Paris Men's Fashion Week 2010.....Boys, Boys, Boys and a Dog (actually 2 dogs!)

Boys, Boys, Boys at Paul Smith's men's show on Sunday, absolutely my favourite collection of models during the shows. Bravo to the casting director for using guys of all ages, races and varying degrees of facial and bodily hair.

And an additional bravo to the person whose idea it was to serve Magnum Temptation Fruit ice-creams before and after the show! Genius. It is always lovely to have champagne of course, but an icy treat in the searing afternoon heat was perfection. Some people (not naming any names of course) managed to score two ;)







Robert Rabensteiner, Fashion Editor L'Uomo Vogue, with a friend's puppy (below). Another photographer and I looked after him while his owner was watching the show....we tried to give him some water but he was more interested in trying to snuffle up the ice-cream drips which had landed on the ground than the water :)

One of the models with Anastasia Barbieri (below):

One cute puppy I sneaked a photograph of on my long, hot walk to Paul Smith:
Models, Magnum ice creams and Beer after the Paul Smith show:
p.s. you can click on the collage to make it larger

Paris Men's Fashion Week SS 2011...Girls Under The Influence

Girls Under the Influence of Boys.

One of my absolute favourite looks is women wearing menswear inspired pieces (or indeed actual clothes borrowed from their man). So I was especially excited at the Kenzo men's show to see girls on the runway (Valerija Kelava, Caroline de Maigret, Hannelore Knuts, Joana Preiss and Jenny Shimizu) wearing pieces Kenzo's creative director, Antonio Marras, had created for the boys.

After the show, Caroline de Maigret, model and record producer (her label is Bonus Track Records), above and below.

Paris Men's Fashion Week SS 2011....Suzie Bird

The incredibly pretty and super nice model Suzie Bird outside the Paul Smith show.

Paris Men's Fashion Week SS 2011....Wild Child

Outside Kenzo

Running With the Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

The gorgeous Miss Sara again.

p.s. Am madly packing for a little trip to Paris for a couple of days-I just checked the temps and it is going to be hot, hot, hot! See you all when I get back (with some new photographs I hope. I bet a lot of you will be sighing with relief to have a little break from the Aus photographs!)

Melbourne Street Style....A little Bit Willow

Willow top.
At GPO, Melbourne.
Love her ring and bangle...and her cropped hair!

Melbourne Street Style....Sweater Days

Sometimes there is nothing better than slipping on a white tee, throwing on an oversized sweater, and pulling on a pair of jeans.

On the High Street, Armadale, Melbourne.

Running With the Fash Pack.....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Tania Braukämper, Editor, Fashionising.com.

Running With the Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

London Street Style...Summer in the City #1

Ahhhh so this is what you do with all those pretty string and leather bracelets, shell necklaces, and exotic pieces that you buy on holiday*.....pop everything on with a simple summer dress, braid your hair and slip on some sandals like Rikki (an actor from Norway) has here.
Denim teeny-tiny shorty-shorts accessorised with Chanel and stripey tank:
*Does anyone else seem to find themselves buying little pieces of jewellery on holidays (and feeling extraordinarily pleased with oneself because no one else back home will have exactly same thing) and then pulling them out of your suitcase and wondering exactly when/where/how you are going to be able to wear them again? Or is that just me?! I think sun+afternoon cocktails+relaxation turns my willpower to mush :)

Running With the Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Kat George, Melbourne-based freelance journalist and blogger, whose blog Stylelines you can take a little peek at here.

Running With the Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Nina Stolter, journalist (for Stylesight in NYC), whose fab outfits and even more gorgeous jewellery I kept fawning over during Australian Fashion Week. After oohing and ahhing over her industrial-pretty necklaces, Nina informed me that they are from her own collection, Von Kottwitz jewellery, which she started in 2004 (and named after her mama who is from Berlin).

Each piece is handcrafted by Nina in her studio and is incredibly well priced, especially when you consider how much mass-produced, high street jewellery costs (which every other person is then wearing).


Nina teamed her necklace with her mama's vintage top and Alexander McQueen sandals.

The Parallel necklace in gold....not sure where Nina got her snakeskin leggings and gold top.

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Aileen Marr, Fashion Director, Cleo Magazine, in Kirrily Johnston long leather skirt.

Melbourne Street Style....A little bit Collette Dinnigan

Collette Dinnigan dress.

Running With The Fash Pack....Australian Fashion Week 2010

Running With the Fash Pack...Australian Fashion Week 2010

Double-denim broken up with checks.

Karen, Where Did You Get That?

Probably a lot of you are already familiar with Karen from Where Did U Get That blog. But if you aren't, well, meet Karen!

Karen is from London but is now living in New York (lucky thing!) with her boyfriend and while we have been emailing each other for about a year now, we haven't ever met up in real life. So when Karen said she was coming to London and asked whether I wanted to catch up, I jumped at the chance. And took along my camera, of course :)

It was a (non-rainy) summer's day in London and we headed to Somerset House to take some photos. Only problem was, it was the opening night of the Maison Martin Margiela exhibition so we kept getting shuffled along by security (no invites to the opening were forthcoming, unfortunately!). Karen was a complete delight and we chatted about London, New York (she regaled me with stories of driving a car in NYC-it sounds terrifying!), fashion and photography.

So where did Karen get that?

Her dress is DVF, boots (men's) from a thrift shop, bag Alexander Wang, and her hat was borrowed. Karen's coral and gold ring is YSL and her pendant is from a street vendor in London
p.s. you can click on the collage to make it bigger.