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Giveaway is Now Closed

Dear all,

our giveaway on Vivienne Westwood handkerchief is now closed.

Thank you for everyone’s comments.

Winner will be announced tomorrow.

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GiveAways: Vivienne Westwood Hankerchief – ending 25.Nov

This giveaway is ending on 25th of November.

Back in September we hosted our first giveaway and received a huge response, with the holiday season just around the corner, we thought it’s about time we had another one. This time the giveaway is a Vivienne Westwood handkerchief in white cotton. The handkerchief has a ‘towelled’ texture and has a blue shooting stars pattern. It’s 100% cotton and measures 27 x 27cm.  I recently purchased two – I decided to keep one to brighten up my bath room and thought I’d give the second one to a lucky reader – and voila, here’s your chance to win it!

We would like to invite as many readers as possible to have a browse through our blog and tell us your favourite topics or features. What type of posts do you enjoy reading? Which type would you like to see more of? Currently, our regular features include ‘I love you Back‘, ‘Catwalk Details‘, ‘Fashion Windows‘, ‘Outfits‘, ‘Fashionology‘, ‘Wish List‘ and ‘In Your Bag‘.

This giveaways is ending on 25th of November. Here’s how you can enter:

(1) Entry: Leave a comment about our blog, tell us what you like about our blog and what you want to know!

(2) Entry: Follow us through Google Friend Connect (you can find a link to it in the column to the right of this post) Also feel free to follow us on bloglovin!

(Also, welcome!)

(1) Additional Entry:  Follow us on @QueenYoung and @Awais and RT our tweet about this giveaway. You should follow both of us.

(1) Extra Entry:  Write about this giveaway on your blog and leave us a link in the comment section of this post.

Each reader can have a total of 4 entries, let me know how many to put you down for! Obviously the more of these things you do, the bigger the chance to win this Vivienne Westwood delight!

The giveaway winner will be selected randomly and announced on 27th of November. The winner has one week to response, otherwise we will draw another winner. Good luck everyone! x

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From Now To Then

Selfridges has opened up an exhibition in honor of Dame Vivienne Westwood sponsored by Melissa. The exhibition is located at basement of Selfridges ‘Ultra Lounge’. It’s simply too many gems there.

a lot of them look a bit worn which add on more value of the collection…

each design is labeled with name and the year of launch…

Apolo sandals…

the famous Rocking Horse Ballerina….is one of true originals from 80s…and you can still order these designs from Westwood’s World’s End boutique on King’s Road with around £400-500. Though waiting time is around 4 weeks, it’s definitely a worth waiting purchase.

…I clearly remember this printed toe-shaped multi-straps shoe from year 2002, because I was so close to own them at Davies Street Boutique but lost them to another client just entering the shop before me…damn!!

now these babies are just looking so ‘Current’ and ‘Acceptable’ to wider audience, but back to 15 years ago, those curved heels were a shocking design!

…and with my amazing fashion memory from teenage time, this baby is from 1994…and when I check the year on the label, I’m so proud I was damn right!

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Too fast to live, too young to die

Right after the Paris Menswear Fashion Week ended and right before the Couture week started, Paris played host to a new fashion event – Paris Fashion Days. The new event aims to provide creative labels and lower-priced designer lines with a platform to showcase their garnments. Seven labels showcased their spring/summer 2011 collections during the two day long event. One of these labels was Vivienne Westwood’s diffusion line – Anglomania.

The collection had elements reminiscent of Vivienne Westwood’s punk and pirate collections. The show also included a number of pieces from Anglomania’s collaboration with denim label Lee. According to Vivienne Westwood’s Facebook-page, this collection looked to bikers, rockers and festival goers for inspiration.

More pictures >> here.

Photo source: Vivienne Westwood

Tags: Anglomania, lee, Paris Fashion Days, vivienne westwood

Brill Viv

Black pump is definitely a wardrobe essential. Being a size UK4.5 is sometimes quite difficult to find a nice and comfy pair which doesn’t slip at the back. I was loyal to my old KG one for years until recently to my new found—-Vivienne Westwood for Mellisa. It’s perfect with its design in black and leopard bows, comfortable in soft and perfumy plastic jelly, breathy with open-toe design. It comes in 3 different colours, black, brown and jelly brown with a Retail price for £70 at ASOS. Maybe you should get a pair too??

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Avatar Wave

It seems you could hear conversation starting like this everywhere in London recently—’have you watched Avatar?’ Which actually sounds quite sickly these days. Different people enjoy it in different ways. My colleague who is a 22 year-old straight minded graphic designer guy just nods his head with the technology used within film and the eye-ball impact. He thought the story line is rubbish. While rest of us—above 25 year-old—are thinking ‘the message’.

True, if you say every decade carries out a main message like hippies from the 70s, global warming is definitely the main message for this new decade. Dame Vivienne Westwood urged people by inviting herself to Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show in 2009, that even we are stopping all polluting and all other bad things for environment, it would still take our planet earth to heal itself to its best condition for another 200 something years long. The number is shocking! And this was how I felt while watching Avatar.

Back to the film, I agree that story line is simple. It could be a futuristic story version of how European killed native Americans… and how majority of Chinese people are also linking their own feelings with the local government and property developer…

While the film credit was finally rolling up the screen, the girl sitting next to us sneered ‘that was a rubbish’. My friend snapped her back with ‘so why did you sit through the entire film then? trying to get your money worthy?!’. The silly girl couldn’t say anything. That hurts me…people like that…the careless people… …

It seems that Avatar has not only created the wave on big screen, but also in fashion world. High summer 2010 will be seen with many aquatic / sport-inspired items around in UK highstreet.

Even cosmetic brand Avon has launched a new signature fragrance.

I hope the Avatar Wave will not be just a ‘splash of water’, but really an impact into people’s heart, whether from fashion, from economy, from people to people, from anything.

Tags: Avatar, Avon, eco fashion, vivienne westwood

Must-see frockumentaries

Maybe it’s because of all the recent hype surrounding The September Issue, Valentino: The Last Emperror and The Day Before, but as of lately I have a new addiction – watching fashion documentaries.  What I love about documentaries like the ones listed below is that you get to see what things are really like behind the scenes. You get an insight into how the designers work and what inspires them. Here’s a few of my favourites from YouTube:

BBC: The Secret World of Haute Couture >> Playlist

Loïc Prigent: Signe Chanel >> Playlist (episode 1 – 5)

Loïc Prigent: Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton >> Part 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09

Masters of style: John Galliano >> Playlist

Vivienne Westwood >> Part 01 | 02

Yves Saint Laurent >> Part 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06

Although I do like to watch fashion reality shows and find them entertaining, I find it kind of sad that a lot of people seem to think that reality shows like Project Runway is what fashion is really all about.  As Loïc Prigent told Maya Singer in a recent interview:

I’ve seen a little bit of these reality shows, and whatever they’re about, they’re not about fashion. Competition, making fun of people, but not fashion. It’s very hard to convince people to do a real fashion show— there’s a prejudice against fashion people in TV, even in France.

I really hope that the recent popularity of the fashion documentary genre will help change this and that people realise that there’s more to fashion than creating dresses out of chocolate wrappers (heads up to Hershey’s for the great PR effort though!).

Photo source: NY Magazine/Christopher Anderson

Tags: Chanel, Haute Couture, John Galliano, Loïc Prigent, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, vivienne westwood, Yves Saint Laurent

La raison d’être

A fashion/art/design/etc blog might not be the most original idea, but to quote one of our favourite designers, Vivienne Westwood:

“I’m not trying to do something different, I’m trying to do the same thing but in a different way”

So there you have it, this blog’s raison d’être.

Photo source: Graeme Robertson

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