Wednesday 30 September 2009

Carin Wester

Check out the super cool AW09 collection from Carin Wester The clothes are sold in stores all around the world including Urban Outfitters in London and Mint and Little miss T in Oslo. Love the yellow velvet mini dress!

Stunners

These beauties are so gorgeous I would probably put them in a glass cabinet in my living room if I got my hands on a pair. From top: YSL, Merchante, Camilla Skovgaard, Nicholas Kirkwood AW09

Tuesday 29 September 2009

Blake oh so Lovely

Gossip girl,Blake Lively looking amazing in a fabulous red Versace gown at last weeks Emmy Awards, loving the nude Louboutin's!

MaxMara style

The cut and quality from MaxMara always does it for me,maybe not the most exiting label in the world but chic and classic, always. Loving these drapey satin coats in olive and khaki. Casting and styling also looks superb

Monday 28 September 2009

Sonia Rykiel + H&M

The queen of chic knitwear has teamed up with Swedish giant H&M to produce not only one but two collections together. First out an underwear collection (December 5th) then a knitwear collection out the 10th of February next year. Happy days!

Sunday 27 September 2009

Amazing and bizarre from Kapoor

This is Svayambh by artist Anish Kapoor. A 40-ton block of wax and vaseline mounted on rails is exhibited at the Royal Academy in London at the minute. This incredible piece of art plus several others from the Turner prize winning artist will be showcased here until December. Anish Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a sculptor born in Bombay but has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s royalacademy

Ashish 2010

Looks like London based designer Ashish got most of his inspiration for his latest collection from his experience as a tourist! check out the rest of his fab S/S10 collection here

Saturday 26 September 2009

Model crush

Met one of my favorite models Freja Beha Erichsen after the Julian McDonald show in London last week. The friendly Dane has all ready done shows for Gucci, Burberry, Prada and Versace (under) this week and will be doing more big names in Milan and Paris the following days.

Want that bag..

Love this Mulberry Alexa bag,named after..hmmm ..yes, you got it! Miss Chung herself. You have to wait till next February to get your hands on it as it's part of the S/S09 collection

Thursday 24 September 2009

Garance Dore

Check out beautiful photography and great fashion at Garance Dores tres chic blog

London Cool

Jenna Theo Elliot Athinson Mario Schwab Basso&Broke Roksanda Ilincic LFW has been full of contrast and alternatives preparing us for an exiting fashion spring.(this does not include the hair styling as 80% of the shows had models sporting the same slicked back hairdo) Mario Schwab had been working towards finding a "new way of looking at bohemian dressing" with pale peach dress,organza pantsuit Basso& Broke gave us print galore, while Roksanda Ilinici presented forties Hollywood glamor.

Sunday 20 September 2009

'Real-sized" for Fast

London based knitwear designer Mark Fast gave his audience a wakeup call when he sent "real-sized" models down the runway in his teenie weenie knitted dresses. The knitwear designers stylist(Erika Kurihara from iD) walked out on him just hours before the show for reasons that are still unknown...... Well done for using healthy,curvaceous woman! more bras next time though please..

Tuesday 15 September 2009

Black&Beige for 2010

Combining beige and black has been on the celebrity hit list this spring (see top) The trend continued on catwalks in NY this week..here are some favorites from Marc Jacobs,Thakoon, Elise Overland and Derek Lam.