Monday, 18 April 2011

Fashion: British Designers' Collective at Bicester Village



This weekend I was down in Oxfordshire to visit my sister, and the designer outlet, Bicester Village, just so happens to be half an hour away, so of course I had to pay a visit. More importantly, I wanted to see the British Designers Collective pop-up shop which is running for six weeks, featuring a whole host of great new British design talent including Richard Nicoll, Felicity Brown and Lara Bohinc.

First impressions of the pop-up shop were fantastic. Loved the very on-trend neon colours used in the store design, including the amazing neon-pink telephone box outside.












I wasn't allowed to take any pictures of the clothes, but the sales assistants were extremely friendly and let me take photos of the store inside (how fantastic are the big jars of gamma orange and pink jellybeans!) 

So did I buy? Well, even for an outlet some of the clothes were a bit out of my price range (I wish I could've afforded a Felicity Brown dress!). I did purchase two Jonathan Saunders t-shirt dresses though - am a massive fan of his printwork so in was great to add these to my collection!








I also made another few purchases at Bicester but that's for another blogpost...

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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Fashion: New portfolio layout

Sorry for the lack of posting over the weekend, lovely followers, but I was struck by an evil cold and ear and throat infection! On the mend now and redesigning and updating my portfolio. Here's a sneak preview, what do you think?


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Monday, 21 February 2011

London Fashion Week: Richard Nicoll

I'm such a huge fan of Richard Nicoll: his exquisite tailoring, luxe colour palettes and the wearability of his clothes. His collection for A/W 11/12 contains beautiful layering, batwings! and those fantastic sheer, gathered at the ankle trousers. Guessing they'll be quite cold to wear in winter though!


Valerija Kelava / Iris Egbers


Sara Blomqvist / Suzie Bird


Jourdan Dunn / Katlin Aas / Iris Egbers 

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