Look of the week

Really like the style and fit of her jersey bottoms. Perfect.

Photo by garance dore

PS

Oh boy, Paul Smith can do no wrong is my eyes. These are just fabulously British in every way. These babies aren't even available at the online Paul Smith store, but you can get them at Coggles online, for £225.

The three choices

They will be arriving at my local opticians any time now. I've only tried the last pair on, they suited me, I've tried clear wayfarers on and they didn't suit me at all. So the middle pair is kind of a middle ground between the 2 others. I wanted something abit different to regular run of the mill glasses, so hopefully one of these will actually work for me. I'm excited though, I'm so bored of my last NHS cheapo pair.

Burberry at 444 Madison Avenue

28th May has been declared "Burberry Day" in New York by Mayor Bloomberg.

"The proclamation, by New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg, is in honour of the continued investment and commitment Burberry makes to New York and the US and coincides with the official lighting of the Burberry logo on the rooftop of the new Burberry Americas headquarters at 444 Madison Avenue. The site at 444 Madison Avenue is one of only six grand fathered signage locations in New York.

The fifty foot long Burberry logos will be lit across the iconic Manhattan skyline for the first time this Thursday evening, during an event to celebrate the occasion being hosted by Burberry Chief Executive Angela Ahrendts and Burberry Creative Director Christopher Bailey for over 300 guests.

To further celebrate Burberry Day, 20% of all purchases made in Burberry New York stores at 57th Street and Spring Street in SoHo on the day will be donated to The Burberry Foundation."

Quotes taken from official Burberry Press Release.

Pins for pins sake

These are just brilliant and what a great idea. By Band of Outsiders for Sperry. I bought some navy boat shoes from *cough cough* River Island yesterday, to added to my collection (I also have some Kurt Geiger bright green ones and some ASOS brown ones). I'l be going down to the local haberdashery later on this week to pick up some safety pins to try this idea out for myself.

Shoes available from ASOS, for £125

For Fall 09

3.1 Philip Lim

Paul Smith

Helmut Lang

Trussard 1911

Dries Van Noten

Here's just a few of the looks I will be trying my best to recreate this coming Autumn. I would love to get my hands of a subtly acid washed Denim jacket to wear underneath a smart coat, a pair of die-dyed trousers, and a pair of tailored trousers made from a more relaxed fabric like a heavy jersey. So from here on I am on the lookout for my Autumn wardrobe. I know it's open May but I've got to get ahead of the game, doesn't hurt to get a head start. Has anyone else started to look for theirs? I know Steve at Style Salvage is always planning it, as soon as the sun comes out he does a post on what he will be wearing next season!

Recent purchases part 1

From left to right - Green marl crew neck tee by Topman, black acid wash tee by American Apparel, tie dye Matthew Williamson x H&M jumper, vintage wash denim shirt by Topman, stripy black and white scoop neck tee by H&M.

Next up bottoms and accessories.

Genius

The Dunk Mug by Dwell. Oh boy these are cool, these would fit in nicely to my expanded mug collection.

.......so hot right now

Topman White T-Shirt Project - 28th May.

Designers are asked to design a classic white tee with their own twist. Designers include Christopher Shannon, Philip Lim, JW Anderson, Henry Holland, Juun J, Richard Chai and in-house team Topman Design.

Project 10 : Bag collection by Paul Smith is exhibiting at the Design Museum from 19th May - 1st June 2009.

Paul Smith and his team designed 138 bags and only 10 of each design was produced. The limited edition bags were only available in Japan so this is the only chance you will get to see them all in one room.

My new favourite blogs

"It's not the clothes, it's the people that wear them"

Streetstyle Aesthetic - Wayne Tippetts Photography is one of the best street photography blogs I've seen in a long time. Everyone must check it out, it's so fresh and stylish compared to a lot of the dull and uniformed ones out there at the moment. Consider Streetstyle Aesthetic my new favourite.

Others on the blog roll right now:

The Unknown Hipster - Street style sketches in the finest form

Oh Happy Days - All things inspiring and amazing in day to day life (Thanks to Hollie for this one)

Backyard Bill - Features stylish folk in there own clothes, mini spontaneous photo shoots and interviews (Thanks Clare)

Fashion Bits and Bobs - By Pascal from Switzerland. About his classic take on modern fashion and day to day life, found this one through LookBook.

All images from Streetstyle Aesthetic,

Colour o'clock

These are very much my bag. They cost £50, by Nixon. Available at ASOS

Lucy and Bart

By art duo Lucy and Bart, sourced through fashion156. Check out their blog for more incredible images, be inspired.

Man On Wire

Man On Wire - Philippe Peite, just amazing.

Friday 15th May 2009

I've got nothing else to do...

Look of the week

I've been looking for a leather biker jacket for years now, still no joy. This one looks perfect.

Image from Stockholm Street Style

Also I've been ebay-ing today, if anyones interested in brogues/check shirts and retro Planet Hollywood jackets click the link below:

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/ahoy!curlytops_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ

Colour

oki-ni competition

oki-ni are running a competition to re-design their existing logo. You can be creative as you want, in any way, shape or form. It just needs to be a graphical image. Winners will receive£1000 worth of store credit, imagine what you could spend it on!

Competition ends 17th May, click here for more information.

Need to find.....

Colour

I would pretty much love to work for a trend/trend prediction company. Ever since we did a trend prediction brief in my first year at uni I have looked at everything with different eyes. I knew people could be inspired by anything and everything but this has made me think more about what seem like boring and ordinary object or places. Call me obsessed.

The images about are from WGSN, one of the largest trend analysis/prediction/research companies in the world. If your a student you can access their education mini site but for everyone else its pretty darn expensive.

Pile up

By Columbia artist Doris Salcedo, 2003

No stopping on the yellow lines

Edgar Müller

Manfred Stader

This image was recently featured on the BBC website:

"A design student made a battered old Skoda "disappear" by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park. Sara Watson, who is studying drawing at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan), took three weeks to transform the car's appearance."

I'm going to have to go look for this when I'm next in uni as this is where I go. I just love it. Well done Sara Watson, you are abit ace.

Cut it out

Raf Simons x Dr Martens

b Store

Rachel Comey

Alexander Mcqueen PUMA

At oki-ni, ASOS and Puma