Ghotic Collection

First of all apologies for the lack of the promised video over the weekend.  I have edited it, but I can't find a suitable music to accompany it, so please bare with!  Secondly, who was to know that my boyfriend would be a total trend predictor?!  He bought me this faux leather jacket from H&M for Christmas (this was an 'off list' gift) in 2012; I have never worn it, in fact, I kind of disliked it (not totally unusual for his 'off list' gifts, bless him).  But like many trends, white leather is now having it's turn and I absolutely love this jacket!  I am glad I didn't eBay it after all!  What's more is that in this mild winter we're having, it's totally wearable, maybe throw on a scarf, hat, gloves etc if it gets super nippy :)  So it's a hooray for my boyfriend and hooray for white leather (or faux in this case).

Happy Friday peeps!  Don't forget on Sunday my new YouTube video will be up so you can subscribe to my channel here.  Please do let me know what you think because it's a bit of a trial to see if this is the sort of thing you'll want to see from me on YouTube, I just can't do the talking videos, I'm no good at them!

Over the weekend I'll also be playing around with SS14 catwalk inspired Nail Art so I'll post tutorials and pictures of those next week!

It's time to inject some of those Spring/Summer trends into my current wardrobe so here we go.  I got this baby blue check jacket from River Island the other day and also this matching blue chunky knitted beanie.  Checks are very much an AW13 trend but moving forward to SS14, checks are staying but we're being introduced to pastels once more and gingham.  So in a nutshell I've combined the two seasons, which is perfect for doing in this random stage where the shops are filled with Spring/Summer clothes, but we're all still freezing our bollocks off!

My new obsession is Culottes!  They're going to be huge for Spring/Summer this year as we've seen on the runway at Mulberry, House of Holland, Eudon Choi (all below) and a plenty more, not to mention some designers across the pond but as I'm British, I like to think we do it best (it being everything, lol!). I've also seen plenty of amazing styles from our fave high street brands at all the press days I've been to.  These ones are from Topshop and are a premium satin so they're pretty heavy and also quite thick so ideal for wearing now.  I've got some natural tights on to keep the old shins warm and teamed with a snuggly jumper; I'm so in love with this look!  I'm so obsessed with culottes that I've found a few patterns and I think I'm going to try and design and make a pair to wear to London Fashion Week, I'll keep you posted on the progress of this project as I haven't done any sewing in quite a while now!

Before Crimbo I was sent this beauty of a dress by Lavish Alice from Bank Fashion but haven't had a chance to wear it yet.  It's a figure hugging pencil dress with long sleeves which looks very 'workwear-ish' when you see it alone, so I had a think about how I could turn it into EJ.Style and ta dahhhh, here we go!  Layers my friends, layers!  As it is a tad on the nippy side at the moment layers were the way to go when creating this look.  I used a denim shirt which I've had for yonks (Zara) and tied it at the waist, leaving it open to expose the gorgeous check print of the dress, with a leather jacket casually thrown on the shoulders.  I've added a clashing chunky statement necklace (Topshop), a pair of black heels ankle boots and my bag of the moment, the Zara mini city in grey.  I like this look so much that I'm thinking of recreating something similar with a pencil dress for Fashion Week in Feb, weather permitting obvs!  

Happy Thursday everyone!  Mmmmm, is there such a thing as a happy Thursday? A thought for the day.  So yesterday I went off to Rochester to do a day of shoots with Annie and this was the first of the day.  I think it's safe to say that the people of Rochester aren't as used to Bloggers as the good old folk of London!  We had some rather odd stares and a lot of confused faces, mainly from the elderly, so we'll let them off as I wasn't prepared to stand in the cold explaining the wonders of the internet!

I'm off on a mini Blogger road trip!  Today I'm headed to the pretty land of Rochester in Kent to abuse all of it's historicness for some blog shoots, armed with a car full of clothes and possibly some Pringles (yay!).  I'm going to be introducing some Spring trends into my posts over the next week.  The sales are pretty much fizzling out in most stores and new season is taking prime position so I couldn't help but purchase a few pastel numbers!  

Is anyone else a fan of backpacks?  I know it isn't just me!  Ever since the explosion of 'Sports Luxe' a couple of season's ago you can't help but notice the influx of running shoes (ala yesterday's post!) and backpacks amongst the London crowd.  I've taken a rather sporty jump onto this bandwagon.  Recently I've been introduced to a new London label 'High Spirit' who manufacture leather limited edition backpacks (rucksacks, whatever you want to call them).  These bags are no longer the status symbol of the EMO, but the must have piece of the Fash-Pack!  High Spirit's range include metallics, exotic skins and seriously on trend colours and even better...there's only a limited amount of each design made, so get in there fast!  The practical side is that they are also Theft-proof (Londoners rejoice!).  The zipper entry of the bag is on the back, so once it's on your back, there's no way of some one invading your bag, thumbs up!