Holly Fulton for ASOS

Get the Scottish Designer of the Year / Swarovski Emerging Talent Award winner at this year's British Fashion Awards designs for a fraction of their soon to be costs at asos.com where Holly has designed a capsule collection.

Choose from dresses, skirts and neck pieces all ranging from £65 to £95, bargain.

Opening Ceremony boots on sale everywhere!

These v special Opening Ceremony boots are on sale across London so they must be in a shop near you too! Pick them up for as little as £205 in some shops, I have seen them in B Store and they look delish.

Anglomania x Lee Jeans

Wow, I just read on Catwalk Queen that Vivienne Westwood is teaming up with Lee Jeans for The Vivienne Westwood Anglomanie and Lee collection (catchy) to include skinnies and microshorts for the ladies as well as bondage and skinny jeans for the men. Colours will be dark indigo, metallic and printed designs, prices will range from £80 - £200 debuting in Westwood boutiques and selected retailers.

Cheryl Cole on the cover of Q Magazine

Q Magazine featuring Cheryl Cole hits the shops on 31 December 2009, it looks pretty epic. According to Q the shoot was inspired by Sin City whilst loads of people on twitter are saying she looks like Andrew WK.

The below image is the subscribers only issue, I think I prefer this one personally!

Grey hair,,,the new black?

The brill Hanna Hanra has written a great piece in yesterday's Sunday Times Style about the new trend in hair colour - grey!

Check it out here

Paris, Paris

(photo found online)
I have been asked to write about my ideal weekend in Le Nouveau Paris based on the theme 'You, Me and Paris' or 'Toi, Moi et Paris' if we're being proper.

My boyfriend and I first went to Paris when we were both at University, he was studying in London whilst I was in Manchester so weekends were the only times we could see each other, it meant we spent a lot of money on trains and our weeks were filled with long phone calls and cheap nights out with our respective uni friends. We decided that Paris would be a perfect place to visit, after all it took the same amount of time on the train as it does to get from Manchester or London. We were both desperate to go to the cult fashion concept store Collette where I could stock up on international fashion magazines and ogle Marc Jacobs clothes that I couldn't dream of ever buying. We saw an exhibition in the Pompidou by artist Sophie Calle, one of the boyf's favourite artists and then made a super eight film of me under the Eiffel Tower which I hope, if we ever get married, to project on the wall.

However, that was then and this, is very much now. My perfect weekend in Paris would start with a stay in Mama Shelter, a hotel designed by Phillippe Starck ( I fell in love with him on the BBC show Design for Life) and a hotel I have kept my eye on since hearing about it a couple of years ago. Each room has an iMac television and Kiehl's toiletries. Mama Shelter is a stones throw from the music venue Fleche D'Or, which is where our friend's band played to (I wasn't there, but have seen a video) rapturous applause after a video my boyfriend made for them was played on French television the night before. So Fleche D'Or would be an obvious stop for some late night music and partying. Before then it would be a mission of ours to find the restaurant called Grizzli Cafe which had graffiti'd toilet doors and my boyfriend added to by carving SC (him) 4 HF (me) onto one of the doors - we're not usually taken to destruction!

(the Grizzli Cafe)

If we didn't make it to Fleche D'Or I would check out Paris Paris, another renowned music venue which I have heard a lot about or Le Regine where London's premium fashion pack clubnight Ponystep used to reside when the promoter Richard Mortimer was in Paris.

During the day I would head to the area around the Pompidou where there apparently are some of Paris' best vintage shops before heading to Collette again for old times sake. Then follow this with a wander down the Champs Elysees to see some of the great design houses flagship stores before heading to the Eiffel Tower, sampling some of Paris' fabulous truffles on the way - it would be sacriledge not to head to Laduree, Paris' famous patisserie which sells world famous macaroons and petit fours. You may remember they had a pop up store at Topshop around London Fashion Week in September and are fashion's favourite naughty treats.

It would be laden with shopping bags that we would make our way back to the Eurostar after our second trip to Paris, with even more memories under our belts (and lots of Laduree macaroons!)

Best weekend ever? It certainly would be.

New Look Press Day

I have been speaking to the lovely Daniel and Helen from the New Look online press office about the Idol range and the brand's upcoming collections. I was delighted to be invited to the New Look SS10 Press Day last Thursday, the atmosphere was really relaxed and the clothes were displayed in an easy to view way.

I am not a fashion journalist, so going to these press days can sometimes be intimidating but not this one, which I was grateful for!

So I took some terrible pictures on my iPhone, but Daniel assures me that the electronic press kit will be available soon so I can post some better images, however I did want to share some trends coming through for SS10, so here goes!

Idol
The clothes at Idol were, again, more rock and roll with lots of dark colours and embellishment so don't throw out your studs in Spring because they will be around for a while yet. There will be more Idol piccies posted in the different trends section, however, below is an idea of the direction their accessories and shoes are going in

Aren't these boots great? The highest bag is a homage to the Miu Miu studded pouch bag that is currently very popular (and v expensive!) So yeah, these are all on the list!

Maxi
There were a few maxi dresses on show but this was by far my favourite, it reminds me of a global hypercolour dress my sister had in the nineties - not sure I'd team it with that bolero but you get the drift


Printed Denim
By far my favourite piece from the whole day, these jeans are floral printed denim and perfect for Spring/Summer


Embellishment
From lace adorned denim to studded jeans, the collections were all heavily embellished with interesting design flourishes. I love the black dress from the Idol collection with the metal ring detail, it reminds me of Christopher Kane's MA collection - a definite must have.





Accessories
The accessories varied to match the collections, whilst there were studs and sequins on some bags, others featured more intricate leather work and lighter colours.



So there you have it, more pictures to follow when the electronic press kit comes through, thanks to Sam for her holding clothes up skills!

See by Chloe at La Garconne

Who doesn't love See by Chloe? Oh, don't answer that, I don't believe that anyone could dislike the brilliant collections.

It woud appear that faded denim is the name of the game here at La Garconne where they have recently added 11 new items including:

The Favourite Chloe Day Dress


Rolled Boyfriend Short


Chambray Jumpsuit


It's quite A.P.C for SBC, with fewer brights than previous collections, I really like the direction See By Chloe are going in. I'll settle for searching the vintage stores for some faded denim jumpsuits but If I had loads of money it would be great to go for the real thing.

Dogs In Vogue

Judith Watt launched her latest book 'Dogs In Vogue' in London last week - I cannot describe how much I love the idea behind this, dogs + fashion = my favourite things ever!

Anyway, lots of celebs turned up to the launch with their pooches (of course!) at James Purdey and Sons on Mount Street - which is near the Marc Jacobs shops in London's expensive Mayfair fact fans.

The book itself is a tribute to the dogs that have featured in Vogue over the years, Watt is a tutor at Central Saint Martins and chose to support Guide Dogs for the Blind to mark the launch of her book. She got in touch with friends and designers (most of her friends seem to be designers, luck) to create a limited range of t-shirts featuring the designer's favourite dogs, those involved include Christopher Kane, Erdem and Richard Nicoll.

You can buy the tees for £20 from John Lewis, all of them are white cotton and bias cut, all profits go to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

In case you are interested, guests at the launch party were served mulled wine and winter pear juice, La Duree macaroons and petit fours, whilst their canine pals all left with a doggy goodie bag from pet food brand CESAR.

Here is Christopher Kane's t-shirt for the charity

So so brilliant!

AnOther LOVES

AnOther magazine have launched a really great new blog called AnOther Loves "a dynamic platform bursting with luxury product recommendations hand picked for you by AnOther's global network". They call it a 'daily edit' which the magazine love to share.

Such a good idea, but then what do you expect from one of the most creative magazine teams around. Recent posts include Rihanna wearing Dean Quinn, Bronze Bird Feet Candlesticks and the Maison Martin Margiela feather pen.

AnOther have also recently launched AnOther Reader which is a blog aggregator streaming all of the magazine's global network of contributor's favourite posts from their favourite blogs from the fashion, art, culture, design and everything else worlds. Once you are on Reader you can also share posts you like via Twitter and Facebook, nifty eh?

Stick it on your RSS feed and keep up to date with the best things on the web

Gaga on X Factor!

Punchbowl Blog have just posted the YouTube vid of Gaga's live performance on X Factor, so for any of you who got caught out by the earlier start time today check out Gaga's brill performance below...

Topshop ss10

Topshop's newsletter featured two of their new looks for SS10, exciting!

They are Parisienne (with the bow headband) and Oo La La (with the bikini)

I love the black cardigan!

Sonia Rykiel for H&M full show

Emma Cook sample sale,,,holla