Tuesday, 14 December 2010

A mosey around the city

London is without a doubt fashion dominant and since I've got no money going round all of the capital's 'IT' shops was certainly one of my finer idea's.

Selfridges

A sea of yellow bags leads all sorts of characters into this high end department store.







Urban Outfitters

If there's an indie trend then UO is hot on its heels, shop here for kooky home ware.






Liberty

The Victorian style exterior and dark wood paneling could trick you into thinking you'd walked into a Brothers Grimm fairytale if it wasn't for all the designer clothes dotted around.







Browns and Browns focus

Go to Browns for pieces you can pass on to your children and Browns Focus for that must have dress of the season.



Dover Street Market

 Subtract snooty shop assistants and you are left with four floors of the most kooky and interesting displays I saw the whole week, look out for the T-shirt vending machine.








Hoxton Boutique

Underlying circus tones throughout,  get inspired by the huge range of vintage jewelry.






Oxfam Boutique 

Literally a glorified charity shop, you'll have to be quick to grab a designer bargain. 





 Matches

Lets the clothes do the talking.




B store

A unique and British take on fashion.



Topshop 

From basics to boutique, I don't think there's anything you can't pick up from topshop now, including a new hairstyle.






Bluebird

A quiet, relaxed shop with lots of interesting things to look at after you've marveled at the range of designer clothing.









The Convinience Store

Buried within a bed of tower blocks it's hard to see who this is convinent for.


Start

Perhaps I caught them on a bad day but everything felt a little obsolete.  




Pop-up Store

Next door to start was a pop up shop selling a range of leather goods and jewelry, nothing too exciting.




Acne

My favourite shop! Friendly staff and some incredible garments spread onto four floors.






Beyond Retro

Surrounded by security to prevent fur protesters entering the shop my visit here was certainly an experience.





Absolute Vintage

Ordered chaos, there's so much of everything it's hard for a vintage fan not to part with their cash.







MISC pop up store

 Hidden in an East London warehouse I found handmade jewelry, pots of jam and twee illustrations, oh so quirky.


Diverse

If the shop was named after the amount of styles they tried to characterize within one small unit then diverse is right. Not a fan.  


Sefton 

Minimalist with quirky features throughout, a large absinthe candle and jars of sweets set the scene.




Labour Of Love

Felt like an extension on someones bedroom and was very cosy, I was far more interested in the books than the clothing.






Sunday, 12 December 2010

Peter Grey at Dazed

Just found this in my inbox and gasped VERY LOUD. A profoundly amazing shoot with hair sculptor (imagine if your job title was hair sculptor!) Peter Grey. Read more here








Saturday, 11 December 2010

All aboard the night train



I won't be getting the nightbus home this weekend because I have all the deadlines in the world. Theres nothing more strange (or stupid) than meeting people on the nightbus! Watch this teenage witch style video Vice sent me.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Panic on the streets of London

I'm not even going to attempt to try convince you that I have any sort of educated opinion or knowledge on politics because I know more facts about giraffes in all honesty BUT if even I can see that this country is going down the gutter then someone needs to put their arse into gear.



I will (hopefully) be protesting on Saturday.

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Life Is Flashing Before Your Eyes


Vince Collins creates wonderfully surreal animations and has been doing for years, this is one of my favourite ones. His video's are really good for unusual colour combination idea's too