London Fashion Week outfit Day 2

My day 2 of London Fashion Week was spent at the newly-opened Westfield Stratford City. The new shopping centre opened on Tuesday, with 200,000 vistors on its first day. And that's mid-week. Can you imagine how many were there on Saturday? My advice, when trying to imagine that figure, is- don't. It was pretty overwhelming. I kept having what basically were 'hot flushes' because of the crowd and heat, where I needed to sit down somewhere air-cond for 5 mins and have something to drink.

The following photo was taken after the Look Show (more posts to come on that later this week), in the VIP area, where we went to collect our bags. The area was empty apart from a few people at the bar. It was quite funny really- just an hour ago it had been full of people drinking M&S pink champers and now it was empty.





Matt and I seated, waiting for the show to start. Matt is wearing Levi jeans, M&S shoes and a Clothing at Tesco shirt. You can spot our M&S pink champers (with a pink straw no less). I put my straw in and it immediately bubbled over, creating a wet patch on the floor (oh dear). It turned out if I took the straw out it immediately stopped overflowing. How curious!



This is us with our goody bags. There was some very generous products in it from various brands- I'll be revealing all in my upcoming posts. :) I hope you like these 'teaser' photos - I'm spreading my photos out over the week as in only two days we took over 2,000 photos(!)

Weekend Web 6

Red Velvet

♥ http://www.shopredvelvet.com - An online vintage store with a delightful lookbook, as seen above.
♥ http://www.onelanguagelabel.com - After seeing these amazing bags on WishWishWish and Daisybutter I fell in love. They are expensive, but so beautiful and great as a present!
♥ http://bookcoverarchive.com - For all you book lovers, it's an archive of book covers. It's completely inspiring for illustrators and anyone interested in visual representation.
♥ http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/27/cool-non-literary-uses-for-books - I couldn't get over this page. If you can't think of anything to do with your old books and you love crafts, this page is perfect for you. It's full of ideas from chairs to lamps to hiding your kindle inside an old book if you're passing dodgy neighborhoods! (see below)



In other news: I went to London for the weekend and spent most of my time in Camden market. I can't wait to share the photos I took of all the amazing graffiti art and sculptures, as well as my buys from the weekend. :)

Cow Vintage, Sheffield

Some of you may know that at the beginning of next month I am moving with my boyfriend to Sheffield. We took a little trip up there to have a look at properties, and I couldn't resist going into Cow vintage again.

Cow is a store you can hardly miss. Bright yellow, it is a beacon for affordable and reconstructed vintage. I love the decor and the design of the changing room doors, aren't they cute! Note: they weren't actually 77 changing room cubicles, the numbers on the door are random. There were about 4 on the ground floor for ladies and more upstairs for men I believe.



This is the sign for upstairs, where the menswear and sale items were.



The downstairs. Love the bunting and the patchwork ceiling! In this dress rail in the forefront I found an amazing bright red shirtdress for £7 that fit perfectly! It was reconstructed vintage by Cow, but the only sights I could find of altering was the hemline.







Dress: vintage. Belt: Primark. Shoes: Tesco. Necklace: Camden market.

Cow also have stores in Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham. Have you ever been to Cow? What did you think of the items? Also if you have any recommendations for affordable vintage in Sheffield, plz post in the comments. :)