The maestro of streetstyle shots, Tommy Ton, has returned to Jak & Jil after residing at Style.com for what seems like an eternity - though really it was just a few months. Feast on the details he has collected over that time, he has dumped the Motherload of photos on Jak & Jil!
My Christmas baubles from Allsaints. These earrings are going to glam up even the most casual of my Christmas outfits - the balance between hardware and sparkles is sublime!
You may or may not remember my despair at River Island's refusal to deliver to my door! Well, be careful what you wish for, because now they deliver Worldwide and my credit card has another website to fear! I find the brand great for on-trend coats and everlasting boots - I have been wearing the black boots pictured here 5 days a week for a year, with no sign of them giving up the ghost yet.
She's the coiner of the phrase, the curator of wrists, the hostess with the mostest (bracelets!)
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the charming and irreverentLeandra Medine of The Man Repeller - the reason why, before I walk out the door, contrary to the advice of Coco Chanel ("Take one thing off"), I put three more bracelets ON! Everybody's invited to The Arm Party!
Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I mean a really brief nanosecond, I feel bad for the High End Designers. I mean, they put all this time & energy & inspiration & craftsmanship into creating the perfect embodiment of the fashion zeitgeist and then stores like ASOS and Zara come along and BAM - there it is for a tenth of the price! Don't get me wrong - I get over this pretty damn quickly - especially when I get to snap up little beauties like these ASOS creeper wedges when the Burberry version is very much out of reach. I doubt Christopher Bailey is losing any sleep though - there will always be enough Russian Oligarchs to keep the High End going! I once read an interview with Alexander McQueen where he said 70% of his business was selling fur coats to Russians. For now I'm happy with Zara.
I keep gravitating towards the grey marl section in every shop - just what is it about it that makes it so goddamn cool?! I'd be more in the Zara market (pic 2) than the Acne bracket (pic 1) budget-wise, but there's no doubt that throwing on a piece of grey marl adds that perfect nonchalant model-cool to an outfit.
Spot the pattern in my recent buys? No? There isn't one you say? Let me enlighten you. It's that we haven't had one single brief GLIMPSE of a summer this year in Ireland. I haven't bought one t-shirt. Neither a flip nor a flop. The only reason I bought sunglasses was to shield my eyes from the wind & rain on the dash to the car. I have been consoling myself and keeping warm with long sleeved, even cosy pieces.
I fell for these rings the second I saw them - and when I saw they were priced within my reach, unlike most things my that catch my magpie eyes, I felt like buying a cartful! After hours of agonising over stones while I should have been working, I settled for one - this one. I love it. Ottoman Hands.
I uttered a sizeable chuckle when I came across this detail shot from the studio of Oracle Fox, one of my daily reads. It's resemblance to my bedside table, below, is uncanny! Yes, yes, I'm fully aware that shiny woodland creatures and crystals are very much the zeitgeist and the placement is purely logical, but COME ON! With great minds like these, we should surely be bffs! The dried hydrangea is from my mothers garden - it looks good basically forever.
Some moodboards I made & clothes I pulled for the Festival Wild Child Shoot (below). The bottom left images are me trying to make a breast-plate using every necklace I own.