Inside view of Vauxhall fashion scout

While most the fashion community was absorded in London fashion week shows being held at Somerset house. I was blanking these out and focused on the shows taking place in the Manson building...Vauxhall fashion scout London's leading innovative fashion showcase.

I was offered the opportunity to intern for them and well how could I say no. I started four days before the shows where set to start, there just to help out.It was glamourous, it hard, sweaty work, as we prepared for the shows, building benches, making seating plans, painting and carrying furniture, putting together rails and mannequins, setting up media rooms, showrooms...fetching supplies. I loved tho it was a great chance to see how the shows come to life. It wasn't for everyone in the prep time there were roughly 8ish interns, day before the show 80 turn up.

However I didn't manage to get enough time off to help out or even see a show. Theres all ways next year. But here are a few of my favs from this year.

James Small

Slick tailoring and classics with an edge, it was complete English gentlemen very dapper with a modern vibe.
Anyone recognise BB from Dirt sexy things rocking on of Smalls looks.

I also loved the Men's one to watch Trine Lindgaard for his playful fun and a little out there creations.



Edward Finney showcase space

 Yasemin Cakli creation, stand out in the rain in this little number. Yaemin was the runner up for FAD junior awards and got herself a placment at M&S.

Women's wear favourites

Bunmi Koko Spring Summer 2012

Georgia Hardinge Spring Summer 2012

 cubo-futurist inspired collection was truely amazing strong shapes and patterns gave and amazing art aspect, but kept true to trend and fashionabilty.

Inbar Spector Spring Summer 2012

VFS Alumni: Dean Quinn SS12 in Dazed Digital

Ziad Ghanem

Fashion is about the unexpected and Ziad Ghanem was brought this in oddles! A dramatic circus of circus of pomp, an explosion on volume, hard work lace, boned corsets, beards and ruffles.

The models really made this show, quirky models where chosen that really showcased the creativity and innovation.

The Swedish School of Textiles Spring Summer 2012

Oh Dolly!

Over the years Barbie, has had thousands clothes, millions of pair of shoes, hundreds of career, a couple of kids, a wide range of fancy cars a long term boyfriend ken and a couple of newer toy boys, houses, facelifts, experimental hair changes, and now shes gone and become well Grace Kelly!

yes the amazing style icon Grace kelly is become immortalised in plastic. With three barbie dolls be created for the barbie collector series. each wearing an iconic dress of Kellys. The beautiful lace wedding dress, the floor length dress from Alfred Hitchcock To catch a theif and the final dress is to be similiar to dress Grace met her future husband in at the Cannes film festival.


A percentage of profits are going to the grace kelly foundation which supports emerging actresses, actors and dancers.

Best ads in town!

This AW the brands have kicked it up a gear when it comes to their ad campaigns. Loving McQueens striking art pose and Chanels naughty cat. However I am sorry Miss Swinton I find the new Pringle campaign photo truely unsettling!

A vintage affair

Feeling super thrifty this month even high street clothing is a little out of price range this weekend I went in search of a bargin or two. I love a bit second hand especially as now its known as vintage. First stop was Portebella a complete mix if different stalls, from new designers to carboot still stalls the best plan is to head to the ones who dont know waht their selling. I ended up uming and arring over a chanel scarfs that I got  for £4, two tops for a fiver each. Meanwhile my best mate got two amzing tunictops for £2!

Next stop was Brick lane one of the most exciting places to shop, my favourite discovery of the day was the Vintage emporium cafe and shop l;ovely hot cholocate and fab vintage although on the pricey side. The indoor market is a great place to grab a bargin £6 for an octopus necklace. While shopping you will never guess who I saw only the artist Victoria Sin who is an amazing illustrator known for her oout their designs and her street art just sat a stall selling her new range of clothing Victory.

Who needs high street you only end up with badly cut, poor quailty items and end up looking like everyone else...so everyone embrace the beauty that is granny chic!

Vintage Emporium loved the spaniels on her apron

Wow vintage wedding dress anyone?

Sin for Victory:  Quick snap of illustrator Victoria Sin

Another day in the office

I'm a lucky girl really I get to play with all Moschino's collections which are know for their elegance and class as well as a quirky style and sense of humour. So I though I would share with you my favourite pieces.

This is tthe most amazing jacket in the main line AW 11/12 Navy with a velvet bow and gold beaded teddy bear neckline, so awesome, but its so heavy had a quick try on and well fashion hurts, but damn I looked cute.

Another amazing piece of the collection and strangely comfortable are the loafer style cheap and chic heals that come is a range of breath taking colours, red, tan, oh yeh metallic lime grean and metallic sky blue!

Moschino clothing isn't simple about the crazy werid and unsual items. The mainline collection pratically screams sophistacation...well that is if sophistacation ever screams prephaps oozes is a better word. My favourite dress does seemed to be everybodies favourite, and I was so proud to see that when I sent it out for a photo shoot at Vogue who ended up wearing...only Kate Moss. The August issue really does have her looking amazing.

Cassandra Rhodin

I think I'm in love with the swedish illustrator Cassandra Rhodin she is truely amazing!

Inspiration for the day

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

Coco Channel

Fancy a bite...of my dress?

One of my favourite things about fashion is the new, the outstanding and completely initiative. So I thought I would share with you one of my favourites:

Micro nutritional couture

I stumbled upon the work of Emily Crane while browsing the pages of WGSN, she works on the brief of that in 2025 the government bans fast fashion and it has to evolve to give back to the world. She been working on the idea of growing clothes from edible materials.

Emily experiments with freezing bubbles of food stuff to create hybrid materials creating bio-lace structures.

The future looks bright for this taste bud tingling fashion as Emily is currently working with Heston Blumenthal fusing science, food and fashion together.

For more info check out Emily's site: http://emilycrane.co.uk/

A fashion interns life for me...how will I pay the rent?

The fashion is notorious or being highly competitive  and difficult to get into, never have I felt this was more true than when I started looking for a job for my placement year out of university, I was no longer simply competing against the girls on my course but from every fashion course in the UK.. I sent out hundreds of email and letter to fashion companies inquiring about jobs, I would say for every twenty I sent I would get one reply and often it was rejection. However all was not in vein I got a number of interviews for the likes of McQueen, Stella McCartney and Alice Temperley.

Every interview was nerve racking as I sat in reception waiting to be called, surrounded by girls who looked like they just step out of the pages of Vogue, dolled up not a hair out of place and not a kind word was ever uttered to me. I couldn’t have felt more out of place. I don’t look anything like the girls in fashion magazines and am a pocket sized 5’3 size 12 who well… wears anything I fancy whether its on trend or not. The interviews themselves where well unimpressive often well short and sweet.

My break came with the Italian luxury fashion power house that is Moschino. I am currently the newest press office intern of the London branch. My role is to send out samples of the collections to magazines, stylists, photo shoots and the odd VIP and then book everything back into the showroom. An amazing opportunity, completely unpaid but well that’s just how the fashion industry rolls, its all had the inclination towards a little slave labour. But I am willing to put up with a lot to gain the experience and connection for me to one day to get a real job in the industry that doesn’t pay me simply in biscuits.

Press Office AW 2011 mainline collection

Press office showroom

My fav show stopping dress