Kate Moss in Vogue Japan May 2011

Vogue Japan May 2011

Perfection in Couture

Photographed by Mert and Marcus
Styled by George Cortina

Photos: thefashionspot

Margaret Howell- SS 2011

A favourite of Alexa Chung, English designer Margaret Howell has come up with another beautiful collection for Spring/Summer 2011. Full of English charm and simplicity, the collection features breton stripes and linen shirts perfect for long spring days. This campaign features model-of-the-moment, Dree Hemingway and was shot by photographer, Alasdaire McLellan.

See: http://www.margarethowell.co.uk/#/collections-/womens-spring-summer-11

Photographs: http://www.anyonegirl.com/fashion/margaret-howell-spring-2011-campaign/

Twenty8Twelve SS 2011

Beautiful lookbook for Sienna and Savannah Miller's Spring/Summer collection for Twenty8Twelve.

See: http://www.twenty8twelve.com/collection/ss11/lookbook/

My First Taste of Online Shopping

It has taken me a while to venture into online shopping, with my only purchases being on amazon.com for discount books and dvd boxsets. I was always worried about buying something you haven't seen, you can't feel or touch, let alone try it on before you buy. Many of my friends have easily become addicted to shopping websites, claiming it offers the shopper the privacy and space of home to try the item on.

So, regretfully for my bank account, I succumbed to the online shopping world, and made my first purchase on http://www.theoutnet.com/. This is a website which offers up to 70% off famous designer names such as Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane and Burberry. They have occasional flash sales, which I recommend you keep an eye out for, and this was how I came across my bargain, a See By Chloe top for just £13.40 (was £89.36). I now must admit that I have been fully converted, the top came lovingly wrapped in tissue paper and was a perfect fit! A very happy customer indeed. 

Style Crush... Alison Mosshart of The Kills

For the month of April, Alison Mosshart will be featuring on Vogue.com's 'Today I'm Wearing..', a style blog showing fashionista's and style icon's daily picks. Alison Mosshart will be sharing her wardrobe choices whilst she is on tour with bandmate Jamie Hince (boyfriend of model, Kate Moss).

See: http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/100816-today-im-wearing-fashion-diary-blo.aspx

Bruma- 20 Hoxton Square

Until the 28th March 2011, just around the corner from where I work on Hoxton Square, a collective exhibition is being shown of artists who have recently explored the idea of veiled realities and unconscious mystique. The group show consists of work from artists from Peru, which has been selected by gallery owner Alexander Dellal and photographer Mario Testino (who also happens to be his Godfather!).

"‘Bruma’, the Spanish word for veil or cover encompasses a common theme in the selected artworks of what is hidden and what can be unveiled. The works create a mysterious landscape that, in spite of the diverse individual intentions of each artist, raises questions about their collective unconscious.  The works in the show seek a real-time reaction from the spectator yet are loaded with specific historical, cultural and social references. Time and space function as a blinding mist that could limit the perspectives as well as unveil a second layer of hidden intentions and meanings determining the constant change in what is perceived by the observer". 

“…has taken the white veil; and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe. Old as Pizarro, this

whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions. I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851.

See: http://www.20hoxtonsquare.com/exhibitions/39/overview/

Simply Breakfast

Usually I find breakfast the least inspiring meal of the day, but Jennifer Causey uses her love of photography and food to take beautiful photos of her morning meals.

See: http://simplybreakfast.blogspot.com/