My Week In Pictures - Week 2

Happy Jubilee weekend everyone!

I hope you all are having a fab long weekend. Sorry for the lack of posts this week - it's been a busy one! Hopefully it'll be back to regular posting next week.

Anyway, here is my second week in pictures post. I hope you like it. Enjoy x

Carnaby Street Shopping Party

Taking advantage of 20% off at Monki

Regent Street getting read for the Jubilee festivities

Shopping at Monki

Itsu lunch

New favourite thing!

Karen modeling our new tropical blazer at work

Testing out the new Essie colours at Boots on Jo

Trying to decide which nail varnish to buy this week

Yummy sushi lunch

Sampling butterbeer at Harry Potter World

Entering the Great Hall of Hogwarts at Harry Potter World

Destination Inspiration event with Caryn Franklin

Caryn Franklin talk

 

Breaking out my Steve Madden brogues and lacy socks

New top from Monki

New Essie nails

Cat sitting Tinkerbell and Pocket

Gorgeous flower stall at St. Albans market

Jubilee Juice

Meadham Kirchoff event at Topshop

Meadham Kirchoff event

H&M is Favourite for Fashion for Students!

It wasn’t that long ago that I was a uni student, indulging in take aways, up all night with mates, sleeping in instead of going to lectures…ahhh…I do miss those days!

Because of my uni days nostalgia, I love keeping up to date with Studentbeans.com – a website dedicated to all things studenty! The website have just announced the winners of their annual “Beanies” awards, which recognises student’s favourite brands, retailers and entertainment of 2011. The winners were voted for solely by uni students, and I was really interested to see which fashion brand they would vote as their number one!

The Beanie went to…H&M! A fabulous choice! It seems that high fashion and low prices are key for students, with most agreeing that designer collaborator, H&M, is the best fashion store of them all. I have to agree. H&M really is my favourite high street shop. I always find something and always leave wanting to buy more, and the fast turn around means that the shopping experience changes every time. In fact, I think I’m going to head there at lunch time to pick up a Christmas day outfit!

The Beanies are set to become an annual event, gauging the tastes of this important group of trendsetters.

If you want to know what other shops/restaurants/music are top of student’s lust list, here is the full list of winners:

Best restaurant - Nando's

Best bar chain - Weatherspoon

Best fashion retailer - H&M

Best magazine - Cosmopolitan

Best newspaper - The Guardian

Best app - Angry Birds

Best film - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Best programme on TV - The Big Bang Theory

Best album - Adele, 21

What do you think? Would H&M get your vote for high street favourite?

Bewitching Style on the Red Carpet

OK, I really did not think I would be doing a second post on Emma Watson in a week - but that girl looked beyond fierce at the Harry Potter premiere yesterday! Since she chopped off her hair, her style status has shot straight up, with her taking on a whole new fashion persona fitting for young British celeb royalty.

The 20 year old elfin beauty left little to the imagination in a sheer black dress with mini voluminous feathered skirt (ticking all the fashion trends) by Spanish designer Rafael Lopez. Miss Watson usually dresses ever so slightly more demure at previous premieres, but this bold and fabulous ensemble, together with the elfin crop and slightly vampish make-up appears to be her telling the world "I've arrived!" In all her fashion glory, so long Hermione Granger, hello Emma Watson!

Harry Potter and the legendary VOGUE shoot

I am a bit of a geek. I love the Harry Potter books, and, as much as they aren’t that brilliant, I do have to watch every film – and I can’t wait for Deathly Hallows part one. Now, the kids (I say kids, what are they 30 now?) aren’t exactly the best actors, and Hermione’s character does irritate me slightly…however, Emma Watson (the actress who plays Her-mione for those living under a rock) has built her street and style credit up remarkably. She’s gone from annoying, buck-toothed 11 year old, kitted out in Osh-Kosh-Bagosh to Burberry campaign starring fashionista.

It was really no surprise then to see the newly elfin-cropped starlet gracing the front cover of December’s Vogue. It was, however, a surprise to see how utterly beautiful, impeccably stylish and incredibly fresh she looked. Of course, if I had Vogue’s styling team working on me for hours, a Valentino couture dress and legendary photographer Mario Testino shooting me, I’m sure I’d look alright too!

It is so nice seeing a young British woman experimenting so freely with her style – she was bound by her Harry Potter contract (signed by a magical quill I’m sure) to not change her hair or her appearance for the entire duration of the films, so now that she is a free woman, Miss Watson has gone all out with her new style. Emma says in her Vogue interview: “For the nine years I was on Harry Potter I was contractually obliged not to cut my hair, not to tan,” she said. “All the normal things girls so, I couldn’t. So when I got the chance to change my appearance, this is what I did.”

I have to admit, I have a bit of a girl crush on the young mud blood now, it’s amazing what this crop has done for her, and the shoot is just beautiful - a bit film noir, a bit Breakfast at Tiffany’s and very Parisian chic. Have a look at the pics below and grab yourself a December Vogue – also fab as this is the first issue you can buy as an iPhone app! Groundbreaking stuff people.

All images and quotes from Vogue December 2010

Emma Watson in Decembe's Vogue - Shot by Mario Testino