1-2-3-4 Festival Fashion

16 Sep

Whilst at the hip Shoreditch 1-2-3-4 Festival, I spotted many people with eye-catching clothing and decided to snap them. Loads of people went all out; sequins, beads, and lots of velvet. It seemed essential to complete the quirky “look” to have some kind of colour, or dip dye in the hair!   Here are some [...]

Fashion Icon!

15 Sep

                  He’s not only a rapper with world famous Public Enemy, he’s also a champion for serious statement jewellery. Meet Flavor Flav. Fashion Icon. He’s not getting any younger, but his trademark clock jewellery is a brilliant example of timeless eccentric styling!

Meet Naomi Shimada!

8 Sep

Meet 25 year old model Naomi Shimada… She loves cooking, has a healthy attitude to food and has a gorgeous figure! Signed to Models 1 plus size division (come on, time for the model agencies to get with the times and lose these ridiculous labels) she’s creating a storm! ID describes her as “Always smiling, [...]

Platform to heaven

11 Aug

Last season, seventies was everywhere and a pair of stompin’ platforms could only be expected to appear in some oddball designer’s collection or other. That collection happened to be Prada’s and these platforms weren’t anything to tiptoe around in. Miuccia Prada rocked the fashion boat when ‘she’ added a huge rubber platform to the sole [...]

reality is merely an illusion…

2 Jul

so said Albert Einstein, although little did the genius know how Maison Martin Margiela would interpret this idea on the runway. The fashion house is recognized for always taking a fresh creative approach to fashion and never subtly. In SS09, Margiela was feeling hairy and we saw ‘the wig coat’ on the runway; a coat [...]

Kitty Gallannaugh Photography

10 Jun

Kitty Gallannaugh is a 20 year old photographer with a wonderful eye she really captures the moment of the picture and creates magic with her camera,I found her Facebook page last year I was mesmerised by her beautiful images! She has a 365 day project were she takes a picture every day which is a wonderful [...]

Yohji Yamamamoto- A Retrospective at the V&A

2 Jun

Yohji Yamamoto is an avant-garde designer described by the V&A as ‘ground breaking’. He is famed for challenging the traditional ideas of beauty and creating garments that play with gender roles.His work reveals his knowledge of fashion history and a sense of humor.Now for the first time in London he is opening a flagship store [...]

Fat bearded men -strange fashion icons?

2 Jun

Eccentric and unexpected? Cutting edge and fresh? Well then where else can all these fashion criteria be met but by people who are on stage. I’m not talking MTV awards and the meat dresses. I’m talking East London bars and North London pubs. I’m talking Burberry shirts, tiger printed tights and well Native American costumes! Thrush Metal at the Macbeth [...]

Grannies in Chanel

3 May

During my Easter holiday in Tuscany, my family and I went on a day trip to Bologna, and it was very different from the small towns around where we were staying with my cousins. It was posh. Very posh. But still very traditionally Italian.  And you could tell (especially from the elderly!?) how much people [...]

Assisting on a shoot

21 Feb

I was lucky enough to be asked to assist on a fashion shoot. It was for Mario Sorrenti for the Liu Jo Jeans campaign. It was probably one of the best days of my life being on this shoot, the New York team were all so friendly and welcoming and it had a surprisigly chilled [...]