Isle of Wight Festival 2011

So, its 7 days until the famous Isle of Wight Festival and its manic in the office - its totally non-stop with sorting out tickets (including my sister ringing me every minute to ensure there are tickets set aside for her) and dealing with artist requests.

I'll be heading down to Newport early next week and I can't wait for this years extravaganza to begin; we have the most amazing line up this year - The Foo Fighters, Pulp, Kings of Leon, Kasabian to name but a few. I assure you I will be documenting all the backstage fashion.... watch this space!! 

Also, I thought I'd share with you pictures of Isle of Wight Festival past. 

Soap soaked audience Isle of Wight 1969

Jimmy Hendrix at the Isle of Wight 1970

The Who - August 1969, the 2nd Annual Isle of Wight festival

Marsha Hunt and White Trash, Isle of Wight Festival, 1969

Isle of Wight Festival, 1970

Source: The Guardian, Google, BBC

Oh, don't forget to check out some of the gorgeous vintage gems we've recently uploaded onto our store on  ASOS Marketplace HERE.

Happy thrifting

Ola xxx

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Pretty in Pink, Purple, orange, blue.....

Hey lovelies,

We are super excited about our recent shoot - apologies it taken so long; everyone has been beyond busy with normal life and the many distractions London has to offer, but that's for another post. Without further ado, we can finally bring you some of the gems we brought back from LA.

The order of the day was colour, and I hesitate to use the phrase "colour blocking".  This  phrase has been bantered around so much in the last few months that I almost feel embarrassed using it, so apologies again... there was some colour blocking, gorgeous jumpsuits in an array of colours and the pièce de résistance… divine vintage dresses.

I have to say my favourite piece is the hot pink/fuchsia silk dress; its so soft and I wanted to melt right into it when I tried it on! What's your favourite?

Oh, you might see we have a new model alongside our MUSE, Jody. I roped in my gorgeous friend Jojo - not only was she an Olympic athlete but is an amazing singer/song writer and I’m sure you will agree, a fantastic model too.

One last thing, its been a while since we've done a giveaway, so we were thinking of gifting one of our lucky followers one of our vintage dresses, not sure which one though, any thoughts? Although there are more stunning dresses to come.

We will be uploading these gorgeousness and more over the next few days, so do keep checking our store on ASOS Marketplace - here. 

Happy thrifting

Abi

xxx

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Mission Accomplished!

 It all started with a phone call from a film director friend and ended with us styling a video for hot new band Toodar. If their song "Ten Paces" doesn't make top five in the charts we'll eat our handbags!



The band -TOODAR


VJA style a video? Simple we thought - we'll sources clothes and accessories and work our magic. Well if only it was that easy. We had four  glamorous actresses to style as Grecian Goddesses. Yikes! 

Well this was no mean feat as this meant designing AND making the dresses from scratch, no patterns, no sewing machine (don't ask) and just armed with Ola's great sketches, and then sew them all by hand!  

There were long nights and early mornings before the 1st fittings and just before the shoot on Sat but it's been so worth it.

1st fitting of dresses

 
We walked on set on Sat morning to see a large film crew who'd been busy at work since sunrise. Toodar created the video treatment of a sumptuous, decadent feast and the final set looked amazing

Director Kerri Mclean (right) with Assistant Director Jeff Yiu

  

Aless Goktuna working her make up magic

 

The band in custom made waistcoats designed and styled by Maria Dagher



 But as you can see below we did it and Toodar loved them (phew!). What do you think?

   Would we do this all again? Absolutely!



Models taking a break under the rose tinted lighting



 Or at least with a sewing machine and a pattern cutter!!

Love

VJA

 

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HAPPY EASTER

Happy Easter lovelies. I’d love to take credit for this beauty but my baking skills leaves a lot to be desired. Nicole and Kadi made this gorgeous, scrumptious chocolate cake and it tasted as lovely as it looked. I hope you all had a great day. xxx

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Cheesecake Factory.

My training partners have been raving about Cheesecake factory for ages, but to be honest I am not that keen on cheesecake and the fact I’ve given up chocolate for lent meant I couldn’t even enjoy my favourite desert; choc fudge brownie. Luckily there are only 2 more sleeps before I can get more chocolate feast on! Nicole is organising our annual Easter egg hunt and I’m looking forward to her yummy choc cake… I’ve been promised the biggest slice!

Kim was 21 again - seven years running!

My coach - Tony

My training partners - Kadi and Nicole

 My training group.

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Coachella fever

I'm back from LA next week, I'm quite looking forward to coming home... missing my gorgeous nephew and BF. We will be doing a new photoshoot for our ASOS Marketplace  collection as soon as i get back - can't wait for you guys to see the dresses Jody and I picked up at the flea markets.

In other news, It was Coachella fever here in Cali over the weekend, I couldn’t turn on the radio or watch some celebrity news without hearing fab music or seeing cool festival fashion…. plus the fact that its all over the blogsphere. So if anyone's interested I thought I’d add my two cents worth too on the my fav looks...

Abi xxx

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