LFW S/S '15

As London Fashion Week wraps up for another season, I thought I'd share a quick rundown of my personal favourites that I'll be thinking about in my dreams until Spring.

Marios Schwab was a wash of charcoal strokes and shades, as if it had been lifted right off from a sketchbook page. With silver tones and sexy straps slinking down the catwalk, it was a sophisticated callback to the 90s.

I always look forward to Marchesa's collections. They're always so extravagant, and this collection was no exception - it was everything that little girl's would dream of. With sheer and shimmering fabrics draped, and florals in abundance, I can imagine swooshing around in these at every garden tea-party imaginable.

David Koma's collection is how I wish I wore my pastels. More chic, less like I've come right out of a child's colouring book. I love the use of straps and block colouring that gives the perfect mix of being sporty and feminine. 

If you're looking for a sleek, shimmering and futuristic emsemblé, then Antonio Berardi's your man. With ombré suits and sophisticated layering, this collection will take you from office to party, from day to night, and from now to the future. 

Burberry has always been a firm favourite of mine, and if this collection is anything to go by, they'll continue to be for a long time to come. One of my favourite collections ever is their S/S '14 (which I blogged about here), and this has the same dreamy element. The tiered layers, the bold, block colours and the shiny, leather contrasting collars and pockets mixed with the denim jackets all make this collection what it is. But for me, it their new take of their classic trench coats and clever use of tulle as the waist-tie and cap sleeves, that really make this collection stand out. It's inheritably British and a fun take on a classic, and that's what Burberry is best out.

Images: Vogue and Marie Claire online

And last but not least, just look at this from Anya Hindmarch! It's exactly what the inside of my notebook from school looked like, but much more fun and laid-out. And do I even need to say anything about that pencil clutch bag?! Anya Hindmarch is another person who I'm always excited to see what they come out with next (I dream about her Custard Cream bag and Tiny Tim bag on a daily basis).

Who did you love from this LFW? Comment below!

Stay cute & stay happy!

A.x

Ethereal Dreams

With NYFW over and all eye's on London now, I thought I'd just share with you what was I think my favourite collection from NY.

Zac Posen's spring/summer collection for 2014 was everything that I love, lust and drool over when it comes to fashion and clothes.

It's like he tapped into the darkest and deepest parts of my mind, heart and soul,  and produced a collection that took my breath away and would make every woman feel like a princess, no matter what their style. From sleek and sexy floor-length dresses and flirty frills that would belong to any fairy flittering by...

to the biggest and most beautiful skirts and even fitted and fierce jackets.

With metallic shades of slate, perky peach, blushful blues, and rosy reds, drifting down the runaway, with shimmers of silvers and metallics, it was like a dream drifting swiftly by.

         

Not just with perfect pastels, which you all know I love, but I loved how they broke up the airy shade with glimpses of lustful red, which looked deep enough to lose yourself in.

The most beautiful and clever element to this collection though, I thought, was the contrast of the flowing light chiffons and satins, with the bouncy twirls and frills that surrounded them, and folds and bends that created these amazing structural shapes. Just take a look at those fantastic and full skirts!

My personal favourites though were the angelic, silver dress, whose clever cut of fabric could drift you away into your dreams...

this beautiful gem of ruby red, that would look better than any Christmas bow ever could...

this lilac number, which it's gorgeous draping and fabric manipulation could hypnotise you (also, how amazing does it look along with the model's gorgeous green hair?!)...

and finally...(be still my beating heart!)...this perfect, peachy masterpiece, with it's fitted bodice and beautiful and delicate draping and frill that would look at home on any Greek Goddess.

Source: style.com

I could stare at this collection all day, and still find new things I love about it...

but for now, I think I'm going to continue with some sketches inspired by this collection, and add a piece of Zac Posen's style in my wardrobe.

What do you think of this collection? Whose collections have you loved at NYFW?

Hope your're all well,

Speak soon,

A.x