Stephane Rolland

You may have noticed that my blog looks a bit different now. I was getting fed up of my dark background and how all the photos/polyvore sets etc. looked against it so I opted for a very simple white instead. I'm not totally convinced by it yet (though it is growing on me) so I may tweak it a bit more but it's far better than my previous darker one (at least I think so?...). 

It's been raining practically all day and I'm not organised enough to take photos in advance so I decided to leave an outfit post for next time. Instead I'm going to show you a French couture designer called Stephane Rolland. There's not much to say apart from how incredible the quality of these dresses ballgowns is. Have a look for yourself....

Which are your favourites? Which designers do you like?

Spring/Summer 2011

 Autumn/Winter 2011

 Spring/Summer 2012

 Autumn/Winter 2012

Fabric Haul

 Hello! I hope you all had a good week and have a good weekend coming up! I wanted to do a slightly different post today (something which may not appeal to anyone i.e. probably no-one) so if you have no interest in fabric/sewing/design then feel free to skip this post! I've taken the idea of the famous clothes haul and instead I'm going to show you some of the fabrics I've collected recently or are ready and waiting to be used. I buy a lot of my fabric from Southall where there's a lot of really nice choices at cheaper prices than the average fabric shop. They also bring a lot of new fabrics in regularly so there's always something different to choose from. My mum chooses quite a few of my fabrics when she's passing the market so it's always quite exciting seeing what she picked out (luckily she has a very similar taste to me). I love the fact that with a length of fabric there are so many possibilities - making a dress, a top, a skirt.... you get the idea. Anyway, enough of my ramblings.... here is just a few from my big pile of material.... Let me know if you have any ideas of things to make!....

London Fashion Week Favourites

This post took an incredibly long time to put together but I think it was almost compulsory for me to have a Fashion Week round up post so here it is. I found it really difficult to actually narrow down the designers to 3 a day as there were so many I liked (especially on the Monday) but I finally managed it...

What do you think? Which were your favourite?

FRIDAY

Bora Aksu

Fyodor Golan

PPQ

SATURDAY

David Koma

Mark Fast

House of Holland

SUNDAY

Preen

Mary Katrantzou

Jonathan Saunders

MONDAY

Antonio Berardi

Burberry

Peter Pilotto

TUESDAY

Simone Rocha

Emilio de la Morena

Holly Fulton Spring/Summer 14

I had a really great time yesterday when I went to see the Holly Fulton show at London Fashion Week. Not only did I get to see the collection but I found the courtyard in Somerset House was the best place to people-watch. There were a lot of very exciting outfits there (...as well as a few mistakes). As everyone there was dressed in Autumn/Winter clothes, it gave me quite a few ideas and I'm actually really liking the trends for next season. One trend you really couldn't miss, was the amount of black clothing (literally everywhere you looked someone was sporting the all-black look). The show was amazing of course and I loved the use of colours and the different patterns and prints. Going to a show really makes you appreciate the way in which something is worn and the way it moves and fits on the body, something which really can't be shown in a photograph. I had a good view luckily, and the layout had changed from the classic catwalk to a sort of walk-around-the-room arrangement, making it a lot more spacious.

What do you think of this collection? Did anyone else go/is going to LFW?