Back to Black

I'm having a bit of a break from Brighton fun - the boy is watching the football and I have no idea who is playing.

Mira from Ladytron is one of my most favourite people in the world, she oozes style and sex appeal dressed in her usual military black outfits. The band have a new album out at the moment, however, this has not prompted me to write this post, oh no, instead it was prompted by a rather lo res email I received from PartyNoire.comthe website for Romanian born designer Alina Cosma, I got invited to have a sneak preview of the site before it goes up for all to see.

Alina was a finalist in Fashion156 & Brittique.com's Fashion star competition to find a brand new womenswear designer to feature on Fashion156 and be sold on Brittique.com, of Cosma they say:

"We loved her 'Darkshines' dress for its military-gone-futuristic bent and the on-trend zip fastenings."

I had a look and chose my favourites from her debut capsule collection 'DEBUT. Talking Dresses' and to me they screamed Ladytron and made me think of the lovely Mira.

Cosma's designs are adorned with zip details and sharp angles,her dresses are structured yet pretty cool, take a look and see what you think...

Last night's party, and the night before's and tonight's

Oh dear, its all getting rather hectic in NLYM's social calendar and this weekend is one fueled by energy drinks, crisps, vodka and some dancing - oh yes and some work too somewhere down the line.

Stag & Dagger festival on Thursday night was great fun, we caught Tubelord (awful name but good), Natty - I don't like Reggae, I hate it. Shame that the queue was so huge to see Diplo that we didn't even attempt to get into the Hoxton Bar & Grill venue so after a bit of drinking in the street we headed on down to Cargo to check out A-Trak.

For the uninitiated A-Trak describes himself like this:

When I was 13 I took my bar mitzvah money and bought myself some turntables and a mixer. I practiced for about 18 hours a day. Then I came out of my basement, packed my lunch and won a bunch of world championships. Joy! I formed a DJ crew called the Allies with Craze and friends. We toured the world for a while... I guess I've been touring for the last 11 years. Time flies.

2 hours of dancing later and then a bit more to Bang Gang DJs then its home time with the boy.

Next morning we head to Brighton for The Great Escape Festival to check out some more bands including the fantastic French DJ duo The Shoes, you may have heard the remix they did for Wiley's Rolex - it was tops of all the blogs.

Remember how excited you were when you first saw Justice? Get ready for that feeling to return when you see The Shoes, they even had a 7pm Barfly crowd dancing.

Now? Now we're off to see Dead Kids play a secret show, more later ...

On a Summer tip again

Its going to rain in London now, I just know it, I have been completely obsessed with the Summer over the last few posts, so if where you live it isn't so warm and lovely then I do apologise. I'm also going on holiday in June so am super excited about that too - especially when work can sometimes be so hardcore.

Anyway, enough about me and more about these Ksubi sunglasses. Ksubi as you may or may not know is an Australian fashion house and pretty trendy at that. These 'Bayliss' glasses are the perfect shape, after all who isn't over those Raybans? The new shape is more Andy Warhol but still big and the colour, oh the colour make me swoon. You can get them in black too - they cost £155 and quite frankly I'm pretty freaking tempted.

Will you ride tandem on my bicycle?

French fashion store Comptoir des Cotonniers is launching a retro style bicycle range this summer, including single bikes (does that make sense? You know what I mean) and tandems. So there is no excuse not to get your shorts on and jump on a bicycle this summer.

I first discovered CDC in Nice where I purchased a lovely slouchy gym style bag, they have nine shops in the UK including London stores on Marylebone High Street and South Molton Street. The chain is not cheap and often use mother and daughter models to display the versatility of their outfits.

No its not cutting edge fashion but its well made Carla Bruni style tailoring will leave you looking and feeling impeccable and for that I can only applaud them.

Best swimsuit of the year?

This Gucci swimsuit, featured in June's issue of Vogue is simply stunning. An asymmetric design features a bow on the shoulder (slightly obscured by the catwalk model's hair)

This is a combination of colours I wear quite frequently, however the costume is £265, gulp.

Karen Walker

La Garconne's mailout alerted me to these beautiful Karen Wakler tortoise print sunglasses and I simply cannot stop thinking about them. $170 from La Garconne.com maybe these will be the glasses that I can wear without shoving my fringe into my eyes?

Headband lust

Yes this Miu Miu headband is incredibly similar to my Marc Jacobs headband but who cares, its beautiful and I want it

£55 though, hmmm