Style Bubble

Just the beginning...

...of mucho experimentation and trying on that involves hours and hours and making the boyf truly exasperated so therefore, this is really just the timely beginning (the sun has come out for a bit and seems to want to stay...) of me messing around and really 'playing' up with this dress that Angie has created for me....

Cue random pairings, a lot of sherbety/pastel colours and a bit of oozing black for good measure...this ain't the end though as messing around with it for the first time, has given me even more ideas of how to wear it especially when we start getting belts and the motions of pulling up/down and tucking in/out involved...

Would it be really wrong to spend an evening in with a dress...? 

Vintage pink salmon jumpsuit, ASOS taupe patent slingbacks

Metallicus grey jersey dress, vintage white trainer heels

Preen grey jersey hoodie, TS Boutique denim skirt, Forever 21 brogues

Vintage pale blue pleated dress, vintage white patent multi-strap shoes

John Richmond navy mini dress, TS Unique canvas shoes w/ chrome heels 

H&M nude silk sweater, vintage pink slipskirt, Vivienne Westwood peach socks, Converse grey high-tops

Arrogant Cat white ruffled top, vintage matt black sequin arm warmers, Forever 21 cream neck ruffled collar, American Apparel black lame leggings, Sam Edelman 'hoof' boots

Lanvin black tuxedo jacket, oyster satin puffball skress from Hong Kong, John Lewis black opaque tights, Bronx black cut-out sandal boots 

Walk with me and get lost....

The man/boy himself...

The introduction, the inspiration, the thought process...

The props that have helped his work immensely...

The scrapbooks he puts together before and after each shoot...

The pictures, the visions, the dreams, the magic...

The affirmation that Vogue is still worth buying into because of the stages that he creates...

The £70 book that really needs to be on my coffee table (of course, I need to move into a flat WITH a coffee table...)...

Apologies for being annoyingly cryptic.  In the end, the images reveal all.  It's merely an image-heavy, less-long winded way of urging EVERYONE to go see the Tim Walker exhibition at the Design Museum in London (on until 7th Sept...) if you want to get lost and escape in a good way for an hour...

Smart Charity

After last week's questioning and 'Um-ing' and 'Ah-ing' over posh Oxfams about to pop up all over the UK, I think this week, I was able to exemplify charity shops smartening up and sadly, in a few years time, designer bargains in charity shops will be virtually extinct.  In my local Animal Aid (and I live in a mundane-as-muck London suburb...), I saw this John Richmond dress from the 80's and it was priced at £10.  Not a great deal of money in London terms but not the £3 cheapie steals that I used to buy...

Turns out, they consulted Lazooli next door to confirm that it was from the 1980's (yup, that decade is now officially a 'long time ago'...), hence the tenner price tag.  Grudgingly, I have to admit there is nothing wrong with knowing the value of the donated wares seeing as the money goes to charity anyway but I guess it's just an observation of the shift of times in charity shopping, making me glad that I started doing the thrift rounds early on...(thank you dad for harping on about the merits of charity shopping and carboot sales...).