Meadham Kirchhoff : Luella hits puberty

Since the absence of Luella, Meadham Kirchhoff have been in the spotlight at London Fashion Week.
They are teen rebellion embroidered in to their parent bought childish clothes.
Luella has obviously hit puberty.
You can see it in the designs...

The colour palettes and colourful hair are so very similar. I loved Luella and her youthful style but I must say, I love Meadham Kirchhoff more.

My love affair with Ed Meadham and Ben Kirchhoff began when I interned at Goodley PR last september. I was surrounded by the A/W 10 collection and fell in love. It is still on my to do list to make a metallic pipe cleaner crown. The Meadham Kirchoff boys know what they want and they are going to get it. Infact Benjamin himself said "I want this and we're going to do it."
Style is all about attitude and my god does this label deliver!

If you are as any bit in love with the duo as I am, yet don't have the budget to buy, well, much atall on my student budget, do not fear!
Start saving, for the boys are collaborating with Topshop again. The new range will be available in selected Topshop stores and online in April.
Here is a sneak peak!

You can also get some good deals on the main label at Browns Labels For Less. 

I have already bought myself the £90 Teddy Print T-shirt. Down from £220, what a bargain! 

ps. My LFW internship got cancelled, but it all worked out in the end, I had to work anyway. September though... here I come! xxxx

Mags Could Be Bags

If your anything like me and you are filling a bookshelf with a variety of different fashion magazines you will know how expensive it can be. But what if we didn't buy all those magazines? I did a bit of maths and realised that without a subscription the cost of buying Vogue, Dazed and Confused, Love, Pop, Elle, Drapers, AnOther, Marie Claire,Tank and various others could buy one of these...

Mini Mulberry Alexa in Black, £506

Or my personal favourite for this season,

Jil Sander Market Leather bag, £580

This beauty comes in Electric Green, Neon Pink and Fluoro Yellow!

Careers

The weirdest thing about being home for christmas is that I feel so different from everyone else.
My two best friends both want to be doctors, one is studying medicine and the other wants to do radiography at uni come september.

The fact that I am the friend that does fashion makes me sound like the thick one, but Im not. I am really intelligent and have always got good grades, sure I could have done medicine but I love fashion too much. I had to do fashion. I was born for fashion.

What I love about being at uni is everyone feels the way I do about fashion. For once people know what I am taking about and will have a conversation about it. I remember in 6th form when McQueen died people didn’t even know who he was! I felt so alien. It isn’t exactly like somebody such as Holly Fulton or Alber Elbaz had died, because I wouldn’t expect them to know who that is, but McQueen?! Really?! He is the reason everybody has been wearing hipster jeans for the past 15 years. Bumsters, Hello?!

Fashion is a major contributor to the economy. Fashion isn’t just clothes, it’s your hairstyle, the music you listen too, what you watch on TV. I find it so weird when this amazing concept doesn’t even slightly interest people. Not even those who do psychology. Surely the strong psychological factor that surrounds the concept of fashion would be a very interesting study, yet nobody has explored it. It is almost as if fashion is invisible and only certain people are able to see it.

As Anna Wintour said,

"I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure they just put it down. On the whole people that may say, the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it. Just because you like to put on a beautiful Carolina Herrera dress or a pair of J Brand blue jeans instead of something basic from K-Mart it doesn’t mean that you’re a dumb person. There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous."

We are the wasted youth, and we are the future too.

         Excuse the bad photoshopping.

Hoodie - Urban Outfitters

Skirt - Urban Outfitters

Top- Topshop

Bag - Mulberry

Bracelet - Pandora

Necklace - Eygpt

Converse

So today I went to Enfield town.

A) I finally found i-D magazine, in the mens interest section. For a start its not a mens magazine, its unisex, and it used to be in the womens fashion section so you can't just decide one day that it is going to be a mens magazine. Why is there not a unisex section? I mean Wired and New Scientist are in the mens interest section, next to FHM & Nuts. Thats a little bit sexist, that suggests women are not in to science and cannot enter a career in medicine, and also forbids women to have any interest in technology. Is this or is this not the 21st century?

B) On the bus home some girls got on and looked about 13, but were really short, and got asked for their oyster cards and said they were 10. This only really shocked me because they were wearing leggings and mini skirts and tights with real Uggs and Abercrombie and Jack Wills hoodies. They were talking about fashion and shopping and trying to be all grown up, but then when the bus door wouldn't shut properly, like the immature 10 year old they were started laughing like loons. Totally juxterposed themselves there.

Point is though that back in 2002 when I was 10 I didn't get anything better than Tammy Girl. I was still recovering from the 90s grunge look wearing 'grunger jeans' and grey hoodies, with slogan t-shirts and long wavy hair (yeah I was a misfit, lol.) I didn't even know what Jack Wills was. They are going to grow out of it, I mean what a waste of money! It just irritates me.

There is just too much pressure to grow up fast these days. I would have rejected that statement when I was that age, but now I guess it's true.

I am going to London Zoo tomorrow :) How cool am I! I probably haven't been there since I was 10. Should be awesome.

J xxxx

Back with the goods.

Hello Hallo, Hullo, Bonjour, Hola, Howdy, Hi, Hey, Merhaba, Hej, Ahoj, Dia duit, Ciao, Sveiki, Witaj!

Im back, exams are over... for now.


So who watched Skins?
I personally thought it was a complete and utter car crash. The first 30 seconds of Misfits contains more excitement than that entire episode. The best bit was when the girl commited suicide. I basically slept through the rest. I think I am going to watch the next one with Emily and Naomi and if that still disappoints me I am going to stop watching it. Thursday nights I will get my Skins Series 1&2 DVDs out and watch an episode of that instead.
I think Chris should come back from the dead and haunt the new cast.
Now that I would watch.

The twins live near me actually. The one who plays Katie works in a nearby pub and she said her sister goes to a 'special school' in London. My friend Harry said he saw her in a parent and child group therapy meeting in Chase Farm Hospital so rumour on the street is that she is mentally unstable or an addict. They only get payed £6 an hour for skins. Thats my little bit of info for you :)

Ohhh and I had my UCA interview a week or so ago. I think it went ok but I still havent heard anything back so I am extremely nervous about that, checking it everyday lol.
I haven't heard anything from LCF atall yet. What does that even mean?
Have they read my application and decided not to act upon it yet, or not even read it atall?
And if they have read it then its good that they haven't said no yet, but then why not invite me for an interview yet? People (friend of a friend) with worse grades and experience than me have had interviews so that irritates me.

Oh its all very confusing but I have 2 conditional offers at Manchester Met and Birmingham City for a mere 240 points (thats nothing! how easy!).

Has anyone else applied to do anything fashion related at university? I am doing Fashion Management.
Cannot wait to escape to university and finally start living my life!

J xxxx

You are not an acception.

Ok, go ahead say what you like about me.
Call me superficial and a copy cat for being interested in fashion because I know its not true.

You think you are so excluded from it all.
You think you are so... 'different' and 'unique'
You dont follow the crowd.
You dont buy clothes because you think they are fashionable.

Of course not.
Well I have news for you, and as they say in The Devil Wears Prada...

"This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff."

People think just because I am interested in fashion I must be thick. Let me tell you I get A* - B grades with very little work or revision, and now I am trying just think what I am capable of.
Now tell me I am stupid.

I get the grades so I can choose to do what I want. What I enjoy.
I want to do fashion management. That is business studies directed at a particular industry.
I have a plan in life & I will achieve it. Ambition drives me. Fashion drives me.
And why am I so interested in this industry?
Well as I said in my personal statement...
'...the fashion industry is not just another form of business. Fashion enables people to express themselves in a way words or art could never convey... It is intriguing that the world influences fashion and fashion influences the world. This influence is not just limited to clothing and accessories, but to every aspect of life, from culture to the economy...'

You have your idols, or in psychological terms, role models. They do things you think are 'pretty' and 'cool'.
These people are called innovators.
Then it gets copied by a few people - early adopters - if its only you copying it it can't be fashion, or can it?
Because next it is noticed by designers, high end and highstreet, or even just other people you know.
It leaks around until a year later, after you stopped doing it you find everyone else is now doing it.
You call it 'mainstream'. Now you think its 'in fashion'.
Let's face it though, your role models were inspired by something. Be that someone else, a film, a fashion magazine, a song, a novel, they were inspired by something that was also influenced by something that was itself influenced by fashion and the creative ideas of those in the indutry of arts.
Art is fashion. Fashion is art.

Its a cycle.

Perhaps you are a late adopter, and think you are retro or vintage, or perhaps your trying something that unknowingly to you has already been done.

The truth is you can't escape it.
Your drinking it, breathing it all in.
Its dictates your life.
Not just what you wear.
The music you listen to...
The house you live in...
The words you use to communicate...
The friends you keep...
The things you believe in...

So stop being so ignorant.
Get over yourself, and stop undermining what I am interested in.
It delves in deeper than you think.

Open your eyes.

J xxxx

Regression. Reverse. Relapse.

Excuse the terrible photographic quality but I am getting my SLR on Tuesday :D
Dress- Topshop
Jacket - Vintage
Footless Tights - Primark ( I think)
Socks - Topshop
Shoes - New Look

This is what I wore out to coffee in Muswell Hill with Canelly after we had spent the morning on a "run" in the park acting as if it was the 90s again.
No phones, hoodies double knotted around our waists, shiny white trainers, pony tails, baggy t-shirts: pure anti fashion.

Strangely it felt free. It was also really comfortable so I can see why chavs do the whole pyjama suit thing, however, it is not a look I will be modelling often.