P is for Photographer...

A photographer I have been interested in for a long time is Bill Cunningham, born in 1929. He has chosen an unusual life to some, as he has spent most, if not all of his time focussing on his work. He is a street style photographer working also with fashion shows, VIP events and his close friends/celebrities. He has become a very well know photographer all over the world being invited to the top fashion events and having his work featured in The New York Times capturing some of the world’s top socialites. He is spotted by his blue coat which is featured in the image below.

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Around a year ago I watched a documentary on him and his work, being interested in street style myself I find him such an inspiration. The image below shows a piece of his work where he montaged various of his photographs together and a short description about what he had found the trends and styles to be on the streets.

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I went to Paris Fashion Week in 2013 and the image below shows a piece I created from my own street style shots mimicking Bill’s style. I didn’t look at a particular trend, but instead at formal men’s street wear in general, I was using this piece as my research for my second year University studies so it had to link to that. It wasn't hard to find as it was fashion week everyone had come dressed to impress!! From my research in Paris and online I created two garments from it which are also shown below, a long men’s winter coat and fitted suit pants for AW13. I passed my second year so I guess it worked out well!!

London Fashion Week Baby!

Okay, so I went to LFW Day 2 yesterday! It was my first fashion week experience and I was like a giddy puppy, even at 5am when I woke up! My friend Charlotte and I won tickets with Vodafone UK on Facebook, and wow, what an experience. We were greeted in the private Vodafone lounge with our invitations, with complimentary champagne and croissants and after around 40 minutes of sipping champers (at a naughty 10am) we were shown through to the catwalk show ‘Holly Fulton’ which was so exciting! The models floated past in a beautifully designed Autumn/Winter collection that I attempted to snap pics of calmly.

After the show we hovered around in Somerset House on The Strand whilst I took some shots of the street style and glamorous outfits’ people wore to get spotted. We also bumped into the cast of Made in Chelsea and got a cheeky pic with Spencer! I then walked down to Trafalgar Square to see how the fashion and Style was around London away from Fashion Week, there were still some great outfits as I chased after people with my camera. By this point I was done and in dire need of a G&T so we headed down to the River Thames where we came across a boat that said ‘bar downstairs’ so we clambered on and G&T in hand sat on the deck taking in the surroundings and reminisced on the time we had had at fashion week.

Then dead on my feet and sleepy we headed back home, I had the biggest smile on my face after having the best day of my fashion career ever!! Hope you like this post as much as I enjoyed my day! x

If you would like to see the videos I cought of the catwalk show follow these links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDOPuKB6CM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgG9H7RVFSw

From left clockwise: Me in the Vodafone lounge, the bar, two other contestant winners from Paris, me and my friend Charlotte, Me outside in Somerset House and me and Charlotte in the Vodafone lounge.

This, the youngest member of the audience! Lucky little fashionista or what!?

Holly Fulton Catwalk Show AW14

Made in Chelsea Cast in Somerset House

Street Style shots in and around London

I couldn’t resist some tourist shots!