Comme des Garçons. The future of Black.

I'm fascinated by the Comme des Garcons S/S ready to wear collection. Rei Kawakubo has experimented loads with shape and proportion. There's a clear influence on the catwalks for designers to look at geometric shapes taking fashion back to basics. At the moment the brief on my course is the same, we have to construct a garment with a single shape, looking at how ancient cultures used basic forms and so on, so i'm defiantly not short for inspiration at the moment!

Rei Kawakubo has chosen a challenging hexagon, using a patchwork type style on some garments she has created the cutest cocooning skirts and pouffy tops. Some look like deconstructed footballs! Especially the bag I saw in Dover Street Market (I wish I was minted, I wanted everything). I love pretty much the whole lot, the black vinyl leather has quite a sinister/angry feeling, this with the messy, tatty chiffon makes the ideal balance. I'd love to get into that woman's head! The collection is going be a huge success and mahousivly influential for designers world wide (inc. me). I really really hope I can get a work placement with Comme des Garcons somewhere amongst the business, ooohhhh how I would be so happy, i'm finding out about it at the moment, some strings need to be pulled but ill make sure it gets done!! Let me know if you love the collection as much as me! 

EMMA BELL love love love (and the party of a lifetime)

Hip hip horrayyyyy, yesterday I saw my second Emma Bell show and it made me feel all fuzzy and happy inside. This time I made the right move of filming it because I just knew it was guna be a gooden! Sorry about the dodgy quality, I couldn't take the beastly camera in with me yesterday so had to make do with my phone : ( ohhhh welll its better then nothing right!!!!

Keep your eyes peeled for Sam and Amanda on the catwalk, the dogs they have are so so sweet, I really wanted to cuddle/steal them!

Ok I cant contain my excitement any longer!!! Last night was probably one of THE best nights of my 19 years on this earth. I went to Henry Hollands after party with some of my bestie buds and it was a bloody blast!!!! Kanye West fancied a song so he sang!! And I didn't find the urge to kick any of the celebs I thought I wanted to (wont say who just in case...) all in all I had a amazing time!!!! THEN the after after party moved to Mahikis, which is great if you have a endless pocket full of money!! So as its by birthday soon who wants to buy me one of their treasure chests???come on!!! Its only £100??We can share!!! Oh and thank you who ever the guy was who got the Vodka in, much appreciated!!! 

Any way heres a really terrible video of Kanye rippen' it up, I love the fact his glasses are off....then I do some messed up thing with my phone for a second and suddenly he has glasses on..mmmm, well it made me laugh!!

Paul Smith a/w 09 (your amazing)

As I mentioned in my post 'fun fun friday', me and Ashley got jobs at Paul Smiths a/w London Fashion Week show. The show was last night and it was so adorable. The collection was so perfectly English, lots of tweeds, pretty hats with feathers and the cutest floral prints. I was completely in awe and loved every moment of it. Even the venue was perfect for the occasion. The show was held at Claridges in Mayfair so the typically English location went with the collection superbly. I couldn't have picked anywhere more perfect for it. As I was front of house seating I didn't have a chance to take any photos (I doubt it would have looked very professional...), so I have been a bit cheeky and taken a few pictures from style.com so you guys can have a look at a few bits from the collection that I wouldn't mind getting my mits on.

After the show back stage I went up to Paul to congratulate him and say thank you and he was SUCH a lovely person, soooo friendly and approachable! Paul Smith is THE most perfect company in the world to work for, everyone was so friendly and the whole evening was so relaxed and easy going, just like things sound be!

Roksanda Ilincic fashion show

Well well this Fashion Week so far has been sooooo much fun, I managed to bag another show. Roksanda Ilincic! And this time I was wasn't working so I got a chance to sit back, relax and enjoy show! Roksanda graduated at Central Saint Martins with a MA in womenswear, so as always for Saint Martins my expectations where pretty high, and she well and truly fulfilled them. The collection was so girly and, well..... shiny!! I wanted to jump on the models as they walked past! The venue of the show, Gladstone Library in Embankment was so grand and amazing I felt so out of place trotting up the MASSIVE staircase. Oh well, I got a free pink Barbie chocolate (it was soooo yum) the show was sponsored by Barbie! (how perfect) Unfortunately I couldn't grab myself a goody bag which had a brand new barbie in it!!! I told you it was girly! 

Here are some photos of the show, enjoy : )

Roksanda After The Show



The Models after the show, flawless makeup, of course !!

Backstage At ioannisdimitrousis

Wowzers. Yesterday was such a brilliant day. My lovely friend Vicky from Let Them Eat Cake magazine got Bryony, Heidi and me jobs at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout ioannisdimitrousis show.
The collection was totally stunning, woven chains and hanging needles made it truely individual. Everything down to the sound the garments made was perfect. The finale needle dress made this beautiful gentle jingle noise, it was oh so amazing. The Silver and deep reds reminded me of knights in battle!! It was all pretty intimidating to lil old me. I had never done dressing before so was pretty freaked out about the fact I might break/rip/ruin something! But luckily it all went really well, having said that I had a pretty huge challenge of getting my model Ismini into the shows finale dress! Which was completely covered in needles!! Ouch! I was soooo scared she would get stabbed in the eye! Plus it weighed so much I literally couldn't hold it on my own. But the show must go on, and it did! Here are some photographs I managed to get backstage before and during the show.

The Beautiful Ladies of the night

Designer Ioannis with his models

Hanging Needles

The Male Modles

The run through

Ismimi

Last minute touch up and my favorite dress of all

The Grand Finale

The V&A Young British Designers Private view!!

Heres a small collection of photos I snapped up At the V&A Young British Designers private view. The work was bloooody brilliant, I take my hat off too everyone involved. The atmosphere was amazing, the place was packed out and the DJ was greeaaattt! I took photos of a few people who caught my eye and were definitely Passi Pocket blog worthy. A big thank you to everyone : )

I HEART Sequins

Cute Suit




How couldn't these two stand out in a crowd!




This las had the moves




Bow Tie (a big thumbs up to you)




There's no other word for this one but "wow"  (and I love your coat)!

Its a LOVE HATE thing...

I have to admit I'm not overly impressed with the first issue of LOVE magazine. First impressions deffo matter and LOVE's were pretty low. I don't know about you but I am still bitter about saying good-bye to POP as I found it a very pleasant read indeed, (fare well, princess pop). I don't reaalllly understand why Katie Grand stopped doing one magazine just to start another when the first one was perfectly fine?! But it seems that was the problemo, POP was too perfect! (How confusssssing). And lets face it when Conde Nast offer you and your team a masssive bundle of money to buy you over from Emap to start a new magazine not many people would say no! Conde Nast has some of the words leading fashion magazines under its sleeve, such as Vogue, Glamour and GQ, now adding LOVE to their list! Lets hope it's as successful as POP was. Also.....

I read a little rumor that Katie Grand has promised to ban the use of size zero models for shoots in LOVE and is guna steer clear of airbrushing...mmmm. So I suppose there was no better woman to put on the cover other than a very naked Beth Ditto. Good on her! But I find the lack of nipples a wee bit suspicious..... and pretty freaky looking.

What really ticks me off about LOVE is the excessive amount of advertising. It's re-dic. Only at page 81 (!!!) did I finally come to the magazines first piece. An A-Z of everything LOVE loves, in alphabetical order!  It was a pre-tey long read with almost every other page being another ad. But alas, despite this there is a bundle of beauty in LOVE that makes it worth a read (and the £5 that I really can't afford at the mo). I just think that POP had it better and it's guna be missed all round. Anyway its early days and all that so i'll wait and see what happens in the next issue....I'm looking forward to it!!

For now here are a few of my favorite bits (sorry about the quality I officially hate scanners)

Lara Stone caught between shows. So hot.



John Galliano. (Verrrrry pretty colours)




Roberto Cavalli dress (aint it darn pretty)