BREAKFAST ON COLUMBIA ROAD

It was clear that Spring was on it’s way yesterday on Columbia Road, all the flowers were out and blooming despite the cold rainy day it was in reality. Alexxsia and I headed down, following the delicious smells of coffee and cakes at Lily Vanilli but it was so rammed we settled in the little oyster place down the road, nestled in the corner beside a victorian heater, could have easily stayed there all day. The new jewellery I’ve been living in is from Back Stage, they sell all kinds of awesome stuff; the bangle I’m wearing is actually an anklet which I’ll be looking forward to wearing with bare legs in the summer. I hear a heat wave is on it’s way, so fingers crossed for that! Also the pony cuff I was pioneering on Facebook yesterday will be making its way onto the blog sooon. Hope you all had a good weekend!

ACNE BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

I’d been meaning to do this Yellow Door press day/Acne post for a while, but after getting my new camera I stashed my old one out of sight and only just found it, it’s memory card full with last seasons press days. It must be my senile old blogger age, but I thought better late than never; plus everything you see here is available to buy now! Which is always a plus.

The leather jackets and shoes from Acne are always my favourite and this season, I fell in love particularly with the white leather pieces and the platform shoes, I’m in love with Ivania’s suede pair more than the blue silk, and even more with these mid calf boots. I found one style to be a bit of a Simone Rocha rip off (the high heeled brogue) but other than that thumbs up all round.

 I warn you there may be more of these belated press days to come (sorry!) but I do quite like seeing the garments and accessories without a body to cloud your judgement; pure design appreciation is what I’m after.

BAYNE & BLAAK

Despite going through a time lapse and nearly missing this presentation all together (totally blaming my fashion week fried egg brain), I luckily arrived in time to see all the beautiful new pieces Zana and Thomas had slugged to London. It was pretty awesome to be able to try everything on and have a tutorial from the harness goddess herself! New favourite is the white harness that doubles up as a back spine/front spine/belt/you name it; it’s pretty awesome being able to clip it up in different ways and wear it how you love it most. There was also a face harness that Zana custom made for Love magazine, as well as a new moulded leather rose headband; which is pretty striking and quite unlike anything else she’s done before. I’m pretty in love with that canary bra harness too, could anything be more awesome!? 

One thing is clear my leather collection is going to be doubling pretty soon.

It was so nice being able to finally meet and hang out with one of my favourite blogging ladies, I guess I’ll have to go and invade new York turf soon.

 You can see more of Thomas Blaak’s bags here, and Zana Bayne’s harnesses if you don’t already know, here.

MOST WANTED

1. Hermes rose gold ring

2. Margiela screw ring

3. Margiela hoop earing

4. unknown silver cuff

5. Jennifer Zeuner thin band ring

6. Margiela rose gold 4 finger rings

7. Margiela twist ring

8. Balenciaga twin bracelet

9. Unknown gold spine ring

10. Margiela brass ring

Just a big Margiela love-fest, really.

PURRR

The most perfect wallet.

Isaac Reina’s travel wallet at the LNCC.

MAWI SAMPLE SALE

So excited that it’s sample sale season again! This is definitely not one i’ll be missing, there’s a serious Mawi gap in my accessories drawer. I’ve also heard through the grapevine that Alexander McQueen is having one off Clerkenwell, starting on the 23rd Nov, good luck everyone!

WINGS OF PLENTY

More accessories to swoon over on the Modo Parcours/fashion trail; Niyona‘s insanely beautiful bags are all hand crafted in Belgium, it takes a minimum of two days to create any bag and you can even get them custom made. It was so nice to see so many beautifully shaped bags, in gorgeous colours, where the design had really been thought about and respected the wearers needs. I particularly like the bags that unzip at the bottom to fit in an extra pair of shoes (genius), and I also had no idea that zips could come in rainbow colours, LOVE.