Birkenstocks Are Back, And They're Flatforms

Dungarees - River Island

Croptop - BDG

Choker - eBay 

Other Necklace - Birth present... (In other words, I don't know)

Scrunchie - DIY OBVIOUSLY - here's how I made it CLICK THIS

Platform Birks - Truffles

HOLA EVERYBADY I AM OFFICIALLY BACK! But sadly not black. 

(white girl problems of slow tanning)

Oh, how much I have missed you all! 

This is pretty much the exact outfit I wore on the plane to Amsterdam to start off my UNBELIEVABLE month travelling, which I shall post about very soon. I had been searching for dungaree's for absolutely bloody ages, ebay, topshop, asos etc but I didn't want rip-off Levi's so I thought I would wait to visit Bricklane/Camden/Shoreditch etc to go buy a second hand pair and in the meantime I bought these.  They're sort of silky, so actually really light to wear in summer, but teamed with a thick knitted jumper I can definitely carry these through to Autumn Winter, oh the variety. Very good purchase.

Flares r fab.

I am aware of the hypocritical nature of me buying these shoes following on from my early post called 'Ugly Shoe Obsession'  BUT I am retracting my earlier statement of hate towards birkenstocks, cos I love them.

These were a fab £18.99 including postage, unlike the exact replica that Jeffrey Campbell do for about £1000, the platform works in my favour as I have little legs, and well... white is great.

SO I know the above OOTD formerly introduced you to these new babies, but here they are. Up close and personal. Teamed with my favourite skort from Primark (I KNOW) and a present from my babes Sarah, from some random company, the label says BDG but I don't know what that means, or where that's from.

So there you go, 2 OOTD's in 1, you lucky people.

Because I have so many un-written posts, I will probably be blogging most days for the next few weeks, including posts about my trip and a few OOTD's from when I was away, so don't worry. You will be seeing much more of me very soon 

PEACE

C U SOON

LUV N HUGS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Bits and Bobs, Photography

Hola

This post isn't really anything, just a small collection of some photography taken around places in London over the past 3 years. 

As I am going inter-railing today and will not be reunited with my laptop until the 28th, posts will probably be much less frequent, yes I know, I can feel your hearts breaking already. BUT I am bringing my camera meaning if I can find wifi, I will post. 

All is not lost dear readers x

Enjoy this post (it may be the last) *evil laugh*

While I'm at it, here a bit of Suffolk too.. 

Hope you found that pretty, I know I did.

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Muchas gracias amigas

see you soon as wifi and I are joyfully re-united

xoxoxoxox

80s Role-modellin'

So I decided to research a little into fashion, the models, people, and styles of one of my favourite era's. But in particular the people that fully embraced the New Romantic age, the 80's. In terms of style it rejected the austerity and anti-fashion stance of punk. Both sexes dressed in counter-sexual clothing and wore a lot of eyeliner and lipstick. 'Gender Blending' was the nickname given to it, which perfectly ties in with my previous blog post on drag queens, which you can read here.

Enjoy!

To start, I chose Grace Jones as she is the ultimate woman. 

She was born in May 1948 and was an actress, singer and model, but her modelling is the bit I've focused on. She is the most striking person I think I've ever seen, and I absolutely adore her. First noticed from her appearance in the Bond movie; A View to a Kill, I have been in awe of her ever since. Although not a technically a true new romantic, her look supports that style, bold make up and grungy dress sense.

*queen*

My next inspo is David Bowie. Bowie, apart from coming out with some brilliant tracks was basically a shapeshifter. He went from normal looking kid to punk to new romantic to rocker. Obviously his new romantic phase was his most fabulous, when he came out with tracks such as Ashes to Ashes.

Bowie became a fashion inspiration for huge designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen, I've put a few pics in at the end of this post as he featured other people, but the designs are amazing.

Look at this swag pls.

Next, Boy George. The man of New Romanticism...He is an English singer-songwriter, who was part of the New-Ro movement, his music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by R&b and Reggae, but not the kind of R&b that Beyonce sings, more Al Green and Aretha Franklin sort of blues. He made the most beautiful man-woman. 

                         

                 

So this is a little of Jean Paul Gaultier's SS 13  'ready to wear' collection based on the 80's, some of the inspirations are really obvious so I'll just let you decided who's who.

                             

                             

My favourite late designer in the world Alexander McQueen also made a Resort range in 2013, which looks like it's based on his previous work with Bowie, androgynous yet fab!

Also here's a brilliant artical from Dazed and Confused, of a telephone conversation of Bowie and McQueen - http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/15910/1/bowie-mcqueen

Thought I would mix it up a bit by occasionally doing inspo posts, lemme know what you think in comments please, fab.

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xo