lets get some shoes......

A busy week it had been and Tincarabell has been trying out the straight and narrow; wake up; get ready; work; home; food; sleep. She managed to last 4 days before bursting at the seams and meeting with PR girl Stephanie Dove for a well deserved glass of white wine and a 100 mile an hour chat about the life and trials of their weeks. Oh, and the bar [with boy models for barmen] they were sat at happened to be neighboring office shoes where they peered in at and spotted these:

She couldn't resist:


And so Tincarabell wears top [Hussein Chalayan]; Skirt [3.1 Phillip Lim]; tights [Falke]; shoes [office]

running in heels

Its the beginning of the week again and the to do list is back up to full capacity for the week. Tincarabell is back at the HQ where she is the PR intern, busying away with the equilibrium of samples entering and leaving the press room, and running as fast as her heels can carry her to and fro from the reception to deliver packet after packet to the couriers patiently waiting at the entrance.
This afternoon, whilst sorting through the never ending google alerts Tincarabell made a discovery of what happens when fashion and cupcakes collide [and no it is not Manhattan's magnolia bakery - as good as it is...] this is what sprung up on he slow and cumbersome PC [ahem- she totes is a mac girl...]

Its the end of the day and Tincarabell has taken off her heels.... she wears shirt [MiH]; bag [Peter Jensen]; Skirt [pins and needles @ Urban Outfitters]; Tights [Urban Outfitters]

mmmmmmmm pudding.

After completing Tincarabell's first week at her new job working as part of the in house PR for a high profile fashion house, dealing with visits from Vogue and sending packages to such people as Natalia V's people, Elle Macpherson's people and Peoples Revolution, she heads to Covent Garden to meet Stephanie Dove and Helena Fleur. She arrives on Neil street for a cocktail or few before heading for dinner at the Hospital Club. Sipping on Perrier Jouet, they had a feast of mini shepherds pie and mini fish and chips and mini sausage and mash followed by passion fruit meringue pie with coconut ice cream.

Last night Tincarabell was dressed in: dress [Chanel]; Tights [House of Holland]; Shoes [Topshop]; headscarf [Celine]

Bringing back the Burb

For quite some time I have been on the campaign to bring "back the burb" from the sunken world it unwillingly dove into. Whilst submerged under the sea of chavs in their checked hats and scarfs, it's brand image was in a fairly volatile state...
I however loved it and wanted it. Maybe the fact that it was founded in Basingstoke [which I am half Basingstokian] had an effect?! Anyway, I perchaced a classic Novacheck scarf back in the day, possibly subjecting myself to be added as a member of the newly labeled Chav tribe of the the 90s, but swiftly putting it at the back of my cupboard along with my denim jacket and other such 'i would rather die than be seen in' items after this was brought to my attention. Yet as the denim jacket looked less like a b*witched costume and found it's way back on to my back a couple of years ago the Burberry scarf came out too. Trying to recruit new members was of the movement was harder than I had anticipated however, few truly believed in it. But there was a small number and they wore their checks with pride.
So, as their brand says, prorsum [which is of course Latin for forwards]. And forwards they certainly have come; Christopher Baily put the check back in fashion with the exploded version adorning the models in 2006 [see above]. Finally, their A/W collection is soooo much of a winner, there are people bringing out the sheerling already, even though it is verging on summer....

Now where's the red carpet?

After looking through the fleet of dresses worthy of the Met ball last week Tincarabell picked her favourite to try on for size.......



Tincarabell teams Chloe Sevigny's Proenza Schouler Dress with: earrings [Topshop]; shoes [Jeffery Campbell @ Office]

Tincarabell likes a bit of Rouge.

And so, another day another dollar as they say, back to work after a action packed, fun filled weekend.
Yesterday Tincarabell awakes to what sounds like the helpless wails of a distressed cat pumping out of her sister's laptop [no, it was Sophie Ellis- Bextor], so running away with an early exit from the house, along to the polling station to match her bright red nails to her vote.

She also discovered this, get ready for a gigglathon .

Tincarabell is wearing [amazing digital print] dress [prada]; sweatshirt [Ashish for Topshop]; shoes [office]; tights [falke]

How to fill a bank holiday

It has become a bit of a tradition to spend the weekend sipping on Moscow Mules with her girl friends so as another long weekend sprung upon us this meant a whole extra 24 hours of indulgence. Friday night saw Sarah Knits and Tincarabell dancing around a friends front room to anything that involved Nikki Minaj lyricing on the track until the small hours when they decided to retire home to the nest. The following day Tincarabell met with Helena Fleur and Ana Star-Sia their for weekly catch up over some cocktails under the midday sun, turning into evening rain finishing with night time cold and a bottle of Perrier Jouet.
A rainy sunday morning diddnt rain on her parade as she marched along Bethnal Green Road to Miss Esme's Birthday Barbie where they sipped Gin and Tonics and nibbled on barbiqued pinapple [very yum] beneath a very proudly erected gazebo, all before changing into some ankle breaking footwear and prancing along to the Macbeth to prance about some more.

Monday was a write off of course.

Tincarabell wears jersey trousers and Belt [Rag & Bone]; Neclace [Tatty Devine]; Shirt [cos]; shoes [3.1 phillip lim] glasses [Vintage]

I I ♥ ♥ Double Double Denim Denim

Tincarabell and her good friend Sarah Knits have been busy setting up their debut accessories company Poodove [more info to to come, watch this space...]. And so has been busying away at the sewing machine, cutting up vintage shirts and skirts to create pieces for their collection. Denim, being one of the original working uniform inspired today's look......

Today Tincarabell wears her favourite jeans by MiH; dress [Zara]; necklace [Tatty Devine]; hair band [Tincarabell for Poodove]; boots [Christopher Kane]

Tower above it all

After a weekend of possibly a possibly too many fun and games [involving bottles of Perrier Jouet -courtesy of her good friend Helena Fleur and a constant stream of Moscow Mules mixed with love and above all merriment by Ana Star-Sia, all whilst enjoying the baking April sun...] it's now back to life. And what better way than to tower above the world in these ankle-breaking House of Holland x Charlotte Olympia boots, its the only way... onwards and upwards.

Today she wears Shoes [House of Holland]; Trousers [Peter Jensen]; tshirt [BDG @ Urban Outfitters]

From Primark to Prada

Today was an unexpected day off, so Tincarabell met with her friend Stephanie Dove and skipped off to the park with some tasty treats to nibble on whilst sitting in the sun and watching the ducks in a nearby pond. After an hour or so of gossiping and such, they head into Ealing Broadway shopping center, delights there include but a few. And so they decide to go and mock Primark, they are soon eating their words as they find and perchance matching hairbands....... this find however is not enough to quench their thirst and so they head over to look in The Village @ Westfield, here Tincarabell spots these Vuitton sandals.....

Today Tincarabell wears Sandals [Louis Vuitton]; Headwear [Primark]; Acrylic ric rac Necklace [Tatty Devine]; Jumper [Alexander Wang]; Shorts [MiH jeans]

This was playing on her iPod as Tincarabell went for a run in the park with her big black Labrador in the evening sun:

Dance Hall Queen- Robyn and Diplo

Look what she found....

Yesterday after a morning of trying on pair after pair of jeans on the 3rd floor of Selfridges, Tincarabell met her mother to fill her head with something of more importance and less frivolity by going to the V&A. The destination of choice being the newly installed Grace Kelly exhibition which had of course sold out for the day so instead they headed over to the highly recommended Quilt collection instead. After acclimatizing to the heavily air conditioned galleries she looked at wall after wall of incredibly detailed and intricate specimens dating from hundreds of years ago to 2010. [Who would have thought that some old blankets could capture ones attention for well over an hour?!]
They then proceeded home via TK Maxx to see if any bargains could be found. In luck they certainly were finding this Luella jacket for just £47! woooo!

Wearing: Jacket [Luella]; Jeans [Serfontaine]; crop top [Topshop]; Sandals [YSL]; Clutch bag [Judith Leiber]; Headwear [Peter Jensen]

Eyes on Ears

I love a bit of glow I do, here are some glowing Tatty Devine earrings.

Last year my university collection had hundreds of £s of glowing particles printed on digitally printed topof Jerseys and silks; have a lil' look here if you wanna...

TV EYES

[Click on image to see the Tatty Devine blog.]

Today being a beautiful sunny day I was in pretty much top spirits until I put my hand in my bad and discovered I had left my sunglasses at home [unhappy face] however whilst setting up for the Tatty Devine press day tomorrow, I had a little game of dress up with the Jeremy Scott x Linda Farrow TV sunglasses, this filled my eye shading void.......


look how awesome they are, complete with mini aerial! [available from Tatty Devine's Covent Garden Boutique]

7th Man Magazine Launch

Last night I attended the 7TH MAN MAGAZINE launch at Whiskey Mist with the Tatty press girls where we sipped on absinthe laced cocktails and were surrounded by an army of perfectly formed male models. The magazine itself is a high-end men’s fashion magazine aimed at the socially aware fashion conscious men of the 21st century. Flicking through the pages, I liked what I saw, a collective of some nice photographs and good styling, different to that of other male fashion magazines around- avoiding overly camp shots resulting in an answer to a gap in male fashion editorials. Furthermore with with Kenny Ho as the senior fashion editor [possibly one of the nicest people in fashion, I came to find after meeting him at the launch] this magazine has no reason why it can't be on to a big win. Though as the models filtered away from the funky house absorbed club and the millionaires and the prowling beautiful girls trickled in, it was time for my departure back to the real world where I caught the last tube home back to the west side.

the sun has got it's hat on, hip-hip-hip-horay.

Tincarabell had a fun-filled, sun-drenched weekend, good job she had her Eley Kishimoto sunglasses to shield her retinas.
Starting off her weekend at the Hospital members club in Covent Garden with her champagne drinking friend, they sipped on Perrier-Jouet and nibbled on wasabi bar snacks, these were a particular favourite.
The rest of the weekend consisted of eating copious amounts of food and drinking pitchers of cocktails with friends under the sun [and at times clouds]. Bliss.

She wore; trousers [ADAM]; Top [Cos]; Shoes [Miu Miu]; Sunglasses [Eley Kishimoto x Linda Farrow]

Show me your teeth

an orange view of a grey day

Today the sun was hiding behind the weeping clouds as Tincarabell walked the streets of London. Usually this would be a miserable state to be surrounded in but today this meant she could wear her House of Holland [sun]glasses- they have no UV protection and not good in the sun but are perfection wear to brighten up a grey day such as this one.

Today she wears Skirt [Peter Jensen]; Top [Cos]; Shoes [Alexander Wang]; Pexi glass Glasses [Linda Farrow x House of Holland]

Ice Cream shaped expanding foam

I have been working on the new window display for the most recent collection form Tatty Devine and today I installed it. Using hundreds and thousands, pastel paints, PVA, expanding foam and fake icecream cones, it looked good enough to eat [though if one did, they would probably be in trouble]

click here to see/shop the collection

No Threads

Photographed by Mario Sorrenti for the Spring 2010 issue of Vogue Hommes International, Miss Kate Moss takes off all her clothes and larks about on a beach.

Happy Easter

For Easter Tincarabell awakes to find the Easter bunny has come and delivered lots of little chocolate eggs around her house to collect, which she and eats them all before lunch time...oops! Tincarabell then walks town the street to pick up some yellow and white flowers to match her yellow and white ensemble and strolls along to her friend Ana Star- Sia's house for an Easter lunch where she sips on champagne and feasts on piglet and lamb, eating so much she can hardly move and is practically popping out of her Chanel.

For her Easter outfit, it is all about Sunday best: necklace [Mawi]; skirt [Chanel]; shirt and top [Christopher Kane]; shoes [topshop]