7 trends for Autumn/Winter

Hello all! The sudden drop in temperature means it's feeling a lot more like Autumn/Winter now so I decided it would be the perfect time to do a round up of some of my favourite trends for the upcoming season. 

Which is your favourite trend? What have you been buying recently?

All sets can be found on my polyvore

Mock of a smock

I've been feeling pretty uninspired by my wardrobe lately (...an excuse to buy a whole new one maybe??) as I'm pretty bored of wearing the same clothes over and over again. So I decided that I'd spend a couple of hours today making this dress. I have had two smock dresses (here and here) but one shrunk in the wash and I left one in a hotel room *cry*, so this kind of style was an obvious choice. The fabric is also perfect for it - it's very lightweight and has a bit of a stretch to it. The print is very summery but I'd still be happy to wear in the autumn with some dark tights (such as below), my studded boots and a jacket. I'm still undecided whether to keep it for myself or add it to my shop - what do you reckon? I definitely want to make more dresses like this to sell though,... perhaps with long sleeves? Anyway, I haven't worn my silver heels in a while so I added these and a set of pearls to complete the look.

How was your weekend? What do you think of my dress?

dress - homemade

heels - New Look

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!....

Pastel

A brand new outfit for you today. I bought the skirt on ebay for £4 but it's originally from Motel . I'm really pleased with it overall (nice pattern, very versatile and fits well - what more could I ask for!?). The heels were another ebay purchase (this time for £5). They're quite unique in their style with the buckle strap around the sides and the gold heel, plus they fit perfectly which always helps! Finally, the top is one of my Mum's old tops that was given to me (which I love the colour of!).

What do you think of my outfit? Have you made any ebay purchases recently?

 skirt - Motel via Ebay

heels - Ebay

top - old

Party dress wish list

I visited Kingston University today to find out about their foundation course. It's definitely somewhere I'd like to study but it's so competitive only 10% of those who apply for the course actually receive a place so I'm not holding out too much hope! On another note, I've been buying quite a few things on ebay recently which I'll be sure to show you at some point in future outfit posts.  

As it's coming up to Christmas and the party season is getting closer, I thought I'd pick out some of the dresses I'd love to own this winter. My friend's having a Gatsby themed 18th party so I've been browsing ebay for cheap finds (let me know if you spot anything!) and have been lusting over a few other dresses on there as well. Anyway, for full price/ridiculously expensive outfits, here are my picks....

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Blue and White

I'm off to Kingston open day on Saturday which should be interesting. It's my first open day as I've only got 3 Unis to go and look around in total (... since I've decided to do an Art foundation course somewhere local) and am going to be visiting UCA soon as well. Is anyone looking at/have been to these unis? or have done an Art Foundation course? I'd love your opinions! All of this thinking about the future kind of makes me forget what I'm doing now though... (I should probably do some coursework after this bit of procrastination).

Onto my outfit, and I'm wearing a dress I bought on ebay over a year ago. I adjusted it a bit and decided to take the sleeves off in the end as I felt they looked a bit too baggy. It's quite a summery dress (obviously not the weather for it) but I wanted to show you something completely unseen.

What do you think?  How is school/uni/work going?

 dress - ebay

boots - New Look

belt - old

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