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Friday, 7 November 2014

Bristol Fashion Week AW 2014


Bristol Fashion Week is fantastic, and most of all fun. It is the perfect atmosphere to feel like fashion is a friendly, all encompassing art form, and not a spiky, members only club. I was invited as a blogger to go and see what was coming up for all dedicated followers of fashion, the only problem being, my little phone isn't used to all the bright lights and sashaying down the catwalk. My record of events was a bit of a blur (and that's got nothing to do with the complimentary M&S Cocktail on offer.)

I was hoping for images like this:

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but all I got was this...



Hence, I have incorporated the beautiful photos of Style Tribe , the incredible social media and branding gurus to help tell my story of the event.

The stand out moments for me: John Lewis' incredible creative styling of autumnal leaves cascading through models' hair, really nice to see when you are watching strictly highstreet looks. 

The Burberry rug cape is the lusted after item du jour, and if you haven't got your initials monogramed on it, then why bother eh? The lovely root veg colours of autumn are wonderful clustered together, no acid brights to blind your onlooker, do something a little different and find your own way with a muted toned woolen rug, chuck it about your shoulders over an aubergine winter coat, just like the model in the image below. 

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Just as I bemoan bright colours, out this lot walk. 

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But I have to say, Red is my FAVOURITE colour at the moment. Having just purchased a beautiful Jigsaw dress, I think again, using the root veg colours, the beetroot colour on the bottom half of this is what does it for me, and although you can't see it in this image, there is a slick of tangerine piping up the seams. Delicious. I wore it to an Indian Summer September Wedding, and layered up with a sleek black Polo neck from m&s it will keep me going through winter.


For official images of the event click here and find out how you can get your hands on those covetable items.



Friday, 9 May 2014

Disney Roller Girl Day with Mastered.com

Disneyrollergirl

I spent the day with Navaz Batliwalla aka Disneyrollergirl as part of one of Mastered's online courses for modern creative development. 

some of Disneyrollergirl's work with brands

Navaz launched the blog in 2007 as an 'anonymous fashion insider' and gave her opinion on all things aesthetic and driving the fashion/art world. It was awesome to sit down with her, with just one year's experience of blogging under my belt, and talk about the next steps for FixUpLookChic. The chat was all in aid of Mastered's course about how to turn your fashion blog into a money making commodity and how to work with brands. Of course blogging is ultimately for the love of it, and is a place where a writer can empty their head and share their thoughts with the reader. 
with Frances and Navaz

No one can underestimate the power of the individual armed with a laptop and some high speed broadband in the comfort of their own home.


These days, that is all you need to take over the world, one post at a time, and why shouldn't it make you some money/contacts in the process? 

Also lucky enough to be a guinea pig like me was the lovely Frances who's blog Last Year Girl is a vintage fashion focussed blog, writing about Vintage books, exhibitions, styles and key items that have found their way back into our modern fashion psyche.