Belle Sauvage Spring Summer 2012 Collection

Location was down at the old sorting office on New Oxford street. The place was previously part of the London riots and is the second down location for catwalks from the BFC Tent in Somerset House.

The location and space I felt was perfect fit the label, as the Vibe was so urban. Despite the place used to be a place where squatters lived and raved.

The collection was inspired by 1920s Hollywood era of the Silent movies, with the hair all sleek with a triangle shape of rolls at the back and the glamorous curls at the front.

I think because of the music and the feel and shapes of the garments it really made me think of the Silent movie "Metropolis"

Love the use of colours for the collection, mint greens, yellow, magentas; the use of their digital prints are very Belle Sauvage and the sweet details of embroidery into the garment made the styles quite girly, sophisticated and sweet.

The After Show Party for Belle Sauvage was held in Covent Garden's Bungalow 8

Good music from my friends who DJed the first set, however when Errol came on the music got crap!

Cocktails - a lot of rum!

Goodie Bag - Coco water and GHD hair products

Fashion week S/S12

So London Fashion Week kicks off, there's I feel there's alway a buzz with London compared to New York; probably the style is so different, London fashion is more eccentric and eclectic in style. Ranging from classic styles from brands like Burberry, Jaeger, Jonathan Saunders to more of a fresh out of the box style with the likes of Craig Lawrence, Belle Sauvage, Ann Sofie Back - many names with a different vision.   

But then again, fashion week is a good excuse where all fashion industry related people gather, catch up and get pissed!! (^_−)−☆ 

Friday, beginning of fashion week, being excited and suffered severe Friday feeling, I started off by checking out Muscat Veilma's presentation at W Hotel Next to Chinatown. 

Great central location ^.^

Very beautiful pieces inspired by armour and armodillo, mixing it with very soft colours shape tailored silhouettes. The Duo's use of pleating, panelling and tucks is cleverly engineered and the finishing of garments were so clean 

Drinks: Red/ White Wine, mineral water

Goodie Bag: Canvas bag, popcorn, face wash, Muscat Vielma's look book for S/S 12 ^.^

Welcoming Autumn with the Thames Festival

The weather has definitely changed this week, as Winds from a Hurricane somewhere are effecting the English water, so Britain's getting a bit windy lately, less daylight moving on to Winter ~.~

But I do love Autumn- leaves change colour, temperature gets cooler, light knitwear to layered styling and the weekend just gone, I decided to join my friends and check out the Thames Festival on Southbank:-

I haven't really explored it these past fee years, so it was something nice to see, and Mark Autumn arriving.

Fortunately we went out later as we wanted to see the fireworks in the evening, otherwise we had ALOT of time to kill!!

Typical of a festival, there were a lot of stalls selling assorts of things along the Southbank- clothes, ornaments, music, books and of course food & drink from around the world. It was nice to walk around Southbank, along the Thames in the evening, the feel was so relaxing and enjoyable, minus the congested crowds of where the food stalls were.

Other reason we wanted to go to the Thames Festival, we wanted to see the Korean section by the OXO Tower (^.^) 

There were quite a fair few stalls too and a stage for the Korean Culture performances including music, dancing and martial arts. Wish I checked the Korean area the evening before as they had a K Pop event!

Was quite surprised to see a stall devoted to K Pop Karaoke! My friends wanted me to do it, but I don't know all the lyrics, mainly the choruses to the songs they had! (^_−)−☆

They even had this song by Shinee on the Karaoke ^-^

We unfortunately missed the carnival parade as it was on the otherwise of the river, so wondered around to find a good spot to see the fireworks. Despite The fireworks being delayed by 15mins, we didn't see them let off till 10pm, Boris must have rambled lots of there was a speech involved! (z_z)

But it was a very enjoyable display, seeing the rockets so close let off from the tug boats on the river, was worth the wait (^^)

Good way to lead into Mid Autumn Festival (-^.^-)

Vanity of social photography

Most my friends know I enjoy taking photos of a night out. 

A friend last week laughed as she noticed I've still been using the same camera, that big with shutters that stick- my lovely Panasonic Lumix, 6x optical zoom, 6 years old, 4 megapixels and runs on AA batteries and has survived a lot, including a very sweaty Lost Prophets gig one Summer as well as being dropped from my clumsy drunken nights (^.^)  

 I replied to my friend, saying "if it ain't broke, no point in getting a replacement yet" which is true.

But last month I've taken photos at little partying social gatherings, and have had to delete up to 8 from Ye Olde Facebook; because friends said they look awful in them. Ok fair enough, but to be honest they weren't that awful.  

I am the type of person to do paparazzi styled photography- catching people in the moment, natural occurring scene. Can work at times, jolts people's memories, can be funny! 

I have seen photos of me friends have photographed and damn I did not look the best, oh well I get over it and carry on. But some people they just comment on the photo of message me saying "delete please". It is effort trying to find which photo they're on about.

Will put some photos on this blog when I get a bit more time! ^.^