Sunday 14th Sept: "The First Law of Kipple" by Dan Tobin Smith at The London Design Festival

Whilst London hosts its seasonal fashion week over the course of the next few days, the city is also showing its finest works in the Design Festival found in locations and venues dotted in-between the fashion show sites.  Yesterday I darted back east to make a destination trip to this studio space transformed into a spectrum by Dan Tobin Smith in his project "The First Law of Kipple".  Obviously this was a kaleidoscopic treat for me and a little home-from-home  familiarity with the chromatic collection of kitsch paraphernalia!  Check out more on the official site and Dan's own page here.

Saturday 13th September: LFW SS15 - Holly Fulton

                           

If you are down at Somerset House in London for Fashion Week you will notice this omnipresent pattern created for sponsor Lavazza by Holly Fulton for their cafes around the site including the beautiful silver airstream bus.  Her show was my first of the season, with this cosmic illustrated invitation and Flower Appreciation Society special hand-tied bouquets on the front row as indication of the collection's inspiration.   Holly's muse came from the Anglo-Saxon sun goddess Eastra via the Scottish artist JD Fergusson's sculptures after his partner the dancer Margaret Morris.  The vibe was "sun-worship, folk art and self expression" with patterns in the form of heavenly heavily encrusted detailed 3D sequin & crystal flowers.  I have a feeling SS15 is going to be a very floral season so Holly's unique interpretation is sewing the seeds for the next shows to follow in Milan and Paris........   

Tuesday 9th Sept: "Dimensions & Outlook" by night, Croatia

For full explanation of this end of Summer blow-out music festival set across two weekends and various locations of Pula, Croatia - please see previous post on Dimensions & Outlook.  

Majority of these photos by me and some stolen from my accomplice partner-in-crime Teo Connor's Instagram WProject.  

Here you can see Loren, Sara and Nell from WorkIt and new venture FAM agency, who represent artists that dj'd at the festivals - inc. Rivah and Siobhan Bell snapped in this group shot from the Lauryn Hill concert, supported by Andrew Ashong (silhouette above) and Fatima (also above, singing with Funkineven at the Eglo Records stage).

Tuesday 9th Sept: "Dimensions & Outlook" by day, Croatia

I began the year welcoming in and celebrating New Year's day by dancing under the stars and palms on the beach in Tulum at the Young Turks Music Festival.  Incredibly it has panned out that I started as I meant to go on, with more travel to follow and foreign festival antics.  Last week we made our Summer holiday as the second part to our Winter sun by re-grouping for a trip to Croatia for both Dimensions and Outlook Festivals.  Fort Punta Christo in the port town of Pula has become home to these consecutive events with stages set on the beach, sprawling to the ruins of an ancient fort in the woodland and back up to the main harbour's 2,000 year old Roman Amphitheatre.  Therefore I  had a myriad of different musical experiences including swimming in the sea at salmon-pink sunset listening to a set from Mo Kolours ................. to literally drowning in beats and a thunderstorm downpour whilst dancing to (the aptly named) Floating Points ............ to a magic twilight surprise of an unexpected 2nd appearance from Caribou in the forest clearing ............. to a gigantic stadium scale sound-system concert from Lauryn Hill in the amphitheatre .............

The only integral institution that I managed to miss was joining the daily boat parties which we did try to catch up with on recommendation of a James Bond style motor-boat out to track down the departed party, but funnily enough that vision didn't quite come into fruition .......... but that's another story!

Here are a mix of photos from general Pula sight-seeing, beach lazy days and dancing with our extended crew of the FAM network including CKTRL, BlackFoot Phoenix & James Massiah.   See the following post for images from the night-time perspective of the festivals..

Thursday 4th Sept: "Pack Mentality" in The Sunday Times Style

A year of running and a year of banging on about how it has changed my life via the space on this blog seems to have rippled out further into the running community and consciousness. Earlier in the summer I was approached by The Sunday Times to take part in their "Fit Not Thin" campaign as a face for the feature on women who run.  Here I am in snaps from the shoot day with fellow feisty females Emily Deyn, Claire Chanelle Bedford, Flossie Saunders and Elle Hankinson.  A few of us are coincidentally part of RunDemCrew and cast alongside fitness blogger Chouquette and SStyle journalist Flossie - all demonstrating in unison that its possible to fit time into our schedules for fitness.  Both Elle and Emily travel alot with their work but tie in running whilst away to discover cities and train for upcoming races, such as Elle's epic Ultra Marathon.  I'm currently abroad myself ( on holiday however) in Croatia so I haven't had a chance to read the report yet, but you can find the full article here, and Chouquette's Blog here.  I will refrain from repeating myself on the virtues of the urban sport as it's all in previous posts and I want to keep content fresh and fun, rather than slipping into potential preacher mode of this movement!........... but really, I can't recommend it enough!!!!!  LOVE IT!!!!

For the shoot I styled myself in my dream techno-colour combination of leggings by Primavera Fitness, Stripey top by Auria and shoes, windsheeter and sportsbra by NIKE.