Au Revoir Summer / Un-make that damn bed!

Yeah so to all you guys basking in sunshine and heat who might be wondering WHY am I not frolicking around in hotpants with a sunhat, that's England for ya.




Shirt - Uniqlo, Shorts - Deisel, Purple tights - from a friend, Shoes - Topshop

I wore this outfit to go for coffee with some friends (yes I do actually venture out into that weird place known as the outside world on occasion) and got caught in a rain shower on the way back. Trust me, these shoes collect more water than they keep out.

I've been thinking a lot recently about the nature of the phrase "you've made your bed, so you've got to lie in it". For a long time I thought that seeing things through to the end was the most important thing about life - and whether I hated it wasn't really part of the equation. I'm not saying it's good to head for the hills every time things start to get a bit rough, but I also think that when you're forcing yourself to do something for the wrong reasons - because you're scared of what others may think if you don't, because your parents expect it, because "quitting is for failures"- will harm you more than you realise sometimes.

Fine, if you make your bed, and you wanted to make it, maybe you should lie in it. But if someone else made you make it, or you never even wanted to make it in the first place, un-make that mofo!

It's no use living someone elses dream guyz.

Don't know if any of that makes sense - perhaps I'll ellaborate more some other time.

Flowerz and Blog Award!

Skirt- Zara Top-Primark Socks - Topshop Puma shoes - vintage

This necklace was made for wayyy back when by a friend - I like ethnic vibes

I love wearing long socks with skirts/shorts, they mean I can pretend I live in the 90s with the bonus that they keep my feet warm! I apologise for my criminally pasty legs, what with living in England and all, blazing hot temperatures are pretty rare and my natural colouring seems to fall somewhere between milk and Casper the Friendly Ghost.

In other news thank you so much to the lovely and very stylish ladies at Short Sister Style (http://shortsisterstyle.blogspot.com/) for awarding me a One Lovely Blog Award!

Part of the award is to list 7 facts about yourself so hear goes:

1. I am a hoarder. My room is full of trinkets and junk that I've been given/bought and can't bring myself to throw away.
2. I have spoken Greek since age 2, but when I write it my spelling is awful!
3. I love Alphonse Mucha and anything in the Art Nouveau style
4. My worst fear is swimming in the sea and seeing a shark coming at me from the deep
5. I melt chocolate in the microwave before I eat it (melted Reeces Cups = heaven)
6. I really want to have either a Ragdoll or a Main Coon Cat one day
7. I love 80s music

Here are the 15 blogs that I award:
http://victorialeshungryeyes.blogspot.com/
http://themartiantide.blogspot.com/
http://roma-thefashionaddict.blogspot.com/
http://potdolly.blogspot.com/
http://flowdisruption.blogspot.com/
 http://ergy-erg.blogspot.com/
  http://quirkyexplosion.blogspot.com/
http://self-constructed-freak.blogspot.com/
http://adore-vintage.blogspot.com/
 http://fashionablerose.blogspot.com/
http://irmafirma.blogspot.com/
http://laura-hoffman.blogspot.com/
http://www.styleshewrote.com/
http://forshoeswefall.blogspot.com/
http://olivias-pizzazz.blogspot.com/

(I don't know why half of them have linked but half of them haven't - technology hates me - but click on them/paste them into your task-bar, they're all awesome!)

Like a cat on a hot tin roof

Cat jumper- Topshop Skirt-Primark 

I haven't grown out of prints with animals on at all - if it has an animal on it, chances are I'll really want it! I find that if you're going to wear something cutesy if you already look stupidly young for your age like me it's good to try and balance it out with something less child-like - in this case I chose dark colours for the rest of my outfit. Ah who am I kidding, I still look about 12 but who cares CAT JUMPER! 

I bought this jumper a year ago - I really like how the eyes have that pop of colour and it's really slouchy and comfortable. 

On a side note, I know that it's possible to get broody for children but I think I may be broody for a cat. Specifically this cat: 

I think my aaw-o-meter just exploded. 

A girl called Gabrielle

Yay 20 followers! Let's face it, fashion inspired blogs are hardly thin on the ground and when I first started mine I was worried about whether my voice was loud enough to be heard in such a crowded and talented sphere of Internet-land. I could pretend that I'm some crazy fashion rain man who could tell you exactly what collections Yves Saint Laurent has done from 1970 and that I read Vogue like it's the Bible but the truth is I'm just a pretty average girl who likes fashion and vintage and random inspiration. So thanks for taking the time to check out my ramblings!

I thought I'd share one of the icons who first got me into fashion in the first place. Maybe a bit of a cliché but:

Not only did this woman have an amazing life, rising from being abandoned in an orphanage to the most powerful woman in fashion, she totally changed the fashion landscape for women forever.

Just chillin'

I love the simple elegance of her clothes and I'm glad that Karl Lagerfeld has kept a lot of her original aesthetic in his collections:

RTW 2011 (I want this coat! Such a beautiful wine red.)

Resort 2012

SS11 (Love the cut-out necklace)

Pre-fall 2010

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same" - Coco Chanel

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Summer where ARE you? England has been living up to it's repuation recently with pretty much constant rain. I guess I should be grateful because for most of you the last month or so has just been like GAH EXAMS. Before I head off  abroad in search of a bit of sun (and probably a whole lot of sunburn, unintentionally) I thought I'd share this outfit:

Here are some of the details and the shoes I put with it - apologies for my crappy camera skills, honestly I don't know how you guys get such great shots!

Shirt- Primark, Skirt-Vintage, Belt- Ribbon off a present

Brogues- Primark, kitten heels FTW!

This is a handmade knitted hairclip I thought I'd lost but was really happy to rediscover, I bought it at a market.

What with the checked shirt I was kind of feeling the cowgirl vibes. Now I just need to find a rodeo - and a cowboy that looks like this:

How's summer going for you guys?

Kaboom!

I recently watched the film Kaboom – I would try and explain the plot but it basically makes about as much sense as an LSD trip. Ninjas running around in animal masks, lesbian witches with rejection issues, mysterious messages, an underground cult – it’s basically like “Charmed” (remember that show?) on acid.

Although I ended up not really liking the film in the end (yeah I know from the above it sounds awesome, and it kinda is, but only in a it’s so bad it’s good kinda way) what I really loved was one of the lead character Stella’s outfits.  

Stripes hell yeah

Because it isn't a very well known film there aren't that many images around but I loved all her clothes, they were bold but well thought out (I'm a big fan of colour coordination! Geek.) 

Here's another example of Stella (played by Haley Bennett) in a pretty nifty green flapper dress:

This one isn't from the film but I'm totally in love with her make-up and that sheepskin coat. If it's real it must've cost a bomb so I'm pretty sure I won't be able to get my mitts on anything quite so lovely in the near future.  

Here's what she wore to the Cannes Film Festival - nice that she decided not to go with the whole floaty dress staple and chose this great romantic pussy-bow blouse and jeans. Simple but chic no?

So yeah, I have a little bit of a girl crush on Haley Bennett.

As always thank you for your comments/following and I'll drop by your blog! 

Red Light

New shoes no blues right? (I’m not sure if that’s an actual saying. I may or may not have just made that up as an excuse to buy new shoes *shifty eyes*). Anyway here are the little orange beauties:

I bought them from Topshop and they were surprisingly cheap at under £20. I loved the wedge heel which kind of reminded me of these delicious Prada creepers:

I was thinking they were going to be super comfy. I WAS WRONG. Whoever designed the back strap was clearly a sadist as the damn things are like cheese wire! I'm clearly just going to have to buy a load of plasters and hope my skin toughens up because I love them. Here's the outfit I put them with: 

Top - New Look, Trousers - New Look, Belt - Primark

This necklace is Egyptian and is from the little gold mine that is my Grandma, she bought it in Cairo in the 50s. The beads are amber but it’s kind of a deeper orange than normal amber – it reminds me of marmalade (things always seem to go back to food in my mind.)

 Here’s the song I had in mind when I was thinking about this outfit – I have no idea why since it’s more 60s than 80s – I was going off on a bit of a red / orange theme.  Love this lady:

Thank you so so much to all the new followers and comments I got on my last post - I'll be checking out your blogs ASAP!