My Favourite things this Xmas

ILLAMASQUA- British, Independent flippin AMAZING colours..also for BOYS!

Obviously Illamasqua has been around coming up to a year now, with shops in Selfridges and Beak street! But I really haven’t really had a  proper chance to see close up. So SHOCK, SURPRISE at the press event of Lucy in disguise I was introduced to the PIGMENTS by the hand of Clare one of their chief make up artists!(she is based at the Beak street shop). WOW!  Certain to rival MAC. Made by Kryolan the German Giant for makeup artists who in their 60years of being have not tested on Animals once! Policy!
Not sure where to begin.......... Foundations long lasting with complete cover!  Silver, Gold metallic eye shadow intense!
Colour ranges extensive and bright. Pricing starting at £14 upwards so pretty affordable!
But my favourite really are the eyelashes (check Clare`s above) they’re really hitting the spot,  had to rush out at buy for all my  gorgeous girls !

Finally SNOW! my Plasticana Hemp wellies stand the test!

With their gorgeous caramelly colour my fantastic Plasticana wellies certainly are eye catching! Plus they are seriously comfortable! No chaffing what so ever!! Developed by the amazing French genius Andre Ravachol mixing hemp fibres with into a recycled vinyl concoction! (note technicality is not my forte) they are beautiful!
Also amazingly cheap and can be picked up (at the moment) at the N2 concept store in Covent Garden,73 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9DJ and  just for £45!



LOVE GOD HATE RELIGION- My favourite tee for this Xmas

I am just so loving this new addition to the family of THTC tees that I GOT ONE! £22 for this fab  organic tee! Which does make you stop to think  `More blood is spilt in the name of religion than any other cause`.

NEED I SAY MORE! except that this Saturday only, THTC have an amazing sample sale where most tees will be down to £10 (ok maybe not this one) and jeans from £100 to £30. Last minute Xmas shopping anyone????

Party night at Lucy in Disguise for VIP suite Launch

GREY GOOSE cocktails were flowing,  JAZZTOGO was singing, nails were being WAH painted and ILLAMASQUA eyelashes were fluttering.
And then there was the show - gorgeous girls wearing even more gorgeous
cloths from the shop itself!  Fell in love with the fabulous all in one sparkling number (2nd picture).

But there was sooOOO much more flapper dresses, 60`s and 70`s and grab for accessories like Chanel and Emanuelle Kahn sunglasses. Yep a  total treasurechest of style!

The VIP room can be hired for parties of 8 or more. £10 will get you an hour, an assitant to style + reviving tea and biccies + voucher. EXTRAS to go include , nails,hair,makeup,music and cocktails!

Lucy in disguise is my kinda shop!

Angel Christmas Fair at Candid Arts in Islington

A fun fair going on for 1 more day till Sunday 12th December at the Candid Arts Galleries behind
Angel tube in London.
2 gorgeous designers jumped out at me from the many showing!

Sagen ( 1st image) is a swedish designer working in Malmo since 2007 she has been collecting old bits of beautiful china from flea markets and shops which she breaks and then incases in silver to create beautiful jewellery. particularly loved her rings which have a clever fastening which allows the wearer
to alternate on fingers! She also does some really beautiful solid cufflinks which at a starting price of £70 good quirky male Xmas present!!

Betty`s Revenge (2nd image) are designed and handmade by Cathy Hoste a surface designer specialising in printed textile using screen, digital and hand painted mediums. Crazy about her mamoth shopping
trolley (tucked in corner) and her cute printed purses with Flamenco and Burlesque themes! She also has designed some great flamenco cards just for Xmas !!

How could I possibly be in the vecinity of Angel and not check one of my fave shops My sugar land... so I did and fell in love with a pair of fantastic GOLD vintage shoes..... there was a magnetic pull and they and me could not be parted!!!  So I will be wearing them with my monkee jeans tomorrow. Gosh I love Xmas!! especially when its early for me!

Fun Frolicks and loads of lush IF YOU PLEASE lingerie

 
Stunning designer and e-tailer Amber Thomson picture above left launched her own label If you Please
at the heaving Movida nightclub last night.

 What a way to launch the label not only were the welcoming male contingent present treated to lots of gorgeous ladies in a selection of serious underwear pieces from Ambers e-shop but us girls were wowed by the likes of some great burlesque performers, notably the amazing Banbury Cross. 

And so to the label this gorgeous limited edition, vintage-inspired lingerie, using delicate floral lace from Nottingham is also manufactured in the UK. The range  features a soft cup, underwired bra, which is decorated with a ribbon-adorned lace trim across the cups, a sheer lace, four strap suspender belt and a retro sheer lace brief with a seam to the rear and a ribbon trimmed modesty panel at the front.  Available in black with grey or pink trim, these aren’t going to be around for long at £50 a set! I think in fact I nabbed the last set in grey so it’s a question of rush to get now, or wait!!!

Forget green,eco, sustainable, ethical ... Intelligent fashion is the NEW Word on the block!

I am really not sure if its all the green wash going on, or the fact that I have seen too many righteous academics,  maybe just simply my natural sense of rebellion, but the word Ethical has just got to me!! 
So it was just glorious and refreshing at the Estethica press day at Somerset House yesterday to hear Lucy Siegle coin the phrase Intelligent Fashion! 

The Estethica Press follows a format , brunch, preview of  Estethica designers summer sun collection, then announcement by British Fashion Council of the new recipients of the Estethica mentoring scheme, supported by the London Development Agency followed by a lively Q&A with a theme 'Sustainable Fashion from Conservation to Innovation,followed by tea and and the protocol carriages!

Lucy Siegle formed part of the panel which included, Jessica Brinton (Sunday Times Style), ,Christopher Raeburn, Dilys Williams (Centre for Sustainable Fashion), Claire Hamer (Eight) and Orsola de Castro (Co-curator, Estethica). 

There is always a bit of an attack on the panel by lets call it for the moment the non believers, or maybe the cynics might be a better word! I mean I know that nothing is perfect and the Ethical brigade can get quite precious once in a while! But really no one can take away the total commitment and perseverance of Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci, plus they re not really interested in grabbing the limelight! Whenever I see Orsola she says she is counting the days till march when she can just slide back into being a designer. poor darling wondering if anyone will let her!

Anyhow it was HERE that Lucy Siegle uttered the words intelligent fashion! Right on!
I mean who the hell doesn't want to consider themselves that! Its a marketing dream, translatable in every language, which I am going to make full use of!!