Went to the Apollo this evening October, she invited us which was quite cool. The Delays are super cool and they opened for Embrace which seems to have quite a loyal loving fan base.

A good place for non greasy English breakfast in Hampstead!

Off on another train journey with Carla B. for a shoot. We went to Eastleigh and we weren’t expecting much but we were wrong and had a wonderful day. Every now and then Carla and I are off on a road trip to shoot a case study for a newspaper - which simply means real people with real stories.

We went to the most beautiful farmhouse and had a delicious lunch: the egg salad sandwiches were made with fresh bread, tomatoes pick from the garden and the eggs that were gathered earlier that morning.

We went to shoot two sister who have started an organic skin care line “Rhodes to Heaven“

Met October yesterday and she’s such a wonderful girl and brilliant singer. It’s so cool to
meet someone for the first time and you feel like you’ve known them
for years. We drove several hundred miles yesterday trying to make our way to the
video shoot. It all seemed very rock & roll.

Last night we
shot the first part of her video in a 250 year old house which was
quite spooky; the cellar was very dark and had meat hooks hanging from
the ceiling and the odd piece of furniture including a baby’s crib. October wore one a Sheryl May dress and she looked quite
beautiful and yet had this other worldly quality.

I loved this show and the make up was so beautiful.

Mei Hui -the designers

I was going to see the show Victim, it wasn’t going to start until B Rude finished, so I went to see what all the excitement was about.

“You have to hand it to Boy George. Although the karma chameleon has a
court case looming (for drug possession and filing a false police
report), he still managed to fly to London to stage the debut of
B-Rude. The label, which has shown twice in New York already.” www.fuk.co.uk

I love seeing Billy Idol influenced/inspired dressing

This lady is a hat designer take a look at her long nails!

The Photographers

The Audience

For some reason all the models look like ghosts on my mobile

the end

Saw this in the tube

I love Junk Styling. I love their designs, their choice of fabric, the thought behind the clothes, their shop. My expectation aren’t that high as I’m just looking forward to the show, to see what I usually like. And of course the clothes were great. But the styling and the make up and the choice of music are just not things I would have chosen or associated with Junky. Maybe I’m just confused but I think Junky styling is very English, the hip english, the cool english, but "No diggity", by Black Street just didn’t seem right. In fact it seemed really wrong. Sometimes I just not sure if it’s me thinking these things, or maybe I just don’t get it, on some level I’m so used to not getting it or understanding the ways of the world I just have to think what I think.

The second the show was over, the crowd rushed into the shop for their free drinks!

Link: FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Bored with London Fashion Week.

There is another time in the calendar when London could steal some limelight. Couture, a shrinking branch of fashion, happens over three days in Paris in January and July as do the "pre-collections" - displays of the collections that are delivered to stores before the main (ie catwalk) collections and which now account for more of what’s on display in shops. So, every January and July, all the big buyers and all the editors-in-chief are in Paris for pre-collections and couture respectively. They stay only for a week or less. Ergo, why not move London Fashion Week to the end of couture?

Harriet Muse closes the show!

Models from Isis

Packing Up

Oh to see this show is such a treat. I remember my first Basso & Brook show a few years ago in the tent at LFW. I got to stand right near the end of the run way just below the photographers, it was the best view, images from that show have become just part of my general being. It’s so wonderful to see something that at the right moment has such a great & lasting impact. Of course this moment is never to be quite repeated, and how can anything or anyone for that matter compete with a memory. Tonight’s show was just what you expect and a little bit more. It’s a voyage. The prints and tights that we anticipate and so desperately want to own. Dresses that you can imagine your self wearing, living the dream. Really anyone who can be so creative and have weariability kills two birds with one very large stone. It’s shows like this that make LFW live.

I love the photographers at fashion week, we tend to forget but the show can’t start with out them

Link: London fashion should ban thin models -

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell urged organisers of London’s Fashion Week on Saturday to ban "stick-thin" models from its catwalks.

But The British Fashion Council (BFC), which runs the London Week, has said it will not tell designers how to run their shows. It has, however, decided to cancel a planned photocall on Sunday "because it is unwilling to add any more impetus to the publicity surrounding this complicated issue."

Barbie Volkswagen

“We’ve brought you the Mitsubishi’s Hello Kitty i,
and now, in our never-ending quest to provide complete coverage of all
children’s-toy-themed automobiles, we present the Mexican-market
Volkswagen Beetle Barbie. No battery-operated kiddie toy, mind you, the
Beetle Barbie is a bona-fide VW New Beetle, finished in a
retina-searing hot pink paint job decorated with strategically-placed
Barbie logos. Detail fanatics take note: even the lug nuts are pink.”

PRINCESS KITTY
“Japan’s Carview
has been to the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi
district, where the one-of-a-kind Mitsubishi i “Princess Kitty” special
edition is on display.”

This hat was made specially for my photo shoot. I felt so lucky!! Of course it took a bit of pining to stay on but it was the most amazing hat.

Went to a going away party of one of my favourite people. This is Jenn, she used to be my booker and now she’s off to Canada!