around this time before the show! It was always really cool to watch John produce and direct the shows aswell.

London Fashion Week!?

Sara Anderson

Stina Ranstad

Johanne Milvert
Model: David Chaing, he was very popular at alot of VFS shows!

Elin Sunding

David Soderlund

Elinor Nilsen

Charlotte Mattson

Emile Johansson

Jennie Siljedahl

Helena Quist
I interned for Vauxhall Fashion Scout during LFW. I mostly did PR work, so front of house work which involved greeting really well dressed people with 7 names, who are permanently glued to each others cheeks. They were generally pretty pleasant though...Janice Dickinson even smiled at me with her mouth totally mobile and open, that made the week to be honest.

It was a busy week of 10 hour days, alot of standing around, running around, lifting, filling goodie bags, smiling, directing, greeting, and generally was pretty fun with a fair bit of hard work!

There was alot of exciting stuff going on all week, and alot of really good and successful shows, HOWEVER my camera also decided to have a stroke, so I ended up using my amazing Nokia camera phone, while standing 'manning' the front row, I felt rather stupid trying to look professional while snapping away with a mobile phone....

I had an interesting experience dressing for the Marsha Ma show, which I was happy to do but I did miss the show which was apparently pretty good.shit.
The model I was dressing was a bit arsey though, and it made it awkward trying to fit her tits into a top when she was scouling at me, while trying to dress another naked model behind me who was trapped in her top.....It doesn't matter though because after all the clothes were pretty damn good, and the collection was very well recieved ( i know this for sure as floods of people came backstage after crying and I once again witnessed people glued to each others cheeks...)

The highlight for me had to be the Swedish School of Textiles BA collections, once again I had no means of photography for this but I have popped a few pics from the VFS blog on here instead. It was one of the most inventive, and exciting collections of the week for me. I'm sure it wasn't for everyone, with models wearing rather sinister looking magazine cut out paper mache face masks by Elinor Nilsen, and sunglasses complete with hair! The styling was adventurous, and bold, with sculptural 3D structures pertruding from the models bodies in bright pastel colours to compliment the bursts of polka dots, and structural head pieces by Sara Anderson, who opened the show.

Pussy cats.

Roses are red...

I used to have the biggest crush on Axl Rose, back in the 90's that is, he's gone a bit, errr, downhill these days!

BUT still he was a total babe back then, and to be honest I think he was a stylish chap, and today his style seems more relevant than ever, for me it is anyway. The band tees, DM's and socks, ripped jeans, bizarre sunglasses, and his hair was sooo good!*

I'm going to keep these here as a reminder of how some styles actually never go out of fashion, but the stars on the other hand seem to meet their expiry date a tad earlier....

* Slash is closer to my heart in terms of our curly mops, his hair is ICONIC!!!

Hamster style

Don't think i'll be getting a fringe again any time soon.....

Perfect Dreamy knitwear.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE KNITWEAR with anything and everything, so this latest offering from Bella Freud co designed by longtime friend and collaborator Susie Bick is definately on my wish list*.

A collaboration which fuses the iconic gothic style that Susie Bick is celebrated for, and Bella Freud's restrained, and refined sense of design creating a dynamic twist of beautifully fitted knitwear pieces, which have a feeling of effortless style comibined with a feeling of luxury and decadence.

* Not gonna happen list, for many reasons I won't bore anyone with....