Street Style: London Fashion Weekend.

So last week I attended London Fashion Weekend and reported the Julien Macdonald catwalk for Platfform magazine, it was seriously mindblowing, mainly due to the sheer amount of embellishment and detail in all of the pieces. Whilst milling around the little shopping stalls etc quite a few outfits caught my eye so I decided to photograph them for you all, enjoy!


We bumped into the lovely Celia Orford keeping it simply stylish by wearing block colour basics, mainly blacks and pastels, but jazzing it up with a fabulous faux-fur caramel coat from Zara (around £100). I especially love the black skinnies and black heeled ankle boot combo as it brings an essence of effortless style while keeping the attention on the coat.

Jessie took the opposite approach by using layering to create an effortlessly chic piece. I feel like this outfit is a good representative of London fashion culture as it uses a mix of street and high fashion to create one overall piece. The bottom is very tailored and floaty whereas the top is all about textures and layering to create a cluster and fall effect.
Coat: H&M
Necklace: Zara.
 Catheryn Smith wore this bubblegum pink soft box coat, a reoccurring theme at London Fashion Weekend was defiantly the emphasis on outerwear as the main focus piece, as is evidenced here by the large overcoat taking main stage within the piece.
Coat & Glasses: Both ASOS.

Nasreen used a variety of textures and colours to create this outfit. A blue fur coat, Lime silk scarf and Fringed suede boots combine to create a crazy mash-up of all this seasons trends.
Coat: Topshop
Necklace: Accessorize.

Micheal Taylor incorporated a traditional British heritage within his piece as he adds a red tartan scarf to a quilted coat. He also carries a rough and ready brown leather duffle bag, the ideal balance between prim and country. The white shirt underneath his coat was customized by Micheal to add black buttons which give the shirt an overall sheer look
Coat: River Island
Bag: ASOS

Joao + Yvonne channeled a very Italian style outfit with sharp tailoring an classic prints. Joao wore a cape coat he had made in Portugal with Italian Leather gloves and a crisp white shirt and trouser combo. Yvonne wore a gingham coat from Paul and Joe coupled with a simple lilac shirt dress. LFW brought a whole mix of different cultures into one place.

OOTD: Casual Date

                           
Hope you all enjoy my latest video, OOTD: Casual Date. Iv been super busy recently but ill be back to blogging ASAP I promise!

Thanks Guys,

OOTD: Flying to Greece.

Hey guys, so today (well tonight, 3am) im flying to Parga in Greece and thought that seeing as you wouldnt get a post from me in two weeks id do a quick OOTD on what im wearing to travel in. Im planning on vlogging some of parga and doing some OOTD's while there which ill post when i get back from my holiday.

                                                                        Enjoy xx



So this is the overall look, im wearing a tshirt dress because its nice and floaty, a loose kimono shirt, plastic sandals, a primark headband and primark earcuff. Oh and not forgetting my totally awesome TMNT Turtle backpack.

                          

                               

                                          

All items can be seen in my Haul video, See you in two weeks guys.

FashionFox xoxo

Date day vlog with Fizzypuddle

                        So today I had a date with Fizzypuddle so I thought id bring you along.
                                                       

                                                         Chinateacups/Fashion Fox xx

Summer/Holiday Haul Video

I decided to start a youtube channel so that i could make posts on here as well as youtube and have a smoother way of connecting with you guys, enjoy!

Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer '13

Monochrome Stripes.

This season Marc Jacobs released his spring/summer collection, choc-a-bloc with striped patterns and pointed shoes the collection is a-wash with monochrome. 

It seems like Marc's main ambition with this piece was to take a simple yet classic look and revamp it for 2013. Striped petal-bottom shirts and monochrome striped co-ords are a new addition, all accessorised with a bold statement fringe and eyebrows.The pointed shoes and miniature handbags make this collection look more polished and Parisian whilst keeping the essence of the rounded monochrome clothes.He even used a horizontal stripe in alternating thick and thin lines to create a unique gradient pattern which draws attention to the models signature mod-style hair-cut.

  

This collection is truly phenomenal and every last detail has been perfect from the scalloped edges of tops to the cartoon-y play-fullness of the mickey mouse jumpers, a truly wearable collection that can be vamped up with neon accessories.

Boy George: Fashion Icon.

The Hats, The colourful dreadlocks and the inspirational outfits, we discover the fashion attached to the man: Boy George.

Boy George in the 80's.

Boy George's most famous look is this: hat, colourful dreadlocks, loose clothing and subtle yet noticeable make-up  Boy George has always been known for his "out there" sense of style and yet he always kept it classy.The use of black in the outfit and the bagginess of the upper half is evidence of the desire in his face. He wants his face to be known and recognised so he made it into a work of art. Boy George's make-up has always been sleek and "pointed" in the sense that everything was sharp, on point and perfect, the looks he tried always suited him and he made sure they did. Dark lips and colourful eyes were his main focus as portrayed in the musical he wrote: Taboo (following is an extract from)
George: what colour are my eyes Billy? describe them.
Billy: Brilliant Bright Blue
George: (cooing) Thank-you
Billy: No, they're all bloodshot from your mascara
George: BETTER FUCKING NOT BE
George used his eyes as his focal point and made sure they were the central to his face, in many of his music videos, for example, Georges eyes are centre to the camera, this makes the audience focus on Boy George and his music, an effect which worked perfectly and saw him into the charts.



In an interview Boy George said "what you wear has no impact on anything else, people fight because they want to fight not because of what they wear, i think its just silly, fighting over clothes, you only get into violence if you fight back. if you don't want to be involved don't fight back." This shows his true peaceful and harmless approach to clothes and that they really are just something you put on.

Boy George looked amazing as ever at the 2013 Brit Awards with a sheer black hat, baby blue blazer, black shirt, silk black tie and blue eye-shadow with his trademark amazingly styled eyebrows. In My opinion he looked great  (especially after the huge weight loss) but was quickly caught in twitter crossfire with One Direction's Liam Payne after Liam refused to pose for a photo with Boy George's Niece  needless to say directioners were soon on the bandwagon hurling a torrent of abuse at George via his twitter, in a peaceful response, Boy George simply blocked each one of them, a calm move from the star. 

Boy George was and is an icon, in fashion and music. He will always dominate the fashion scene and still has designers using him as an inspiration.

Ins-and-Outs of: Vintage Store Shopping.

Vintage stores are popping up all around Britain and from my experiences today i can see why.

Today my sister and i visited the Blitz Vintage store in Spitalfields, London, with a 20% student discount and a high reputation amongst the Londoners themselves I had to try it out. The layout of Blitz is 100 times better than what i expected from a vintage store as most of my local vintage stores are very "search-through-a-pile-for-hidden-gems" where-as Blitz' items were all categorised according to style, type and label. Neckerchieves and scarves were in suitcases at the front whereas clothes and home-wares were in the back, downstairs are the sales (a real steal, i got a pair of brown leather loafers for £5) and men's clothes, shoes and bags. Although some items can be a little pricey (a particularly gorgeous leather backpack at £60) its mostly quite cheap and for what you get and the name brands its definitely worth it. After a couple of hours of aimlessly marvelling at the fashions on show i ended up with a Barbour tartan blazer with a suede collar and sleeve turn-ups for £30, A Denim with leather collar Levi Jacket for £38, Brown leather loafers (marked down from £35) for £5, and a pair of size 1 white converse for £20. Overall the quality of the clothes was top notch and there was plenty more in the store i would have bought had i had the time or money and its definitely worth getting yourself down there if you want some good name-brand clothing on the cheap or home-ware such as typewriters,bottles and signs. A small walk down the road took us to a large open market of food stalls, Malaysian pancakes and clothes, the stalls we stopped at were a sunglasses stall (very gaga-esque) and a cheap dress stall from which i bought two dresses i had seen in the high street store new look and for more than half price! all dresses were £12, another bargain added to the bags.

*Pictures will be uploaded shortly*