Topshop Sneaky Look.

I'm loving the new Topshop range for Autumn/winter 09! I had the chance to have a sneaky look at the range and the pieces are playfully stunning. Trends include lots of tartan along with 80's fabrics and over the top hats! Topshop will certainly be delivering some amazing fashion must haves! To have a look yourselves check this out!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor-New face 4 Rimmel

In todays Look magazine, we get a great look into the new shoot for Rimmel. Sophie Ellis Bextor is their new face which is brilliant. Not only is she stunning, is very fashionable and is seeing Richard Jones (The Feeling) now she has widened her resume and is the new face of fabulous cosmetic brand Rimmel!!!!! The photographs are stunning, her skin is so porcelain perfect, her figure is amazing and her style is so effortless chic.

Jim Scary!

Well i understand that when the sun comes out, as i am from the great country of britain (said with a little sarcasm because of the ruddy weather!) or if you go away on a beach holiday then yes get your sun cream on, put your bikini on, that you have been on the kellogs crappy diet for at least two weeks to lose some of your love handles and enjoyingly soak up the sun. But when i saw the photograph of Jim Carrey and his gorgeous girlfriend, Jenny McCarthy, strolling on malibu beach with Jim Carrey wearing Jenny's one piece i really thought that he had took it too far! Is Borat's trend catching on?!--whats happening to the guys these days, these metrosexual guys all with manbags, one piece swimsuits, make-up?! Although i am sure, as i am a big fan of Jim Carrey, he really makes me smile, that he wore this for fun.....?

Project Runway

Well done to Christian Siriano for coming first in the fantastic fashion competition Project Runway (<----blogspot for project runway). Making his win even better is his modesty with it! I must admit i didn't watch all the show as i was between houses because of uni but when i saw the show i could see his potential and his fashion edge. I really love his collections and in relation to the couture shows in recent weeks his collections would not have been out of place alongside other great and brilliant minded creative designers. His collections includes tight turtle neck tops, made from silk jersey material. His flower skirts almost look like that of Armand Basi spring 2008 ready-to-wear collections with their playful structures and his wool Pirate jacket shows his fashion knowledge that he enviously gained from the amazing Vivienne Westwood, when he did his internship at her 'greatnesses' fashion house.

One specific piece i love of Siriano's was this dress, when i saw it I immediatly fell in love; the colours are stunning, the fabric looks so luxuriuos and the waist belt is very on trend! Well done Christian, i'm jealous!

Wearing your indoors, outdoors?!

I am one for not revealing too much of myself, i like clothes to cover me up! So much so that i really do need to get out of my jeans and get a nice summer dress on! Maybe i should try the new trend in at the minute which is basically wearing your under garments as your outer garments? this to me is crazy, my mum always taught me to wear my underwear as underwear?!! Although i do think when styled well , the trend can look really stylish. In todays NOTW (News of the world) Fabulous magazine there was an article on this very subject, 'Underwear as outerwear', Charlize Theron did look stunning, her corset was gorgeous i loved the really feminine fabric and the colour!Delicious! I could try the trend but me thinks i will be trying it through the night, in my cosey bed!

MagicElle

I love reading Elle magazine; i love the creative director side of the magazine and the fashion images in the magazine look really hot! Elle, employing the very trendy Chloe Sevigny is really hot too, her column is a really good read, its nice to read about all the fashion queries and to get this gorgeous, and also very stylish, womans' opinion is great, (it also helps that she has lots of celeb/fashion conscious friends!) This week i bought the american version of the magazine and the light bulb lit above my nogging, i want to work for this magazine! Like really badly! The pages are stunningly put together the fashions are amazing and the adverts are not those adverts that , after maybe the 20th advert in the same issue you just wanna rip your teeth out, although they are beautiful how many more times can we swallow a 'perfect woman' sprawled out on the It bag that you will kill for?!!! If you haven't bought the American issue- buy it! The fashion shoots are stunning and the cover celeb being Mary Kate Olsen (it was written on the front-maybe i should study her so i finally get the nack of who is who-being identical you can give me some sympthy! edit-see past posts!!)--shows us an insight into her fashionable and envious life style! Also keep an eye out for her two clothing lines the Row and Elizabeth and James, looking at the style shoot put together for this issue, and Mary Kate already being a trend setter her collections should be worth a ruddy good look at!

'V' for very nice...

Well, through my email i followed a link onto a fashion page and it took me to the wonderful homepage of 'V' magazine- i really love the photography in this magazine and when i have enough cash i buy it, i love it's format and the styling in some of the shoots are stunning, if your a dedicated fashion reader, i would reccommend that you have a good flick through the pages of V. If you need some inspiration with your studies or you just generally need some motivation and a bit of umpfff in your step then check out the mag. Anyhoo i checked out the site, even that is inspirational! and i came across Vdigital. Now i am certainly one for at least trying to save resources (i do try and turn the tap off when brushing my teeth to save that little bit of water-well i am doing a little something!) but when i read a magazine it isn't just what's on those pages that interests me and grabs me for a good 2 hours, it's the pages themselves, the smell, the shiny surface, i'm sure im not alone here, so with Vdigital im feeling a little bitter sweet, and this specific issue is stunning-it's very fashion orientated, which it isnt always, the 'Guess for V' shoot is stunning. The different fabric and seductive garments look gorgeous.

The creepy dolls made by the artist, Kristin Victoria Brannan are amazing also, but i hope with her interior design background they dont become a static ornament in a stylish living room! My favourite section of this issue has to be the 'Wildflowers' shoot with Kate Moss and the amzing photographer Nick Knight. These are the pages that made me call a hell of a lot of stores in leeds to see if they had this issue (although i think that the issue is just digital-grr!) In fact all the fashion shoots in this issue are gorgeous, have a look yourselves! x

Pretty cheap?

Anyone else kinda excited about this?!

Fashion Forward Winners

Set up by the BFC supporting designers emerging from amazing and creative talent to established designers.

Winners include:

Christopher Kane

Erdem

Marios Schwab

Roksanda Llincic

for more info check this out!

My favourite designer here is Marios Schwab, I love his manipulation of fabrics and for his autumn/winter 2008 collection I love his subtle colours. I really like the layering he creates with simple plain fabrics on top and underneath comes through with these amazing prints, in some ways he reminds me of Hussein Chalayan with his work.

Body Poppin shoot.

Last sundays News Of the world Fabulous magazine had a great shoot in it. It really appealed to me because of the simple styling and stunning natural make up. The fluorescent yellow skirt was gorgeous and at £29 you can't beat it! The shoot reminded me of clothing that you would wear for a glamourous night out, when I go out I wear quite simple clothes like waistcoats with oversized grey jersey t's underneath with chunky, detailed necklaces and some coloured kitten heels, or my very comfy black Topshop wedges! I want to experiment more with my clothes for the night. Whenever I shop I always, always pick up simple clothes and I never really go for colour or really glamourous pieces, I need to be kicked out of my comfort zone. Is anyone else like this? What are your going out outfits typically like? Do you change your look every time you go out if you do let me know and teach me! Later I will post photographs of me in clothes that I would choose to wear on a night out and you guys can let me know what im doing wrong...

P.s I love the lighting in this shoot, I will go through my old projects from college as I remember doing a shoot which played with coloured lighting...watch this colourful space

Manbags!

I read an article in yes, yet again Look magazine (well i have to support my aunties hard work!) about the trend that may explode- Manbags?! Now when I saw the images of the toned footballer Frank Lampard and the rnb mega star Pharrell Williams carrying pink and purple bags alongside there 'Real Man magazine' and 'Esquire' magazines my mind began questioning on one side I thought, these pictures are probably shots that have been taken out of there context (as are probably 99% of pap images, but you gotta make a living) and on the other I thought, well we are in the 21st century there are mad happenings everywhere so maybe yeh, this just might catch on and when I typed 'manbags' into a search engine a load of sites came up-it looks like guys are already bagging the trend! (tragic joke ash) One good thing though, you could borrow your fellas bag.

Lampshade, in whatever shade..

A look at the minute is the 'Lampshade Skirt'. Yes you heard right, lampshade. It does sound a little odd, but it looks fantastic, it really emphasises the waist- a key element to 40's fashion. In reference to the catwalk I just loved Rodartes, almost like a sweety wrapper that you've sat with and manipulated into this very geometric shaping, skirts that were shown on the catwalk.

Rodarte Spring 2008 ready to wear collection

When I saw this look in Sex and the City I thought Carrie looked stunning. The styling of her outfit was quite simple, but this is what made the outfit look so cute. It looked like a vintage piece.

3rd one in (this isn't actually the piece I was talking about -I cannot find it on the net at the min cos I aint at home, but whilst researching I came across this great page)

With this particular garment fabrics are key, look for crisp cottons that will hold its shape and gorgeous structure. Styling this garment-just keep it cute and pretty add heels and some amazing accessories with a coloured vest and like Carrie Bradshaw why not add a corsage ( the size of a house) to your outfit?!..no really we love those clown flowers.

Posh aint too Posh!

Thank god! Posh Spice (as she will always be to me none of all this Victoria Beckham malarky, Posh Spice is ace!) actually showed us that she is real and all that surgery hasn't made her completely plastic. Well good on her, she was after all on a day out with the kids in Disneyland, i mean can you imagine climbing up onto space mountain wearing a body-con Roberto Cavalli dress! When I saw her in the papers I didn't even recgonise her but she still looks good even in her dress down gear.

A good cover up?

I came across an article in the News of the World's Fabulous magazine named, rightly named should I say, 'Cut-out clothing'. Gwyneth Paltrow looked gorgeous in this almost lace cut out, albeit short dress for my liking! As did one of the Olson twins ( I say one of the Olson twins as I still dont no which is which?!) some other celebrities however didn't really grab the trend that is in my opinion a little too exposing considering the weather at the mo!

Note to Tamara Beckwith- don't forget to fakebake those areas on show!

Topshop teases!

When I became a student I really didnt want to follow the Topshop trend-every student seriously owns a piece of clothing from Topshop, I didn't want to be a 'samey'! mind you I think every woman now owns a piece of clothing from Topshop whatever their age cos Topshop has just zoomed right ahead as a great fashion retailer! But after my foundation year at uni studying fashion, I couldnt escape the Topshop frenzy! Especially with living with 6 other girls. So hay hoo I checked out the site and I just love at the minute the boutique range. Seriously check out the bandeau dress in the boutique range, Yves Saint laurent anyone?!!!