“So, the perfect woman is the one who, with what God has given her, whether she’s beautiful or not beautiful, has the intelligence to make the most of her assets and go beyond them to the maximum to become an exceptional creature. More so because women have far more power than men to put themselves on show their make-up, hairstyle and clothing means they can go much further. The perfect woman isn’t necessarily the most beautiful in the world but the one who, with what she’s got – her intelligence and the strength of character manages to transcend herself and become a magical creature.”
Ali Mahdavi
Taken from interview with TANK Magazine on the topic of cabaret at Crazy Horse, Paris.
www.lecrazyhorse.com
www.tankmagazine.com
kiss.
Saturday, 18 September 2010
ABOUT ME
1.I can’t pronounce honest.
2.I cringe over everything.
3.I hate okra.
4.I’m teaching myself French.
5.I have an innate fear of slugs and snails (slugs being the number one killer). I even walk in the middle on the road when the sun goes down so I don’t have to encounter one.
6.When I was little I used to eat sand. Even now I have urges to cop a handful when walking past a building site.
7.My best friend was the first person I spoke to in secondary school and we’re still best friends 12 years later.
8.I have a Godson and he is the most beautiful thing ever, which is just as well as his Mom is my best friend.
9.I originate from a tiny village in Uganda called Gulu. You may have seen it on Children in Need, Comic Relief, Fall Out Boy “I’m Like a Lawyer” video. Those last bits are not jokes, as funny as they sound.
10.I have developed such a fear of dentists I have pulled a tooth out with eyebrow tweezers (I say tooth but only 75% of the bugger came out, the other 25% is still lodged back there)
11.Nothing annoys me more than ignorance and rudeness.
12.I’ve had two near death experiences.
13.I hate pairs and like things in odd numbers
14.I have a thing for moustaches
15.I have elected to become celibate until marriage
16.As a child I wanted to be the following things in no particular order, stripper, astronaut, fashion designer and fireman.
17.I cannot stand Marc Jacobs. Or his designs.
18.I would never chose a bloke over a friend
19.But I have had a friend chose a bloke over me
20.I cry at every
21.Except things that I should cry about.
22.I read the Bible every day and go to Church every Sunday. Can you tell I love God? (although there are a few times a year when I cannot)
23.I’m having to make this list up to 25 because I got the heeby jeebies about ending it at 22.
24.I can’t sleep unless the TV is on and the curtains are NOT drawn. In fact my room doesn’t even have curtains now.
25.During my life I have had/have 15 piercings (16 if you include the belly button self piercing fiasco at the age of 14) and 4 tattoos.
kiss
2.I cringe over everything.
3.I hate okra.
4.I’m teaching myself French.
5.I have an innate fear of slugs and snails (slugs being the number one killer). I even walk in the middle on the road when the sun goes down so I don’t have to encounter one.
6.When I was little I used to eat sand. Even now I have urges to cop a handful when walking past a building site.
7.My best friend was the first person I spoke to in secondary school and we’re still best friends 12 years later.
8.I have a Godson and he is the most beautiful thing ever, which is just as well as his Mom is my best friend.
9.I originate from a tiny village in Uganda called Gulu. You may have seen it on Children in Need, Comic Relief, Fall Out Boy “I’m Like a Lawyer” video. Those last bits are not jokes, as funny as they sound.
10.I have developed such a fear of dentists I have pulled a tooth out with eyebrow tweezers (I say tooth but only 75% of the bugger came out, the other 25% is still lodged back there)
11.Nothing annoys me more than ignorance and rudeness.
12.I’ve had two near death experiences.
13.I hate pairs and like things in odd numbers
14.I have a thing for moustaches
15.I have elected to become celibate until marriage
16.As a child I wanted to be the following things in no particular order, stripper, astronaut, fashion designer and fireman.
17.I cannot stand Marc Jacobs. Or his designs.
18.I would never chose a bloke over a friend
19.But I have had a friend chose a bloke over me
20.I cry at every
21.Except things that I should cry about.
22.I read the Bible every day and go to Church every Sunday. Can you tell I love God? (although there are a few times a year when I cannot)
23.I’m having to make this list up to 25 because I got the heeby jeebies about ending it at 22.
24.I can’t sleep unless the TV is on and the curtains are NOT drawn. In fact my room doesn’t even have curtains now.
25.During my life I have had/have 15 piercings (16 if you include the belly button self piercing fiasco at the age of 14) and 4 tattoos.
kiss
VOGUE UK OCTOBER ISSUE
I’ve had a real battle this month with whether to buy UK Vogue or not. I mean Cheryl Cole.
Hmm.
I will indeed eventually depart with the 4 GBP it’s gonna cost me as you know you gotta be in the loop to err be in the loop but I’ll just pretend there is a real fashion figure on the front … say oh Vivienne, Piaggi, Campbell, Renn, Del Russo etc. You get the point.
kiss.
FASHIONS NIGHT OUT
My laptop has caught charger AIDs and I am unable to charge the bleeding thing and I never, ever go on the downstairs computer but alas I have been forced to come on down.
However, not all is lost, as I am posting about a var exciting little thing that took place on Wednesday.
This Wednesday gone, also known as the 8th of September saw the Vogue Fashion Night Out take place over our lovely London streets. The aim of the night is to open up the retail opportunities of London fashion to the mass thus increasing the economic weight of both the high street and the designer and in turn giving fashion a larger platform in our UK economy. Considering the dire state of affairs maybe fashion can help plug the sink that is draining us into increasingly spiralling amounts of personal and national debt. But enough of all the serious jizz … FNO saw stores laying on free drinks, DJs, goody bags, celebrity PAs and a chance for all to become engrossed in UK fashion even if only for a night. With Stella McCartney having Stella cupcakes, Daisy Lowe mingling with the crowd at Biba, House of Fraser, Giorgio Armani playing up to the cameras at his Armani store Party or sinking a free glass of bubbly at Coast it all equalled the same thing … FUN. And copious amounts of it at that. I however took a route to Biba to check out their relaunch collection for 2010 and then jetted off down to New Bond Street where I was ‘spose to pop into Mulberry but got side tracked by Claudia Schiffer strolling across the street. Err, what the egg. So following the scent I headed over to the Armani party, where I tried to waltz into the proceedings, I got as far as the lobby where I hung around for fifteen sweet minutes before my cover was blown. Not all is lost though I did manage to blag a spot in the press pit and chatted with the sweet paparazzi guys. I love the banter of working men.
Anyhoo my attempts at being a pap are shown above and judging from these the men I was with have no reason to worry about their jobs. News of the World will not be calling me anytime soon.
Now let’s play a little game of “who is this Sophie has attempted to take a picture of?” In the mix we have Daisy Lowe, Mr Armani, Natalia Vodianoka, Tallulah Adeyemi, Amber Le Bon and Amy Molyneux.
Some other things I quickly learnt,
1. I need a better camera if I am to attend more fashion events and blog them to you more professionally. My little Argos buy crumbled under the flash bulbs of it’s bigger and better cousins.
2. Everyone in fashion (or at least at the Armani party) is either skinny or fabulous (99.999% are both)
3. Natalia Vodianoka is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my whole entire life
4. Everyone in fashion (or at least at the Armani party) can walk in sky high heels
5. If you know the right people you can waltz straight through into a fashion party with just an air kiss
5. Fashion is definitely where I belong
Those my fine friends are the main six points I learnt and from them I have given birth to six action points to make them happens
1. I am going to put all my change, notes and coins, into a huge glass bottle and once it reaches camera buying point, break the damn thing and purchase myself a bigger, badder and better SLR than the one I’m currently wielding.
2. I am officially back on my ‘no junk cos it goes to your trunk’ diet and am running every other day for a minimum of thirty minutes.
3. Well no action really needed on my part here I’m sure Natalia can handle being as beautiful as she is without my help
4. I am going to wear heels (starting off with little court heels) whenever I get a temp job so that one day I can wear heels further than my bedroom door.
5. My fat ass is going to schmooze and get on down to more fashion events, parties etc, even if it means going solo. I’ve gone to three now and each by myself and not felt awkward of nothings.
6. And by actioning all these actions and acing my BA, BTEC and then MA with flying colours.
So if you didn’t make it this year, come on down in 2011 where I’m more than certain the outing will be an even more glamorous success.
For details of the night and professional pictures check out
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/100909-fashions-night-out-2010-roundup.aspx
kiss
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
BIRMINGHAM TAKE III
Yes I know it's like Birmingham ... again. But it's pucker tho ... honest!
So Friday saw the First Light Digital Documenters team head up and in some cases across and down to Birmingham, Aston University. That is we all come from right across the United of Kingdom, hmm. But anyhow we spent the weekend being trained by real life Film Producers and Directors and even had a session with award winning documentary maker Mandy Chang.
It as a funny, informative and interesting weekend where I realised I am not good with filming, so I stuck to taking photographs for my team and generally frolicking around making sure people were happy I think 'moral booster' was my unofficial job title on the film making days.
We happened to squeeze in some drinking and dancing hours into the mix. Including watering holes with names such as Sacks of Potatoes which for all the parcularity of the regulars sold apple vodka and lemonade for 99PENCE which in itself is reason for Sacks of Potatoes to deserve my favourite pub of the week award.
In search of a little dance we headed off into Birmingham town and after decreeing the underground raves of Rainbow Courtyard too expensive. 10GBp for crying out loud, do you know how many Kinder Bueno's I can get with that? Yes, a lot! - we headed to Broad Street. Which is like an eposide of Brits on Holiday or Essex Nights or actually just as the beautiful picture the even more beautiful Suzee, one of the Manchester crew, took exactly the sort of place we all love to hate or hate to love as the case proved to be.
We also enjoyed breakfast, lunch and dinner together which proved to be the biggest bonding experience of the whole weekend. Nothing like fighting your way to the dessert table to bring a group of people together. You know my cheesecake loving ways proved to be handy here. But alas, the cheesecake was make of ANGEL DELIGHT? Still ate it though.
And the rooms we had were truly bigballs. I even took a picture to prove it. Although waking up to watch Bruce Willis in dodgy 90s film did shock me but that's not the University's fault more BBC's late nate programming. But all is not lost though, during the 47 seconds I managed to watch I saw one pretty nice moustache. Check it and rate it.
So that ladies, cats, dogs and gentlemen is the third Birmingham installment in the last two months. Sweet.
Kiss.
So Friday saw the First Light Digital Documenters team head up and in some cases across and down to Birmingham, Aston University. That is we all come from right across the United of Kingdom, hmm. But anyhow we spent the weekend being trained by real life Film Producers and Directors and even had a session with award winning documentary maker Mandy Chang.
It as a funny, informative and interesting weekend where I realised I am not good with filming, so I stuck to taking photographs for my team and generally frolicking around making sure people were happy I think 'moral booster' was my unofficial job title on the film making days.
We happened to squeeze in some drinking and dancing hours into the mix. Including watering holes with names such as Sacks of Potatoes which for all the parcularity of the regulars sold apple vodka and lemonade for 99PENCE which in itself is reason for Sacks of Potatoes to deserve my favourite pub of the week award.
In search of a little dance we headed off into Birmingham town and after decreeing the underground raves of Rainbow Courtyard too expensive. 10GBp for crying out loud, do you know how many Kinder Bueno's I can get with that? Yes, a lot! - we headed to Broad Street. Which is like an eposide of Brits on Holiday or Essex Nights or actually just as the beautiful picture the even more beautiful Suzee, one of the Manchester crew, took exactly the sort of place we all love to hate or hate to love as the case proved to be.
We also enjoyed breakfast, lunch and dinner together which proved to be the biggest bonding experience of the whole weekend. Nothing like fighting your way to the dessert table to bring a group of people together. You know my cheesecake loving ways proved to be handy here. But alas, the cheesecake was make of ANGEL DELIGHT? Still ate it though.
And the rooms we had were truly bigballs. I even took a picture to prove it. Although waking up to watch Bruce Willis in dodgy 90s film did shock me but that's not the University's fault more BBC's late nate programming. But all is not lost though, during the 47 seconds I managed to watch I saw one pretty nice moustache. Check it and rate it.
So that ladies, cats, dogs and gentlemen is the third Birmingham installment in the last two months. Sweet.
Kiss.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
SHINY THINGS
So from tomorrow I will be up in Birmingham for three days from Friday to Sunday for documentary film training with First Light. I'll try and sneak some pictures in to show you when I get back what we got up to (both working and at play). Then Monday I jet off to Glasgow for the bestest best cousins birthday then get back Tuesday night, catch up with the world for a day then off to Fashions Night Out on Wednesday. No sooner than I can get in a scrambled egg the next day I start two weeks work at BDP in their Clerkenwell Studio. Soon as we finish that four days later my BTEC Photography course kicks off at Kensington and Chelsea and then some time there after the BA in Journalism and Media sets sail.
Throw in posting out eBay items to my wonderful customers, updating ze blog, sourcing and uploading new vintage items for said eBay shop and gearing up for LFW at the end of September and I'm starting to think no sooner than I thought I had some time off I'm right back in the mix. And I LOVE it.
I'm overwhelmed by how my life has progressed in 2010 and especially so after God rescued me from the evilness that lurked in my life at the beginning of the year and even more so at that office job. It shows that if you believe you can achieve.
So in light of this here are some shiny things and some cheese roll quotes to inspire.
"Action is the foundational key to all success" - Pablo Picasso
"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it" - Unknown
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - Dr. Seuss
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too"- Will Smith
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance" - James 1:2-3
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance" - James 1:2-3
Shininess can be found on Karmaloop.
kiss.
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
BIRDCAGE VINTAGE
Is my new vintage fashion project under the alias Olive Birdcage.
"Selling sex hot vintage fashion without the super fat price tag, each item has been sourced for its unique identity and ability to turn heads and we hope something from Olive's Birdcage will soon be flying its way over to you"
That's my business vision or something there of.
Obvs I've started with humble beginnings on la eBay but to build a mansion you gotta start of with a single brick.
Check if it lives up to the vision at ... http://shop.ebay.co.uk/birdcagevintagebyolive/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1
I've already made me £27.08
Wicked that ints it.
If you like what you see make some bids and if not send me a message with what you're after pay me some quids and I'll hunt it down for you, even if it is a t-shirt made of squids or trainers with pictures of kids.
kiss.
SEPTEMBRE
So we begin the slow decent into winter people. Or fast actually, as September is always a month full of exciting change and new beginnings. For example we have the SS11/12 collections to look forward to, fashion forecasting begins for next year, the academic year renews itself for a crop of students fresh or worn out from 'summer', etc. This Sept I have the birthdays, Glasgow, documentary film training in Birmingham, photography course kicks off, work at a design company (more of which later this month) and generally carrying on this wonderful journey that started with the firing of oneself from dreadful IT training company.
But before we get into the swing of Septembre fully, here are some chicken bites for the month.
1. The 8th sees Fashions Big Night out. Check out http://fashions-night-out.vogue.co.uk/ for more informazionz. And mayve just mayve I'll see you down there
2. Maison Martin Margiela '20’ The Exhibition leaves Somerset House on the 5th of September if you haven't paid it a visit yet make sure you give it a spin before it leaves www.somersethouse.org.uk/fashion/maison_martin_margiela_20/
3. If you have to put up with the drag of school uniform, give yours the edge and save some monies in the process with 35% off school attire at American Apparel http://store.americanapparel.co.uk/backtoschool.html
4. Jet off and enjoy the last of the summer sunshine in Europe with Ryanairs cheap as Primark jeans prices
5. Head on down to your nearest Religion store and pick up some lusciously delishballs fashion. Just feast your eyes on two outfits from their AW10/11 collection. Yummy. Scrummy. Tummy.
6. Lastly catch Offset Festival this weekend (4-5th) for some fresh musical talent without the cockheadedness and ridiculous price tags of those mainstream festivals. Plus it;s in Eshix (Essex) init.
But MORE than anything, whatever you do make sure you have fun!*
kiss.
*as long as your idea of fun doesn't harm, involve criminal activities, hate of love/others etc. THAT I woulds not likes.
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