Final photographs for my styling project photo shoot!

Here are the final 5 photos from my 'Organic Ambience' photo shoot!

Photography - Jon Ridley (See his work on his Flickr)

Styling- Me

Model- Jess

(Please note, do not copy these photos without permission! ©)

I'm really pleased with how they turned out!

I'll be posting my final spread tomorrow, complete with editing and magazine layout!

:)

Things I made for my styling photo shoot....

Here's some pictures of the things I made for my photo shoot styling project for uni :)

My theme/words of inspiration for the shoot were 'Organic Ambience'.

The photos have been taken and will be shared once they're edited and ready!

Firstly, this was a hugely long trench coat (bought from ebay for the tiny price of 99p!), that I adapted by pulling it in at the waist with pleats/gathers, and gathered up the edges to create a ruffle effect. I styled it with an old leather waist belt :)

Also shown above is a head garland that I made by twisting together some artificial flowers from Dunelm :)

Secondly, (another 99p purchase from ebay!) a nude coloured boned corset, that I added some plastic ivy and rose leaves to, and some ribbon roses that I made myself :)

...and lastly, my handmade paper bag style 'sack' skirt, made from Hessian, bought by the metre at Hobbycraft. I also made a bow to be used as a large headpiece, but in the end I didn't use it for the shoot!

Styled with a black elastic rose belt, originally bought from New Look a few years ago

I shredded it a little at the edges to make it look a little more 'organic' :)

Keep an eye out for my final photos from the photo shoot!

x

My Beijing Buys...

So here they are...

I could have bought so much, but I had to resist temptations of buying multiple bags, many pairs of shoes, and lots of general accessories and jewelleryy!

Firstly, this amazing little watch pendant I picked up at the silk market for just £5! (I am noting my seeming obsession with buying watch/clock orientated jewellery...)

It's awesome, it's wind up, and you can see all the little cogs whirring around inside it! Its quite fun to wind up and watch :)

(apologies for the bad pictures, my camera is not feeling very well)

Some beauutiful leather journals (in a variety of sizes- they were very good value, why not?)

:)

...with lovely handmade paper parchment inside

They're so lovely I'm afraid to write or draw in them in case I spoil them!

There will be a use for them soon, I am sure :)

Andd last but not least,

my wonderful 'Mulberry' Mini Alexa Handbag ♥

(I write that with inverted commas as I have reason to believe it isn't the real thing, and you can probably guess why...

because it's from China! But who knows? Anyway, it's beautiful, and I love it, Its genuine leather and yes. I love it. It's so soft and just happens to go with everything :)!)

Ahh! lovely.

:)

I'll be posting my handmade/refashioned items that I have recently been creating for my uni photoshoot project very soon! Keep an eye out.

The pictures from the shoot today may even be up soon too!

Excitinggggggg stuff :)

x

*P.s, Happy Easter Everyone!*

Busy busy busy... & Beijing!

Hello!

It has been a very long time without posting I'm afraid to say... But I have much to share!

I've had so much work to do for university, including a photoshoot for my imaging & communication unit, which I will share more with you about later on :)

BUT! on the 16th March, I went on an amazing trip to Beijing with uni!

It was incredible, such a strong cultural difference, and quite scary in parts, but I had such a good time, and bought some lovely things.

We visited the Great Wall of China...

The Forbidden City...

We went to the Minzu University Beijing, visited the fashion students, got to see some of their amazing work and also their facilities!

Went shopping (lots) at the markets...

and at the verrry cheap fabric markets (yay!- most things were between £1-£2/m)...

Had a look around the classic Chinese shops, Hello Kitty and Panda House...

...and experienced the crazy traffic and equally crazy taxi drivers!

SUCH an amazing week. I'm so glad I went, it's probably a once in a lifetime chance to experience everything I saw/did :)

(A few of us on the great wall... stolen from facebook!)

Will be sharing my purchases with you very soon!

x

tick tock tick tock...

...said the clock :)

so! something new to share with you,

technically I didn't make it, but I made it into a necklace :)

It's all in keeping with the Alice In Wonderland theme that seems to be all over the place at the moment!

I'm very in love with it :)

and also!

I took advantage of being in London for a while, and paid a visit to Covent garden (I could actually spend days there and not run out of pretty things to swoon over)

and got myself the new Lula magazine!

I know I'm not alone when I say that Lula is quite possibly my favourite magazine, ever :)

If you're wanting one, I have 2 for sale on ebay, click here or here!

Hope you've had a happy monday :)

x

Something pretty :)

These wondrous dresses need to be worn whilst running through big fields in the summer...

mmm, such pretty, frilly, floaty goodness

(I wish I could afford such things!)

All from Sestra Moja @ Asos

~

I hope you're all enjoying the wonderful sun that is currently gracing us with it's presence :)

It's making me all the more excited for the summer!!

Ashish A/W10 at London Fashion Week!

HELLO!

Little bit of a long time no posting... working at London Fashion Week AND London Fashion Weekend has sort of been eating up a large amount of my time recently!

So, on my last day of LFW, I was allowed to pop into the catwalk tent and watch the first show of the day! This was incredibly exciting, as up until then I had not actually experienced the catwalk!

I hadn't heard of Ashish before I saw this show, but one of the girls that I worked with told me that he is quite well known for his amazing use of sequins!

Take a look at the video of the show below:

(make sure you wait a little while for it to load in HD, it's well worth it!)

So many things in this collection amazed me! Firstly, the sequinned pyjamas (who doesn't want a pair of those?!) were incredible. Actually, all the sequinned pieces were, they had such a liquid movement and looked so wonderful and sparkly under the huge catwalk lights.The collection was described on the program as for 'this season's heroine, who recently gave up winters spent huddled round a yak dung fire for lazy days in the Mediterranean sunshine with the Abramovitchs as neighbours'. Titled 'Ashishistan'.Lots of silks, knits and sequins were used, and many outfits were had sequinned garments paired up with large chunky knits- making them quite contrasting, one being more evening wear and glamorous and the other being very casual, slouchy and comfortable.Also, all the models had awesome colourful socks on, worn with vintage brogues! I like this, as you don't usually see much vintage on the catwalk!
BUT!The one piece that caught my eye the most, and made me stare intently at it the entire way up and down the catwalk, was this looovely waistcoat covered in buttons...

Image from vogue.co.uk
Good afternoon Mr button waistcoat, can I wear you please?




Both images from dazeddigital.com
The instant I saw this, I wanted one of my own. It's just too awesome.So therefore, I have set myself a future project to do (and collect a huge amount of buttons in the meantime...) and make myself my own version of this!
I already have the rest of the outfit planned in my mind. I like planning outfits in my head for occasions that don't exist yet, but eventually there will be a time and a place to wear them :)I would wear this to the festival I plan to go to in the summer (first festival evverr! excited :D) and wear it over an oversize floaty white shirt, denim shorts, wellies and a wonderful straw panama hat, which I am currently searching for.
Expect alot more posting & making now I am not working a 14 hour day anymore!I can now give in to the pile of fabric sitting in the corner. Yayy :)