The conquest of cool

2010-03-06T08:09:00.000-08:00

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Please buy me these!

2009-08-11T16:58:00.000-07:00

The most amazing shoes ive ever had the pleasure of trying on and strutting in!

Someone buy them for me please..........

these are definitely on wish list...amazing!!

My Wish List

2009-06-07T15:38:00.000-07:00

So since my last wish list, I have either bought a few of those things or my style for the summer has changed slightly... these are my new wishful items for this summer....

Again some I can afford some I cant, and some im just too damn excited about!

Check out the nylon and nike collaboration hightops, these arent even available yet and im not sure if they will only be available in the US, i hope not because I would literally sell my soul to satan to own a pair of these right now!

So anyway here goes with this months wishlist...

These office hightops, either in mint green or grey, im literally buying these as we speak I love them so so much!

A baggy, plain, cheap fruit of the loom jumper from ebay, preferbly with some sort of design/illustration on it :)

this amazingly beautiful tshirt from the Olsen twin's label Elizabeth and James which is available on mywardrobe.com

I love this school style bag, its so amazing and id use it forever... or at least until it fell apart!

The sickest trainers you will ever see, these are the Nylon and Nike hightops, I want the orange, katie wants the green choose a colour, order a pair and watch the eyes stare... AMAZING

This is the beautiful Isabella silk dress by designer Maje, its so beautiful and perfect for the summer to keep cool and look fabulous day and night depending on the footwear of choice.

These amazing Terry Dehavilland shoes are absolutely amazing and the summer season of wedges is already back in full swing! Ill be saving up for these beauties!

So thats it for my wish list so far. Im sure ill have way more to add but for now this is what im coveting!

Ill be back extremely soon with more news on things ive been doing or new things ive found!

x

Twilight fans and animation.....

2009-05-07T17:59:00.000-07:00

So as you can tell im having a film and youtube obsession this week!

Thought I would share a couple of vids that are floating my boat this week...

The first one is hilarious, well if like me your an avid Twilight fan then you might also think so aswell :) its basically a spoof so even if you hate it you can take the piss :)

came across it on youtube and I love it.....

ahahaha sorry I just watched it again before I posted, its hilarious!

also, my beautiful best friend Katie linked me to this last night, its by an animator called Barry Pilling as far as I can tell! There 2 of his vids I want to show you that are so beautiful and amazing, and 1 thats down right hilarious! So here we go....

The first one is animation along to the song First Love my the Maccabees, it suits the song amazingly and its such an amazing video..

The 2nd is animation to Always on my Mind by Elvis, I think I like this one better although it not as clean cut as the other one!

and finally this is a 3rd one of his videos and depicts his interpretation of the creation of the world, see it through its bloody hilarious, hope you enjoy it as much as we did :)

Thanks Katie for the link :)

Hope you enjoyed all the vids tonight :)

Love Love xx

Potter, Transformers 2 and Night at the Museum

2009-05-07T15:47:00.000-07:00

.... So tonight I was thinking about 3 films im pretty excited for coming up in the next month/month and a bit!

I thought I would share the trailers with you! The 4th Potter trailer is out and it looks ksljekwljhfjdbvnjdkzbvkjas AMAZING!

wow its out on the 17th July and I absolutely CANNOT wait wooo! NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN PLOT-LINE, YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THE BOOK.......... BUT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW GO ON IMDB.COM :)

Also the Transformers sequel is also out on the 26th June! as far as I can get from the trailer without wanting to know too much before it comes out ....

TRANSFORMERS 2

Sam goes to college, doesnt take bumblebee as maybe hes getting a bit too old for a robot car, as hes unpacking and a piece of the Allspark that was apparently destroyed in movie 1, is discovered, soon after sam begins to have visions of some symbols which turn out to be in a pyramid and could be hiding some sort of info/weapon/other bad for earth kind of thing, that the rescued Megatron wants, along with revenge. Sam is dragged back into this shit along with the Autobots to save the day.

ACE! cant wait, first one is in top 10 films of all time so this is going to be gooooood! :)

and Lastly a little guilty pleasure I harbor, the sequel to Night at the Museum is out this month! I cant wait, fans of the 1st one will lovingly remember the 2 little scoundrels Jed and Octavius (i.e. mini Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan). Well these 2 get wrongly transported to the wrong museum and its up to Larry to save them, taking along the magic Egyptian plate with him, he brings to life the residents of the Smithsonian Institute!

So enjoy, check them out when they come out and tell me what you think!

love love! xx

PHOTOSHOOT THE FINALE!

2009-05-06T03:28:00.000-07:00

So the photoshoot happened, it was a really fun sessions, totally random if im honest we just decided that we could hold out for the weather any longer!

I had a couple of themes, the first was sort of a fairy tale theme with beautiful dresses, huge shoes and lots of greenery! the next was a alice in wonderland theme, that consisted of sitting in katies cattery taking pictures in small box like setting. The last one was decidedly more private with it being an underwear theme! I will refrain from putting those pictures up until they have been properly edited!

So here are some my favourites:

Please tell me what you think!

x

Photoshoot................

2009-04-28T12:40:00.000-07:00

So apparently doing 2 shoots is tiring, hardwork but absolutely fucking hilarious! For my final university project im creating a teenage magazine! These are two moodboards I have created for the shoot as inspiration, pose and style....

Photo's from the shoot coming soon :)

x

Barbara Hulanicki for Topshop, yes yes yes!!

2009-04-26T18:46:00.000-07:00

So the fabulous designer, fashion illustrator and founder of the legendary Biba company, Barbara Hulanicki has designed a wonderful and magical collection for Topshop.

Launching at the end of April in selected stores, the fabulous small piece collection of tshirts, dresses, scarves and hats combines a colour palate of coral, mint, white and dusky pink. They show several patterns of a strange cartoon, flinstones like prints and whimsical, fantasy illustrations adorning the garments.

This is some of the collection....

So decide what you will, I am personally loving the collection and may indulge in a couple of pieces myself after the launch :)

And thats only a few days away........]

And a few lovely pictures from the launch party, held at the Miller's academy of Arts and Science in London (I have taken this from the Topshop website) not sure how its going to come out but please ENJOY ENJOY!

So I watched Nick and Norah and....

2009-03-11T19:23:00.000-07:00

...i loved nick and norah, if you havent seen it yet, i suggest you go and check it out! Its heartfelt, lovely and i couldnt stop smiling all the way through! Also its inflating my excitement for my pending trip to the USA 10 fold!!!

I havent been on here a lot lately and ive been shit at updating and all that bollocks, i could use the excuse of super busy blah blah but to be honest ive just been dead lazy and havent figured out anything super interesting to tell you guys!

Well what can say is this, on saturday afternoon I fly to the USA, New York that is and when i get back, boy are you guys in for a treat! a blog about my time there is in order and the fun things I got up to, interesting people etc etc!

For the time being, anyone who has seen Candy the film, staring the late Heath Ledger, if anyone can recommend it or has seen it and has an opinion on the film let me know!

Also if your in Notts anytime soon, get yourselves down to this lovely night

Its an amazing night and its barely reached its first month, but on the opening night capacity reached over 3000 and it ended up being a one in one out situation! These guys are normally found giving out some sort of free entry opportunity throughout the week so get yourselves down there for a fun night of cheap drinks and stupid dancing!

Wooahh i just realised how boring this blog was, right im gunna go away and find something more interesting to talk about!

See you guys after NYC!!!! when im going to get my arse back on track!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sorry for the delay.....

2009-02-02T18:32:00.001-08:00

God I have been awful, its been nearly 10 days or something since my last post! that is awful! Well seen as I'm really really bogged down with uni work at the moment I'm going to make this short and sweet.

I am currently in the middle of a project to create a magazine aimed at the 16-21 age range, I sort of want it to be a mixture of nylon, teen vogue and Elle girl (not in print anymore). Now this magazine will be primarily female orientated but could be unisex really, it wont have anything to do with mainstream celebrity, female problems and all that malarkey and will simply a fashion and entertainment magazine for the more creative and fashion forward teenager.

Now this blog is all about asking for some advice on the project and to see if anyone has any advice about it at all! I would appreciate it so much and anyone can leave a comment and it can even me anonymous if you want it to be.

Sorry about the short and sweet blog this time guys, I promise a better more detailed one is in store once im a little less stressed and a bit more up to date!

But please help if you can do! :)

Thanks guys love ya!

xoxo

Cow Cow Cow..... The lock in

2009-01-23T08:10:00.000-08:00

On Thursday night I had the wonderful pleasure of driving my way round Nottingham's crap road system in an attempt to attend the lovely Cow Student Lock In,

Cow is a vintage shop in Nottingham, but is extra special as it isnt the ridiculously expensive prices of a 'vintage' shop (although its not quite charity shop prices either). However, it is set out like a vintage shop with everything being individually hung up and even sectioned.

Thursday night they held a student lock in whereupon arrival you recieve a ticket that allows an alcoholic beverage (they also gave away free red bull all night), the chance to browse the rails late at night, listen to a dj playing a set of pretty good electro/dance music and 10% discount on every purchase. All in all they delievered well, I was impressed and even bagged myself the most amazing jumper dress!

Here are a few picture I took last night, not many as I got a bit too excited about the clothes but have a look anyway...

And my purchase for the evening... (£12.60!)

All in all it was a good night, the beer wasnt very nice, the red bull was, the tunes were good, it wasnt crowded and I got something beautiful which I love!

If you are ever in Nottingham check the place out at 2 George Street, Notts NG1 3BE (also there is branches in Birmingham and Sheffield that I know of it you want to check those out to!)

Speak to you soon guys! Love ya!

xoxo

Madhatter Madness.....Johnny Depp

2009-01-23T04:40:00.000-08:00

From the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland film, out 2010 one of the first pictures to be released from the film is Johnny Depp as The Madhatter, with amazing other characters such as Matt Lucas as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and Helena BC as the Queen of Hearts this film promises to be another dark and satisfying masterpiece from one of my favourite directors :) I cannot wait!

Enjoy......

Paris Paris Paris

2009-01-22T15:18:00.001-08:00

As well as my huge obsession with New York at the moment and my imminent visit to the big apple in March for ones birthday (and various other things), there is one other city that has captured my heart like no other and that is the beautiful city of Paris.

I had the pleasure of visiting the city last february for Premiere Vision and had a wonderful 5 days there which only served to make me fall more deeply, madly and sincerely in love with it.

The beautiful streets and alleyways, lead to treasures and the most beautiful restaurants, catch Le Tango Du Chat- 6, Rue Saint Severin if you can do its in the Latin Quarter near the Notre Dame de Paris and it has the most beautiful food and an even better waiter who will keep a party of young ladies entertained all night!

Smaller and quieter branches of American Apparel lurk in various areas around the city (also slightly cheaper) and wonderful shops filled with trinkets and accessories to melt your heart and reach for the wallets! I could have wandered down those streets all day and all night, and even though our hotel was in the ghetto, it was surrounded by an outdoor market on various days and it was within minutes to the nearest metro stop.

Another place that captured my heart whole and completely was Versailles, I am in love with the tale of Marie Antoinette, the ultimate party girl whose expensive lifestyle as the Queen of France brought upon her own downfall. If you visit Paris it is also worth a visit to Versailles which isnt far away and im pretty sure regular transport links are available into the town.

I didnt get a chance to visit the town itself, but the Palace is amazing in its own right, it is still being restored but what they are doing to it is incredible and well worth the wait when its finished.

I am planning to visit this city again this year, preferably when its a bit warmer I can sit in the palace gardens and eat cake :)

Anyway there is my love for Paris and Versailles in one small and rather picture perfect blog, feel free to comment and share your thoughts :)

xoxo

DELLAL..... Ultimate Muse

2009-01-21T16:23:00.000-08:00

Im a busy busy bee at the moment so short and sweet blog today.. longer one should be coming tomorrow :)

This womens iconic style makes her one of the most beautiful women in the world in my eyes, whether its because ive just re shaved my undercut or obsession with cutting clothes up I cant get enough of this lovely lady.......... Alice Dellal :)

Wish List

2009-01-18T04:56:00.001-08:00

Hey! Its a lazy sunday, I have woken up too late and now the panic of a looming deadline is hovering over me like a bad storm. However not even that can detract me from my musings and fantasies of the coming season, weather change, trip to the big apple and what the next 6 months has to bring.

Thought id just post a short bulletin about whats making me happy at the moment....

Luella Penelope Dress

Purple Version of my Shorts

Zac Posen Garden Dress

Stella McCartney Nautical Shoes

Marc by Marc Jacobs Bangle

The New Wayfarer

Orange Platforms

Red Version of my Black Dress/skirt

Dsquared2 shoes ive been lusting after for 2 years and I can now just about afford them!

Still Loving Heart Sunglasses From Last Year

Eiffel Tower Bag (to preferbly wear with Luella Dress)

So thats my half realistic shopping list for the summer! Some I shall get, some I can only dream about :)

Now onto my muses for the Summer, I have but 3 here they are

As I was saying the other day, Bleached Shorts and Short Tees ala Pixie Geldoff!

Scruffy blonde hair, dark eyes and massive rings ala Courtney Love

Again the beautiful Miss Love

and finally.....

Someone who is going to be on everyones lips this summer..

A Miss Ebony Bones

This women is pure style and she doesnt sound half bad either, catch her myspace Here Shes been dubbed as the UK version of Santogold and shes been hovering on the side lines for a while, whatever you think of her music you cant deny she looks good. A way of ripping off her look for the summer is to go for bright colours - tights, skirts, jackets, whatever as long as they are all different and all worn together, coloured wigs, big hair and even bigger jewellery.

Other music ill be listening to is The Almost, side band of Underoath drummer/singer Aaron Gillespie, these are a more chilled out version of Underoath although his vocals cant be mistaken. I am really liking these at the moment, go have a listen on their myspace Here

Another Artist im still listening to and cant get enough of is MSTRKRFT who I know a lot of people already listen to but I just love them!

Anyway this blog ended up being a lot longer than expected but hey hope you liked and leave your comments if you would like!

xoxo

Watch!.... Nick and Norah

2009-01-17T10:56:00.000-08:00

If there is one film this month that you go and watch make sure it is 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist', I for one am super excited about it and have been for months, it stars one of my favourite young actors of the moment, Michael Cera (of Superbad fame) and Kat Dennings, who I personally recognised from 40 Year Old Virgin and a small part in an episode of Sex and the City.

A short synopsis of the film begins with Nick (Cera) splitting with his spoilt girlfriend Tris whom he adores and tries to win her back sending her countless cds which she just throws in the bin, however her best friend Norah (Dennings) retrieves them and listens to them over and over.

One night Nick is playing with his band 'The Jerkoffs' and Tris arrives, not wanting to look dateless in front of her best friend, Norah asks Nick to be her boyfriend for 5 minutes and Tris tells Norah he is her ex-boyfriend and now that he appears taken she wants him back.

This begins a hilarious and music packed night as they all go on an adventure around New York City to find popular band 'Where's Fluffy' (they announce a secret gig somewhere in the city) and Nick and Norah begin to get to know each other much to the annoyance of Tris.

Its had rave reviews in the USA for being a great teen movie so this is one film I cannot wait to see! Its out on general release on the 30th January, book your tickets as soon as you can!

(Also being made is sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshell, which you can check out on IMDB if you search "Get him to the Greek")

Amazing new T-Mobile Advert

2009-01-17T05:20:00.001-08:00

Sorry I had to tell all you guys about the new tmobile advert, me and my housemate caught it last night, its absolutely amazing probably one of the best adverts ive seen for a long time! It was long but well worth it, anyway I found it on youtube so I thought I would share it all with you...

This was filmed at 11am at Liverpool Street Station on Thursday 15th January 2009 only 2 days ago! Anyway here it is!

Let me know what you think of it guys!

xoxo

New Shoes! New Shoes! New Shoes!

2009-01-16T08:03:00.000-08:00

I had had had had to show you my wonderful new shoes, as I was procrastinating the gym today waiting for spin class I headed into town and accidentally walked into Topshop whereupon I found these treasures

Although they might not have been my first choice of shoes, ive been after a really amazing pair of platform boots for a while but havent been able to find any that I like or not seen anyone wearing, anywho I turned these over to see the damage and was hugely hugely surprised to see that they had been reduced from £85 all the way down to a.... wait for it.... £15! WHAT!! I know I grabbed the nearest assistant quicker than I could put my card in the chip and pin and headed for the till, where the lovely young lady also reminded me that, yes, I am a student therefore could also have a further £1.50 off lowering the price to a wonderful and clap worthy £13.50!

I am so excited with these I plan to wear them religiously even in summer with florals and everything in my wardorbe, I particularly plan to wear them in New York in March! eeeeee!!

I was so excited with them I skipped all the way home!

Anyway onto more important things I thought I would now have a rant about 2 of my all time favourite designers after looking at the collections a while back. Luella and Betsey Johnson. Now these 2 amazing ladies are two designers I will be hugely channelling this summer along with at least one other friend who feels equally the same about them!

Here are just a few pictures from Luella's S/S 09 collection

As you can see, Luella has made a huge leap from her almost superhero inspired season from S/S 08 and although kept a kitsch, fresh and unique theme to her collection has concentrated on the opposing materials of floral chiffon and heavy tweed, mixing one shoulder dresses, with layers and frills all over the place with equally beautiful however seemingly more constructed tweed jackets and skirts for a tea and cakes with the parents look.

As Luella herself described the show itself, to wet the fashion crowd's appetite "THINK of a nice polite, knee-length dress you might find a rather mature royal wearing to a garden party, add three, mash them together, add an ample amount of sticky sweet confectionery colour, add a bit more, then look at it through psychedelic tinted glasses"

Summer cant be too long away now surely.......

And these are from Betsy Johnson's collection

With the idea of fashion either being a distraction or a distracting factor in our pockets at the moment, it came as no suprise as the ever genius Betsy came to our aid and gave us a collection filled with cupcakes, clowns and lunchboxes down the runway. Probably one of my favourite collections all season this cute and amazingly tailored collection of prom dresses and pirates gave so much inspiration im going to find it hard to choose in which direction to take.

So those are just a few of my favourite pictures from the collection and looks I will be sporting this summer, Im thinking cut off tshirts, in orange, electric blue and white with a variety of shorts and huge mini skirts and tutu's with huge heels and maybe even a flicker of lacy socks!

Comment me and tell me what your thinking of wearing this summer!

xoxo

And so it begins...

2009-01-08T17:38:00.000-08:00

So here is my first post, I decided to start blogging after I took a good, long hard look at myself and decided I needed to 'put my self out there' as it were. Also the big talk by the mighty Tim (forever gay, but always lusted after) one day in class also confirmed my ideas of getting myself on the blogging ladder. So although you may have read a thousand of these blogs before, you can very well sit back and bloody read about my life aswell.

So I suppose I should start explaining that I am a 21 year old student, currently leaving between a shitty town, kind of near Manchester (but not really) thats full of chavs and pregnant teenagers and Nottingham a shitty city thats also full of chavs and pregnant teenagers. Although I have to say I somewhat prefer living in Nottingham as opposed to Burnley (feel free to click the big X in the corner now the cats out the bag). I study at Nottingham Trent University, I do a Fashion Marketing degree and I'm fully aware people like me are probably responsible for the economic crisis that is plaguing our country right now, but I love what I do.

I have some absolutely amazing friends and family who I spend around 60% : 40% of the year with and I love them all very much, without them I dont think I would have got through the last 3 years and all its thrown at me. (I shall post and introduce various images of them as I begin posting).

Anyway enough about all this for now, the reason im writing this blog is to give my reader an insight into the things that I enjoy and love whether this be trips, fashion, music etc etc I will keep you updated with pictures and stories and hopefully they will be as interesting to you as they are to me, not likely but hey..

So for now, I shall bid you farewell, well at least for a couple of days anyway.

xoxo