Shoe Snob: London

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28/06/2013

Outfit Fashion - Street Style

Forgot to mention: when I was in London for the LCF offers day I got photographed just outside of Oxford Street Topshop for a fashion website linked to Topshop and the Arcadia group. The street style photographers were writing a piece on festival fashion and thought I looked the part. The piece has only recently been posted on the website (hence me only blogging about it now)...

http://www.outfitfashion.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CatalogNavigationSearchResultCmd?catalogId=35596&storeId=13053&langId=-1&viewAllFlag=false&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=1109274&parent_categoryId=1040787&beginIndex=1&pageSize=20&interstitial=true

What i'm listening to...

(Having a good old trancey sesh!)

18/06/2013

LCF - Offers day!

London College of Fashion are such cuties! The other day I received a lovely email inviting me to an open day; for all the people who received offers to study there in September :) This was a really good chance to meet future class mates, meet the tutors and ask questions. I must admit, Cornwall isn't the nearest place to London and I wouldn't usually travel all the way there just for one day, but I didn't want to miss this opportunity to meet people before September. (£78 and a 10 hour round trip train journey later...)

During this open day we were set a small task to do in our course groups. Being on the footwear course; my group and I were asked to dress a foot last and then present it to all of the other groups...

Our slightly weapon-ous shoe creature...

After the open day, I took advantage of the spare two hours I had before catching my train and took a trip up Oxford Street. Selfridges had THE BEST shoe sale I had ever seen. I just stood there for an hour drooling over the half price Nicolas Kirwoods! If only I had a summer job!

A cute souvenir I bought for my sister from the Japanese stationery shop...

Cat pen!

What i'm listening to...

15/10/2012

University!

I am now into my 3rd week....wait..no 4TH :OOO week of University :O

Apart from having flu/tonsillitis and then an allergic reaction to antibiotics, I have literally LOVED every minute of Uni life so far :) All my flat friends are lovely and the tutors are really friendly and inspiring (that makes a nice change) :D

The first couple weeks of lectures were a bit of a slog, just because of the fact that I completely could not focus on work, with freshers going on etc.... but now I have got into my first project properly I am quite excited for it all :P

Today was the best day so far! We were in the knitwear department on the knitting machines, making samples for our technical files...

My attempt...

(I was trying to make a cheeky scarf but my machine broke so I had to stop half way and start a different piece)...

Our project is called "Opposites Attract", so I have been creating some mood boards of opposites that could influence me... Our final choice has to be two opposites that compliment each other...

Rich

Poor

Embellished

Minimal

Along with the project and the knitwear lectures, we have also had fashion/paper styling and art/drawing lessons and visual communication lectures. Here are a few photos from these...

Painting and Drawing...

Paper Styling...

Fashion Styling...

I must say, we had an interesting array of clothes (and blankets) to work with! It was fun...

Hehe I dressed Millie up :3...

She really loved me dressing her up like this, especially as I made her stand on a chair without being able to see :P Oh no health and safety...

In sewing class I tried to create a bodice/top by draping, pinning, tacking and then overlocking fabric...

It would have gone well had I not sewn it inside out :P Oooops!

Along side Uni work, my friend Laura and I have been going to several societies as we share the same interests! In the second week of Uni we went to Astronomy society to chill with all the very clever Astro students! I bet they loved us fashion lot asking them very blonde questions :3

Laura and I also joined the Wessex scene magazine, which is the Southampton Uni magazine, so we should hopefully be helping with layout and imagery on the next issue.

On Saturday we took a trip to Surge Radio which is the Southampton Uni radio station. The guys from the DJ society were doing a two hour show and offered to show us the ropes, so that in a couple months maybe we could DJ on the radio...

http://surgeradio.co.uk

... and finally yesterday one of the guys from the DJ Society invited us round to give us a lesson on mixing on Vinyl decks :D All very exciting!!! And definitely something I would like to pursue further as I really enjoyed it!

Last Tuesday evening we also went a bit cray cray and decided to do D.I.Y. Tattoos with needles and India ink :O Ok it probably wasn't one of my best decisions, but hopefully when it has healed it should look quite nice and I feel it is more meaningful doing it myself :P (Cheaper too :D)

Mine is the little heart <3

With all this musical DJ-ness going on I have been on the look out for new music! Furiously creating new playlists, swapping music and downloading thingssss...

Last week I downloaded the album DJ-Kicks by Digitalism, which is a mix of songs by Digitalism and other similar artists! It's not really new or recent but seriously if you have £7 spare DOWNLOAD IT!!!! It is most definitely one of/THE best albums I have heard in a while!

My faves from the album...

This video is SO cute :3...

Heha going to see Digitalism at the end of the month in London :3

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30/09/2012

LFW! September 2012!!

Second really late update post!

So, straight after Sardinia, I was up in London interning for Eleanor Amoroso. I got to help Eleanor exhibit her work at LFW and also sneak into a couple of shows!