Joyful help

It's now that time of the year when I'm contemplating buying the cheaper tomatoes with the pounding reminders of christmas shopping closing in. The lovely people at Selfridges have decided to help me with this conundrum by offering us all 20% off of a massive range of brands all housed in their kingdom.
Click here to participate in the joy.

*** click on the terms to see which brands are participating

When a chunky knit wont do

If I were forced to compliment the weather of our grey-skied country, I think the word "predictable" is best suited because of its hidden negativity. Whilst the cold is it always welcomed, the layering of clothes associated with the wind is. A cardi, a trench, gloves and a scarf. The scarf suddenly becomes the jewelry bringing an ensemble together. The choice of scarves is thus bound to be an important one, an inevitably there are choices, choices, everywhere.

Ahliya's new collection wraps a soft piece of cashmere around our bare, cold necks making it undeniably tempting swap a pillow for a scarf.

TomTom Geometrics

No I'm not writing a strange post about my sat nav as the title may imply, I'm in fact boasting about the mesmerising sharp, tribal - esque yet immensely feminine jewelry by Tom Tom.

The collection, called Shape Shape It Up, is a node to jeweled and golden symmetries with quite a friendly price tag of around $100+ attached to it.

A wintery summer

I know I've been M.I.A for about a week now, and I've completely lost my way in the world of blogdom and made it onto the wrong side of the road admiringly watching all the fashion bloggers marching by tutting at my lack of writing but my oh my are deadlines all over me, it aint no joke when they say 3rd year's a bitch. Well I aim to keep my posts a tad less sporadic so that this ickle page of mine doesn't fall back into a distant memory...

My slip of the word "marching" was a slight ploy to get me to this point where I can neatly slide my post in all about shoes, shoes, shoes. These shoes are the works of Nicholas Kirkwood. This crafty man has become known for his collaborations on the runways. What has caught my eyes is his play on the Summer. On one hand, Kirkwood gives us the bright, pop-colours we all embrace when a twinkle of sunlight begins. Yet, somehow Kirkwood has flipped the script by showing us summer can still show off the studs and metallics we'e all undoubtedly invested in this season with his almost robotic Rodarte wonders. Studs studs studs are here to stay

A different view

As I hit letters on my keyboard, I'm starting to think this post should be neatly tucked in between fashion week posts and the world of fashion dictates to keep posts up to date with every clock hand turn, but with that said I am not promoting new shows or trends as I have probably showed off these collections at earlier dates, rather, I'm proving the power of photography and settings.

Always being that poor excuse of a initiator, I sit on chair with a large camera in my hands big enough to topple me over thinking yes, very soon I shall learn how to use one of these. Yet here I am quite a long time after very soon still gaugling at other's works repeating that same phrase. I may have now mislead you to think I'm showcasing my work - it still in its figurative state. NO, no, what I'm getting to, rather longwindedly, is that as I look back at LFW catwalk shows, I realise that sitting idle at a computer screen looking at girls walk down a runway with very little facial expressions does not evoke much out of me. Take the camera man by the hand and lead him backstage and it's a whole new ballgame where the clothes are given personalities and come to life.

Another Topshop concoction

It always baffles me when someone asks me to define my style. Without getting philosophical about what style actually is, I think of my cupboard as a tad random to clearly summarise. Not only does my "style" change frequently, it seems to differ with seasons. To answer this question I figured best to show pieces I like and judgements can be made by all as to my style...
As per usual, the selection is made by ye old faithful Topshop - how conventional of me I know but a) it always teases me with clothing I'd love to blow my funds on and b) images are abundant so I don't need to go searching too hard. Pardon my semi-laziness?

 The sequin trousers make me drool but I shall resist with my personal pantomime of recession/don't give into short-lived trends


The velvet playsuit  is a certain purchase as soon as I hit local ground


decorative leggings are and Im sure will be for a long time my fail-safe items.

My updated rant to Santa

Contrary to what this title may have you assume, I won't share another letter to the bearded man as I fear in the whole tell a wish it wont come true scenario might bite me in the ass. Instead I'll summarise as more of a news sharing bulletin (have I given the impression that i believe in Santa now?)
One thing we can't deny in London, or really the entire Western world, is the hype and effort stores contribute to making our Christmas full of smiles and ultimately consumerism. What a better way to seduce my eyes this month than with a Christmas tree decorated in L's and V's?

Yes, it's another pop-up store. Louis Vuitton set up shop in Selfridges especially for Christmas, filled with goodies and pleasures. What's the star/limited edition offering good ol' Marc hooked up? (which if i ever meet him will definitely stumble out more like Mr Jacobs). It's all about the dogs at Louis Vuitton. Find rows of doggie bags, collars, leashes etc and promote your dog loving further with the special edition dog motif t-shirt. My rant to Santa is undoubtedly on a more selfish note relating to their non-dog products lest I feel to emasculate my largely sized dog.

* Summary- I guess I wasn't lying with my "rant" title - Check out the Louis Vuitton Christmas edition store in Selfridges