London Fashion Week A/W07-8 Day 2

Please excusez moi this week if you miss the relentless postings I usually do but LFW barely allows me time to eat let alone sit down and blog so I hope you don’t mind terribly for the next week or so getting my daily ramblings on LFW.

I don’t know how it happened but somewhere between Paul Costelloe and Ben di Lisi yesterday, I caught some heinous cold which I tried to remedy quickly this morning with Lemsip powder.  Hence why outfit was shoddily put together and photographed.  Moreover the fashion turnout at all the shows today was fab x 100% that again, for the second day in a row, ground, swallow and up springs to mind. 

Shuffling back and forth between the tent at the Natural History Museum and the Piazza in Covent Garden where the Topshop venue is, it seemed to me the courtesy LFW coaches were taking a strangely scenic London route, passing Harrods, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and Trafalgar Square.  As if to say, ‘Hey, LFW isn’t so bad!  Its not crammed full of big names but we’ll give you this tourist route to give you the best of London!.’  Nice ploy, BFC…. I see where you’re going there…

I have also come up with a theory that involves some mathematics.  The bigger the hair of fashionista = the pushier and more diva-esque said fashionista is.  I saw a lot of big hair today.  Plenty of volume, plenty of hairspray. lots of boing boing.  What comes with the big hair is also the need to say ‘Do you mind?’ very loudly or ‘Excuse me’ with an emphasis on the ‘me’ even though nobody is actually in their way in anyway shape or form and also a lot of whining at the PR’s… ‘Well I work for/know so and so and its just ridiculous that you’re not letting me in…. ‘ rah rah rah.  Still, it gave me a chuckle amidst coughing my brains away.

Shows watched: Noir (soft and tough at the same time), Peter Jensen (lots of interesting headgear to think about), Fashion East (fun fun fun – you’ll all be wanting a HoH shirt), John Rocha (exquisitely beautiful), Richard Nicoll (over-hyped…. only so much you can do with a mans shirt), Manish Arora (much better than last season and surprisingly cool), Todd Lynn (jutty out pointy shoulders)

Wearing: Bernstock Spiers silver straw cloche, TS Boutique double layered black jersey racerback, grey slash neck top, vintage silver strapless dress, clasp purse necklace, H&M silver belt, grey ribbed tights, black criss-cross strap shoe/boots from The Laden Showroom

Note about the fur thing going on in London – yes there is a lot of it, but most of it is fake.  I wouldn’t mind making like this guy here with a faux furry something something on the shoulder // Not sure about elsewhere but the fashion industry in London do eat…especially in the Topshop venue in Covent Garden where hospitality is very good indeed!  Mini English Breakfast tartlets and glasses of bucks fizz?


Some people are mad for neons….. some people aren’t.  I want to combine the two….

Who’s got your back?  Sequinned backs on a trench coat or buttons sewn onto a collar.  I think I will definitely do the latter!


I hate to sound like those annoying kids in that Disneyland advert but Lily Cole and Erin O’Connor looked simply ‘MAGICAL’ wearing those Noir dresses.


16 comments

  2. it would be so fabulous to see Lily Cole in person! she’s one of my personal faves.
    I’m such a naive little child…

  3. i love how you put this outfit together! really cool! i can see random stuff behind you in photos which is so rare as you usually have magazine pages! it would be so cool to see your living space! and where you actually sit down to blog! we have see you clothes, closet, and many-a-shoes!do you do it carrie style(sex and the city) and randomly around your apartment?? ever so curious

  4. It looks like fun.
    I think it is a giant myth about people in the fashion industry not eating, I was a dresser backstage for New Zealand Fashion Week and Nandos were responsible for feeding everyone backstage – the models, dressers, ushers, make-up artitsts and hairdressers, stylists, and even some of the designers. They had these stupid posters up saying things like, “please don’t feed the models – thats our job” and stuff, but in the end it was them who was stupid, because they went through four times as much food as they had budgeted for, and there still wasn’t enough to go round. Seems that they thought that models don’t actually eat.

  6. that collar is a fantastic find – I’ve been meaning to do something with my box of buttons for ages now – and with it frigid outside, what better project to keep the hands warm and working

  8. Susie, for a girl who is seriously sniffly, you still look great! And thanks for that picture of the collar wth buttons…time for me to get out my pretty star-shaped buttons that I’ve been saving for so long, and wear ’em.

  10. Are you using your holiday/vacation time from your full-time media advertising job to attend the shows for fashion156? I’m just wondering how you are managing to go to all these shows when you already have a full-time day job!
    Love the outfit, btw!

  12. Susie, can i say you are “doing a Banksy”
    you also go on like don’t really want to be a fashion insider and that you are happy with the day job but what you REALLY want is to use this blog as a platform and be picked up by the press and become a f/t stylist/style journo. Banksy did the same and succeeded. Good luck to you! 😛

  13. Yo Susie!
    You look great, as per usual. About the hair, I am addicted to teasing my bonafide big hair and I must say I am very upset with my back combing sisters! Please…we are not all impolite and self important ; )

  16. lily cole looks stunning in that dress…
    she’s coming to uni here next year – how can i HOPE to compete?!? (to king’s tho so i’m three colleges down the road and so won’t have to worry about wandering around college not suitably attired ;-D) hehe…
    xxxc

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