Summer Shoot: PREVIEW

I will soon have my latest shoot up on the website but here's a small selection of shots before the final retouches:




The story has a 1970s feel; strong colours and bold prints, flares, maxi lengths, beads, big shades and chunky cork wedges. After trying a few different coloured backgrounds we decided on white. The shots looked more slick and clean against the stark white backdrop.

Really enjoyed working with this team, thanks as always to Linda (photographer) and lovely to meet and work with Gayle (hair and make-up) and Imogen our beautiful model. The full story with finished photos will be up within the next few weeks.

Havaianas News

Havaianas, famous for their flip flops, have created a new range of trainers. I like them a lot.

Spring shoot

Here are a few photos from the last shoot I did in February. I cannot put them up on the website just yet (technical problems) so I thought I'd showcase some of them here instead.

Jessie Mae Shoot

Jessie Mae is a new trainer label by designer Brian Morton. These are a few pics I took on my camera phone on the shoot yesterday. I should have the proper pics by photographer Leo Cackett, up on my website soon. The snood and hat (styled like a turban) are made by a small indie label PandaCraft.

Illness/ Pastel Shoot/ Stella M./ Maxi Pattern

Due to illness I didn't manage to do my shoot BUT instead I'll be doing it on 7th Feb which gives me even more time to prep. After finding a lemon blouse in my favourite (secret) charity shop I had the idea that I could do the entire shoot using charity shop/ second hand/ found or homemade clothes and accessories. This is proving pretty tricky but I do still have 12 days to search and sew. The blouse I've bought reminds me of this Stella McCartney SS2010 look. I'm going to replace the buttons to make it look more special. Instead of a denim skirt I'd team it with some pale blue denim cut-offs.

Also I got my maxi skirt pattern in the post last week. I thought, how hard can it be to follow a simple pattern? HARD. But I like a challenge..

Haberdashery Haven

Whilst looking for lace and feathers for my shoot this Sunday I came across these two excellent haberdasheries:
www.habbyworld.co.uk is incredibly cheap and postage only £2! I've ordered some lace trims.

http://www.josyrose.com/index.aspx#top has some beautiful trinkets (I especially like the feather trimmings) but beware, there is a £5 minimum spend.

Today I'm off to visit my current favourite haberdashery, Frankle Trimmings. It's enormous, I could lose hours in there just admiring the 12-foot high corridors of buttons.

Slacks

Been looking for some men's slacks since I first saw Audrey wearing some vintage Chanel ones in the perfume ad. Realised my fella has some he hasn't worn in ages (the best things in life.. are stolen from your boyfriend). They may be a strange greenish-brown cordroy and slightly too big but i reckon they just might work worn slightly rolled up with ankle socks and the new lace-up, grey wedges I purchased from RI yesterday.. add a skinny leather belt, a vest and voila!

Best wait til it stops snowing tho eh :(