Fashion outfit #1

As so many other fashion blogs do I thought I'd have a whack at showing you my style and have my very talented friend Helena Codd to take photos of my outfits once maybe twice a week to show to you lovely folk! 

My style focuses a lot on vintage clothes, but I love patterns! Anything patterned I'll mix and match them together, paisley, polka dots, stripes, geometric, floral just everything basically.
On this particular day it was just ridiculously windy! The photos are amusing and the wind adds a comical factor which gives the images more character so I thought I'd share them with you, but wind and a short skirt definitely no not mix, ever. 

My outfit below is pretty much all from a charity shops, the cardigan, skirt, bag. The cardigan and bag from Oxfam in Liverpool and the skirt a nice little gift from my older sister. The pocket watch and rings are both from antique fairs, somewhere you wouldn't usually expect to look but they were such bargains! £10 for the pocket watch necklace, how can you say no to that.
Bargains can always be found if you look hard enough, so don't just look around all the retail shops get yourself to a charity shop you'll also be helping a good cause!

More will be posted throughout the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled for more, and hopefully it won't be as windy this time around! Also please have a look at my photographers blog, her work is beautiful! 

http://helenalenny.blogspot.co.uk/

Diane Von Furstenberg Fall 2013

Having finally started the fashion journalism module on my degree (which is brilliant!) we were shown a video of the DVF fashion show that happened earlier this week at Mercedes Benz fashion week and asked to write a catwalk report on it. This, bearing in mind, would be my first one! This is what I ended up with, which for a first attempt isn't that bad I'

It was in the 1970's where Diane Von Furstenberg first burst onto the fashion scene and won everyone over with her iconic wrap dress. Now with her fall 2013 collection she has gone back to her roots showcasing her original creation. Opening the show with the pounding remix of the song 'Love to love you baby' by Donna Summer playing in the background was a printed design on her iconic dress, paraded down the catwalk by jaunty model of the moment, Cara Delevingne.

'She is the rock star and muse of her own life; her clothes are her friends. Life is a party' was the tagline for this show. With Furstenberg injecting a touch of glam rock to MB fashion week. With pulsating disco on the soundtrack. DVF was filled  with slinky jersey dresses, colour blocked jumpsuits, halter dresses, skinny pants in "fetish pink", gold Lamé jackets and more pieces that could have felt more at home at Studio 54 as they will in the chicest hot spots of today.

Do the glam seventies have anything to teach us about how to dress today? If the prints have anything to go by then maybe. As bold, quite animalistic prints was a main theme within the show, with a bold mix and match, DVF calling hers leopard bark in the show notes for the way it combined fauna and flora.

Not forgetting the creations that she is well known for, the brown suede wrap dress looks as good now as it did 41 years ago. Although new ideas were not necessarily brought to the catwalk with this collection she has recreated old classics to show they are timeless pieces.

One of the best moments of the show happened when DVF strutted out onto the catwalk to take a final spin down the catwalk to the tune of Chaka Khan's 1978 classic "I'm Every Woman". Singing and dancing showing to the crowd that life is one big party.

Here are a few of my favourite creations from the collections. And it was also nice to see some of the models cracking a smile!

My fashion crush

I don't know about anyone else but Cara Delevingne is my ultimate fashion crush at the moment and I think you'll be able to understand why! She is an absolute beauty.

I first took notice of her when she was on the cover of i-D, which is an amazing photo. I don't think I could handle a spider crawling around on my face.

Her style as well is immaculate, I'd guess you could say she is effortlessly cool however cliché that sounds, it's true. And the fact she is only 20 and has been the face of Burberry's S/S 2012 collection has featured in advertising campaigns for other brands including H&M Authentic Collection (2011), Blumarine, Zara and Chanel. 

Not only that she is now on the cover of British Vogue, and she seems to be shocked by this! A truly modest woman Delevingne is. 

This is why I love her style. Her clothing choices are simple but work, this is a girl to watch the fashion industry has already fallen head over heels for her.
 If you haven't already you must, must, must read the latest issue of Vogue. Even to just have a gander at the interview with her but also the latest trends for this Spring/Summer.

This we must keep on top of! 

That Jamaican fever

Watching Cool Runnings always perks you up and every time I watch it I know I want their style. So bright, colourful and yes slightly in your face. But there's nothing wrong with that, it certainly brightens up my day wearing such vividly coloured clothes. In that film, their clothes I just want them. All of them.

It's the tie dyes that really does it, and recently they have made a comeback in fashion with stores having a multitude of colours on offer and many a folk creating their own tie dyes. Everyone knows creating a tie dye top is pretty simple, get the dye a plain t-shirt, wrap a whole heap of string around it, place it in the dye and boom you're pretty much done. But it's one thing to make a tie dye top, it's another thing to make one well. By that I just mean interesting, you don't want just any old top that every other person on the street has. Experiment, have fun with the process, add three, four or even more colours to the top, try different patterns, change the amount of string you have and the way you wrap it round then the creation you make will by completely original. 

Back in the summer I had a whack at tie dying several t-shirts, shorts, vest and even shoes! This is what I created

The shoes are my favourite and it was so easy to do as well. A plain pair of shoes from Primark, at £2.50 a bargain, then place a small amount of the powder into it with warm water shake then just spray, spray, spray. You will need to keep spraying the same area for a while to make sure the colour stays. After that then rinse it out and put in a new colour, do the same thing again and viola.

As it's nearing summer it's time have a go with tie dye and brighten up your wardrobe. And remember to experiment! Be creative with the designs, it may take a little longer but the end result will be worth it. Then you can be a happy chappy, like I was in the photo below, with your own multi-coloured masterpiece.