Vogue Fashion Night Out

I have been busy the last couple of weeks helping organise Vogue Fashion Night Out, where I work at Conde Nast Worldwide News (sorry if I have been neglecting you)! It's been stressful but more than anything very exciting. We are selling the official Vogue T-shirts designed by Jonathan Saunders with all the proceeds going to Refuge - a domestic violence charity.

If you buy them on the night after 6pm along with a magazine (when the event starts) you can grab these amazing goodie bags!

You can also win yourself some LFW tickets thanks to Propercorn, for more details you can like Conde Nast Worldwide News on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CondeNastWorldwideNews or follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/CNWorldwideNews.

If that wasn't enough there will be a 100 mini cupcakes to feast on when you come in, what could be better?!

See you there!

Read more of my articles in Demur Magazine August Issue! Fashion Pills and Hawks, also includes vintage fashion advice!


http://demuronline.com/demur/demjur-magazine/


Let me know what you think!!!

Second article published for Demur Magazine online! Magazine will be out soon, check it out!!!

http://demuronline.com/demur/2012/07/your-winter-wardrobe-demurpopshop/

My First ever published article on the Demur Magazine website 

http://demuronline.com/demur/2012/07/first-london-collections-men-schedule/

Enjoy! 

Vintage Fashion???

Right so I am about to have a little rant...here goes...

As the demand for vintage fashion increases, what constitutes as vintage fashion does too.  Then I find myself wondering what is vintage fashion? When I first began shopping for vintage clothing, I would class 50s, 60s, 70s, even 80s as vintage, especially when I wanted to claim my mums old clothes were a new vintage find.  Now is seems that anything up to 2000 can be labelled as vintage fashion.  Has the definition of vintage clothing changed or is it just the demand causing people to take the definition too far? Ebay sellers and ASOS Marketplace label many items as vintage and sites such as ATELIER-MAYER.com sell ‘vintage’ from 1900 all the way up to 2000!  Even buyers of high street brands easily label their clothes as ‘vintage’ just because they may resemble something they once saw in an old photograph! 

Vintage was described as something at least 25 years old, which would technically include the 90s, but some take it far enough to claim something from two seasons ago is vintage, that can’t be right, can it?

Vintage, to me, was always something that was one of a kind.  Something you knew no one else would be wearing whatever the occasion.  Two seasons ago wouldn’t really mean much to me, as I still have clothes from five years ago hidden in the back of my wardrobe, maybe I could pass those off as vintage now.  

It seems to have become more of a matter of opinion and not something you can give a true definition.  Just make sure whatever you are buying with a vintage label is what you would constitute as a vintage piece.  For me it will always be from at least the 80s, a piece I have had to rummage through the charity shops for.  One thing I must confess about the increasing popularity of vintage fashion, is that vintage clothing shops like Rokit and Beyond Retro are my fashion heaven.  The online shopping makes it so much easier to get the vintage look I want, so I guess the love for vintage fashion soaring isn’t all bad.  As some people would say vintage should speak of the era in which it was produced of a certain quality, standard, fashion, design and aesthetic.  If you are happy that the vintage clothing you have bought represent the best of that fashion era then no harm is done! 

Bicester Village

So I took a trip to the fashion outlet shopping city Bicester Village this weekend and I wasn't sure how to rate my trip.  I had heard so much, but in the end it is just another place filled with outlet stores and if you can't afford the full price designer, the discounted versions aren't really going to be in your reach either.   It was probably more naivety on my part that everything would be high street prices, and that of course was not the case!

It was however one beautifully laid out, actually looking like a village (probably the point) and I got rather excited when I saw Gucci like a little tourist taking pictures of it all.

Then seeing Vivienne Westwood shoes which were adorable...

The highlight of my day have to be when I finally knew what people meant by love at first sight with this Burberry jacket, this was just WOW.

I can't say I didn't reach my objective going to Bicester Village however, as I did get my graduation dress :D which show there are one or two affordable shops!

But I won't be revealing what's inside until the day sorry guys!!!

Treating Myself

Urban Outfitters was having a sale and since it is my favourite store I was inclined to treat myself, finding the cutest top for Hackney Weekend/my holiday to Croatia this summer!

As cute as it looks from the front it was the back of the top that sold it to me and screams summer time! Cut at the bottom with a pink bow tied at the top it's the perfect for the festival look, which happens to be my favourite look.

The little peace pendant was a extra bonus have always wanted one just like it! So urban outfitters sale (that you can use student discount on still) has made my week! Love treating myself.