Well it has been a while hasn't it! A lot's been going on including my laptop having a complete hissy fit and breaking (probably due to being lugged around the country a fair few times!)
So last time we spoke I was home for Easter break and i'm sorry to say that i've now decided that University was a really REALLY bad idea. So after yet again travelling down south to pick up my stuff i'm now home, for good. Well apart from the month and a half over summer when i'll be looking after my sister's little cherubs.
Now some of you will be thinking, WHAT?! How could you give up uni, especially when you were doing so well on such a great course?! Well yes I was doing really well and the course was great but a word of advice, when choosing your university, make sure the city is right for you, which Southampton wasn't for me, I wasn't happy there at all! And yes I am much happier back up north with, as my best friend puts it "Normal people, well maybe not normal but at least we belong!"
I've bought a new laptop, and will be carrying on with my dream of becoming a writer and with this blog just minus the prospect of a piece of paper, otherwise known as a degree!
Sorry this post is a bit of something and nothing but i'm trying to get to grips with a new machine (so not tech savvy) and after i've been to Edinburgh next weekend you will have lovely new posts to look forward to, thank you for being so patient with me!!
Monday, 16 May 2011
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
What's New?
I'm so lucky to know so many talented, wonderful photographers, and even more lucky that they want to photograph little old me!
Recently I did a collaboration as a stylist with Charley Miller, a very talented photographer whose work you can see at her blog: We Have Faith
We had a discussion about how no fashion trend is new any more and that modern fashions have come and gone before and will come and go again. This inspired a project in Charley where she focussed on the 1960's, and I was happy to lend my styling to it.
I also modelled for the project and here are some of Charley's favourite images from the shoot:
Recently I did a collaboration as a stylist with Charley Miller, a very talented photographer whose work you can see at her blog: We Have Faith
We had a discussion about how no fashion trend is new any more and that modern fashions have come and gone before and will come and go again. This inspired a project in Charley where she focussed on the 1960's, and I was happy to lend my styling to it.
I also modelled for the project and here are some of Charley's favourite images from the shoot:
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Hips Don't Lie. (Unfortunately)
There is staple wardrobe items that apparently every woman should own. I don't think I own any of them apart from maybe a pair of black trousers but they've never been worn since I stopped being a waitress two years ago. Oh and about seven LBD's but that's more down to the fact that they're beautiful dresses rather than being a staple. I don't own a pair of black court shoes, I don't own a white shirt and I most certainly (as you're about to find out) don't own a pair of jeans!
You see jeans are a bit of a sore subject for me, I find it impossible to find any that fit me. My trouble is I think I have an odd body shape, i'm slim yet curvy, my top half is a 6-8, yet my bottom half seems to differ day to day, it is no smaller than a size 10.
So what's the problem I hear you ask, just buy size 10 jeans, but no, in jeans I appear to be no size, when a pair fit comfortably on the waist, they're stretched to oblivion everywhere else, when they fit comfortably on my very curvy derrière they gape at the waist. Sometimes I can't even get them above the knee and end up leaving the changing room in more than a bit of a huff.
So sadly today I came to the conclusion that I am destined to live my life in dresses, which is fine by me, I love dresses and they're great for disguising my rotund hips and bum but there are days where i'd quite like to dress down in a pair of skinny jeans and a white t-shirt pretending to be James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, and unfortunately that dream is over for me.
You see jeans are a bit of a sore subject for me, I find it impossible to find any that fit me. My trouble is I think I have an odd body shape, i'm slim yet curvy, my top half is a 6-8, yet my bottom half seems to differ day to day, it is no smaller than a size 10.
So what's the problem I hear you ask, just buy size 10 jeans, but no, in jeans I appear to be no size, when a pair fit comfortably on the waist, they're stretched to oblivion everywhere else, when they fit comfortably on my very curvy derrière they gape at the waist. Sometimes I can't even get them above the knee and end up leaving the changing room in more than a bit of a huff.
So sadly today I came to the conclusion that I am destined to live my life in dresses, which is fine by me, I love dresses and they're great for disguising my rotund hips and bum but there are days where i'd quite like to dress down in a pair of skinny jeans and a white t-shirt pretending to be James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, and unfortunately that dream is over for me.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Inspirational Women - Elizabeth Taylor
It really was inevitable that the sad sad news today that Elizabeth Taylor has died aged 79 would spark an Inspirational Women post. I don't really have that much to say because, well she speaks for herself. Even hearing her name you have the image of a woman forever glamorous.
Elizabeth Taylor, the last of Hollywood's Golden era, an incredible woman who started her acting career in 1942 aged 10 in There's One Born Every Minute but whose most famous role was Cleo in the 1963 film Cleopatra.
Taylor was beautiful, stylish, talented and more than a bit of a man eater having been married eight times to seven different men!
They say a photo speaks a thousand words so here are some of my favourite photos of our Liz...
Elizabeth Taylor, the last of Hollywood's Golden era, an incredible woman who started her acting career in 1942 aged 10 in There's One Born Every Minute but whose most famous role was Cleo in the 1963 film Cleopatra.
Taylor was beautiful, stylish, talented and more than a bit of a man eater having been married eight times to seven different men!
They say a photo speaks a thousand words so here are some of my favourite photos of our Liz...
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Inspirational Women - Kathy Lette
Today is not only Shrove Tuesday, in fact I don't see the big deal with what we call pancake day, why do people get so excited? Do they not realise that they can eat pancakes every day of the year if the so wish!
Anyway... As I said it's not only Shrove Tuesday, but it's the 100th International Women's Day! Which is far more exciting in my opinion, and what better way to celebrate on Cameos and Espadrilles but to have an Inspirational Women post.
My inspirational woman for the month is Kathy Lette, and i'm so lucky to have just been to a guest talk with her. She is an absolute hoot!
For those who don't know who Kathy is, she's a novelist, a mother of two, a journalist, a singer, a sitcom writer and a feminist. (However she doesn't like that word, she prefers to call feminists "The Clitterati.") Oh and she once turned down the chance of a date with George Clooney!!
Kathy wrote her first novel 'Puberty Blues' aged 18, while she was still living in Australia, and it was made into a film in 1982. Kathy's written an impressive 11 novels in the past 34 years along with everything else she's done in her career.
Kathy is fun and funny, successful and smart, and all in her own right. She's not afraid to say what's on her mind and to stand up for herself and women everywhere. It's International Women's Day and my Inspirational Woman is Kathy Lette.
Here's Kathy receiving her honorary degree from Southampton Solent University in 2009.
Anyway... As I said it's not only Shrove Tuesday, but it's the 100th International Women's Day! Which is far more exciting in my opinion, and what better way to celebrate on Cameos and Espadrilles but to have an Inspirational Women post.
My inspirational woman for the month is Kathy Lette, and i'm so lucky to have just been to a guest talk with her. She is an absolute hoot!
For those who don't know who Kathy is, she's a novelist, a mother of two, a journalist, a singer, a sitcom writer and a feminist. (However she doesn't like that word, she prefers to call feminists "The Clitterati.") Oh and she once turned down the chance of a date with George Clooney!!
Kathy wrote her first novel 'Puberty Blues' aged 18, while she was still living in Australia, and it was made into a film in 1982. Kathy's written an impressive 11 novels in the past 34 years along with everything else she's done in her career.
Kathy is fun and funny, successful and smart, and all in her own right. She's not afraid to say what's on her mind and to stand up for herself and women everywhere. It's International Women's Day and my Inspirational Woman is Kathy Lette.
Here's Kathy receiving her honorary degree from Southampton Solent University in 2009.
Saturday, 5 March 2011
The Trends According to Red
Since starting a degree in Writing Fashion and Culture in September i've started to read a lot of magazines that before I probably wouldn't have even picked up. I was always a huge Elle and Marie Claire fan and would also buy Vogue if I was feeling flush or if there was something I just had to read about in a particular issue.
But of everything new i've started to pick up the most surprising to me personally is Red Magazine. I'd always thought that it wasn't for me, not for another 20 years anyway. I've learnt that there target audience is around 28-44 and so maybe 20 years was a little over exaggeration as i'll be 28 in five.
But I really enjoy it, I'm always on the website and even follow Sam the editor and Sas the deputy editor on Twitter. (You can follow me @kaylrichardson)
But i've not come here to just big up Red, I've come to show you their latest trend predictions, how spot on they are and how they choose the most perfect example photographs!
So here we go, the trends according to Red:
1. New Denim - Dionae mid-rise cropped boyfriend-fit jeans, £200
2. Seventies - NW3 Flyhook dress, £179
3. Cobalt Blue - Blue Caligola ankle strap sandal, £395
But of everything new i've started to pick up the most surprising to me personally is Red Magazine. I'd always thought that it wasn't for me, not for another 20 years anyway. I've learnt that there target audience is around 28-44 and so maybe 20 years was a little over exaggeration as i'll be 28 in five.
But I really enjoy it, I'm always on the website and even follow Sam the editor and Sas the deputy editor on Twitter. (You can follow me @kaylrichardson)
But i've not come here to just big up Red, I've come to show you their latest trend predictions, how spot on they are and how they choose the most perfect example photographs!
So here we go, the trends according to Red:
1. New Denim - Dionae mid-rise cropped boyfriend-fit jeans, £200
4. Colour Blocking - Colour Block Dress, H&M £24.99
5. Modern Preppy - Loose Blazer, H&M, £29.99
6. Shades of Orange - Orange Mini Bag, Pauric Sweeney, £459
7. Modern Tailoring - Blue Belted Superwide Leg Trousers, Wallis, £20
8. Military Style - Wool-Felt Coat, Burberry, £2195
9. Leopard Print - Leather Moccasins, Zara, £19.99
10. Tough Leather - 'Francesca' Sweatshirt Dress, Reiss, £66
11. Ladylike Lace - Lace Yoke Blouson Blouse, Miss Selfridge £35
12. Capes - Hooded Military Cape, Asos, £75
13. Army Green - Wool Belted Coat, Aubin Wills, £600
14. Classic Camel - 'The Skinny' Low-Rise Cord Jeans, Current/Elliott, £129.50
15. 60's Chic - Cross Stitch Bag, Orls Kiely, £200
So that is Red Magazine's 15 trends of the minute and my one choice from each. My favourite trends at the minute are the '60's and the '70's, but then that's what I wear no matter what's considered a 'trend'.
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Shopping in 1999 A.D.
While looking for images of what people in the 1960's thought the world would be like today (It's for an article i'm writing for uni) I came across this short video of how they thought we would shop in 1999.
We may not be living in bungalows on the moon but they sure got internet shopping, online banking and e-mail right!
And well the 1930's (approx) did foresee mobile phones and ipods, but I don't know any bride who's worn a dress made of glass and I certainly wouldn't wear a 'transparent net dress to catch the males' or would I be attracted to a man who carried 'candies for cuties!'
We may not be living in bungalows on the moon but they sure got internet shopping, online banking and e-mail right!
And well the 1930's (approx) did foresee mobile phones and ipods, but I don't know any bride who's worn a dress made of glass and I certainly wouldn't wear a 'transparent net dress to catch the males' or would I be attracted to a man who carried 'candies for cuties!'
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