Jenny Packham

So as a lot of you know I used to work for Jenny Packham. She never used to ooze style and many of her designs were catered to later be used in her Bridal Collections.

I always found a lot of her trademark beading a little to stifling and too middle eastern for the average girl. She used to have a cute little diffusion line called Jenny London, which on the most part was more hit than miss. Unfortunately for her and me, as this was the line I was to be working on, wasn't cost effective, so was ditched.

Now as much as it pains me too look, I have to check out what she is up too. With a talented now head pattern cutter under her wing, we get to see some very interesting shapes. Again with her 2010 collection, there are a few overly garish items, but with the ever rich middle east market, will be sure to accommodate.

Although there are some very simple and chic designs, which I actually love.

Let it be said that sometimes beading works and sometime swarovski works too.

I adore this outfit. Its chic and more fun and playful, more in keeping with her old diffusion line. Check her website out, as sometimes she does the best little party dresses.

DSquared for the Win!

After perusing the catwalk shows for Autumn/Winter 2010 I was surprised to find my self very very uninspired by the current 'trends' available, unless you want to look like any of the sesame street character as Dior's collection may lead you too wonder.

JPG's couture was a monochrome dream, with grey and black capes and jackets and odd hat adornments. Very chic, but I could imagine my very rich glamourous Aunt wearing this, (I have no rich Aunt but a girl can dream) not exactly what I expect from Gaultier but then my favourite collection was always his Mad Max homage.

One designer I have been particularly enamoured with for a while now is DSquared.

Their collection is a beautifully chic mix of Vampy evening dresses and what looks like latex tights and accessories to match, chic cobweb knits and statement adornments.

Check out their website for runway video and pictures.

DSquared Website

This dress particularly caught my eye. In fact the whole look is so chic, I can just imagine some of the more fashion orientated TG crowd rocking this.

I definitely want this!

I has Fringe!

After years (and I mean years, 15 nearly) of having the same hair do, I decided to have a change. Nothing to drastic, a fringe!


Ok thats rather drastic for me to be honest.


It was my birthday yesterday and I felt like a change. Most girls do the usual after break up shop, eat and style change and I didn't feel any different. I had already spring cleaned my entire room (7 bags to charity and 4 to the skip) and done the I can't eat I'm to upset thing, so I wanted a change.





Fringe Ahoy! I look so cute its ridiculous!

You will have to excuse the goofy face! I look like a goofy git the most of the time. It will take some serious up keep but I can always pin it back, plus it goes well with my other pair of glasses.

On that note I have entered the Specsaver spectacle wearer of the year. You never know! Fingers crossed on that one. I may have to do a photoshoot with a fringe.

I am also making jewellery which I will include in another post. Let me know what you think .

Paris, baby!

This week has been a hectic week. Me and Strawberry Kiss jetted off to gay Paris to celebrate our birthdays (I say jetted off, we actually got the coach, but when you are short on cash, you do what you must and coaching off sounds less chic!)



We saw the sights and we shopped the shops and we walked A LOT!

One of the shops seemed to be a regular stop in our schedule, mostly because they had a sale on. That particular shop was Sephora. We used to have Sephora in the UK for a brief spell, but alas the brands timing was poor in releasing to the UK market as make-up was not in any way as popular as it is now.



After fwahing over all the brushes and Sephoras own make-up, I decided to head to the perfume section. Where I spotted a limited edition Yves Saint Laurent Parisienne Eau de Toilette.

I am a particularly fussy madam when it comes to perfumes and such, as I DO NOT like musty smelling perfumes, or those ones which make you smell like your Gran. The Parfum was nice enough, quite fresh, but it was missing something. The actual Eau de Toilette is so fresh, its beautiful and playful. I must get my hands on it. The limited edition was a different style box and graphic. Trying to find this in the Uk is proving to be a fail. Should have bought it out there but it was £56 euros and like I said, I was epically short on dough.

I will get my hands on it!

Strawberry bought a cool little book detailing the 'second time around' Parisienne must sees/dos.

We went to the cutest little restaurant and ordered some food (half spoken in english and half in french). Bless the waitress, she was ace and so sweet. It turns out it was only her first day. We tipped well! :)

We also HAD to go to Cafe Amelie. It was a must. The waitress was quite shocked that Laura was practically fluent and I, well I could command basic French if needed. Apparently a lot of the people who go in are English tourists! (Can't imagine why!)

More on paris when my computer wants to upload pictures!