Happy birthday to the Queen

The Queen of Hoxton is celebrating their second birthday this week. To celebrate, they have loads of super cool parties planned. I love parties. Want to party with me?

On Saturday the 5th of March, they are having DISCO of a party and we have a pair of tickets to give away. We all know that 70s flares are in, so dancing to New York disco legends is very appropriate.

Terms and conditions

1. Over 18's only, there may be booze involved
2. The event is in London, so you will need to be able to get to East London for it
3. You may have to dance with me at some point

So if you feel like partying, leave a comment and tell me what you would do as Queen for a day. The competition will end on Thursday (03/03/2011).

If you want to get tickets anyway, you can get tickets from the Queen of Hoxton website.

Fi x

Palladium Party

Vivienne Westwood is launching a couture line of Palladium jewellery in March (more on it here). It's pretty great. I think I need an oak leaf precious metal crown in my life. I went to the launch party last week in the swish Wallace Collection (thank you Lara from Slam) and had a blast.

Highlights: Telling Roisin Murphy I loved her and Dame Westwood making eye contact with me.

Check out the Acorn Crown on Jesse J, it's no j-oak.

Hannah Marshall and Roisin Murphy being really cool.

If you look into my eyes, you can see that I am actually squealing like a pig with excitement. 

Lowlight: None.

My beautiful date Sarah from The Enchanted Hunters. Thanks Jen from StyleEast for the picture

As of right now, I am going to go cut some oak tree leaves and spray paint them silver for my own crown.
Fi x

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This evening, I intended to go to the Clarks Originals Guerilla gig where one of my current favourite bands Summer Camp were playing, head home and eat some tofu. This required minimal effort dress-wise. Gig chic is something I am well practised at.

However, my phone rang at about three o'clock today. My cousin offered me a ticket to the production of Wagner's Parsifal by the English National Opera. Cue a fumble on the phone and a moment of hesitation until I squeaked "eh YEAH". One could not miss an opera-tunity like this. Opera chic does mean dressing less like a Shoreditch-twat and more like a West End Woman. I am not so practised at that. I felt like I needed one of those magazine guides of "How to transform this transitional piece from your breakfast meeting outfit to your quick sexy lunch date and quick fumble in the bathroom outfit in one move".

I think managed to succeed my outfit challenge in the end though.
Summer Camp were amazing. (Girl fan, me? Non!). Thank you Clarks Originals, Strummerville and Clash Magazine for that.

Wagner was amazing. The Colosseum for the ENO is just breathtaking. Thank you Julie's friend for cancelling on such short notice.

A last minute decision was made not to wear my leather shorts. Leather shorts do not show respect to Wagner.

Wearing a H&M blouse I got on sale, a vintage skirt from Magpie Vintage in Madrid and my Luella bag

x Fi

Weak for.. OC x Rodarte

Little house on the prairie meets Billyburg hipster.  Swoon.

All images taken from Opening Ceremony.

Repeat. Swoon.

x Fi

What happened at the end of Marie Antoinette?

Last week, I hung out with some hot bloggettes in Soho Hotel with thanks to Most Wanted Voucher Codes. Voucher codes can help you save money on the high street. They also let bloggers loose in photo booths. (I will be uploading to our Facebook a lot of pictures of girls on film).

My writing is faint.. The cards say "SaveOurShoes love your face!"
Cardigan is from Boden and purple crop top (just seen) is from Sunday Up Market

After a lot of cake eating, we all piled ourselves onto very comfortable chairs in Soho Hotel's screening room to watch Marie Antoinette. It is such a beautifully shot film, making me lust after macaroons and a towering French bouffant. Due to my lame curfew, I left before the end of the film and never saw what happened.

Guess our emotion! Milly, me and Lucy

Marie Antoinette (aka Kristin Dunst) gets abducted by aliens, right?

Thank you Helen and the Voucher Codes team for such a great evening.

x Fi

Clarks Original Idea

So, I have this association of Clarks with school shoes, those shoes with the key hidden in the sole. Anyone else remember them?
Now that I am all grow'd up and no longer deem it necessary to keep keys in my shoe, Clarks Originals are a bit more me. They are a bit cool and original nowadays. Lots of desert boots, (essential in any self-respecting hipster's wardrobe). To celebrate their new Spring Summer collection, Clarks Originals have launched a pop-up store, on 101 Regent Street in Central London. The best thing about the campaign is the fact that there will be guerilla gigs, as part of a collaboration with Strummerville bands. Shoes and tunes; my idea of a dream shop.

My absolute favourite thing in the shop were the Laura Ashley Desert Boots. Serious shoe sole-mates.

The pop-up shop is going to be going on until the 20th of February. See you at the guerilla gigs?
Thank you Amber for letting me know what was going down.
x Fi

Amelia's book

Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration is one of the most beautiful books I have ever seen. It is my new bedtime reading.

The book features lots of talented illustrators who use their illustrating skills to showcase ethical designers. I don't often buy fashion books, but I made an exception for this one. It is colourful (points for colour) and all the interviews seem really personal. It is in no way pretentious, like a lot of fashion books can be. If you have any interest in ethical fashion, this is an amazing reference of designers and can give you an insight into their design process. It fits in with my own personal reasons to blog, to try and support young, world-friendly, independent talent.

Speaking of young, world-friendly, independent talent, my dear dear friend Jasmine sent me an illustration of me in my Goodone dress. It was one of the greatest things to find in my inbox.

Fiona loves Jazz more.

After getting this book, I want to doodle more.

x Fi

Granny doesn't like to bitch or to eat junk

I bought some KILLER velvet wedges from Bitching and Junkfood.

My great friend Sarah and her great house-mate Amy hosted a Granny Party last weekend. I made a statement with my outfit. The juxtaposition of the granny jumper and plum skirt against the sexy shoes is just perfect.

Jumper and skirt from my local Charity Shop, shoes from Bitching and Junkfood

Granny doesn't like to bitch or to eat junk. She just likes wearing hot shoes.

Glasses from a flea market in Berlin, Hairnet borrowed from the Granny Odhran next to me

Happy weekend!
x Fi