Good Morning Troopers!
First
off - Mummy M looked super hot as the MFF (Mini French Fancy) in
the night time outfit of her most recent post. Wowzers - my eyes almost
popped out and a bit of dribble escaped me. Also, her day time outfit
was super - loving the total mix of colours, patterns and textures. In
fact she was such an inspiration I had to go and do a copycat post. If you combine Mummy M's inspiring outfit with the fact I had
to attend a similarly fancy art event all resulted in this parallel
post.
Last night I went to a charity art auction. The charity, called The Art Room,
is an Oxford and London based scheme which works with kids who are
having trouble working in mainstream schools. They use the medium of art
to help encourage the kids to have more self-confidence, self-esteem
and pride. It's a real cool set up which allows these kids to come away
from their regular classes to this incredibly inspiring space to create
something beautiful. These rooms are a feast for the eyes - they are
decorated in amazing art works (by the kids and well recognised
artists) and the walls are stacked with paints, jars of buttons,
jewels, feathers etc. It's like an aladdin's cave of pure delight. Here
they create some amazing things, not just 2d pictures, but they
decorate chairs, plates, make puppets... objects they can be proud of
and take home. Essentially, it's a bloody good ting.
It's an amazing organisation - look 'em up.
Enough of my nitter natter - lets talk shop.
DAY
Kept
it simple and cosy yesterday because I was running errands. Cosy
cashmere for warmth, comfy shoes for running & Grandma Nagy's
belt for nostalgia. My Nagymama used to have a sausage dog as a pet
called Bimbo. My Nagy loved this dog - to excess! She would collect all
kinds of sausage dog memorabilia which I have been lucky enough to
inherit.
Outfit Jumper: Green cashmere, thrifted.
Belt: Sausage Dog buckle belt, gift from my Grandma Nagy.
Skirt: Black denim, high-waisted, American Apparel.
Tights: 40 denier (ha!) M&S
Brogues: Tweed & tan leather, Office
NIGHT
Pretty
much a copycat/monkeymimic of Margaux! When going to a posh event at which when you
need to cut the fine line between stylish but not over styled; don a
little LBD, jazz it up with jazzy tights, and if you are lucky enough,
get your greasy paws on one of William Chamber's
pieces of headgear. Go click on Willie's link and pour over some
of his fabulous creations which have been perfectly captured in the divine
photography of Niall Walker. Roisin Murphy
is one of his many fans, she chose to wear one of his pieces on her 2007
tour. His hats have previously featured in some of the campaigns for
Glasgow's must-be-seen-at-night, Death Disco.
I have looked in my crystal ball and I can predict it will not be long 'til we see Grace Jones wearing one too. Come on Gracie - catch up!
Outfit Dress: Black lycra & chiffon sleeves, Zara
Tights: Wee hearts, tabio
Shoes: Pointy smarties, donated from real Mum, originally LK Bennet
Jacket: Tweed & Velvet collar, gift from real Mum, originally Laura Ashely
Hearwear: Beautiful head piece made from metal grey ribbon, made by the one and only WILLIAM CHAMBERS!
Me and another one of my Mums - SukiMum.
