Bored Barbara

According to Barbara Hulanicki, women today dress poorly because we are slaves to fashion. She believes fashion makes us all dress the same. I guess this can be true in some respects as people who have an interest in fashion and trends are likely to follow them. There are some braver people out their that do take risks with what they wear, and wear things which you don't normally see every day but we're not all as brave as those people.

My university tutor has said he thinks as a whole our class dresses quite 'safe' and as Barbara says, it may be because the high street, which is what we can predominately afford (we are all students) is so highly saturated with the same things. I agree in the sense the high street is constantly competing to get the latest trends from higher end designers as quickly as possible but at the end of the day it is the person who puts together the outfit and essentially what they want to go with what. It's up to us to make that decision to be out there and quirky if we want to.

She's said: 'It's very difficult to know what to wear now. That's why I always wear black.' I agree with you there Barbara. I don't think it's necessarily if I don't know what to wear, but you can't really go wrong with black, it's timeless. As trends are recycled such as the latest 90's denim dungaree fad, this contributes to making things look samey as we've seen them before. Until we have newer, fresher trends that get everyone excited, the way people dress may still be boring.

Regent Tweet!

Regent Street held it's third annual Regent Tweet (quirky huh) event last Sunday (June 23rd). It was an event especially for bloggers all over Europe who were invited to come to Regent Street, shop and tweet.
The event included special discounts for the bloggers to encourage then to buy (not really hard there especially for fashion bloggers)

A lucky chosen few got special discounts and entered into competitions to win prices and spa treatments. A few guest speakers also attended such as the writer Christopher Riley and Sadhna Jain to impart some of their wisdom to the event.

The event started on at Swarovski Crystallised (the base camp for the day) where bloggers picked up their first goodie back and then were left to wonder around and of course tweet about the event all day. Some of the other goodies on offer were free flip flops from UGG and complimentary blow dries from Four London - Lucky Bloggers!

You can search the hashtag #RegentTweet on both twitter and instagram to see some more pictures from the day and I'm sure if you follow some of the lucky bloggers that attended, they'll be posting about it sure enough this week!

The Demise of Street Style

There is no doubt that street style is popular, but has it well and truly had it's day now? It's gone far beyond what pioneering photographer Bill Cunningham made it decades ago but has it become too mainstream that it's just not exciting anymore? This could be down to the fact it's the norm nowadays to go onto a blog and see street style pics so often it's a bit like 'on to the next one' especially now its made its way into the glossies and fashion bibles that are Vogue, ELLE and so on.
Blogs such as The Sartorialist also helped popularise street style as an art form, but art is none for being different and not the norm, but surely it cannot be called an art form now since its so common.

At events such as London Fashion Week, people who aren't exactly who anybody knows dress so outlandish to get noticed, it's less about going to see designers work than about showing anyone and everyone a crazy outfit just to say you were there. The street has now become the runway, literally. At January's fashion week, Colin McDowell was on his way to a show when his car stopped to let a women cross. As she did she stopped to pose for a fan of photographers while mid-road! To Mr McDowell's disgust he shouted out the window 'This is road not a runway!' And I'm afraid to say Colin hit the nail on the head with that one.

Every trend has an expiry date, and although this may have reached theres, trends always make a comeback and I'm sure the same will happen with street style. If someone miraculously comes up with a new way of showing it!

(The Sartorialist)