Rainy Afternoon

 Really enjoyed Alasdair McLellan and Olivier Rizzo teaming up up for AnOther Magazine Issue 25. Mixing high gloss with easy going casual or work wear isn't groundbreaking but I've always been a fan and love the way it has been done here.

 The only way to wear a floor length sequin dress

 Rizzo tends to use lots of clothes and props from his own 'archive'. This makes me feel a lot better about all the bags of clothes I've got, bought for a purpose that hasn't quite presented itself yet.

 

Dig by Daniel Silver

Today I went to the exhibition 'Dig' by artist Daniel Silver. Curated by Artangel, the sculpture was displayed in what was once one of the biggest Odeon cinemas in central London but has now been reduced to a building site. The artwork and site worked so well together that even though sculpture isn't always my thing, I found the installation thought provoking and inspiring.

The downstairs dungeon bit is the part you've probably already seen on someone's instagram. I loved the swampy boardwalk around the standing statues.

And I really liked this unintentional art work by the invigilators

 

For more see the Artangel website, here.

Hello Cowboy

Cowboy layering

Denim Cat Fight

Spanner in the works

Pawn shops do make me sad, but then I think how happy I'd be if I had this bolt and spanner bangle

Magpie

Such a sucker for anything shiny - love these trousers, and kind of want to relive my 13 year old self and buy another pair of shelltoes. Photos from a blog archiving pictures from The Face magazine - look it up for lots of 90s fashion inspiration.

Hair

 

Photograph by Tereza Zelenkova, currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery.Very 'Adams Family'

Autumn Updates

The purse strings are tightly drawn this coming season so my wardrobe updates are limited. I couldn't resist this shirt in my favourite print and this lovely lightweight jumper though.

Layered Colour

Amazing shoot styled by Katie Shillingford and shot by Vivian Sassen for Dazed and Confused.

So much to look at!

Lacroix

Jewellery from the south of France that influenced the creation of a Lacroix 1987 wedding dress.

Christian Lacroix's haute couture embodies all the lavish opulence one imagines haute couture should be.

Lemons

As summer begins to draw an end and I start to make staunch resolutions about baring legs for as long as possible, my thoughts turn to clothes I wish I had got more wear out of. I picked up this beautiful little 1960s dress for 3 euro from a market in Spain earlier this Summer

Quite difficult to wear as it is essentially see through but it makes a great pool/beach dress. I love fruit prints, I've written about a Stella McCartney favourite years ago here and here.

Sorolla's House

The tile theme continued  (see last week's Celine post): these are from the Spanish painter Sorolla's house in Madrid, which I visited last week before catching a flight home - with a heavy heart - after an amazing few days holiday.

Celine II

Love the latest Celine campaign - which features another collaboration with Juergen Teller and Daria Werbowy. The tiles and clothes clash so well - although part of me wants to wear the tile patterns as much as the Celine numbers.

Plastic Keepsake

An understated plastic keepsake from St Marks, Venice. Beats a postcard

WAG GIRLS

 My current wall hanging is this fab snakeskin t-shirt given to me all wrapped up in plastic by my lovely friend Molly. So many great things about it, particularly the label.

Sweet Thing

 

 Hardcore baklava, Uxbridge Road

Van Morrison, Sweet Thing

Too tenuous?

Sandals

New shoes..again... Thank you Zara sale

Work Lunch

My work schedule at the moment means that my favourite market haunts, once frequented almost daily, are now very rarely visited at all. While this is probably a good thing for my wallet, I do miss the bargains. That is until today when an ice cream lunch break ended up looking like this

 Happy again.

Floating Greengrocer, Venice

Hot Weather

 Keeping the heat out in St Marks Square, Venice

Venice

I spent a few days in Venice last week where the most fun was probably had on water buses which we took endlessly up and down the grand canal... beats London's public transport in hot weather by miles.