July's Best Buys!

Hello! First of all I'd like to apologise for the terrible spelling in my first post, and offer reassurance that this post will be thoroughly checked (or pasted into word for a spell check) so if there are any errors, blame word. Secondly, I’ll explain that I thought it might be a good idea to do a monthly post at the end of each month highlighting my favourite purchases, so here goes the July edition!

I’ll start with my fist and absolute favourite buy, which is this bright blue floral placement tube skirt from Topshop (Ill warn you now, Topshop features a hell of a lot in this post) which I bought at the beginning of the month and, despite its special place in my heart, have not yet got around to wearing! I know, the injustice. It’s quite a loud skirt, so I wouldn’t team it with anything too crazy, possible a cream chiffon cami so give a summery look, with maybe a statement necklace to complete the ensemble. This skirt makes you look SUPER skinny because of the cunning placement print, hats off to Topshop for that one, Bravo. 




Flower Placement Tube Skirt- Topshop £28



 

Second I'm going to pay tribute to another new tube skirt which also holds a special place in my heart, the Topshop blossom print pencil skirt, which makes you look amazing, honestly, you don’t even need spanx. (If you don’t own them you're a liar) It’s quite a soft, feminine print and a light colour palette, so again you could get away with a simple cream cami, although I did have the crazy idea of possibly teaming it with red, who knows, the possibilities are endless!

 



 

The last of this month's pencil skirt pandemonium was this blue geometric animal mix print skirt from, you guessed it, Topshop. I actually work at Topshop (who would have known?) and I knew this was the last one in stock when a customer brought it to the tills, my heart sank, but then she changed her mind like an absolute saint and I bought it and all was well! I wore this with a black v neck cami, also Topshop, a black biker jacket and some healed Chelsea boots for a casual day look, and it gained me many a compliment! Massive thanks to the lovely lady who chose not to buy it

 



 

Next I'm going to make some of you insanely jealous by announcing that I will be attending this year’s V Festival, and then make you slightly more jealous by telling you that it will be costing me a grand total of £35 and 2 shifts as an 'Information Point Personnel' But just curb your jealously, as it might make you feel slightly better that I will be wearing a hi vis jacket, like the super fashionista I am. The reason I'm including this snippet of info is because another of my July purchases was a pair of HUNTERS! I cannot tell you how long I have coveted a pair of these, and now I had a reason to buy them, yey!

 



 

Hope you enjoyed my July best buys!

First year in a nutshell

First of all, hello! this is the first of ( I hope) many posts, and what better way to start a fashion(ish) blog than to talk about my experiences as a first year fashion student? I'll start by saying that I was not at all prepared for what was to come, having just finished my A levels, it was hard to adjust to the fast paced course, but I survived! And I survived pretty well, actually, I ended up with a first in my first year, but if you think that relaxes me for my second year, think again.

As a self confessed control freak and proffesional stress head ( I can't go anywhere without my filofax, my friend call it tony...) I am still absolutely terrified of what I have coming, but enough of that, Im scaring myself just thinking about it...

So, first year kicked off with a project called Design Methods, and my first ever session included my tutor telling me that I hadn't done what was expected of me over summer, (fantastic) but im glad she did because she scared me so much that day I made sure it would never happen again! We had to base our projects around repetition and use repetitive patterns to come up with a new design which we would later make in another project. I based mine on a pineapple, dont ask me why, we then had to shoot our garments as part of a team (not my forte) in the style of a magazine of our choice, we chose dazed and confused and mine ended up looking like this...

Copyright Saskia Cole 2013

 

My team worked with Saskia cole, a photographer based in peterborough. You can find out more about her through her facebook page https://www.facebook.com/#!/saskiacolephotography

 

Another big project of the year was an illustration task, where we had to choose a current designers collection and basically experiment with differnt illustration techniques, this project was my absolute FAVOURITE as I love stuff like this, I chose Holly Fulton's RTW SS13 collection, as I fell immediately in love with her use of print and colour, and the stories behind her collections. Holly Fulton is definitely up there with my favourite designers. Here are some of my illustrations, don'y judge me too much, I'm just a first year...

Holly Fulton SS13 RTW

 

 

Excuse the poor image quality!

So those were my two favourite projects of my first year, but so much happened outside of Uni work too, if you're toying with the idea of going to uni and do'nt know if you should, go! not going to uni would have been the biggest mistake of mylife, and this is coming from a girl who smashed an oven trying to be the fresh prince of bellaire on a skateboard, seriously.

I learnt alot about myself during my first year, not to mention I got to meet Christopher Bailey! (nicest man in the world) I deffinitely came out of my shell, and i didn't even know I needed to.

Bring on second year!