London Street Style...Graduate Fashion Week

London Street Style...The Man-Clutch

I wondered what the term for a man-clutch was...the mutch? Then I stumbled across the beautiful photographic blog We Could Grow Up Together and learnt that the male purse is called a Murse! It made me giggle. Like Mandles. That term really cracks me up.

Anyway, I love the little story behind this purse. It is a women's vintage purse by a Spanish label where he used to be a designer. He found it tucked away in a vintage store in Spain....inside the purse is a small scarf/handkerchief also by the label. I adore that he has given the purse a new lease of life and it will have new manly adventures out and about in London. Long live the man-clutch :)

London Street Style...Pale Pink and Peonies

"Two-for-a-Fiver", "A lovely Rhodi for a Pound", "4 Herbs for 4 Pound". Ahhh its all the fun of the Columbia Road Flower market on a Sunday morning. I can't decide which is prettier- her dress (from Spitalfields market) or those peonies, my most favourite flower in the whole world. Or the feather earring. Singular- she was only wearing one in her right ear.... I suspect if I tried to wear just one earring now, my friends would ask if I forgot to put the other one in when I was getting ready!

p.s. Her peonies are much prettier than the ones I ended up with: mine are unhatched- I was working on the basis that it is nicer to have fresh flowers for longer rather than for only a couple of days- but looking at them now, I have serious doubts that they will open up. The leaves look kind of dead. There are no signs of life in the buds. They may remain Unhatched Forever. No wonder I got a few strange looks from people on the tube on the way home- "She actually paid money for them?!"

London Street Style...Karolina

Karolina
London, The Clothes Show 2009

London Street Style....Graduate Fashion Week 2009

Love the flash of Burberry check on the trench and the cut-away black booties.

London Street Style....Pixel Pants

As soon as I saw this guy strolling in these pants, I immediately thought of the street artist, Invader, who creates mosaics resembling characters from the Space Invaders game and, more recently, a project using Rubik's Cubes (his RubikCubist period).

The guy (and the pants!) are from a place near Düsseldorf, in Germany.

London Street Style...Graduate Fashion Week

Martin

The Fashion Wrangler*
Graduate Fashion Week "Style Team Insider"
Fashion journalism/promotion student at University of Central Lancashire (Preston)
Wearer of some very fun pants and a rather naughty tee-shirt :)


Love the way Martin has rolled his pants up....and the Fred Perry Bag

p.s. I got stopped by security yesterday at GFW who wanted to conduct a random bag search-the security guy took one look in the mess that is my bag, rolled his eyes and waved me through.... I think he muttered something to the effect that it would take him a week to look through all THAT stuff! I can't help it: my handbag is my, um, woogie/blankie whatever you want to call it- I need to have it by my side at ALL times because you never know when I might need 6 month old smarties, 4 broken pens, Turkish Lira, 6 old lipsticks, an ID magazine from November 2008 (the one with Lara Stone on the cover), letters from my Aussie friend JK, a screwdriver (don't ask!), lens cleaning fluid and a gazillion napkins from Pret. Oh yeah, and the trusty nikon :)

*geddit? it's a lame (okay, very lame) take on his Wrangler denim jacket...and the fact that he's studying fashion journalism.