Vivienne Westwood

Have a watch of this. I found it thoroughly interesting, and love how down to earth Lady Viv seems.

Today and Yester-year

I was planning on blogging back on Thursday, but because the weather was so completely amazingly lush, I stayed out in the garden instead of coming in to tap out a blog.

I really wanted to blog on Thrusday though to brag about the sheer number of outfit changes I made my way through.

I started the day in a little vest top thing and jeans, cycled to work where I changed into black trousers and black work shirt. I then changed back to my jeans and vest thing to cycle home. Once home, I changed my jeans for a skirt, because it was lovely & warm, but also to try and get some colour on my legs.

Then I'd left my work trousers at work, so I left my skirt (Tammy) on, and swapped my vest top for my black work shirt (H&M) and had a little strap top (Primark) underneath. 

I then swapped skirt for trousers once I got to work. So my, my, my, wasn't that a busy outfit day. But not too busy for me to get a picture of one of my favourite outfit combinations.

In other news, this weekend was crazy busy at work. Saturday night was a rammed night of karaoke (always... "interesting") and made far more entertaining for me by me and one of the other barmaids acting like complete twazzocks - dancing and singing at the top of our lungs behind the bar. That's right, we're THAT cool.

Sunday wasn't so busy work wise, but went out for a "Sunday session" as the lads called it.... I wore my Henry Holland for Debenhams dress, threw on a hoody and some dolly shoes to complete that little look.

And then today, having only had about 3 hours sleep (we hit it hard last night, didn't get home til 4.30am, woke at 7.30 and couldn't settle again - fail), I've been just chilling in jeans and a tee. Nothing interesting, BUT "Last Night at Chateau Marmont" arrived in the post today. So now I'm desperately trying to finish "Chasing Harry Winston" for the second time, before I start on this one. And until then, I'm just going to enjoy the new book smell. Cos I'm cool like that.

"Ribena on Acid"

That title... that's the colour of my hair now from when I went back for a top up because the "permanent" colour had faded too quickly. So I went back in and my amazing hairdresser put this colour in instead:

Pre-hair-dye session, I spent most of my morning faffing around over what to wear. What a fun game that is.

Originally I was tempted to go with this:

Dress (A|Wear), necklace (stall @ Camden Market), tights (unknown), wedges (Primark).

Then I realised that I can't drive in those wedges, and the tights wouldn't work with flats. And as much as I loved it being all bright and bold colour look, I felt it was probably a better look for the likes of London than out in villages.

So instead I swapped the red tights for ("Crystal") nude ones (Falke @ Selfridges), added my boyfriend cardigan (New Look), and put on boring flat little ballet pumps that I have no idea where they came from...

This was the final outcome.

I'm desperately in need of replacing my boyfriend cardigan as this one is falling apart at the seams; literally.

Oh, and super excited because I've just ordered Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger. I've seen the "The Devil Wears Prada" film (about a gazillion and one times), and have also already read, and now re-reading the books of "Everyone Worth Knowing" (finished yesterday for the 2nd time) and "Chasing Harry Winston" (started this morning for the 2nd time). So I figured it was about time I had the 4th book she has written so far.

Hopefully, it won't be too much longer before she does another one, cos I love her books. I always find it quite simply impossible to put them down.

News is Fashion; Fashion is News.

It never ceases to astound me the way that two worlds can cross paths so much and end up so interbred and interlinked.

And nothing astounds me more than just what I put as my title, news as fashion, and fashion as news. These two subject vary greatly in importance to people, with news often being deemed as the important one, and fashion being the exciting little bit of distraction from the depression that the news casts over the world.

Yet at times like with John Galliano and Kate Middleton's wedding dress, the fashion world becomes the news. Then there's the times like with the Japanese earthquake/tsunami and events like World AIDs day, when news becomes fashion. The latest evidence of this being the fashion relief thing being run in America to raise money for the Japanese victims, as covered here in Vogue. 

Then there's the interbreeding that goes on between fashion and news on the television - the female presenters are expected to always look their best, to look business like but fashionable. In all honesty, when was the last time you saw a news presenter, on BBC for example, wearing the same outfit within a month? I don't think I've ever seen it, and it's a joy of their job. 

I'm still trying to figure out when exactly this turn came about - when the 2 topics became quite so intertwined, but I can't quite place my finger on it. Has it really always been this way?
Have we always cared what the Prime Minister's wife is wearing, and how this reflects on the current economic climate (remember the outrage at SamCam wearing an expensive designer dress when her husband had just announced major spending cuts?), or has this become a more recent development in the shallowness this world is displaying?

So many thoughts on all of this. If there were more readers of this, I'd ask for thoughts and opinions, but y'know... Not gonna happen.

You wore what?!

Today I had to walk to physio. Anyone who knows me will know I don't DO walking. In fact, I simply don't really do exercise (probably part of the reason I've ended up needing physio). Anyway, I had to walk, so had to be warm but cool, but I also needed to be vaguely practical so that the therapist could get at my legs which are in need of physio. So, just a wee bit of a challenge then.

And this is what I ended up going with:

Shirt (Uniqlo), strap top (Primark) and leggings (H&M).

I then combined it with these accessories:

Converse (well... go figure) and handbag (Jimmy Choo for H&M). The laces I bought in some boutiquey type shop when I lived near Oxford. Ahh I miss that place sometimes.

Do you think I could pass this off as the sporty trend? Cos I'd like to pretend that I could, haha. 

It's rather bizarre that today seem to be like a mass-wearing of Converse day. I saw a handful of people wearing them as I walked to the physio centre (and in a small place like the village I live in now, that's saying something). Also Converse seems to be making regular occurrences in my twitter feed. This seems to be down to Stylist Magazine getting a twitter discussion on about the wonderfulness that is Converse.

Try and get a massive Converse revival going, yeah? Got to love the hi-tops for the win.