Shorts

These are the Marant babies I was talking about yesterday!!!

Saw and conquered these on my first sunny day in London after leaving my old job.  I thought they were the best good omen a girl could buy so snapped them up pronto...

Sickly-sweet, Angel-delight pink and perfect in cut, length and just about everything,  these are the antidepressant of shorts-who could miserable wearing a pair of these??  I haven't put them away since I bought them, just keep moving them around my room so I can stare at them adoringly.  When I think about heading to beach next week, I'm basically just thinking about prancing about in these....

Belated LFW Outift Posts

As I was a very bad blogger over not just one, but two London Fashion Weeks (if ever there's a time to be a good fashion blogger, fashion week would be it!), I thought I'd do a v belated post of some of the stuff I wore at AW11 and SS11 fashion week. 

Firstly, I didn't make the top collage myself (fairly inept technology wise so wouldn't know where to start),  I have to thank Caillin of Birds of a Feather for that.  In fact, when a friend of mine sent me the link to her really sweet post the other day and I saw the collection of all my fashion week outfits I thought this should be my first dip into outfit posts....

Thanks Cailin and hope you like!

top image-Vanessa Jackman and others

bottom image-Jak and Jil

In the Gang

I might have made a little, very exciting, splurge the other day which I'll let you into tomorrow.  Let's just say I'm one step close to being in the oh-so-cool Marant gang...

Borrowing an old SLR camera from my dad so I'm going to spend tomorow morning playing around, reading the manual in the hope I can start taking some snaps of my own.  Just arrived home for 2 weeks holiday today and am already holed up by the fire, watching bad TV, eating spaghetti-bliss.

Shed Some Skin

Anyone who knows me knows I love a bit of animal print; be it classic leopard or abstract zebra, I like my spots and stripes done the wild way.  But my current beastly print of choice is definitely at the scalier end of the spectrum...

Oh-so-good on chiffons and silks (Acne are ahead of the curve as always with drapey, sheer snake print vests and belted dresses), python and croc prints almost looks like watercolour when done in slate greys and teals like this maxi skirt from Mint Velvet.  Not my usual online stomping ground, but I stumbled across it the other day whilst looking for silk shirts for a shoot and am feeling pretty pleased with myself for the find.

I'm not the only one who's fallen for the print either; one of my favorite bloggers Frances at Happy Because has already demonstrated reptile reverence in the most amazing H&M dress-check it out here. 

Cool Cats

The shops are filling with Royal wedding paraphenalia (Wills and Kate bunting anyone?), street parties are being planned with precision and speculation about Kate's dress (McQueen, Temperley or Oldfield-the jury's still out) is rife, but the May wedding I'm most excited about has to be THE cool couple Lily and Caleb. 

Forget Westminster Abbey, who wouldn't wanna be part of the Followill-Aldridge wedding party?

Spell and The Gypsy Collective

Who can refuse dream catchers, skateboards and piling on the hardware when the sun's shining?  Byron-bay based (my jealousy knows no bounds) bloggers and jewellery designers Spells & the Gypsy Collective post the most inspiring pics from their escapades in the sun and surf around their home town.  As soon as Spring arrives I'm a cliched sucker for denim cut offs, white lace, turquoise nuggets and Navajo jackets, so discovering their amazing blog today was pretty apt.  

Somehow, living and working London, these kid of looks just don't feel the same without a beachy backdrop-the River Thames just ain't the same sadly!  Luckily, I have Bali to look forward to in August so I'll have to save up all this vibe for then.  Trying to save all my pennies too so I can blitz those silver markets....Ahh I'm counting down the days already.

After a savagely long day on Wednesday, I get to leave work early today, practically feel like skipping the whole way home the weather is so good, so will be sitting outside my local cafe with a pile of magazines by five.  Bliss!

White Alright

Androgynous meets sexy meets quirky cool, French Vogue's white shoot from April 2011 issue is so good it hurts.    I love the floral headband and corsages teamed with all that tailoring and fierceness.  If ever there was lesson in how to white, French Vogue have taught it perfectly.  Not too tight, a little bit grunge, a little bit sleek and a flash of black...parfait.

That all seeing eye tee in the top look has me totally hooked, in fact the whole look is tempting me to introduce some white skinnies into my life...