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PPQ  

Emilio de la Morena

PPQ never fail to please me + this collection even more so. i just love it, and especially with the one and only Charlotte Free modeling. she looks amazing. the clothes are so cute & have such an 80s Versace vibe to them. i adore the pink dress in the first picture, it has such a ditsy, doll look to it.
I'm not really too familiar with Emilio de la Morena but i have heard that he wanted to be a sculpture & i think that can be clearly seen with his latest collection. the dresses have a good balance of structure (but soft structure) with a feminine touch. they're lovely!
These are my favourites so far & i'm not really feeling Madame Viv this year. excited to see more from London though.

xo

oh my, the Resident Evil 5 game is pretty scary Marcus bought it today & i started playing it with him but i kept dying & getting scared. didn't think a computer game could do that to me! i'm rather scared about tomorrow too. a group of us are going to a place called Pluckley in Kent. it's supposed to be one of the most haunted places in Britain. i'm a bit skeptical about that fact, but i'm still kinda scared about the whole thing. i'm at work tomorrow til 4, & we are all meeting in Asda car park about 5ish. i have work the next day at 10.30, but i'll just have to get up around 9 to drive to work. i'm sure it will be loads of fun, but i was reading things like there has been sightings of a teacher hanging from a tree, a gypsy woman & underneath the church there can be noises of knocking heard. also there is a part called the screaming woods! argh! i'm sure with all the people that go, nothing will happen, but i'm a baby & get scared easily! should all be fun though!









i didn't take many pictures. below is a Rough Trade photo from the store on Brick Lane. me & Marcus went on Tuesday after we had been to the London hospital for his meeting thing. i've wanted one of these babies for ageees, but i don't feel it turned out that brill. as you can see i wasn't ready in the first picture, then they just went really quickly & took me by surprise. hence the rubbish posing lol. especially the photo where i am kissing him, look at my neck! it looks like a crazy giraffe neck haha. oh well, at least i've got one. Brick Lane was pretty cool, but i find the vintage stores so overpriced. i did however get a cute floppy top from a newly opened one just off Brick Lane. it was only £12.50. i shall post pictures up soon.




xo

london town

hey,
i've recently started a new project at uni. it's a journalism project which i am super excited about as it is an area i would like to look into after uni. going through the brief today was cool (although the timetable was rather confusingly set out as usual!!) i shall update with ideas later when i have researched a bit more.
anyway, for part of this project we had a field trip! to london on monday. although i really didn't want to venture out into the freezing cold at an unreasonable hour, it was worth it and i am glad i went!

after the train journey there (accompanied with hundreds of noisy school children..ew) we finally got to waterloo and met everyone else. first we went to somerset house, to the showstudio's exhibition. this was really good and a bargain at £4...with student id of course! i thought the atmosphere was cool with the eerie music. it also wasn't too busy, so we all got a good look at everything. being able to take photographs was good too. the first thing to see is a gigantic statue of naomi campbell. i liked the interactivity of being able to write on a screen which was then projected onto her. i wrote my name :) ha.




it was also cool to see the live studio, with photographers and assistants setting up lighting etc.. in one of the rooms was also a screen for "model casting". my friend amber tried out but i didn't fancy it as i hate my voice on video! after the show studio, we went for a quick lunch break at pret. i looove pret and had my favourite sandwich, but having to sit in the freezing cold to eat it kinda ruined my joy. finally we reached tate modern, for the 'pop life' exhibition. i was excited to see it but i thought £11 was a bit expensive. i had very mixed feelings on this exhibition. i didn't like the fact we couldn't take pictures, and i also found it set out rather confusing. there wasn't really a flow and i kept feeling i'd missed out rooms, which i didn't want to do with the amount i'd paid! as i love japanese culture and the whole colourful harajuku style, i found the artist takashi murakami extremely interesting. there was an awesome video of kirsten dunst in japan dancing around singing to 'turning japanese'. i loved it!

the part i wasn't too keen on was the work by jeff koons. my friend was telling me about him on the walk there, as she had studied some of his work before, which already made me slightly dubious. anyway, i wasn't a fan. i understand that a fine line can't really be drawn to say this is art and this is not. but i'm not really impressed by the whole gigantic image of a sexual act or pictures which can be found on the top shelf of your local newsagents. i would much prefer to see a beautiful historical painting, or a creatively cut garment, but each to their own!! overall it was pretty good.

after the exhibitions, we went to oxford street and bond street to look at the window displays. i was so impressed with selfridges. each window was set up like a fairytale, such as snow white or cinderella.


tiffany and ralph lauren were my favourite though. ralph lauren was so christmassy and lovely!

i'm in the christmas mood now :) sorry for the long entry!

xo