What A Difference A Day Makes...

No matter what I start the day in, it's always changed into something else by the evening. As a teenager I would make 3 or 4 entire outfit changes a day, now I just swap over pieces, adding or removing as the mood takes me. 

1st pic 

Top - APC 

Trousers - Zara

Shoes - H&M

2nd, 3rd, 4th pic 

Top - H&M

Scarf - River Island 

Trousers - Zara

Shoes - Bloch

5th, 6th, 7th pic 

Top - H&M

Hat - From my Auntie Reine's closet 

Shoes - Zara

Ashish for Topshop

Ashish, the maker of sequinned wonders that I can't afford, has released a small range of slogan t-shirts and sweaters in Topshop. I thought I'd play up this 'Garcon' tee with a pair of faux spats style shoe that I love, but have never got around to truly breaking in. When I finally do they will probably only come off when they fall off. 

T-shirt - Ashish for Topshop 

Jeans - Uniqlo 

Shoes - B Store 

Italian Holiday Photo Diary

The steps up to the house from the pool, the whole grounds are surrounded in lavender and thyme, olive trees and vineyards - bliss. 

The pool 

Random inflatables bought from the euro machine in the supermarket (I am obsessed with toy dispensing machines - it's that element of chance that gets me). 

Home made pizza - not too shabby an effort, I think. 

Siena 

Stuffed courgette flowers

Me on the grounds of the house

Headband - American Apparel 

T-shirt - Topshop 

Trousers - Topshop

Shoes - Kurt Geiger 

Shopping (this is the loot from six people, not just me, promise). 

My brother trying to run me over on his scooter. 

Thank-you Office for bringing Jeffrey Campbell to the UK

Jeffrey Campbell shoes have been appearing on U.S. blogger's feet with increasing regularity. They first came to my attention last year with a rather good 'tribute' of the Acne Atacoma wedge and some Ann Demeulemeester tie front boots, both of which sold on eBay for prices nudging towards the cost of the real deal. Since then, however, the styles have become less blatant rip offs and more fashion clumpy in general. Never one to turn down the opportunity to own clumpy shoes, I wanted some, badly. But as they were only stocked on US sites you were looking at almost 50% of the cost of the shoe just to ship it here. As Destiny's Child would tell you to say, "No, no, no, no, no". 

So when I went into Office recently I was surprised to see a limited range of Jeffrey Campbell shoes for me to see in the flesh. I fell in love with these shoes - so clumpy they remind me of Kate Moss's Vivienne Westwood elevated platforms, but with the great linear detailing that makes them feel like school shoes - almost sensible. And true enough, like the bloggers say, they do come up big, so I went home with a pair of size 5s. 

T-Shirt - Topshop

Trousers with belt - Zara

Shoes - Jeffrey Campbell from Office

Robert Clergerie Might Kill Me One Day

If I ever die a shoe related death, it will be this pair that commit the crime. They are not the most stable shoes, and I have had a couple of lucky escapes - the curved front means tipping over is a real possibility if you switch off, and your ankle is only ever a movement away from snapping from going over on the side. Talk about extreme fashion. Mostly, however, I like them, because the remind me of geisha style shoes reworked for the modern day. If I had to wear these all day I probably serve tea and chat up rich business men because lets face it, you couldn't actually WALK anywhere in these*.   

Dress - H&M

Shoes - Robert Clergerie from T.K. Maxx

*Joke. Please no emails lecturing me on the role of geisha in Japanese society. Ta. 

Winter Faux Fur from H&M

How to go from sailor to Pat Butcher in one easy step...

Ta dah! 

Top - American Apparel 

Jeans - Abercrombie & Fitch 

Shoes - Charity shop 

Faux fur coat - H&M

Jeremy Scott A/W 10 - now THAT'S a belt buckle...

Jeremy Scott is hardly the most commercial of all the designers in the world - I noticed quite a lot of his Flintstones inspired summer collection in the sale section of more than one designer retail website. That's not a criticism, it's just that in a world like fashion there is  often very little space for real humour. How many people have you ever seen (whisper it) laughing on Bond Street, Sloane Street or Madison Avenue? 


I love these belts / flat friends / props / whatever. Am already ticking over ideas for Halloween...


Pictures from Style.com