Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The Couple

Danielle Hayman and James Kelly

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Love her bowl haircut (she had it waaay before Agyness Deyn!), her Chanel belt and wedge sneakers.

I was a badar*e and forgot to get her name...but hopefully I will photograph her in the future AND get her name :)

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Fashion Writer, Yu Masai.

I was originally thinking that Yu was sporting a Pirate style hat here but I think it may be more of a Captain Cook-ish chapeau? Anyhoo, Yu always looks amazing- he brings a sense of frivolity and fun (as well as an amazing collection of beautiful designer items) to each fashion week.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The Brothers.

Before the Betty Jackson show.

I said "Oooooo is this your first show?" And they went "Nah, we come every year!"

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Something for the Weekend: snuggly Celine jumper + the most perfect, glowiest skin ever (sigh).

Alina, model

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Something (fun) for the Weekend: Moustache necklace + Cream brogues

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Something for the Weekend: SS 2010 Eley Kishimoto shirt + cute pantaloon-style shorts

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Something for the Weekend: Red tights + Oversized shades + Cream lace-ups

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Something for the Weekend: A little designer (check out Deborah's gorgeous studded Christian Louboutin heels) + A little Zara (Deborah's little black dress). Perfect.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Something for the Weekend: Fringing+Beanie+Scarf

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Something for the Weekend: black&white stripes + boots

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The gorgeous Tokumbo Daniel (left) and Betty Adewole (right).

Edit: I was just looking at the Net-a-Porter online magazine and I realised that there is a shoot, "Coats, Boots and Capes", featuring Tokumbo and Betty together!

Betty had a little giggle at me when she witnessed me almost trip up a lady as she came out of the Roksanda Ilincic show. I was demonstrating to a girl I was photographing how I wanted her to move her foot out to the side...and just as I was inelegantly sticking my foot out the lady walked by and caught my foot. OMG, I would have completely died if she had completely tripped over and landed on the ground. Dear God I am so glad she didn't.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The very sweet Miss Molly in her pucci-esque vintage dress outside the Betty Jackson show.

p.s. I think she might be using these photos for an art project on LFW for school!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Leigh Lezark of the Missshapes

sigh....she always looks just so perfect. I am convinced that this girl NEVER has a bad hair or skin day (sigh).

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Scarlett Valentine, at the Jeremy Scott show*.
I asked Scarlett if she would mind kind of climbing the fence for the photo and the poor thing almost impaled herself on one of the spikes- owwww!!! I felt so bad as I have done it myself (of course I wasn't doing anything illegal ;)) and I know it hurts like crazy. Sorry Scarlett- thanks for being such a great sport and laughing about it after :))
I didn't realise that Jeremy does an iconic Pliage bag each season for Longchamp (hellllloooo where have I been?!) until I photographed a guy with one last week. It was the Jeremy Scott gold credit card Pliage bag which I thought was super cute. From the photos, I also love the Poodle bag from a few seasons ago and the new one, available now, the telephone print bag. It has a very Get Smart feel to it!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Tracy Rosenbaum, assistant to The Sartorialist, and a girl whose personal style I adore. Each day at LFW Tracey looked fantastic (I have more photos which I will share with you later) culminating in a wonderful amethyst jumpsuit at the Burberry show. Tracy just oozes chic but she adds quirky little accents (e.g. her wedge heels which had "Seance On A Wet Afternoon" written across them, and a beautiful, cascading turquoise necklace which she teamed with shorts, Breton striped tee and Converse) to keep things modern and interesting. Tracy studied fashion design in Nebraska (I suspect she also studied how to be utterly lovely and patient when 10 photographers are all wanting a photo of her, as well!) and then moved to NYC to work for Scott.

At the top of her back Tracy has a tattoo: Live, Learn, Create.....one imagines that that is exactly how Tracy approaches life :)

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Her tee-shirt made me smile: I was humming "Don't Worry, Be Happy" for about 30mins after I photographed her :))

She was looking off to the side to her Dad who was giving her encouragement! Cool Dad for taking her to a fashion show, huh?!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Overalls and Louboutins? You bet!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Alex Dunstan, model with Select, at LFW.

These photos are in homage to we could grow up together who is already living the photographic dream :)

Check out his blog for beautiful photographs of beautiful boys and beautiful things.

Argh. So need to make sure my Longchamp Le Pilage is OUT OF SHOT when taking photos!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

At Erdem, the beautiful, ethereal Nao Koyaeu, wearing vintage.

On a side-note I loved seeing Virginia Bates, owner of the wonderful vintage/antique clothing boutique, Virginia, wearing Erdem to the show. Virginia is proof that one can look fabulous at any age.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Ahhhh the gorgeous Yasmin Sewell....The thing about Yasmin (and the reason why everyone loves to photograph her) is that she always, always looks amazing..... I strongly suspect that Yasmin would even look good in a Snuggie!*. She wears things that suit her shape, her hair and skin colour but, more importantly, she looks comfortable and confident. Yasmin doesn't look like she has just whizzed around the floors of Liberty (where she is Chief Creative Consultant) randomly pulling on the latest designer items: what she wears is her own personal style and one suspects that she mixes pieces she has had in her (extraordinary) wardrobe for a long time with new, interesting pieces.

Love the lady-tweed trousers she is sporting here with the exaggerated shoulder top. We might not have Yasmin's budget for clothes (it is her job, after all) but we can certainly be inspired by what she wears and find our own interpretations on the high street and in vintage stores.

*Those weird blankets with sleeves that became strangely popular last year- you can even get one for your doggie. Crikey!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Model streetstyle: love the pop of colour on her legs and the fluro pink stars dangling from her lobes. Oh yeah, and her drink just happens to coordinate as well :))

p.s. I have just realised that she has red-ish hair....does this mean I am officially obsessed?!! Eeek!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Red hair + the hottest tights of the season: POLKA DOTS! .Love.

I seriously adore the way Filippa Smeds (from Stockholm) has paired her dainty Balenciaga-ish tights with those tough eyelet boots, zippered shorty-shorts and simple grey sweater. Oh but her hair! Wow! I can't decide what I am loving more right now: platinum blonde or red hair :)

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Co-founder of Dazed&Confused magazine, Jefferson Hack (the other founder was Rankin- anyone go and see him shooting at Rankin Live?).

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The stunning Akiko Aoki wearing Egg (I think). The above photo is one of my favourites- I just love the light on Akiko's face and the little splooshes of yellow on her bag and the railing.

I guess some of you might have worked out that my absolute favourite thing to photograph is people's portraits. I love faces, and I love making people feel and (hopefully) look beautiful, even if it is just for the minute or so that I am with them. For me, more than anything, it is the people behind the clothes, the hair, the make-up that are important, and what I want to capture in my images.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

POP!!!

The perfect pink with Olga Grotova's PLATINUM blonde hair* and gorgeous blue-green eyes.

I finished a marathon photo editing session at 4am this morning....and I am beat. Despite my exhaustion from: living on 4 hours sleep each night; running madly between shows- don't get me started on how hard it is to locate the press buses: they mysteriously move from where they drop off so it is like a wild treasure hunt to find them after each show. By the end I worked out that the best approach is to attach oneself to the catwalk photographers who seem to have an inbuilt press bus location radar :); not eating properly: fashion week is the new boot camp!; trying to shoot while dodging cars, security guards, other photographers; getting abused by an irate resident who lives near the Topshop Venue (it is pretty chaotic with cars and people everywhere blocking the streets); I absolutely LOVED my first "official" LFW...I so wish I was going to Milan and Paris. Well, I actually am going to Paris during Fashion Week but I will only be shooting for one day :(

The highlight of my week? The Burberry show. OMG, it was incredible: I feel so fortunate to have witnessed the return of Burberry to LFW. The glittery/sequined trench towards the end almost moved me to tears. I loved so many of the pieces in the collection (the exquisite ruching, the pale sherbet colours, the strong shoulders, the reworked trench/dress) and I thought it was highly wearable for women of most shapes and sizes. Okay, so most of us can't actually afford any of the clothes that were on the catwalk but it is nice to take inspiration.

Thank you to everyone who has been leaving comments and emailing me :))) You guys are so lovely. I should be back to normal on the weekend and will email everyone back/reply to comments/questions then.


* BargainBex are you seeing this??!!! More platinum :))) It's a sign!

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The stunning Amy Little in one of my absolute favourite outfits from this week (okay, I do have a lot of favourites :)). I just love that yellow satchel (from Cambridge Satchel Company in case you need one- and yes you do!), Topshop trousers and her beautiful red hair. And do you note the little red lips around her neck? Perfect.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

Sunday morning and The Perfect Green Jacket appeared before me.


Love.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The beautiful Taylor Tomasi, style and accessories director at Marie Claire (US) magazine. I just love everything she has worn this week AND she is just so, so nice. She is patient and always smiling despite being constantly asked for photographs.

Running With The Fash Pack...London Fashion Week SS 2010

The adorable Mabel who I photographed outside the Louise Goldin show yesterday! Adore her red boots, blue coat and little owl pendant. I have photographed quite a few littlies over the course of LFW and will upload the photos over the coming weeks.