The Fifth Label

Summer seems to be trying to hang on this year, so I am too! 

I was recently gifted a few items from the lovely Bee (idressmyself.blogspot.com), this 'The Fifth Label' two piece being one of them. I am totally in love with this two piece, it is so comfortable and can be worn on those super slouchy days where you don't plan on leaving the house, or you can dress it up and make it into a cool day time outfit, like I have done.

I paired the two piece with a leather jacket and my favourite black boots to turn it into a cool, casual day time outfit. At first thought, I didn't think this as an outfit would work, but once i put it together and put it on, it all cam together and I really like this as an outfit!
I like that it is a sweater material, and the undone edges on the bottom of the top, I feel like it gives the outfit more of a cool, laid back vibe.


Two Piece - The Fifth Label| Leather Jacket - Topshop| Boots - ASOS

Vogues Fashion Night Out

On Tuesday evening I attended the Vogues Fashion Night out, that was being held in central London. I was invited by Bee from 'idressmyselff.blogspot.com'. 

If you are unaware of what VFNO is then have a look here and prepare yourself for the next one!

We begun the night in All Saints, as Bee was invited along by the All Saints press team! We were greeted at the door by some of the tallest people I have ever seen in my life (I think they were models) holding trays of drinks. We got a choice of: 

Hoxton Gin & Tonic
Hoxton Gin & Cranberry
OR
Hoxton Gin & Red Bull

I went for the Gin & Cranberry, and it was amazing, although I was scared it would get me drunk because I haven't had an alcoholic drink in so long, but i proved to my self that i'm not a massive lightweight!!

There was a bar located in the centre of the store, where you could get free drinks all night, pretty awesome right?

I've always been a big fan of All Saints, but unfortunately I haven't always been able to afford it! I love the edgy biker vibe they have going on. On the night, I cannot even tell you how many items I fell head over heels in love with. I saw the most incredible pair of black boots with a ombre'd red toe point, and was almost willing to extend my overdraft just to buy them!
However I didn't do this, I just stood and drooled over them for a little while. 
I also really liked their pieces from there new Biker Project collection, they had some really lovely bags and matching boots!

Thanks to Bee, I met some really lovely people, the majority of them from the press team at All Saints & was given a UBS with a All Saints playlist on it, which I thought was super cool.
I had such a lovely time in the All Saints store and really enjoyed the atmosphere!

After spending a bit of time in All Saints, we decided to have a wonder and ended up in Liberty's slurping on alcoholic ice lollies which were incredibly strong & taking selfies in a fitting room!
Liberty's had a DJ and Henry Holland was making an appearance which attracted a pretty large crowd of people.
Being in Liberty's brings me so much joy, but alongside that comes the heart wrenching reality of not being able to afford anything that I have my eyes on.

I saw lots of lovely things, and fell in love with pieces from Alexander Wang, Acne, Kenzo and even a few pairs of Prada shoes, none of which i can afford but a girl can dream!

I had a really lovely evening and I'm already looking forward to next year!

LFW SS15 - Vita Gottleib

Finally I am back, it has been a while since I have blogged. I’ve been stuck in a bit of a rut lately, telling myself I'm not good enough and that I don’t have the clothes and things to show you guys. But after many a pep talk and a bit of inspiration, I have decided that I want to get somewhere with this and that I need to stop letting my lack of confidence get in my way! So I am back with a little LFW post for you!!

Last weekend (14^th September) I attended the Vita Gottleib SS15 show at LFW’s Fashion Scout, held at the Freemasons Hall in Holborn.

The lovely Bee from ‘idressmyselff’ sent me over an invite for the show, as she was unable to attend.

In the couple of days leading up to the show I ummed and arred about going because I was so nervous about going by myself, thinking ‘everyone is going to judge me’, ‘I’m going to look so amateur next to all these amazing fashionistas’, however after a motivational speech from my boyfriend and the offer to use his camera I plucked up the courage and decided to just go and ignore my paranoia!

(I’ve been to LFW a couple of times before, but the thought of going by myself really bothered me for some reason.)

Anyway, I went & I am so glad that I did, and I’m even happier that I went by myself, when I was there I felt so comfortable and ‘at home’ as lame as that sounds! I actually got really into it and ended up being the only person in my row of seats standing up taking pictures for the entire show!

Before the show I had never heard of Vita Gottleib, until I did a little bit of research. After seeing some of her pieces I was really excited to see what pieces she had in her SS15 collection.

Here are just a few of the pictures I took during the show…

So, I didn't manage to get photos of all of the outfits, as I totally forgot to put my camera onto a low shutter speed so some of the pictures came out a little blurry, but you can get a pretty good idea of the collection.

Vita's collection was inspired by the underwater world, which is made clear with the orange coral reef embroidery that is featured in some of the outfits.

The SS15 collection came down the runway beautifully with floatly dresses and ruffled skirts swishing down the runway in sandy tones contrasted with navy shades and a few flashes of orange all tying in to her underwater inspiration.

I feel that the sheer fabrics and lose fitting dresses kept the collection very feminine, whilst at the same time testing the boundaries with some more boxy cuts and strong texture in some of the pieces. This definitely worked in her favour to create a beautifully fun and summery collection.