London happenings.

Yesterday I went to London with my mom for a day trip. I love going to London I always feel a certain buzz when I'm there and I had a wonderful day yesterday. We went for out usual drinks and food at the Tate Modern Cafe, sadly it was a pretty miserable day weather wise but i suddenly got excited when I found out we were allowed to take photos in the art rooms. Which is unusual as normally in England you aren't allowed to take photos, so I took millions! I normally go to London every couple months, however this time we didn't go to see a specific exhibition. But it was great to just wonder around the different gallery rooms some of the photography was amazing and there was some real great pieces by Jackson Pollock, Claude Monet, Robert Rauschenburg and Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter (which i shall do a separate post about). We also then went to the Victoria and Albert museum to see the Fashion section. There were some great pieces like some YSL, Ossie Clark, Rei Kawakubo, Chanel, Madeleine Vionnet and there was also an Alexander McQueen piece from his spring/summer 2010 collection. It was so strange to see a piece like that, the graphic print intwined into the dress and also this truely fashion forward/futuristic piece surrounding with all the remembrance of past dress times. The sheer skill was shown by how the pattern was used and by knowing how it was to be assembled in just the right places was just amazing to see.

See here, here, here and here for other London trips.
I wore my republic jacket, autograph swing cardigan, topshop dress, topshop sandals, accessorize ring.

inspiration book.

This my inspiration book that i try to regularly update. I was in a bright and flowery mood when I did these pages. On the second image is my favourite painting of all time by John Singer Sargent. I also love the green/turquoise colour of the skirt on the opposite page. As for the last image, the article is taken from a copy of Selvedge magazine about anokhi fabrics in Jaipur India.

van gogh goodies.

Here were some of the goodies that a bought last Saturday while i was in London, they are all art related, from the Van Gogh Exhibition. It was so interesting to see his sketches, along with the oil paintings. Also because the sketches came after the oil paintings which is strange as he did no planning out they were just showing his brother the idea of his main paintings. It was such an amazing exhibition, it was shame there were so many people there.

i need sleep.

Sorry i haven't been posting as frequently lately, I've not been feeling very inspired lately, I think its due to all this terrible weather. Also I've been very busy and its kinda running me down. However I am feeling slightly better after tonight, having gone to a private exhibition. I really enjoyed it and loved the art. It was an abstract piece based on memories and landscapes but you could interpret it as something new each time you looked at it. Here is what i wore, its kinda simple:

(wearing: vintage lace top, Zara skirt, Republic leather jacket, Accessorize belt, Topshop shoes)

Also I've just been checking style.com for London fashion week, and my main favourites were Burberry Prorsum and Vivienne Westwood and Topshop Unique for pure awesomeness. Well okay they had more than that, for Burberry Prorsum the fur coats (beautiful) and boots and even snakeskin leggings, i know sounds gross but all together the whole collection looked totally amazing, in my opinion Burberry Prorsum was one of the best shows of London. Topshop Unique, was just crazy, it had an animal fur theme, with leaves scattered along the catwalk, big eyebrows, messy hair, fur animal hats, knitted leggings, you kind of have to see them to understand what i mean! And Vivienne well she just is London fashion. Also i loved Erdem and Marios Schwab for their dresses, especially loved the collars that were added to dresses for a more quirky look, also the bold prints used in Erdem made a more hard look for them but i think it worked well. However I'm not gonna lie i was pretty disappointed with Charles Anastase this year it just didn't seem like a collection, and i just didn't make sense. I missed seeing Luella's designs too. www.style.com

arty.

I'm pretty tired today as last night i went out for a band night. The usual head bobbing and jumping went on, to classic Nirvana and then Arctic Monkeys, Kasbian and then some of the band's songs. I took some photos of what i wore, but camera is not behaving its self at the moment so i will have to upload them another time. As for today i have been doing more art, just sketch book, collage random stuff. Thought i would share:

vintage happenings

Whilst wondering through town yesterday i went into one of favourite little shops that has no name. Its one of those really cute vintage shops that just seems to store every bit and bob by not going too charity shop. Anyway looking around i noticed for the first time that it had an upstairs and he had a really mix of things. And in the corner of the room out came these vintage canvases,

which reminded very much of my 'Vintage Inspired' art topic that i have basically finished with just a few finishing touches to development and the final piece so i thought i would share you a few pages.

Keep checking back for posts of the dress!