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Mufti Day

I haven't always imagined I like fashion. This is mainly because in my early teens I had this misconception that fashion was about simply fitting in to a preordained formula of aesthetics and ideals. On the train home from work tonight sat in my uniform I began to think about all the time I've spent dressing to specification, and how much energy I've put in to rebelling against it. The first time I began to explore the idea of rebellion in dress it was directed not at my actual school uniform, but at the uniform adopted by my peers. Mufti day was a chance to show your classmates that the similarities in appearance were not simply controlled by our school but manifested in an esoteric form of similarity. I didn't think it through to this degree at 13 but I knew what I was doing, I knew what everyone else would look like. Insolence, even then I wanted to shake the world up. I remember my mom looking at me and asking me if I was sure that was what I wanted to wear. I wore it anyway. 

Now I'm not going to claim it was an ensemble of stylistic genius, because it wasn't, it was a vile combination of shiny silver and black floral dress worn over a jersey top with a fur collar. Everyone who saw me that day, every slogan branded sports wear clad peer laughed at me. "Why are you wearing that?!" I told them it was a "movement" I didn't know what I meant then, but I think I've come to find out. 

The unofficial 'best dressed' award of the day went to a girl called Kat, she was wearing jeans and a black T-shirt with 'WAREHOUSE' written across her chest. All day they ridiculed me for my strangeness and complimented her on her stand-in uniform. I was slightly jealous on the day, mildly mortified at my uncontrollable outlandishness, but in hindsight, I'm quite smug about it. It was the first tangible step in the separation of myself from the idea of fashion being about conformity. 

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Louis Vuitton Fall 2011 RTW

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
-Oscar Wilde

I spy with my little eye this devil of a detail...

A Grey Sky / Blue Sky Trade

Woah! Lets not get ahead of ourselves...The sun is barely out, the holidays haven't been taken, sun tan lotion isn't yet the price of myrrh, but in come the autumn trends. For some this crystal ball brings back a  reminiscence of 'Back to School' adverts before your last exams are even over. But not for me. I love autumn, watching the cheap plain T-shirts disappear, the unflattering boob tubes slip unwanted off the hangers in to a vile pile on the floor, it's too cold for those all too transparent white linen trousers. All this could be in part due to my jealousy, that bronze bikini clad life has never and will never be mine, my pale skinny frame and horrendous summer allergies keep my eyes locked in love with the September style reprieve. This autumn already has my excitement, retro furs, delicate vibrant prints, painted on pencil skirts and of course my greatest loves jackets, hats, scarves and gloves. Every year I'm pleasantly surprised by the tailoring and detail offered up by our High Street favourites last years New Look countryside gent inspired Tweeds, Topshops Hollywood glamour furs and River Islands wearable military. This year I feel I'm in for a treat, 1940's glamour reworked in luxurious colour pallets, masculine mod suits with feminine sparkle and the increasingly popular evolution of heritage fabrics.

This summer I'll be watching through my window for the skies to change and a chill to creep into the air.

 Got more stripes than an very prepared mime? Me too. Paint your face and stand as still as you can.....

Topshop

Topshop

Dresden Dolls :)

"i can paint my face

and stand very very still,

it's not very practical

but it still pays the bills"

Topshop

Converse 

Motel Rocks!

asos

Lulu Guinness

Yves Saint Laurent

Office

L.A.M.B

Gwen!

WARNING! Unicorns attack mimes!

The Grimaldi curse

"Never will a Grimaldi find true happiness in marriage."

.....But THIS is the Royal wedding I'll be watching for the dress!