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! ^.^

Childhood TVB Chinese cartoon nostalgia

This year I have been finding and watching childhood cartoons I watched as a kid in Chinese dub

With the likes of Sailormoon (美少女), Old Master Q (老夫子), Doreamon, Candy Candy (小甜甜), Dr Slump (IQ博士) there is a few more!!

What I'm still hunting around for is Animitsu Hime (甜甜公主) but I still haven't found it in Cantonese!! Seen it in Original Japanese but not the same!! I can only find the Chinese theme song thanks to youtube

But recent discovery thanks to Mum and my mum's best friend, they made me rediscover 忍者小靈精!! Cartoon about a Ninja who helps a kid out & keeps saying his catchphrase "yun yun yun" made me smile -^.^-

Click here to watch 忍者小灵精

Nostalgia of cartoons; they were funnier back in the day, can't really appreciate the new cartoons now!

The joys of Summer

Can't believe this summer is flying by so quickly and it's almost the Last Bank Holiday until Christmas!! ~.~

What have I got to show for it?? I have no clue, until I go through the diary and photographic evidence of my antics that is! Hehe :p I really do envy the people who work at schools, they get their summer holiday of 2 months. Lucky people!

At least weekends are good to chill and have R&R! But sucks when weekdays it's sunny & I'm stuck in the office working! (-.-")

Now recollecting my thoughts of what I've been getting up to, it's mainly been catch ups with friends, birthday celebrations and house hunting. reasons of my not blogging, naughty me (^_^*)
I'm doing the scary step of wanting to get on the property ladder! It's very daunting, doing this independently for sure, but it's good to have family's advice those does drive me potty at times, and it's god to speak to friends who are fellow 1st time buyers. This type of hunting around is indeed stressful.

But putting that aside, I chat to friends in HK asking them what they got up to in the weekend, usual antics of drinking in LKF, I'm sure they do this every weekend! Don't they get bored?

Then again my lifestyle in the weekend can be pretty mad, ranging from birthday celebrations this month, involving clubbing @ Funky Buddha in Mayfair on a Saturday night; I do not want to go there again for a LONG time, pretentious, expensive and rude door staff. At least I got my monies worth on dancing the night away though pretty sober
However the other social night activities that is involving karaoke, very Chinese I know but is good fun. Singing your heart out social chat catch up with friends and drinking quite a bit. Cost of that night £30 compared to a club night! Then again I went mad to balance the drinking by joining another circle of friends jogging 5km from Limehouse with only 2 hours sleep!! =.= still recovering!

Bank holiday is going to be chilling back in Devon, where the pace of life REALLY slows down so I get my 10+ hours sleep! Can't wait!! ^.^

Keep Calm and Carry on

I am having trouble in knowing what to blog lately as I've been really busy, stressed and not sleeping well. 


As many have seen in the media or maybe around them, UK has been suffering riots and looters this past week that has gone so out of hand, it has actually been causing me to lose my concentration at work (-.-")

The riots and looters have really angered me having kids as young as 8 years old taking part damaging their community and stealing from it. It just gets out of hand, where innocent people got swept into this mass destruction and have been injured and killed because of it. 


UK I feel is becoming soft, evil thoughts have sprung to my mind such as bringing back the death penalty! Or even at least be like countries such as Germany or Korea where people age 18 have to take part in the army for 2 year, then they can have some form of direction to life and become well disciplined and learn respect


I am pretty pissed of how some people can act, especially in a country I was born and brought up in. 


I suppose as the saying goes, we need to try keeping calm and do our best to carry on and not dwindle 


I am so glad that people are getting involved with helping to clean up the mess, and an epetition has been made to revoke all benefits from any rioters involved, over 100,000 people have already signed it, more support is needed 


Click to read and sign the petition