no snow sunday

People never change...

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sooo it's sunday

If this is true I think its really sad.

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p.s. Harry Potter (DH pt1) was AMAZING! so emotional and really don't want to wait till next year for pt2

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy...

3 DAYS!  Until Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Pt1 :D

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soggy sunday.

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p.s. Well done Vettel and Red bull on winning double championship at F1 and Hamilton and Button coming 2nd and 3rd in the race :) I'm sure Lewis will get it next year :D

walk this way...

This is my catwalk report that I wrote for my fashion media topic for Uni. It's describing Alexander McQueen's Spring Summer 11 show...

Alexander McQueen label débuts Sarah Burton's collection

The most anticipated collection has finally arrived. Following the death of Alexander McQueen protégée Sarah Burton steps forward to reveal the Spring/ Summer 2011 show in Paris.

“McQueen is about very strong, powerful women but I wanted them to feel tender as well”, says Sarah Burton. From the first garment to the last you can see that Burton and McQueen shared a complete symbiosis and that she has captured the essence of his previous designs. Burton has taken the dramatic silhouettes, sharp structured cuts and trademark looks of McQueen's designs and made them more feminine, soft and free.

This is evident in the first few white formal garments. The hard peaked shoulders were a McQueen signature but on a cropped fitted blazer they are slashed open to look more relaxed. Also to soften the original sharp McQueen look the edges are left unfinished and the Victorian styling is soft. Ruffles and neck ties are used to complete the piece. Considering his Autumn/ Winter 2010 collection the gold brocade theme is carried through onto midnight blue suits. The military-esque silk jacket contains intricately made gold leaf designs, exposed shoulders and a mandarin collar. The gold leaf design is also included on a pair of high-waisted cropped trousers.

The collection's inspiration is firmly rooted in nature, from the woven hair to the wheat dresses. Guido Palau, hair stylist says, “We took inspiration from the land and people making things like basket weaving and pagan and straw dolls. It has an earthy quality.” The model's hair is exactly like a woven basket and hangs plaited right down to the waist, and the make-up is simple and pure. The nature theme cannot be denied with the two beautiful perplexing butterfly dresses. These high necked bustle dresses are displayed in cool blue and flaming amber with the monarch butterflies extending out as if they want to be free. Butterflies were also shown on dresses at Loewe, Carlos Miele, Jun Jun Cambe and on a blouse at Sportmax; confirming them as a Spring/Summer trend for 2011.

Another dress that also encapsulates the theme is one that's made of raffia and wheat. The model looks exactly like a straw doll but, somehow is still elegant with a heart shaped neckline and wheat covered heels. The British pagan and 'boho' look is conveyed in three angelic white dresses. The first is a broderie anglaise dress with cutaway shoulders and tassels hanging from the bottom. Another has a high neck with a georgette silhouette and a gilded cinch belt which is trademark McQueen.

Burton ended the collection with some show-stopping dresses including gold leaf brocade, black encompassing ivy-like flowers, dark tie-dye ruffles and magnificent ostentatious ostrich feathers. The last song chosen to play was Michael Jackson's I'll Be There. The front row, including actress Salma Hayek, Editor-at-large of Vogue Japan Anna Dello Russo, and American Vogue's Grace Coddington all sighed a sigh of relief that the show had been magnificent and were sure that Lee Alexander can rest happily knowing his legacy will live on.

remember, remember

Uni work, Halloween and a trip home for fireworks.


Uni Work


For part of my 'fashion media' unit I had to do a shopping page. Mine was about the trend of red clothes and set out for Grazia magazine. Below is the text and then the image of my final page :)

Red's not dead...

This is one of the hottest colours of the coldest season, inject some sex-siren red into your wardrobe and update your look.

Do you remember last year's winter colours? A lot of black, white and grey. However fashion's obsession with pillar box, ruby, scarlet and crimson red holds up again this year and is bigger, brighter and bolder than ever before. There are plenty of styles flying off the shelves to prove it. Stand out in a statement red coat from Jaeger that will cocoon you in colour or if that's not your style then slightly shine in a ruffle shouldered vest from Oasis.

Also perfect for day-wear, work a pair of straight legged trousers to give a simple outfit a boost, or be in the knitwear gang and opt for a long cowl necked jumper to keep you snug. Shoe Gods Kurt Geiger have stock-rooms full of cherry red heels; why not try some heeled loafers that go with everything from dresses to flares and are balancing you out with the new chunky, stacked heel. As long as you're not on the red carpet a flaming red dress is perfect for evening-wear.

The fashion designers that bought this trend onto the autumn/winter 2010 catwalks are Emilio Pucci, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Marc Jacobs. Emilio Pucci and Alexander McQueen featured head-to-toe red gowns and outfits, where as Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs used it to accent other colours. Pucci brought sexy back with a dress slit right the way up the front which was very provocative. However McQueen took this colour back to its regal roots by using rich silk and lashings of gold. It really is a very versatile colour. In Vivienne Westwood's Red Label collection she used red tights to make the darker colours pop, this is a very cheap way for anybody to work the look this season. Similarly Marc Jacobs knitwear included red stripes, there are lots of great ways to incorporate this colour into your outfit.

We suggest to wear red with black to really accentuate the colour but if you want to be really on trend then match with navy, for instant va-va-voom.

At the moment I am writing a catwalk report so when I'm finished I'll post it.

Halloween

Okay so it may feel like a while ago now but just thought I'd mention it as fun times were had! Pumpkins were carved in the Horsley Close household, house parties were attended and drunken times were had. 

Pumpkins...

Kat's, Laura's, mine.

My sister carving her cat pumpkin.

Now the photos below consist of me and my housemates out for halloween...

Trip home for fireworks
For fireworks night/weekend I was in Essex so me and my fam did some shit fireworks in our garden and then on saturday night we went to a brilliant display :) Following are the usual shit photos you get when trying to photograph fireworks...

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p.s. booked tickets to see Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 today, SO EXCITED, 11 DAYS :D

sunnnnnnnndddaaaaayyyyyyyyy

I think this happens in a lot of relationships...

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