TOPSHOP

As uncool as it is to admit, I've always been a big fan of Topshop. I even got a job there after I graduated from university in 2008, just so I could get staff discount (I lasted 6 months and 6 huge credit card bills). Even though it's the height of summer, this gloomy English rain makes it the perfect time to look at the new A/W'10 collection. I LOVE it all.

Rare Bird of Fashion

Friends, readers, loved ones... It's my 23rd birthday on 9th August, I've just landed my dream PR job and I think I deserve a treat. I'd like to request a copy of this book. Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel chronicles part of the amazing clothing and accessory collection of one of New York's most iconic women.

Official blurb:

A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past forty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic. Combining genres, colours, textures and patterns without regard to period, provenance or, ultimately, aesthetic convention, she is one of the few style icons of our time. Here, in over ninety sumptuous colour plates, Eric Boman shows off a selection of her extraordinary outfits on wittily posed mannequins.

Now for your viewing pleasure - a few shots of the icon in action:

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lou lou

Behold the Lou Doillon and Vanessa Bruno 'video poem' collaboration for Spring 2010 (it is adorable):

Amee are you getting this?

Sei Belissima

I've just returned from an intense vegan macrobiotic yoga and detox retreat up a mountain in Italy... The weather was beautiful, so I'm very tanned, slightly more flexible than usual and longing for a proper hot summer (and am extremely disappointed that London has decided to return to two-pairs-of-tights weather). What better time to post this Wendy Bevan shoot from Italian Marie Claire '09?

Lina

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There are a few photographers that I obsessively go back to... Wendy Bevan, Paolo Roversi, Sølve Sundsbø, Annabel Mehran, Chadwick Tyler... Do you sense a theme? Lina Scheynius (above) is another photographer that I constantly admire. Hope you enjoy.

Ricci

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A vintage Christina Ricci from Pop, dating all the way back to 2004. She looks flawless as ever.