London and New York Fashion Weeks AW 2011....Oversized Plaid

The oversized plaid coat or as I like to call it the super cute blankie coat :) Love the one on Samantha Gradoville (above) after Christopher Kane in London.

London Fashion Weekend...Snuggle Up

Sometimes it's just all about throwing on a pair of jeans and a cuddly grey jumper.....sort of like wrapping yourself in a giant hot water bottle :)

This is Louisa by the way!

New York Street Style....Yellow

The girl above (yep, I forgot her name-nothing has changed!) was my very first street style photograph in New York. I was wandering past the Apple store near Central Park, spotted her yellow tights and pretty jacket disappearing through the Saturday afternoon crowds and scampered after her. I really wanted an image with yellow cabs in the background, so to get the rickshaw driver (what are those things called in NYC, anyone know?) in as well was an added bonus.

And when I was trawling through my photos tonight I noticed there is LOTS of yellow in NYC!

Grand Central Terminal New York:


On the wall at Chelsea Market near Ninth Street Espresso (great lattes) and Ronnybrook Dairy (home of phenomenal chocolate milkshakes):

My attempts at panning with the camera (so hard to try and get something, anything, in focus while keeping the background blurry):

At the Empire State Building:

Katz's deli Rueben sandwich (my arteries are clogging- and my mouth is watering- just thinking about it!):

More woeful attempts at panning with my camera:

Okay so he isn't exactly yellow (maybe a little orange?!) but he is pretty darn cute. He reminds me of the pup out of As Good As It Gets:

London Street Style....Statement Earrings

Virginia

Statement Earrings from Mexico

And her hair? Oh yeah, that IS statement hair....absolutely perfect for setting off those earrings

Somehow even scraping back hair into a tight pony would seem like cheating.... Short hair = owning it*

*I, however, am exempt from the short hair cut. I had one dalliance with short hair and I have one word for y'all: H I D E O U S. Okay, so maybe I combined it with (gulp) a perm (it was the early 90's!) which may have tipped me over the edge from looking Sarah O'Hare/Linda Evangelista fabulous to looking more like a poodle had fallen asleep on my head :)

London Street Style...Colours of Claude Monet

Immediately I saw this dress I thought of a Claude Monet painting (gees I hope it is Claude Monet I am thinking of, or I will look rather silly- please correct me if I am wrong!)- it is the watercolours or something.....Anyway, it was beautiful. And was from Zara :)

p.s. Paris is going well although it is VERY hot and I got stuck in the Metro yesterday for about 25mins on the way to a show. I spotted Usher (I am an idiot, he was standing right in front of me and I thought he looked familar but I didn't think to ask for a photo. I then saw him coming out of Colette but there were so many people about and I didn't want to appear like a Pap so I didn't bother asking if he would pose for me. Fingers crossed I will spot him again.) The Sart and Garance are here, Facehunter, Jak&Jil and a whole host of other bloggers. I haven't got as many photos as I want yet but I am working on it for y'all! I am squirreled away in an internet cafe in the Marais typing this before I have to run to the next show, Bernhard Willhelm at 2pm :)

p.p.s. The Dries Van Noten show was fabulous! The music from this truck that pulls up just before the show starts was absolutely pumping (I suspect I have a wee bit of hearing loss now!) and there was a huge crack of thunder just as the models were on their final walkthru down the catwalk. Everyone started cheering! Good times people, good times :)

London Street Style...Hearts and Glasses

Love the little heart detail on her mustard dress (they kind of look like those heart lollies?)....and see that teeny tiny pendant around her neck? It is her doll's shoe!

London Street Style...Retro-Futuristic

London Street Style...Men Behaving Stylishly (Round 3)

London Street Style...Espadrilles

I have arrived in Paris and I am seeing LOADS of espadrilles on the streets- fabulous! (although I haven't got many photos yet.... Wish me luck for the next few days :))

I photographed this gorgeous women on the street in London. She had a short black pleated skirt on which I wanted to get a photo of but there were too many people about and I couldn't get a "clear" shot. So you are just going to have trust me when I say she looked wonderfully chic :)

p.s. I won't have internet access for the next few days except for if I pop into an internet cafe....so I won't be able to reply to comments but I will get to them next week!

London Street Style...Monochrome

Simple and Fresh

Black and White

London Street Style...Un shoulder

Love this little blush one shoulder dress.....and the white Chanel 2.55 slung over her other shoulder wasn't bad either!

London Street Style...Stripes and Ballet Flats

Love her style especially those two-tone Chanel ballet flats.

London and Paris Street Style...Electric Dreams

Remember that song "Together in Electric Dreams" from the movie Electric Dreams? Well, I have been humming it in my head since 4:00am this morning (don't ask me why: re the song and the crazy hour... insomnia is a hideous thing). Actually, as I type, I realise that most of you wouldn't even have been born in 1984 when the song came out- arghhhhh I feel so old! You have to watch the clip though... those 80's fashions. Damn Skippy!

What has Electric Dreams got to do with Electric Blue Jeans? um, nothing....except Jeans and Dreams rhyme. Wow, it's going to be a loooooooooong day.

London blue jeans (above) from Topshop

Paris blue jeans (below)

Love how she's blinged up her Speedy....you may not be able to see from the photo but she has a gold smiley face and a tiny little Eiffel Tower attached to the handle of her LV.

p.s. I am cringing- I had a pair of togs (swimmers) almost exactly the same as the electric blue pair with white buttons in the beach scene in the Together in Electric Dreams YouTube clip! You know the really, really high cut togs- the ones that were never, ever flattering and exposed waaay too much hip and leg? I think they were suppose to "lengthen the leg" but instead they just looked kind of odd.

London Street Style...Ruth

Ruth Griffin.
A fashion writer and stylist from Ireland (I have only met a handful of Irish people since I've been in London- what's wrong with me?! I need to meet more!), Ruth writes a daily blog for the Matches stores*. You can check it out here.

And what was she wearing? A floaty, very 1970's Celia Birtwell for Topshop "Mickelmas" jumpsuit.

*warning: do not click on the link if you are feeling stressed, poor and/or in need of a little retail therapy to get you through the Sunday night blues- Matches have their Spring/Summer 2009 sale on now. If you do peek, don't blame me if you end up with a poufy little Lanvin pink cocktail dress, a pair of Azzedine Alaia taupe ankle boots or a Tila March nude and yellow clutch which would all be perfect for right now....I shall not be held responsible!

p.s. but can I please borrow the Tila March clutch maybe? Just once a month or something ;-)

London Street Style...Spots 'n' Stripes on a Bike

I love the little chain/brooch she has looped around her neck and pinned to her cardi.

Paris Street Style...The Sweetest Thing

Teenagers in love.

Ain't love the sweetest thing?

For the U2 version of "The Sweetest Thing", click here.

London Street Style...Wrapped

Fashion Graduate Madeleine Moxham....all wrapped up in the most delicious shades of grey, white, bronze, cream and caramel.

Yes, I took this last week in London. Yes, the weather has been crazy. Baking hot one day, overcast and chilly the next, with a few streaks of lightning thrown in for good measure! The key to dressing? Layers.
Pull them on for leaving the house in the early morning, sitting in the air-conditioning at work, and evening drinks.
Peel them off for walks at lunchtime and the tube ride home (why is always so damn HOT in the tube?).

London Street Style....Some Kind of Blue

Ralph Lauren Blue (above)


I-AM-VINTAGE Blue (below)

London Street Style...Graduate Fashion Week

Yes, it's Vintage
Yes, it's Darling
Yes, it's Vintage Darling!

London Street Style...Graduate Fashion Week

My favourite model at Graduate Fashion Week- both on and off the catwalk.