Up Close And Private

If you haven't heard of Up Close and Private I urge you to visit their site. The team bring out a new issue of inspirational imagery every season and have done for 3 seasons now. Up Close and Private is described as,


"An on-going project by Sergei Sviatchenko which looks to capture the spirit of modern style, as seen through the subtle shades of the individual. Through these details a complex discourse between clothing, fashion and image take form, offering new perspectives on contemporary fashion and identity."


These images are all from the Spring/Sumer 2010 edition. If you ever feel stuck for outfit ideas and colour combinations this is the must-go-to destination for a quick fix. They have also recently ventured into capturing womenswear too, bonus.

Christmas Treat: Boldstar* Footwear

Trainers aren't high priority on my wish list right now. Brogues, stand alone blazer and heavy cords all being above, admittedly trainers weren't even on the list until I saw these suede/leather mix beauties by Japanese label Boldstar*. I know very little about the brand other than

oki-ni are currently the only online stockest. I'm really into the minimalistic look that the leather and suede creates in the muted tones. They also come in a few different colours, my other favouite being these black and white pair.

I think I will be treating myself when new year comes around.

Available at oki-ni

London Fashion Week

Now, like most people in the fashion world, I have been totally obsessed with all what's been going on, on the catwalk's over the past few week. Especially London Fashion Week, at the MAN shows. Twitter has been going mad and the morning of the MAN show I was over ridden by all the tweeting going on by fellow bloggers, Cillian Male Mode, Steve Style Salvage, Ian ASOS Tweets, Elliot and Steve Buckstyle and even Topman had Steve from Style Salvage tweeting on their behave. I'm going to leave the review of the shows down to the expect this time, because I don't think I can do them justice, may favourite coverage came from Fashion165, they were reviewing each show as it happened on their blog, even the much smaller shows. They were pulling off some great coverage of the street style that was going on too.

I do feel like I'm missing out being so far up north but it was weird, I felt so close to it at the same time because of twitter. The world really is getting smaller. Still well gutted I didn't get to see the MAN show, Carolyn Massey's show look superb.

One thing that caught me eye was some of the more avant garde shows like Ziad Ghanem’s collection, in collaboration with Firetrap, entitled "Maiden Britain’.

Not for the faint of heart, this collection at first glance is mostly unwearable, but when you break it down it really isn't that insane. Ok some of it is a bit wacky but some of the details are really inspiring, like the also jodhpur/ plus 4 esque jeans, sleeveless sheer shirts, union jack totes, 80s style patterned work-out pants and spike denim accessories (see more close up images at Vogue UK ). All looks weren't complete without Creepers, the crepe soled, stacked shoes, which were all courtesy of T.U.K. All the ones you would expect features, including leopard print, black and white and the tres style hi-shine all black ones.

A pair of creepers is still a high priory on my wish list, Susie Bubble sure is getting a lot of wear out of her. Crepe soles seem to be big business the a/w with offerings from Emma Cook at Topshop and Alexander Wang all doing the rounds at the moment. Are you going crepe the a/w?

Images T.U.K's blog