How cool, from my balcony you can see the stage being set up! They are expecting 15,000 people, which seems like everyone who lives in the area! It’s really one of the biggest events that is happening here and one of the opening band is Finnish, “Lordi” who won Eurovision 2006 so there is lots of excitement here! I just took this photo at 00.25, it’s still so bright outside!

I met a cool band on the way to Helsinki, called the Vamps, you can learn more about them at www.myspace.com/vampsfans. They’re touring Finland & Holland for most of JUly but will be back in London for a gig on the 4th hope to be there! Sorry, Jax the bass player is missing from the pic, but he’s a pretty cool guy.

I’ve arrived in Tuuri. As you know I’m a city girl and zone 2 is as far as I like to go. If I can’t hail a taxi it’s not somewhere I’d like to be.

Right now I feel like I’m in the middle of nowhere, actual I am in the middle of nowhere. It doesn’t pretend to be somewhere, so some how that makes it ok. My hotel room is lovely and the staff have been so amazing and warm and friendly. Everyone here is blond and has good skin, it might be the air, which is amazing unlike London where I have allergies all the time…

I love the chandelier and the big bed!

Did a cool shoot with two models, Kate & Natasha @ Bookings. We were waiting to shoot on a yacht but it still hadn’t arrived in London and the weather was looking a bit iffy. I didn’t want to put the shot off because I was going away so we changed the idea and shot in a studio. Most of the work has yet to be done as it’s going to be quite processed and graphic. I think it will look really cool and even better then our original idea!

Natsha was super cute & fun

And Kate was sleek & Sexy

Ruth is have a launch party for her CD!
For more info visit her site http://www.ruthpalmer.com/

This is not what it looks like! It’s actually a print to make it look as if the knickers are
visible!! How cool and stilly is that!! I’d love to wear one!!

Spend most of the day
organizing my visa for my trip to St Petersburg! Should be quite cool! The line up was
quite long and people start queuing at 5am, and the office is only open until
noon, so if you’re too far back in the queue, you just have to come back
another day!! Anyway should be able to get my passport back on Tuesday and then
I’m off to Iceland on Thursday!!

Billy Idol
will be playing Mon July 3 rd at the New Arena (outdoor) in St. Petersburg

Is it still a fake when it can be anything, but a fake? Is there a kitch market that loves the fake bag , or is it "hey £5, I’ll take it!"

I was out doing returns today and who do I run into, but Gok! He was filming his series in River Island on Oxford Street! It airs next week so I’m quite excited that I’ll be here to see it.

How to Look Good Naked June 2006, Channel 4 – Fashion series from the makers of 10 Years Younger featuring advice from  stylist Gok Wan

I love Tights Please. I love their over the knee socks with bows and wear them all the time. And now they are offering "Caffeine Tights"! Now, I am a big coffee lover. I love the smell of coffee, coffee beans covered in chocolate and just hanging out in cafes. But tights? I’m a bit skeptic?! Hmmm

How do they work?
Body temperature causes the release of caffeine microcapsules
into the skin increasing the metabolic rate and the burning of fat.
This can reduce the circumference of thighs, cellulite and the "orange
peel" effect.

Any thoughts?

Yesterday I got to hang out with 3 very cool & inspiring Canadian women, Rahel, Emma and Ann. Rahel, I met ages ago when I was studying women’s studies and theatre in Montreal. She used to work in technical writing and now has her own company, Intentional Design focusing on content management & usability. Ann Rockley also works in content management and Emma is a career & Perfomance Consultant.

There are lots of great groups for women & technology, I’ve belonged to this one for a while, http://www.digitaleve.org/

I rarely seem to hang out with non-fashion people and I hadn’t realized that, that is how I view everyone else…so in my world there are fashion people and non fashion people.

Wednesday, June 21st, 13.00-20.30
Address:
Jens Laugesen Studio @ 8 Laburnum Street London E2 8AY
(enter gate 208
Kingsland Road left side building 2nd house interphone)
Tel: 0207 033 3701

It’s always good to be a tourist and enjoy your own city. I saw some good buskers today but I didn’t see one person who dress sense inspired me…In a way I do find tourists quite charming. They always wear flat shoes and shorts, and maybe even a hat. They might have a back pack and of course the map is placed in an obvious spot, for all locals to see. A tourist wouldn’t dress this way at home, but somehow the status of tourist allows us a very laid back, casual look, that screams out I’m a tourist. Maybe it’s like a warning be nice to me, I’m on holiday, I don’t know my way around but I just want to have a break from my every day life, just be nice to me…

This street performer is throwing knives and eating an apple. The crowd loved it. I ran into him later in the afternoon and took a photo of his puppy.

Friendlier than he looks, he just a puppy

This is one part of Covent Gardens where you can always see some truely talented musicians and singers. It gets really packed on the weekends.

and of course lots of cute shops. This shop had some “tea pot” hand bags in loads of silly colours. I’m not sure who would really carry one but I do really like porcelain tea pots…it might be because I like cake but I’m not sure…

This girl make not only the coolest jewelery, but there are so many pieces that I want, and I’m not really a jewelery girl. I used to be the kind of girl that loved & wore loads of jewelery, then I don’t know what happened. Things change and I just have seen anything that I really felt was me. Jewelery is very personal and I always think it makes a great gift, it’s just so intimate. Miss Bibi is also a graphic artist and you’ve probablely seen her work a hundred times in magazines like Jalouse.

It would be great to do jewelery shoot with Miss Bibi!

I love using statement pieces in shoots, I would love to be the type of
stylist who piles on the jewelery, but just haven’t done the type of
shoot that called for that. I do like jewelry shoots and did a cool one
a while back. To see the whole story just click on the link Risk Versus Reward.

Canada is cooler then you think!

Link: zipped.org - Best of the web all in one place.

BBDO created a subway poster that has a fully functional headphone jack imbedded in it, which plays samples of various exclusive tracks available at pepsiaccess.ca. There are close to 100 posters playing 12 different tracks running in Toronto and Vancouver from now until the end of summer

OK. You probably don’t realize it, but most stylists (especially assistants) are good at laundry and ironing. We know lots about starch, which laundry detergents we like best, and we might even have a preferred fabric softener. On a shoots I’ll use an iron for men’s shirts but otherwise I prefer a steamer.

Stylists are all very good at getting make-up stains out of clothes and returning things nicely to the PRs. We know the best dry cleaners and shoes makers.

Ohooo a Sonic Stain Remover? Does it work, has anybody ever tried this?

Ok, so I’m still thinking of cake. It’s just so appealing
looking. So yummy! I have found some very interesting tasting cakes that look
so delicious. There is a Japanese cake shop not far from Piccadilly
Circus. Most of the cakes are made from Azuki beans, kidney beans,
soy beans), grains (mochi-rice, rice flour, wheat), potatoes, sesame seeds,
Kanten (a natural hardener) and sugar. It might not sound so great, but it’s so
pretty & it’s good to try different things. I think I’d love to do a tea
party shoot. I’m sure every girl wants to. It’s not that I’m interested in
being a food stylist that’s a whole different art. It’s just, as I mentioned I
like cake. Even at my wedding I wasn’t so concerned about my dress as I was
focused on finding the perfect three tiered cake. A girl can have lots of
dresses but you just don’t have the opportunity to have a 3 tiered cake very often
in your life.

Minamoto Kitchoan

This is such a cool bag. You can see lots of other cool designs at http://joaosabino.blogspot.com/

I’ll be away most of July!

JULY
Sat 1 Keskinen Shopping
Centre (outdoor), Tuuri
Sun 2 Hartwall
Arena, Helsinki, Finland
Mon 3 New Arena, St Petersburg (outdoor)
Wed 5 Riga Arena, Riga, Latvia

Thu 6 Ice
Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
Sat 8 Exit Festival, Novi Sad,
Serbia
Mon 10 Cotroceri Stadium, Bucharest,
Romania
Tue 11 Akademic Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria
Thu 13 Petofi Csarnock, Budapest, Hungary
Sat 15 Gurten
Festival, Berne, Switzerland

Sun 16 Guilfest, Guildford, UK
Tue 18 Zitadelle, Spandau, Berlin, Germany

Wed 19 Stadtpark,
Hamburg, Germany
Fri 21 BlueBalls Festival, Lucerne,
Switzerland
Sat 22 Lovely Days Festival, St
Polton, Austria
Sun 23
Museumplatz, Bonn, Germany