I would love this...

How cute is this neckwatch? I love the trashy bling look of it along with the Casio style digital numbers. Fab!

The classic It bag

Is it me or is the IT bag of the season, from the gorgeous Phoebe Philo for Celine, the new Hermes Constance bag? They look very similar non?

Vintage Hermes Burgandy Constance bag.


RTW Fall/10 Celine handbag

Violet Vintage Jewellery, London

Who doesn't love Vintage jewellery??

I absolutely love the stuff. There's no such feeling as finding a gorgeous piece of jewellery: a piece that's a one off to have in your red velvet jewellery trinket box. So when I saw a small article in Look magazine about a website dedicated to the yummy vintage stuff I ran to my desk to check out the products.

The pieces are incredible: (some too expensive for my student purse strings, but if I had the money..yes please) even the name, 'Violet Vintage Jewellery' is cute and stylish. The company even has a reworked section on the web-page which consists of a number of pieces of vintage jewellery that has been redesigned and reworked into more contemporary settings. Each piece is designed in Violet Vintage's London studio and handmade by an artisan jeweller in Lincoln. Each item is 'exquisitely boxed in our signature Violet Vintage packaging' and if it's a gift your after your personal message can be written on a sweet little card and popped into the pretty box. Gorgeous.


I know it's fab to rummage through boot sales, vintage fairs and flea markets (and being a student studying what I'm studying I do thankfully have the time to do this and enjoy it) but for those without a second to spare the site is perfect.

Here's some of my favourites..


1950's Vintage Stratton gold robin beauty compact £38



Silver Tone Oui & Non Disc Pendant £24



Solid gold vintage whistle charm on Edwardian chain £250



Vintage 1960's simple gold and pearl ring £85


Beautiful 1920s Blue Ballerina Compact £84



Vintage gold tone leaf bracelet £50

P.S 11

How hot are these two yummy statchels from Proenza Schouler's fall collection!!

In yummy black

or Ivy-League brown

How do you wear yours?

I have so many scarves in my wardrobe: I just think that during winter, when most tend to wear black and plenty of layers to keep the heat in, wearing a scarf can add massive personality to a simple colour palette and silhouette. So when I was sent a yummy email from the Habitually Chic blog, discussing the new Hermes website dedicated to the Hermes scarf, I was stuck looking through the stylish street shots, the amazing fashion imagery and the brilliant styling tips (seen in the knotting cards) to wearing the Hermes scarf.

The website is incredible too and very stylish. I love the interactive pages: all the fashion imagery is really inspirational and the variety of personalities that wear Hermes is amazing. My favourite girl has to be the very stylish DJ, Harley

The leather collar

Whilst reading through the huge Elle september issue, in the ELLE edits feature I saw a gorgeous accessory that one never really thinks of when buying accessories: a detachable leather collar by Alberta Ferretti. Now, being a student I certainly cannot afford to buy such a piece from a Ferretti collection but I would love to find some on the high street. I like simple clothing so adding a collar to change my staple wardrobe would be lush.

Anyone know where I could get one on the highstreet??

Yum.

How amazing are these Oxfords, by Nicholas Kirkwood, they are very yummy.

Intellectual Accessory

Absolutely gorgeous and very charming, handbags, designed by Olympia Le Tan, inspired by Olympia's first edition covers of her favoured novels.

Cute.

Not sure though wether this teensy handbag will hold my mobile, my purse, my IPOD, my lipbalm.....but I would sacrifice carrying anything to have one of these snuck under my arm.

'Look' Trend

When looking through this weeks issue of Look magazine I came across some trend pages which link nicely with our shoot. The tribal earrings especially and the embellished warrior shoulder which we tried to create with the use of bundled necklaces over laying Lucy’s shoulder.

Sourced Objects. Still life styling.

So over the last couple of days, I have been rummaging in 20p boxes full of everything from purses to plates, to small plastic boys toys, all in aid for my shoot which is next Tuesday at 3-4pm arghhhh! I have so much to do before the shoot day. I'm planning on setting up a small studio at home with a back drop and playing around with my sourced objects to see what works with what, so then when I get to class this Tuesday I could show our photographer Dave (it also really helps myself) images of the actual set up shots.

Before I left to find all my objects for the shoot, I wrote a list of actual pieces I saw on the Fall 2010 catwalk's- the colour palettes of the accessories, the shapes of the accessories etc...so when I hit the charity shops I wouldn't just go straight to the bag section and spend money and time on myself when I had work to do :S

Today I am going to be heavily customising some pieces I picked up. I read recently '50 Years of Fashion' a book/reference magazine on the 50's style that I am trying to capture (but not forgetting to modernise) for my shoot. In the 50's there were some key accessories that women wore all the time, for wherever they went, even if it was just to the beach, the 1950's lady wouldn't have been seen without these, they include: a hat (pillbox with tulle, feathers, ruched flowers-type of hat and decoration show the personality of the lady); gloves; shoes; clasp handbags and clip on earrings. With these in mind I went searching, I love to look at old things it's nice to feel a little nostalgic at times isn't it, and to know that your putting someone's unwanted things to use, giving them a little life is great.

The pieces that I am going to customise are; the gloves, on the fall 2010 catwalks there were a lot of gloves on many of the shows, yet the gloves I could get a hold of really aren't like the catwalk ones so I am going to customise the gloves by opening the wrist section and making the top part of the glove more looser (as seen on the catwalk); the brown and cream court shoes I have, I'm going to try and attach some lace around the opening of the shoe, as seen at Dolce and Gabbana; whilst on my travels I bought a shower cap to customise and make into a hat so I bought some fabric and I will simply ruche the fabric so it resembles the flower hats as seen at Dolce and Gabbana. I found an almost identical silk scarf from Age Concern and I bought it for £1.85 and it just looks so similar to the print on the Marni catwalk, the colour and the shape of the print-unbelievable.

Hopefully the shoot will look creative and modern and the products will look stylish, I just need to remember that the shoot is an accessories shoot, not a homage to the 1950's.

Accessories

I wrote a post near to a week ago about how accessories can change an oufit and help in showing your character and style, then I came across this article on accessories.

It was the statement that accompanied the article that got me thinking: it read

'Jewelry becomes a mask to hide behind, a shield from prying eyes of the world'

Now the jewelry styled here wouldn't nessarily be my 1st choice of jewelry if I had free rane, but still...yum mmyy.

'Hide and CHIC' Shoot, Interview Magazine
Photography Robbie Fimmano
Styling Lu Divine Poiblanc

Accessories....rings, bracelets and necklaces...oh my..

When Im out spending money I don't actually have, im usually buying accessories and basics for my wardrobe (that's already full of accessories and basics, I have an addiction...:s)rather than the latest dress. So I wanted to share some of my treasures with yourselves... :) Bought from everywhere from charity shops to topshop, to made to measure pieces to cheap stuff from Asda!


















I love what accessories can do to an outfit and what certain accessories can say about your character. It's so odd yet fantastic how accessories can change a whole outfit, and for all us skint students it's brilliant, we can just sling a white t on and add different accessories for different occassions to give the look another feel. I especially love those accessories that are that versatile that you can wear them at different occasions, for instance a hair piece could easily be plonked on your head for uni, yet the week before you could have just worn it to your best mates, cousins nieces wedding!