Last Friday I had a great opportunity to work with the lovely photographer Valentina Vos and make-up artist Alicia Mew again. The concept behind the editorial is to have looks each one consisting of one colour. For example one outfit in just orange, another blue, purple, green etc covering the rainbow spectrum!

Colour blocking is very in at the mo but for our shoot I was thinking each outfit should only be one colour in different tones and mixing a few different layers of clothing and textures, I love the use of mixed textures, patterns and colours.  It's simplifying the colours which is a different take on 'colour blocking'. 

Very relax shoot and apart from a cancellation and change in model the day held up for us. Alicia did a great job in keeping the make-up and hair very simple but striking and picked colours that clashed with the outfits. Looking forward to the final results!

Photographer: Valentina Vos

Stylist: Jennivi Jordan

Make-up & Hair: Alicia Mew

Model: Roksana, Models1

New York - New York

Ok so I have been neglecting my blog recently as I have been fairly busy. My friend Samantha from San Francisco came back home to London for a visit, I've attending a few events and gone to places with her etc and then I decided last minute to tag along with her to New York. Had a busy week of roaming the shops around Manhattan, Brooklyn  so that's why I haven't had much time to sit down and type.
I am now back home and would like to say that I got the chance to attend Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum and it was amazing to just get that up close and see the craftsmanship of his genius!  I would say it is the best fashion exhibition I have attended hugely because I am a massive fan of McQueens work, Victor and Rolf exhibition at London's Barbican comes a close second.

Anyway here are some of my quick snaps I took from the exhibition just to give you an idea of its amazingness. There are a lot more to see, we were there for nearly 2 hours! If you ever get the chance to be around the city, go... because its worth it!

Helped out a friend Christina Stohn for a shoot in Brighton a few weeks ago.  So glad the weather held up and it was a lovely day trip out to the sea side, it was a nice fun shoot.

My quick test shoot with D1 model James Terry Cunningham.

Photographed by Luke Nugent.

I've been pretty slow with updates recently but I have tonnes of previous shoots I need to put up but all in good time! Then for a little while I shall be taking a break... just for a whole month.

London College of Fashion recently showcased BA Fashion Show graduates of 2011. I went to show support to the lovely Harold Kensington who's collection is definitely in my top 5 out of the 30 students who showcased. His collection clearly didn't disappoint including amazing shoes, bags and accessories.

Harold Kensington

A wash of bright colours, patterns and textures were plentiful this year but rather disappointingly only 6 menswear collections were on show, that wasn't even a quarter of the LCF graduates! 

My interest in menswear has been growing strong for the past couple of years and was somehow hoping that the popularity and interest in doing menswear would grow especially amongst new breed of designers, although generally speaking menswear has undergone a strong change and experimentation for the past decade, I was somehow hoping the trend continued even stronger and by now overtaken womenswear.

Closing the show was Brett De Jager, who is my fave from the mens collection, with his mix of stripes, tartan and the use of some kind of tie dye/milky way print effect in clashes of bold colours were a complete delight to my eyes. Wai Yee Ho's playfulness panels of polka dots were sweet and Jodie O'Donoghue's casual garments using graphic pattern that goes well with the soft colours of beige and greys made me thought it would go down well with my boyfriends current taste.

Brett De Jager

 Jodie O'Donoghue

And for the rest here are some of my favourites. 

 Leah Doyle

Ji Yeon Kim

With the current big trend of colour blocking this Spring/Summer, I still like to occasionally dress head to toe in black so Ji Yeon Kim's collection I instantly loved. It's slick tailoring with the splash of gold for minimal accesories and clutches that are clearly inspired by shields finishes the whole look of a modern warrior-esque woman.

 Yeashin Kim

 Melissa Roberts

Mariya Kotova

There were plenty of great collections on show again at LCF this year. I'm looking forward to seeing more new talents so bring on GFW!

Lunch with Tean Roberts couple of weeks back just to check out the pictures she's developed and processed from our Cornwall shoot. They are looking rather fantastic so I can't wait to show them all, once I can. Polaroids were looking great too!

She will be exhibiting June 15th as part of her major graduate project at LCF. Will of course let you know details asap.

  

Also been looking at more pics from Cornwall. I can't express anymore in words how beautiful it really was so I'm going to share some more pics with you all. I will definitely be going there again and eat lots of clotted cream.  

Where we stayed and got fed lots of food.

 

There's been one project I've been keeping under wraps from my blog for some time!
But I think it's about time I mention it at least.

I've been consulting a new musical duo James-Honey with their style and general stage outfits.
The design team consist of knitwear designer Yuco Kamiyama, graphic designer Kei Kobayashi and recently joined Zoldart & Zolnierz menswear designers Olivia Coski and Jasmin Ayling giving a helping hand on James' pieces. Last Monday was my first meeting with Zoldartt & Zolnierz designers and we discussed on the first look for James-Honey's up coming first gigs.

Above is the graphic pattern designed for James-Honey by Kei which Yuco has knitted which will be Honey's outfit and its pretty amazing! Look forward to seeing them perform will keep you updated on any upcoming gigs.

Yesterday was a lookbook shoot for designer Riy_ka's A/W11 collection. It was fun and had a great team and studio and to top it off great weather! Here is what we got up to.

 

I love these Topshop shoes, might get one for myself and I love Carola's legs. Was a bit obsessed as I had lots of picture of just shoes and legs! 

 

A/W 11 Lookbook for Riy_ka.
Photographer: Ludovic Des Cognets
Stylist: Jennivi Jordan
Make- up & Hair Artist: Nicola Moores
Model: Carola Insolera

Last Thursday I shot with Toshi before he jets off to Japan! Here is some sneaky pics.

Photographer: Tokushima Katsutoshi
Stylist: Jennivi Jordan
Make-up: Yuko Murakami
Hair: Michiko Yoshida
Model: Stina T, M+P models