Stephen Jones Millinery

I love hats! I don't often wear them, especially cocktail hats. I think cocktail hats would look great on a night out but I'm just not brave enough! I think I love hats so much because they hold so much design potential.. and because they remind me of the time when women wouldn't dream of leaving the house without a hat on.

I've been a fan of Stephen Jones for ages-look at how phenomenal these hats are! I love this season's Covent Garden collection because I spent so much time in Covent Garden when I first moved to London. Also, love the hat that looks like the Stephen Jones shop front!



Hats by Stephen Jones Millinery

Boy's Birthdays

It's the boy's birthday in about 2 weeks and I am starting to have trouble figuring out what to buy him! I found a brilliant antiques market with lots of leather bags and portfolios and shoes and jewelry.. I wanted to get him a little leather journal because he's a writer but it just doesn't seem right.






Look at all the old golf clubs and suitcases with their battered leather. I spent ages looking in all the suitcases because there were so many curious things inside like photos, letters and silver cigarette cases..
I'm still stuck on the present problem though! I'm hitting Etsy with optimism..

Wanted

I went to see 'Wanted' on Wednesday, I'd been haunted by the idea of both Angelina and James McAvoy in an impossible action flick... mmm. So there was no way I could be disappointed. But I was driving Rosie mad through the film with my running commentary of either 'that's ABSURD!' or 'drooooool' and for her part she kept laughing really loud. People actually turned around to glare.
-is that really his body?!

I would describe this movie as 'Shoot 'em up' meets 'Mousetrap' and if you aren't enamored of either Angelina or James I wouldn't recommend it. The only thing it left us pondering after leaving the cinema is whether we'd rather be James or Ange in the kiss scene...

Why I love my phone: Part 1

It's not because Orange consistently over charges me every month.. It is a little bit because I have call ID and can ignore phone calls from work.. But mostly it's because the 2.0 MegaPixel camera is just unfocused enough that I look good in all my phone photos.



Topshop dress

The Darjeeling Limited

I brought this film the other day because I loved the cover and I am a fan of Owen Wilson, even though he usually plays pretty much the same character in most films. It took us about an hour to pry open the case because the sales assistant in Zavvi managed to leave the security tag on, those sale DVDs are well guarded..



Lots of people seemed to be raving about how gorgeous Natalie Portman looks in Part 1: 'Hotel Chevalier', which she did as ever. I was enamoured of the iconic Louis Vuitton luggage too and also Adrien Brody who was perfect! Owen Wilson deviated from his typecast (slightly) and Jason Schwartzman.. is really short, but also rather eccentric. And the setting! You could watch this film with the sound off because the scenes are so well shot and colourful!




I recommend this film to anyone-if you liked The Garden State you will probably love it, but it isn't too sentimental, too serious or even too funny. It is funny in parts because life is funny and people are strange, but I doubt anyone will regret watching it.

Bright Young Parties

I just finished reading D.J. Taylor's 'Bright Young People', which (as a self proclaimed 1920s/30s geek) I adored. Aside from documenting the wayward antics of some of the most eminent people of the 20th century, 'Bright Young People' had me thinking about the bright young things of today. If we think that our shenanigans are anything new then we have a lot to learn from a generation who made party-going and celebrity scandal and art.

I was thoroughly inspired by all the themed parties of 1920s society, look at the Impersonation party and Cecil Beaton's zealous fancy-dress in the second picture. The generation even had their own Amy Winehouse in the mould of a good girl corrupted, Brenda Dean Paul. Unfortunately I couldn't find any pictures, but Brenda was a you

ng party girl who descended into drug addiction and emaciation.

Today, we don't seem to be living up to the originality and innovation of the circus party, the mozart party, the hermaphrodite party or the bath and bottle party, so I've come up with a few fancy dress ideas I want to try, in the hope that someone will invite me to their Cinema party!

Fox hat and Swimming cap by Stephen Jones; A Bout de Souffle T-Shirt; 20s Cigarette Girl hat by Topsyturvydesign