Love for Louise Gray

Oh I'm happy. I just took a sneaky peak at Louise Gray's new collection, now up on her website... She didn't do catwalk this year, but according to Susie, the presentation was still maxi-excellent!

I thought I liked her last season's stuff, with it's chainmail and beautiful colours...

And then I saw her stuff for A/W09... Oh Gosh. I want everything!

Trying to work out which jumpers I can risk cutting holes out of the back of...

Must. Find. Furry. Belt.

Cute top over the white. Love the shoes. Love the whole look. 

Can I can I can I?!?! 

Note to self. When back in London, visit Liberty...

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Beautiful beautiful...

Lovely camera work from Nirrimi on Flickr... Everyone should check out her photostream! Thanks to because I'm addicted. 

I have a yen for pink sunglasses and for drawing hearts in red pen all over myself... Oh wait. I may have just done that. Oops! :-D Maybe I'll cover it up for Ash Wednesday Evensong!

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Why oh why do there have to be so many amazing onine shops out there?

Latest craze...

Luisa Via Roma. Bryan Boy kindly pointed out that the last chance sale was on. Joyous.

Cue a little while agonising. A 'one item only' buying at 70% markdown. And a lot of wishlist-ing.

Here's my two favourites that didn't make the cut... D&G scarf and beautiful LVR shoesies! Sob.


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Sequins and motorbikes...

Vogue March 09... Just loving this image. Sequins and an old motorbike. Though I haven't been sure about the Meadham Kirchoff jeans, they work here...

I really like the bleached quality of this photo. I having quite a rich, black day, but my heart yearns for the lighter sun-washed colours of summer... Sigh.

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Going round on the windmills in my mind...

Mishmash of street syle (The Sart, Style Slicker and Copenhagen Street Style), the makeup and colourway from the Kinder Aggugini show and the Richard Nicoll for Topshop stuff from Dazed Digital...

Feast:

I regularly think I prefer street style photos to runway... There's just so much more personality.

Though I did have several mini heart attacks at the TopShop unique show... Lots of my favourite 'colour' - grey grey grey - yum yum yum - aren't I wierd? Cyberspace meets 80s meets circus. Yum. I'm feeling more black and shiny these days. plus I've always loved metallic. ;-D

sequin wings? off the shoulder? me likey!

FIT purple sequinned pants... Probably akin to my ASHISH rarely worn sequinned rugby top, but so so so perfect for Planet Angel...

OMG!!! HAVE TO HAVE THAT TUNIC!!! SERIOUSLY!!!

Jewellery-crush...

I so have this as a DIY project... Neon fabric paint, black body con dress... Numnumnum.

Grey layers... All slouchy... Yay.

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If I had a lot of money I would buy...

Surfing Net-a-Porter is a bad bad plan...

As is Browns... Slightly more on the expensive side too... While the Net-a-Porter items are all those which I could JUST justify the expense of, if and when I have the free cash. With Browns, however, only the first and last are REMOTE options... But don't you just LOVE the gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous MJ heart cutout bag? I'd sell my soul...

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Apparently, I'm a canary...

Well, so the BBC says of my chosen (well, if one counts a degree as choosing) profession...

"Professor Mark Horton of Bristol University has predicted about a quarter (of archaeologists) will find themselves unemployed before the recession is over. It has been dubbed a "canary" trade, one which - like the canaries warning of dangerous gas in mining history - die at the first sign of trouble in the air.

"It's catastrophic," said the professor. "Most of those people will have to find jobs somewhere else. There will be a real skills shortage, and a real problem when excavations begin again."

Bugger.

Oh well. A job in Fashion is my only hope. 

Wait a second...

;-D

Although, all depression aside, I do actually rather like canaries and canary yellow... Hmmmmmmm.

Recession-Love-Xxxc