Amanda Wellsh by Sebastian Kim, Vogue Australia September 2014

If I could be a total babe I'd be this one I think, at least for this season. I love the simplicity of the shots, and the sixties It-girl vibe going on, although the guitar picture irks me a bit in it's cliche. I really really want some patent knee high boots now so I can strut around London in them. I've got a white leather skirt that would go with them perfectly, I just need to get some sofa cleaner to remove the remnants of great night out. Note to self - a leather skirt for £100 is not an investment piece if it can't ever be properly washed, only dabbed. Woe is me.

Styled by Kate Mossman, Makeup Benjamin Puckey, Hair Bok-Hee

Photos The Fashionography

Paradise City

This shoot with Georgia May Jagger and Charlotte Free is pure escapism, not just the glittering, girly outfits but the whole array of filters and LeBon's seemingly nonchalant photographic timing. It is -3 today in Leeds, and these pictures are the kind that just make you physically squirm in your seat with the itch to get on a plane, go on an adventure and have one big party in the sun. Saturated with that Summer holiday feeling that comes back when you listen to a certain song...or come across that old picture on your phone, its a photo diary of that night you have with your best girlfriend on holiday in a hot, sweaty city (for me it was Barcelona) where you end up not going to sleep and by the time you get home it seems like it was all a surreal dream, but you know you'll remember it forever. Admittedly, we weren't wearing designer dresses....but maybe in the future we can repeat the whole thing with a better camera and a sparkling wardrobe. And maybe I'll have that Summer beach blonde hair...but I'm a brunette so that's just silly. Summer planning starts now...  

Photos Tyrone LeBon for Vogue UK March 2014,  Styled by Francesca Burns

Anglo-Saxon Attitude

Last week I enjoyed a Mother-daughter day out to the Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! exhibition at Somerset House and was pretty blown away by it. Blow was a stylist extroardinaire, maverick and fashion revolutionary, and the exhibition made for an emotional journey told through clothes. 

One of the rooms at the exhibition was devoted to this 1993 British Vogue shoot, shot by Stephen Meisel and styled by Blow, and featuring the 90s girls Stella Tennant, Plum Sykes, Bella Freud and Honor Fraser. Something about it really caught my eye; perhaps it's the simplicity and the slightly dark 60s mood, or perhaps it's how current it still seems over twenty years later. It's funny how everything comes full circle, what with the new wave of grunge and 90s trends fairly overwhelming the market at the moment. This shoot just makes me want to embrace it even more - particularly Plum Sykes poker straight hair, those fluffy skirts and Stella's heavily kohled eyes. Yes please. 

You can read my review on the exhibition over on The Designer Index blog, here. 

Photos sourced on Pinterest, copyright Stephen Meisel.