Happy Halloween

Halloween is the darkest time of year. Everybody dusts off their scariest costumes or salutes the dark side and don head to toe black. I wanted to share my favourite pictures of trendy beings dressed in their Gothic finest. Boo!

Happy Halloween everybody!

I had to share to post this picture of the AMAZING Karen O dressed up in a wacky skeleton suit. Karen is the best!

Geek Chic

If a genie appeared and said that I could change one thing about myself, I would wish for good eyesight. Since age 13 I have been a glasses wearer. I tried contact lenses once and in true Emma style I had an allergic reaction to them. My eyes puffed up and were red and swollen for days following.

Wearing glasses has always been a sore spot for me. If I want to look glam I have to stumble around blind for the evening (I don’t think glasses and a cute little dress work well together). People with good eyesight always say that glasses wearers are so lucky – wearing glasses is so cool. I beg to differ. However, after seeing pictures of celebrities about town in their specs, I started feeling better about the fact that I have to wear glasses. Wearing glasses has always made me feel a bit ugly but maybe it is all in my head. These gals look absolutely steaming in their frames!

Autumn Days

London has been really pretty and autumnal lately. The trees are a lovely auburn colour and fallen leaves cover the footpaths and parks. Here is a picture of me in Regents Park last weekend wrapped up in a chunky grey cardigan (the warmest knitwear I have ever owned) and my new floral skater style dress from TopShop. When I stand in the sunlight it becomes see-through though. Doh! I noticed that at work yesterday and wondered why men kept staring at my boobs on the train (they can see your bra Emma!)

The Weather Outside is Frightful

Next week I am heading off to Iceland for a wintery getaway. After looking at the weather forecast (5 degrees – during the day), I am in serious need of some toasty winter clothes to keep me warm and happy.

Thankfully Uniqlo have restocked their HeatTech thermals for another winter. One thing I hate about winter is wearing so many layers that I cannot move. Looking like the marshmallow man from Ghostbusters doesn’t make a girl feel good about herself.

Uniqlo's HeatTech pieces keep a girl looking chic and there is no need to wear the entire contents of my wardrobe in one outing. They are also so cute and bright (not your normal white woolly thermals) and they are coated with milk protein so your skin gets a little bit of moisturising action whilst you are at it! Genius if you ask me.

Lady Liberty

I love this floor length, sequinned statue of Liberty dress by Ashish. When I saw it at London Fashion Week I thought – hmmm who could pull that off and not look like a sparkly polar bear? Definitely not me (which is such a shame I might add).


Paloma Faith was papped wearing this incredible frock at the French Connection denim launch in Covent Garden last week. I must say she looks totally awesome and not polar bear-esque in the slightest. Jealous? Definitely.

Puppy Love

Awwww! Look at the little pugs in their cute little Mulberry jackets. They are so adorable. I want one!

This Autumn Mulberry has started making winter coats for small doggies in lumberjack check and the classic Mulberry tweed. Wonder if I could squeeze into that red checkered jacket? It is really cute.

Frieze

The Frieze Art Fair is such a mammoth event. Artsy folk from all corners of the globe descend on London to attend the most prominent contemporary art fair in Europe. My Sunday was spent battling the crowds, gazing at art, becoming completely overwhelmed and disorientated, needing numerous breaks and forgetting what I had seen / what I hadn’t seen (I swear it all looked the same towards the end).

Eventually I headed home, everything seemed like a blur, and I had the worst art headache ever (worse then my trip to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa). But somehow I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I feel really inspired by the world of contemporary art around me.

My favourite pieces from the day were….

Grayson Perry’s embroided quilt (I didn’t capture any names of artworks whilst I was there – ooops sorry). I don’t really care what people say about that dress wearing oddball. I think Grayson Perry is great. I love the crafty feeling to his artworks, but he is totally obscene at the same time. I find his work really fascinating to look at. His works are so detailed, they are a sensory delight.

David Shrigley’s screen prints were also really awesome. I mainly liked these because there was a huge print of a black and white skull. I love skulls and David Shrigley is also really funny so this was a perfect combo.

I am not too sure who the artist was of this piece… But there was a pile of large molar sculptures in the corner of one of the gallery spaces. I really liked this piece because it reminds me of my friend Hariet in New York. She made this amazing little tooth pot in ceramics class and I was really impressed by it.

There was this also great piece of art which was made up of old bits of jewellery. It was like a pirates delight! It looked like a glitzy and shiny treasure chest mounted to the wall. The magpie in me couldn’t keep away.


The most amazing artwork was Andreas Gursley’s ‘James Bond Island II’. This is possibly the most beautiful photograph I have seen in a very long time. It felt really still and calming to look at. That is an awesome feat given the fact that I was standing in the midst of an art viewing feeding frenzy...


And here are more snapshots of other great artworks from Frieze. Thanks to the lovely Katrin for taking pictures. She is a far better photographer then me!

For the Slummy Honeys

I have decided that I am a casual girl at heart. Even when I get all glam for an evening out, there is still a casual / sloppiness to my look. I will never be a super chic girl with perfect hair, makeup and clothes. How I envy those girls. Strands of my hair are always flying all over the place and by the end of the night I have spilled something on myself and chipped my nail polish. Sadly I cannot deny the girl I am, maybe just let her freak flag fly a little?

I am saying yippee to Topshop’s ‘horror’ look book. It is very grungy and a little bit Goth therefore it is totally perfect for me. I love wearing dark colours and I am totally obsessed with the 90’s at the moment and the whole ‘glam grunge’ look which has been popping up all over the place for the last year. It enables us sloppy chicks to still look stylish although half the time we look like crazy bag ladies with too many layers and textures going on.

I also think these pictures are totally fabulous and the clothing ensembles are awesome (aside from that feather headpiece – I would never wear that! It is an asthmatics nightmare).

Mad Hatter

I have a phobia of things which are disproportionally small or large. Sounds strange but I cannot control it. When I see people wearing those huge, bright coloured joke sunglasses, I want to hurl. In that episode of Absolutely Fabulous when Eddy is eating her meals with tiny cutlery in a bid to loose weight, I was shaking with fear under my duvet. I guess that is the point of phobias – you cannot really explain why things disturb you. They just do.

There is a point to my ramblings about phobias. I wanted to talk about Nasir Mazhar’s latest collection of hats / headpieces, but it scares the crap out of me. I am kind of intrigued though at the same time. I think some of his designs are pretty amazing (they are all amazing; I just cannot look at the huge bows and sunhats, without feeling a bit uncomfortable).

His millinery is so weird and wonderful. With Lady Gaga as a fan I guess his designs are not for shrinking violets (or for those who are scared of of their hats and headpieces being oversized).