what's so funny about peace love and understanding

Next in the My WARDROBE 'day into night' series, in which we show how people choose to transit their day look into party clothes: Natayla, of Egypt, Geneva and London - editor of Its Fashion Week, Egypt's first online fashion magazine - and my good friend. She had originally chosen the Theory dress that sweet Tala (right), of My Fash Diary, is wearing, but when Tala spotted it and fell in love she didn't mention it, because.. it's not important. Or rather, Tala's happiness mattered more than which dress she wore. This is one simple example of why I just adore Natayla, or Natnoot to her friends.

So she chose PAUL & JOE SISTER and cape by LOVE MOSCHINO, both available online now @ MY WARDROBE. Her burgundy suede high tops are by LANVIN (lower sneaker version here) and when I was quickly picking a location right outside their Camden offices I spotted that car - my favourite kind - with its matching plum roof. I especially love the peace symbol, which reminds me of that wonderful Elvis Costello song, which, especially this time of year - and in light of what I've been going thru recently - helps to remind me of what really matters.



Nat's night look coming up soon, so watch this space. Peace and love, all! xo

le bomber, and the harem

This partly me trying to be more like Kate Lamphear - i.e. less chatty, more mysterious. But also I really want to go see Wall Street and it's starting in 10 minutes and is at least a 15 minute walk to the cinema. But I've been meaning to post these for a while:

The bomber jacket is made of old cable knit jumpers and is part of the Goodone collection for Topshop. Besides the black crochet'd dress, this was one of the most popular of the bag of clothes I brought to the shoot.

My friends, Natayla, top, who is Egyptian (she edits 'It's Fashion Week', the first online Egyptian fashion magazine) and whose family lives in Geneva, and Hedvig, who is Norwegian, both recognised the style as a 'bomber jacket', which I thought was just an American word for the style. Wikipedia has a whole interesting story about the name, apparently it's also a skinhead thing.

But also, really, what I'm more interested in talking about today is the miners' rescue in Chile, and there's just no way I can fit any of my photos into a post on that!




So I will say that it was pretty weird about that day: not just Nat, or Hedvig, but also Tobi showed up in black harem trousers. I had done a whole rant the first spring I started my blog, back in 2009, about how no one would ever wear those droopy drawers. But I consider each of these girls really stylish, so there you have it. Once again, I was wrong.

Oh btw I know Hedvig's black chunky heels are Acne, she told me who made the harem trousers - Hedvig can you remind me again? - and I'll let you know who made Nat's later - and her wonderful burgundy suede high tops, she's told me about three times now and I keep forgetting (Jen just reminded me, they're Lanvin, and Nat just said the trousers are Topshop). The thing I love about both girls is they mix their style with really good quality designer stuff, and brands like H&M: glamorous street chic.