With thanks

Today was cold with that low wintery light I forgot existed when I lived in Australia. We drank fresh coffee and got excited when stray snowflakes fell on the street. We walked through McCarren Park and down empty roads which usually throb with life. 

Cultural differences are one of the most exciting aspects to living in a foreign country and I didn't grasp the magnitude of Thanksgiving before living in America. The concept is pretty awesome- like Christmas without the flagrant commercialism and it's nice to stop for a minute and think about everything you have to be grateful for. For me it's amazing friends and family, moving to New York and creating a life with someone who makes me laugh everyday, fresh coffee and snowflakes. Its been a tough year but I'm feeling pretty grateful right now. 

{Jacket: Topshop, sweater: H&M, shirt: H&M, shoes: F21, trousers: Sportsgirl, accessories: vintage}

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Hello forgotten friend

I bought this vintage Christian Dior blazer a little over four months ago when I first came to New York. I arrived in the midst of a heat wave, when the sun beat relentlessly down and at the time I remember thinking I'd never been so hot in all my life. Just the idea of a wool coat in the sweltering July heat was enough to bring on heat rash and I couldn't even bear to look at it. Pushed away into a suitcase and forgotten about, I pulled it out last week for the first time.

{Outfit: Blazer: Dior, skirt: Forever New, shirt: H&M men, boots: Zara}

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Wardrobe Block...

I've been suffering from a little writers block of late, and not to mention a slight existential wardrobe crisis too. How can it be that I have closet positively bursting with clothes I love, yet at the moment, nothing feels right. Each morning is a merry dance of trying on at least six outfits before discarding the majority into a crumpled heap of sorry looking rejects. Anyway, this was a lucky one which managed to make it past the pile...

{Outfit: Jacket: Topshop, Dress (worn as top) COS, Skirt: Vintage, belt: Zara, boots: Wittner, watch: Citizen}

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Seeing Spots

{Leopard print dress: Beacon's Closet, belt & clutch: vintage}

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Cropped Chop

I inherited my love of vintage from my mother.  Years ago, (the mid nineties when cropped tops were in- cringe) I completely desecrated one of her fabulous Liberty print scarves. I chopped it in half to create a backless halter neck top and now all that remains of the once beautiful silk scarf is one sad little sliver bearing the Liberty name. After this I think my poor mother did well to hide other vintage treasures from the fate of my dressmaking scissors. That was until recently when she, assuming I was past the stage of cropped tops, let me look through her collection of vintage pieces. There amongst Biba scarves and the remnants of Liberty, was this amazing silk skirt which she had made from a 1950s housecoat. 

In other news, this week Kate Moss and I have something in common- we're both sporting a home-cut fringe. Whilst she arrived at the launch of her final Topshop collection looking glossy and gorgeous after 'getting bored one night and cutting it with kitchen scissors', my attempt didn't work quite as planned (see above)- hair appointment has been booked.

{Skirt: Vintage, shirt: H&M, heels: River Island (£10! sale!) accessories: vintage}

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