Thursday, 30 September 2010

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.

Monday, 13 September 2010

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....


Friday, 6 August 2010

Funstanton.













A loveleh trip to Hunstanton to revisit the joke shop we used to spend hours in as kids. The best bit was being told off for looking at the "adult" section, which is basically a load of shit.

Although I love the absolute TACK of the amusement arcades, it makes me feel a bit sick when I think about how much money is wasted there to win a rotating Winnie the Pooh keyring that brakes as soon as you touch it.

It was pretty fun and nice to go back to the place we used to holiday with the whole family. Happy days.


Next stop Skeggeh!