A Collaboration with Beyond Retro Vintage Aquascutum coat for £50, leather trousers and picnic shirt, score! aaand some valentine’s dress up Coat – ASOS White, Cashmere Dress – Arelalizza, Shoes – Zara, Bag – Warehouse, Cuffs – H&M; As acting president of the Meh! club I don’t even have to tell you what I feel about Valentine’s day, but if you’re really eager to find out dial 080C-YNI-CISM and my secretary will be happy to fill you in on that while chewing loudly on stale gum. At no stage during school was I ever Glen Coco of the class and when I was finally rid of my braces and the dandelion weed under my armpits I then promptly acquired a geek boyfriend who brought me flowers every single day and 6 years later I ended up marrying him. So this card design collaboration with Beyond Retro (along with Bip Ling, Mademoiselle Robot and Fashion Editor [...]

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All garments Pennyblack on loan, thank you Oliwia for helping with the shooting! Yeah, I’m just going to give up with the fantasy of editing 200 photos and putting up a semi-coherent post within 30 minutes with the sigoth breathing down my neck. We’re meant to watch a movie, and he confiscated all my phones and watches to set up an alarm bomb. There’s nothing worse than hearing 6 alarms going off full volume at 11 o’clock in the evening; that and the dude on ‘are we there yet’ loop mode. ARG ok goodbye. My Pennyblack slot is now active, so please check it out and stuff, you’re amazing, and that’s all I can say now……Fightclub is going in the DVD drive and will autoload on top of this window….

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Pennyblack Blogger & the City project; Illustration by Angeline Melin Yep, see that girl in the centre with the attitude? I call it the Nuh-uh girlfriend, no you di’n’t pose (and I believe the dog is giving me the stink eye?). Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I’ll be joining four other bloggers for a collaboration with PennyBlack on a project called Blog & the City! Actually, this is not the usual crowd people associate me with (aka BR – Blogging Royalty), so I feel a little out of place, like a shop assistant caught in the background of a celeb snap, so to speak? See if you recognise the others! First of the series rolling already here.

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Invitation for 09/02/11 event, RSVP here So it seems for now the square peg (cube) is really not to be force-fed into the round hole (bubble), at least in the sense of physical union. At this hour I should be shying behind Susie Bubble, the host, while a 22-photo exhibit (London fashion scene, student work, upcoming talent) is being launched in the lounge of W Hotel Times Square. At this hour I am sitting in my London flat slam-dunking Crunchie biscuits into the trap. The exhibit is to celebrate the opening of W Hotel in London on the 14th of Feb – that hunk of glass in the middle of the Leicester Sq that we all thought was going to be a car park. I actually had a peek the other day and it looks amazing inside. Tomorrow night the launch event will last till 9pm EST so you have about a [...]

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B/W Photo & Last two photos by Laurel Dailey; Jen the Style Crusader in last photo I went to International schools growing up in Warsaw, and Quiksilver & Roxy were the uniform of the rich kids and those with diplomat parents. I personally sported ragamuffin-wear in highschool, as a rebellion against the wave of surfwear washed up at the schoolgates 8:50 every morning. A truly befitting prelude to one of those CSM lifestyles and attitudes, come to think of it. No wonder everyone assumed I had braces and played the Saxophone. (Correction, alumni: I had braces and was in the rockband) You can probably guess what I thought when Beth invited me down to the Zetter Hotel for a Quiksilver collection preview – I wasn’t dreading it though, it would bring a waft of nostalgia, at the least. I never knew I’d ever come to say this, but Quiksilver has grown [...]

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