Sleep Well, Lee Alexander McQueen

Lee McQueen (16th March 1969 - 11th February 2010)

"The British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been found dead at the age of 40 in his London home...shortly after 10am today. The death comes days before the start of London fashion week and a month before the designer was to unveil his new collection at Paris fashion week. His mother passed away on the 2nd of February and he wrote on his twitter page last week: "I'm letting my followers know the my mother passed away yesterday if it she had not me nor would you RIP mum x" A minute later he added: "but life must go on!"and then on Sunday McQueen wrote: "sunday evening been a f****** awful week but my friends have been great but now I have to some how pull myself together..."                                     The Guardian 11/02/10

We lost one of the greats yesterday, Alexander McQueen. Sometimes there are no words that can be said. It's sad that it could have seemed so bad that he felt he had to take his own life, someone so seemingly fulfilled with a great career and all who loved and adored him, both personally and in the fashion world. My condolences go to his family and close friends as they mourn their terrible loss, we all mourn with them too.

Alexander McQueen Spring 2010

Those shoes

Watch a clip from his last collection, Spring 2010, below, courtesy of Modelinia.com Click through to read their blog post on the show: Plato's Atlantis

                                         

Because love isn't quite complicated enough as it is

I had dinner with the lovely Charlotte of Style Cartel and Em of Make Lemonade last night at this great little American bistro. It was nice to get to unwind for a bit and forget about the to-do list as long as my arm (well, when my berry finally stopped beeping at me). We had a good heart-to-heart as well and it's nice to know that there's still some honest people in the industry. I have some re-evaluating to do but I won't bore you with all the details.

Anyhoo I blogged for Style Cartel today. I was pondering the dreaded V day in a few weeks, and no, not because I'm single and bitter but because I'm not single.

Or at least I don't think I am... you see the problem folks?

Here's one way I would happily like to spend V day but you can read the rest of my post here

Classic Chunky knit cardigan by Joseph, ‘Aww, screw it’ women’s tank top by Cafe Press, Belle Sauvage printed leggings (because even if one is home alone on Valentine’s day one should still be stylishly miserable), Gap Bunny slippers, LOTS of B&J and Season 6 of 24.

Vogue shoot at SHOWstudio part deux

As promised, here are some of the pictures I took at the exhibition at Somerset House yesternight. I went with Susan, one of our illustrators. The most fascinating room by far was the Mirror Room where Susan and I took loads of pictures. We also had lots of fun with Naomi where we drew to our hearts' delight.


Hey down there. You sexy *hehe*

So... there's how many of us?


Naomi C hearts SB

Susan observing the rotating black dresses

I'm going to be up there one day!

Pity there was no male model yesterday


I've also included some pictures from the actual shoot that Nick Knight's team posted on twitter. Pictures below are courtesy of @SHOWstudio.

Natalia V. in Fendi

That a-MA-zing Valentino dress

Rock that Chanel! A sequined number and Sam McKnight's albino mohican

New Kid on the Block

Today was my first day interning at Sketchbook in Notting Hill. It didn't get off to a great start (although that was mainly because of the previous week/few months before today).

At SB everyone is required to bring in their own laptop. This would usually not be a problem. However my Macbook got stolen in May, right before graduation. Sad times. This, plus the present economic crisis (that decided to occur just as I was graduating - thanks guys) meant that I could not afford a new laptop right away. I mean, I could. But I had become spoiled you see. Once you go Mac, you can't go back. Unfortunately I do not yet have £1500 disposable cash in my account so it will be a while before I can afford a new MB.

However, I have an old Acer notebook from my Cheltenham days - it's 6 years old - and had since given up on me. A great friend of mine was helping me refurbish it and had given it back to me. All that was left to do was some minor tweaking to get the wireless to work.

He says.

Now as much as I love my gadgets I don't have a computer engineering degree. So needless to say I couldn't figure out how to fix it and was still battling with it at 9am this morning before I eventually had to give up. So first day - I arrive late and laptop-less. Not a great impression.

It wasn't too bad in the end. I went to a nearby internet cafe and my editor emailed me some articles to proof read so I still managed to get some editing done. I also got some good news, this friend of mine (let's call him techno-geek shall we) has a laptop he'll let me borrow whilst he tries to figure out what's wrong with mine. So tomorrow I will be the proud temporary owner of an IBM laptop. It's not my MB but it'll suffice.

So all in all it ended up being a good day and I didn't have to make any coffee runs. In fact the EIC brought cupcakes in which we had with tea after lunch. There's a really good vibe in the office and I can see I'm going to settle in really well at the SB office.

So what does an intern wear to her first day at work? It was quite sunny so I decided on a vibrant outfit which said "Hey SB, I'm here and I'm fabulous". Do you think I succeeded?




Dress - AA, mustard jumper - Charlotte Russe, belt - Dorothy Perkins, shoes - New Look