Monday continued with a somewhat expensive lunch after I ended up wandering into MAC (resulting in a self-imposed ban on leaving the office at lunch time) and putting together trends, which aside from being really fun, gave me a massive confidence boost when it came to my own sense of style... Something which I've never really thought much to write home about before now! So with this in mind, along with the apparent success of Monday's outfit, I decided to document my outfits daily!
Tuesday's was a personal favorite:
This beautiful outfit has become affectionately known as "the power dress" by my wonderful housemates back in Bournemouth. I'm totally in love with it- I found it in "the conscious collection" at H&M, the bright orange having really caught my eye. I've got quite an odd figure- wide shoulders, small waist, and because of this I normally find it really hard to find a nice fitted dress that looks right on me. But this one is just perfect! The skirt really pops from the waist, accentuated by a couple of underskirts, and the material has this gorgeously subtle rose pattern. However, my absolute favorite detail is THIS:
cutest buttons ever?
On Wednesday, I took some inspiration from one of my main style muse's, Florence Welch:
This dress is as subtle as Tuesday's was bold, and for all the right reasons. The mid length skirt is perfectly on trend, and the split sleeves add just the right amount of detail without being too obvious. I also really like the colour, a very delicate pink blush which was very easy to accessorise with my favorite item of clothing ever- a navy blue chunky suede belt with a huge gold buckle, which belonged to my nan in the 60s. I also wore, as I have done every day this week so far, a pair of slipper-loafers with a gold buckle from River Island.
On Wednesday evening, after conquering THE worst rush hour I have ever experienced, I met up with my lovely best friend Caz at Westfield Stratford. I don't see her often as we study at opposite ends of the country, but we always have the best time no matter how long we go without seeing each other (although luckily I got to see her lots at Christmas). We had such a lovely City Girl evening getting our nails done and going out for dinner and drinks!! I think the people at the nail bar weren't used to people rocking up and asking for a different colour and design on every nail, but I was chuffed with the results :)
On Thursday, I not only had a great time at the office blogging for the intern blog (more on this later) and sourcing props for a shoot, but I met up with my friend Nil who works at Illamasqua once I'd finished for a few cheeky drinks. We started off in a bar just round the corner from my office called The Intrepid Fox, which had been recommended to me by my dad because it is "steeped in rock and roll history"- when I asked what he meant by that, he told me Slash once knocked out one of the New York Dolls there.
I was wearing a black satin long-sleeved mini dress with patent coffin shoes. How cool was this location for a photo!
After a large glass of vino we headed off to my favorite cocktail bar in London, Navajo Joe's in Covent Garden for a few more drinks before heading home for an early (ish) night because we both had early starts the next morning. But I'm looking forward to seeing Nilly again next week :)
Friday was a really exciting day. I was assisting a photoshoot with Tijan for the Valentines issue of the mag... I will write about this in more detail later on, but it was so exciting! Here is my outfit for Friday along with a sneak peek of what we got up to on set...
I really liked the basic white dress because I thought it could be adapted to work into lots of different looks! I teamed it with a Coco Chanel- esque blue and cream jumper and a lovely winter hat that my lovely nan surprised me with in the post! Again I wore my coffin shoes and rocked a huge pair of gold rose earrings along with my super long chained sugar skull necklace from Brick Lane.
So that's my week of outfits! I hope you all had as great a week as I did. See you soon x
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