Personal favourites from NYFW

Fashion week has started, starting with New York. Now, I could name more favourites than I posted here. Many collections made me go WOW! But these one's stood out the most to me. I knew automatically that Alexander Wang, Marc Jacobs and Oscar De La Renta's collections would blow me away, which they did! So I have posted those. Alexander Wang would have to be my favourite though, ah, so beautiful! I have also posted my favourites from Jason Wu, of whom I've never been too keen on until I saw this collection!!! Prabal Gurung blew me away also! Yet again, hadn't really heard much of this designer until now and I really think I am going to love there future collections! Jill Stuart - absolutely beautiful and so fairytale like and cute! I also liked others such an Anna Sui, Victoria Beckham and Zac Posen... so I suggest you check out every single collection and make up your own mind :) xoxoxo

JASON WU SS12

JILL STUART SS12

PRABAL GURUNG SS12

ALEXANDER WANG SS12

OSCAR DE LA RENTA SS12

MARC JACOBS SS12

SORRY

I really need to pick up on my blogging! I'm at college everyday 9am till 4:30pm and then I get home and do all my homework and and then I'm so tired!
But tomorrow, or maybe Wednesday as I only have half a day, I'll post my NYFW highlights from last week. I'm loving LFW right now so I will post my highlights from then once it's over - so excited about Burberry and Christopher Kane!!!!!! But MFW and PFW is where it's at....
I'll also tell you about my work I've been doing at college and my nights out with my friend, which have been brilliant!
Apologies and love xoxoxoxoxo

Hey hey hey!

Sorry about the lack of posting this week! I have been so busy with my induction week at Art college that I haven't had time! I also started my job on Tuesday night and Wednesday so I've been too tired and having little time to be honest. I am in love with my Art college at the moment! The people and teachers are amazing and I am really enjoying myself :) This week was an induction week however, so the proper work starts next week... On Thursday we took a trip to the local galleries near us which was boring because I already went but I enjoyed the artist's work more the second time around. The exhibition was on a Japanese avant-garde artist called 'Atsuko Tanaka', who did very abstract, energetic, vibrant pieces of work. Including a dress made entirely of lights!

Electric Dress by Atsuko Tanaka -1956

We also got into groups and did a drawing inspired by her work. She used a lot of circles, lines and colours in her work. Sometimes though they were completely black and white. Her work was very spontaneous and radical. Take a look at my group drawing that we did in about 10 minutes that is inspired by her:

Confusing, I know. But if you google her work you will understand why we did this. So that is my induction week :) Yesterday I had the day off and my and my best friends went out for  a meal because one of them is off to University today which is sad :( I also went shopping yesterday and bought the following goodies:

I bought these boots from Topshop for £36! A hat, of which I have been dying for and there's one in Topshop for around £25-ish! But I got this from H&M for £7.99! Bargain! And of course the October issue of Vogue UK, of which I am over the moon to see Adele gracing the cover of! She deserves it so much.
Today is my Dad's birthday but as I have work tonight we are going out for a meal tomorrow. I also want to post about what's happening at Art college next week and what I'll be doing and also about NYFW which started the other day which I have been so excited for so I shall be sharing with you my favourite collections that I like and what will be hot for SS12!! But my stomach is grumbling like crazy so I'm going to grab some lunch and I'll blog later or tomorrow :)
Thank you for reading this, please follow on here and IFB! :D Have a good weekend!!!
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First day at Art college

So, today I started my Art Foundation course. I was pretty nervous, more nervous about driving there but the drive went pretty well yay. It was boring being the first day. It was lovely speaking to new people. I enjoyed the task (even if it did get a bit boring towards the end) which involved having part of the college, as it is brand new, to map out and display. I have a lovely tutor who is the textiles teachers and I'm in the Fashion department which fills be with much joy :) I really want to make many friends though and so I am going to do whatever it takes to do this. Even though two of my (kind-of-ish good friends - we are no way similar) are doing it, they are boring and don't make any effort with anyone, when I'm not like that. I make so much effort with people and I am always determined to make friends with cool people! Like my current absolute best friends are amazing and I would never dream that I would become best friends with such a beautiful bunch of people :) So yeah, gonna have to do what I want I think....
Other than that little food for thought, today has been good! But now I must go off and complete my Summer project as I have to present it tomorrow in front of my form tutor group and even though it's only a small class, me and speaking in front of people do not mix :(
xoxoxoxo

5 things for a Saturday afternoon

MCQUEEN COMING HOME?

1. My new favourite song: Undertow by Warpaint. Saw them at the festival I went too and they were fantastic!

2. Waterfall Midi Skirt, £40 from Topshop

3. Floppy Fedora Hat, £25 from Topshop - I really want a hat like this so bad!

4. Marcus Aurelius - Just google him, read his books and quotes. Has truly inspired me!

5. Click the link and be excited because the Savage Beauty exhibition may be coming home!!

Post Festival Blues :(

After a very long weekend of camping, rain, music, and not showering for 5 days!! I am now home from a very amazing Festival! I had such an fantastic time and I really do have the best group of friends I could ever ask for :) We saw such amazing bands! Sad to be back home to reality as today I feel so moody and down :(
I enrolled onto my Art college this morning and I officially start that next Monday and I honestly cannot wait now. I'm really in need of something new and a change of routine to stop me feeling so sad and down about life... I know it is silly to say, as I honestly rarely feel down about life and I am usually a very happy person but lately, if it wasn't for my friends and family that keep me going I would be even more of a state! But yes, I feel as if starting something new next week is going to be the best thing that has happened to me for a while :) (fingers crossed anyway...)
I feel like I have missed out on a whole years worth of Fashion news being away for 6 days so I really need to get into the swing of blogging again.
I'll post soon and leave you with some photo's of the festival... xoxoxoxo

Inspiration from the Honourable

Daphne Guinness is my ultimate fashion icon. She is literally one of my most favourite people in the entire world and I really do idolise her beauty, her style, her glamour, her generosity and kindness. She has a twitter account (@TheRealDaphne) And I always find her tweets eye opening, mesmerising and they make me think - a lot.

Daphne Guinness

Last night whilst I was lying awake in bed around 3am, we had the following conversation:

TheRealDaphne Daphne Guinness 

Wishing for a world that is more accepting twitpic.com/6a6wil

@TheRealDaphne Why isn't it :(

@CharlotteLucyy Because Innocence has been lost to greed and to ambition. I cannot bring myself to judge though. i am not perfect!

@TheRealDaphne It's so sad. But you are perfect in eyes like mine, may I ask your advice on something?

@TheRealDaphne Where can I seek for inspiration, when I am feeling so low? I feel hopeless

@CharlotteLucyy I am reading extensively, I know that is ridiculous, but history is a great comfort. We are all just a part of a whole..

@TheRealDaphne ahh, do you recommend any good reads? A trip to a gallery/museum is on for tomorrow to help me and then the library...

@CharlotteLucyy Marcus Aurelius!

@TheRealDaphne wonderful! Thank you Daphne and goodnight! X

So, it looks as though I may have to check out this Marcus Aurelius. My source of inspiration (as well as Daphne) because I'm finding it quite hard to think of idea's for my summer project and it needs to be done in just over a week (PANIC!) 

But I am going to a local art gallery/museum today with my friends - one of the tasks that we have to do for the project, so hopefully discussing it with them, seeing visual art will inspire me and means I can knuckle down with it. 

However I am going to Reading festival and I could kind of do without that at the moment, but I know my friends will make it a memorable 6 days :)

Have a good day!

xoxoxox

Marc Jacobs for Dior?

I am a huge fan of Marc Jacobs, as a person and as a designer. I love his Marc Jacob's range and I especially love everything he has done for Louis Vuitton. I personally think that his AW11 collection was sublime and I remember watching the live stream and I thought it was fantastic. And it is my favourite collection of this season.

Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2011 Ad Campaign

I also have a strong opinion on the whole John Galliano situation. I absolutely adore Galliano and it makes me so, so depressed that he no longer works for Dior and even his own name brand John Galliano! It actually destroys me and I miss him so so much as a designer :( He was so inspiring to me... but that is a different story I could rant for hours about.
So if Marc Jacob's leaves LV, who will take over Vuitton? Well, reading twitter rumours all day many have been saying it might be Celine designer Phoebe Philo. These are just rumours and nothing has been confirmed, yet. But the creative directer position at Dior needs to be filled at some point and quite soon as possible really!
Here are some twitter status' today I have been reading and finding info from:

vogue_london VOGUE.COM UK 

Is Marc Jacobs really set to take over at Dior, and will Phoebe Philo be taking his place at @LouisVuitton_HQ? 

Fashionista_com Fashionista.com 

WOW - BIG NEWS! Report: Marc Jacobs to Dior, Phoebe Philo to Louis Vuitton bit.ly/nqSDqY

TheSTStyle Sunday Times Style 

Here we go again with the fashion rumours; latest one doing the rounds: Marc Jacobs IS going to Dior and Phoebe Philo to Louis Vuitton.

jimshi809 Jim Shi 

#MarcJacobs said headed to #Dior, leaving #LouisVuitton open for Phoebe Philo (who'll also do Celine) & starting a major LVMH reshuffling.

If I could have it my way I would have Marc Jacob's stay at Louis Vuitton and Galliano back at Dior (haha) but obviously that will not be happening in a million years! I really do think Marc Jacobs belongs at Louis Vuitton and I wish they could find someone fresh and new at Dior. But we could sit and talk about thing all day and we're just going to have to wait and find out......

xoxoxoxox

Evening...

Sorry for the lack of posts over the weekend. I have been kind of lazy, but also busy at the same time... Friday night I went out for a meal to celebrate my A-Level results with my family. Then Saturday consisted of sorting my seriously messy drawers out. I have now gone from having one Art drawer to two! And then last night, I really really wanted to go out. Like, I just had to. But, as usual on a Saturday, my friends were all busy or at work so I knew they were unable to come out. Plus I wanted to go to this place I absolutely love but none of my friends like it :( So, I went out with one of my ex's (an olddddd one) and his friends. And it was actually really good! I saw my most recent ex and we spoke lots and stuff and had our photo took three times and I'm dreading when I see them and my friends screw at me. But why exactly should they care? It's just so frustrating.
I just feel like I over analyse situations so much. That I care about what people think too much and I literally NEVER think about myself and I think I really need to stop worrying and caring so much!
In other news my Mom ordered the ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: SAVAGE BEAUTY BOOK and it came Saturday morning and I was just over the moon, it's so beautiful!

It's so precious!!!
Tomorrow I will blog more seriously and focused (part of my "getting my act together") As well as getting up at 7:30am and not sleeping in till a ridiculous time like I have been. Then finally knuckling down with my summer project. So I'll probably be posting idea's and stuff that I have on here!
I shall leave you with some inspiring words......

xoxoxoxo