Once you taste fashion there is no going back - GFW 2010

Graduate fashion week is on at the minute at Earls Court, where all the best colleges and Universities in the UK come together and show off their student's work on separate stands.

I went to the De Montfort Show today and was impressed with what I saw! Really awesome prints and patter cutting going on! Blogger Susie Bubble was sat next to us at the show, and I must say, really loved the shoes!

I envy having the time/space/money/resources to design a collection based on anything I wanted, things would be so different if I was to design a new colleciton now.... watch this space!

Collection by Anna Lee

Collection by Donna Marie Ratcliffe

Collection by Elisabeth Winter

Bag by Abigail Westrup

If you don't see it at CSM, you won't see it anywhere else

I attended the Central Saint Martin's Ba show held at York hall in Bethnal Green last week and was able to take quite a few good pictures (388 to be precise....)

Selecting which ones to post has been really hard work as every student had an impressive and innovative aspect to their collections.

From daring to daft, it is obvious how CSM have to the reputation they do. It's not only about fashion but also about art.

I have really enjoyed going back through these pictures and recalling some of my favourite outfits that I'd forgotten about as there were so many students showing, some of them actually made me laugh! Awesome!

So take off you hiking boots and slip on you stilettos as down and out does fashion

I really loved this collection because it reminded me of this blog, not down and out in the tramp sense of the word but in a exploring and discovery sense

This is the one that made me laugh out loud! Chicken legs? On a bag? How can you possibly go wrong!

This is wicked menswear! I really like that all the outfits are so different from each other but work really well as a collection

Naked women... on clothes!

This is the daring one... I assume you can see why! Looked really impressive on the catwalk. When all the models got to the end they altered the look of the collection by inflating the outfits, changing the silhouette

These clothes are so much fun! They just say, get over yourself fashion world, please!

I was really impressed by these 'ice shoes'

Home wear fashion?

And for the grand finale.... women on stills! this was crazy! and I'm pretty everyone in there held onto their seat quite tight dreading what could possibly happen!

Out & About round regent's canal

Regent's canal goes on for miles!! I just found out you can actually get all the way to London Zoo on Regent's Park via the canal (how amazing!) Although it would be a pretty long walk, but hey if the weather and time are on your side these is NOTHING to stop one!!

I took these pictures on a minute stretch of the canal, as neither the weather or time were on my side unfortunately, but still managed to see a quite a few pretty cool thing to take pictures of....

...And so it begins. I've heard of little Venice but don't really know that much about it. Is it actually like a small Venice or is it just not, at all??

I cropped this picture down because I really like all the different levels in one shot. This lock is close to Victoria Park. I find lock really fascinating, great fun to play on too!

Awww... I think this looks really sad. I mean, if you were a bike you couldn't really be in much worse shape... Although I guess the paintwork is in pretty good nick

Living on a barge would actually be awesome!! At least for a year, experience all the seasons then move back into a house! They are sooo good to photograph too!

*note to self - do a barge post

And this is EXACTLY what I'd have on my barge a hand painted watering can and kettle in the top to use as flower pots, genius!

JOKER!! I always wonder how people manage to get to such random places to do graffiti, bearing in mind this is a train line on a bridge above the canal

Isn't it awesome how you can be in a really grotty place in East London whilst being able to see the stunning and modern looking Canary Wharf in the background

Beasts of England

These pictures were taken during a walk along the Thames, where I went with the clear mission of photographing the London Eye so I could use it in on my blog title (see above!). I had never noticed how many animals there are EVERYWHERE, maybe if we were to keep an extra eye out we'd come across many other things around us that we are simply oblivious of.

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the Golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o'er thrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.

Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,
Though we die before it break;
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,
All must toil for freedom's sake.

Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken well, and spread my tidings
Of the Golden future time

Glorified pigeon on a column

I really like how he seems to have just been plonked on a random ledge! this is near Trafalgar Sq. close to a Wetherspoon's pub if I remember correctly, which in the past has proved to be a cheap stop off place after hours of walking round.

This is the Hero of the hour! He is on the bottom of lamp posts along the river, on the North bank, pretty much opposite the London Eye. As IF i hadn't ever seen them before!

This is just a door handle to a shop or something but by this point I'd already got carried away and was seeing animals everywhere!!

Opposite the National Gallery

Can't remember... but I like the colours on this one

If you look closely you can see the dome on the top of the National Gallery reflected on the metal

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You might recognise this little fellow?!

And back to where we started, on the banks of the river (stood running bear... sorry couldn't help it! you know when you hear something and then a song just plays in your head??)

I'm aware that my blog is slowly yet surely becoming a bit of an Orwell fan site, especially with some of the ideas I have in mind. I'm not even a massive fan really it's all happening by accident so I'm just going to go with the flow, see what happens and all that!