An alliterative title! And more sequins, just in time for the most sequin-y night of the year? It’s your lucky day! I’m still very much enamoured with the Ashish for Warehouse collection (all of which is now on sale) and chose to wear the silver sequinned maxi skirt for a Friendmas Christmas dinner, dressed down with a tied up t-shirt and my favourite ‘grunge nan’ cardigan.

T-shirt – Urban Outfitters*
Skirt – Warehouse x ASHISH
Cardigan – ASOS* (similar)
Boots – Zara

photos by Wil Barker

Not not really, it’s fucking freezing. And I’m vegan. But was I going to pass up the opportunity to take photos outside a hibernating fleet of pink ice cream vans? Also no. The real star of the show, though, is this suit. In perhaps one of the coolest opportunities this job has ever given me, ASOS invited me to see where the magic happens and order a custom, made-to-measure version of one of their suits. I chose this one but opted for a black and white check a la Mick Jagger, with a red lining because, well, I could! It also took a lot for me to not title this post ‘moves like Jagger’, but I don’t think enough time has passed for that to be a quirky and funny throwback and not just still an intensely annoying song yet. I’ve linked some similar suits below.

My boots, also, deserve some attention here. They perfectly marry together my love of a lace-up and a cowboy boot style, look much more expensive than the £44.99 they cost on Ego Shoes, and are non-leather. Result.

Suit – ASOS*
Boots – Ego*

photos by Kylie Eyra

I’ve been feeling uninspired. I’m not in a style rut, but rather a career rut. I still love clothes but the desire to photograph and write about my outfits has been dwindling even more rapidly than my will to live. Kidding, sort of. But the sort of content creation that I have been doing and evolving for over seven(!) years now just isn’t really my bag any more, and after ruminating on this for a while I have decide that that’s okay.

What to do next is something I haven’t quite figured out yet, but (baby) step one was putting on my glad rags, the Jessica Rabbit-y, crowning glory of the recent collaboration between ASHISH and Warehouse, and taking some photos with an old blogging pal Kylie. There is nothing quite like the looks you get walking round a quiet suburb wearing a full length sequinned gown to get the old creative juices flowing again. New year, new me?

Dress – ASHISH x Warehouse
Shoes – Topshop

photos by Kylie Eyra

I despise being cold with every fibre of my weak, pathetic human body. But if there is any saving grace to the miserable depths of winter, it is jumpers. I bloody love jumpers. This season I have particularly been favouring thin knits of all shapes, sizes and colours, layered under leather, faux fur or, if I’m feeling particularly cosy, ANOTHER knit.

My go-to look de la saison is a thin knit tucked into a checked skirt. Mini, midi, pleated, a-line, they all work. Think school uniform if you were allowed to design it yourself. Take a look at some more favourite knits and checked skirts below:

thin knits

checked skirts

Jumper – Weekday*
Skirt – Topshop
Coat – vintage (similar)
Boots – Spy Love Buy

photos by Georgia

I said I wasn’t going to get any new coats this season because I ‘don’t need them’, but I lied to everyone and most importantly I lied to myself. Sorry. This brown faux leather trench from Warehouse has already become a new favourite and nice alternative to the plethora of black pleather already in my wardrobe. Plus it makes me feel like a 70s TV detective, which can only be a good thing.

I continued the vintage-y theme of my outfit with this sweet little dress from Nobody’s Child, worn over a black long sleeve.

Coat – Warehouse*
Dress – Nobody’s Child*
Boots – ASOS

photos by Zac Mahrouche

On closer inspection this is apparently zebra print (EVEN THOUGH IT IS DEFINITELY MORE TIGER COLOURS), but I’ve had to come up with a lot of titles about zebra print already, so this one stays. Groovy, baby. An allover animal print on a high neck, long sleeved top isn’t the most subtle way to do the trend, but I’ve never cared much for subtlety.

These high waisted, wide leg Levi’s give me early 00s Avril Lavigne Fan nostalgia, so I wore them with a chain and the best school disco handbag I have ever seen. I don’t know what I would have been carrying in my handbag for a primary school disco, but that is beside the point.

Top – Urban Outfitters*
Jeans – Levi’s*
Boots – ASOS 
Bag – Topshop
Rings – Bloody Mary Metal*

photos by Jordan Bunker

The inspiration behind these photos is two-pronged: firstly, pubs; secondly, this Le Kilt presentation I saw at London Fashion Week in 2016, which was also in a pub. So mostly pubs. There are very few things I enjoy more than a good pub – during the colder months the best pubs are that special kind of cosy that is impossible to replicate in a home, and are beer gardens good because of summer or is summer good because of beer gardens? Hard to say. Celebrating? Pub. Sad? Pub. Nothing better to do? Pub. Pubs are one of the very few things that the UK and Ireland does better than much of the rest of the world; they smell good even if they smell bad, some of them have dogs (or cats), and you can get. a. bloody pint.

Tucked away down a side street off Brick Lane, The Pride of Spitalfields is my favourite pub in Shoreditch. It’s small, cosy and friendly, it’s £4 for a pint of Guinness (and less for a Stella), and Lenny the cat is always snoozing or sauntering around like he owns the place (which he basically does). When I asked if it would be okay to take some photos, the girl behind the bar said of course, as long as I tag #lennythepubcat.

Both Fred Perry and Le Kilt look so at home in an old pub setting like this, so this was the only location I was ever going to shoot their very exciting collaborative collection. My jumper is one of the most versatile and wearable pieces and I’m obsessed with both tartan skirts, all of which are priced much more affordably than Le Kilt’s (albeit stunning) main line. Just the usual please, mate.

Jumper – Fred Perry x Le Kilt*
Skirt – Fred Perry x Le Kilt*
Boots – Missguided* (similar / similar)
Belt – ASOS*

photos by Zac Mahrouche

I dread to think how many times I have started a sentence on this website with ‘I love a suit’, but I bloody love a suit. Skirt suits, however, are an area I don’t have much experience in outside of my very brief stints of work experience in law firms and barristers’ chambers while at university. I’m sure my various supervisors would have raised an old, white male eyebrow had I shown up in this Burberry-esque checked H&M number, but now that I’m in the business of raising eyebrows and not making case notes, it is completely perfect.

Blazer – H&M*
Skirt – H&M
Top – Missguided (similar)
Boots – Dr Martens
Sunglasses – Sunglass Hut*

photos by Oli Hooson

I don’t think it is news to anyone at this point that animal print is Big at the moment.  The classic leopard came first, followed closely by snake, zebra, and even (bitch I’m a) cow, then the photos of groups of girls in bars with the caption ‘looks like I’m on bloody safari in here’ (101k likes, 67k retweets). I’m partial to pretty much anything that looks like it walked (prowled or trotted) straight out of Planet Earth, but zebra is perhaps my favourite print because it is super 80s, and super obnoxious

Now, half way through writing this post, I have realised that I am inadvertently wearing the exact same outfit that Topshop have styled their model for this skirt in. Oh well, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it I suppose? I love the power-suit vibe and oversized belt, and hope to be brave enough to style it with an oversized blazer soon.

Top – Nobody’s Child*
Skirt – Topshop
Boots – ASOS

photos by Jordan Bunker