House of Leopard / London Fashion Week

Usually during London Fashion Week I report back to you with my 'Black Neon' eye. However I'm excited to announce that I during LFW this month I started a new project with a lovely friend of mine Heba Kleiner.

House of Leopard. Stylish leopard fashion and lifestyle inspiration.

Putting the style back into leopard print, expect to see: ways to wear leopard print, leopard fashion & home products, and our leopard 'style crushes'.

To see LFW through leopard lens follow us on Intagram & Twitter!

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There's a lot of lovely ladies (and men) out there that love leopard!

Craft Central presents Fashioned during London Fashion Week

What a breath of fresh air to visit a well curated (by Sarah Hewett) exhibition of diverse and beautifully made accessories and jewellery.

Celebrating London Fashion Week Craft Central presented Fashioned featuring 'wearable art' from 25 designer-makers. Great to see one of my favourite jewellery designers there, Grace Hamilton, and lovely to discover designers work I've not yet come across.

Grace Hamilton

 Hetty Rose

 Ann-Marie Faulkner

 Ugly Lovely

Katie Brown

Alexandra Tosto - Jewellery
Alison Willoughby - Garments
Amanda Li Hope - Jewellery
Amy Keeper - Jewellery
Ann-Marie Faulkner - Millinery LOVE
Bailey Tomlin - Millinery
Bridget Harvey - Jewellery
Cezanne Agatha - Accessories
Ciara Bowles - Jewellery
Day C - Jewellery
Emma Calvert - Jewellery
House of Flora - Accessories
Grace Hamilton - Jewellery
Hetty Rose - Shoes
Katie Brown - Silk Scarves LOVE
Laura Berens - Printed Silk
Lila Milpetrova - Jewellery
Martina Bohn - Millinery
Michelle Fernandez - Jewellery
Monique Daniels - Jewellery LOVE
Sara Gunn Jewellery - Jewellery
Sophie Thomas - Jewellery
Ugly Lovely - Millinery LOVE
Yelena Loguiiko - Fashion / Millinery
Yvette Estelle Jeffrey - Jewellery

Calling all Fashionistas to get ready for London Fashion Week with ShopChat

So I've been doing some work for the lovely people at ShopChat, and this is our first event! See details below.
RSVP to laurene@shopchat.com and mention that you found out about the event via Black Neon Blog.

If you've got an iPhone, download for free. Search 'ShopChat' in App Store. If you are addicted to Pinterest and Whatsapp, your going to love this. Plus just in time for London Fashion Week we launch our product catalogue, bringing stylists, brands, retailers and shoppers together.

Are you a fashion stylist, personal stylist, personal shopper, celebrity stylist, fashion journalist or blogger? Join the first ShopChat Style Council event where the fashion community come together to discuss new opportunities, share knowledge and network.

Get ready for London Fashion Week with a tool that assists you to capture looks and trends that can be shared instantly with clients, buyers, retailers, press and bloggers.

Smartphones are enabling a closer relationship between stylists and their clients’. Find out how to make the most of this new opportunity.

Hear stylists and mobile industry leaders discuss:

Smartphone & mobile shopping trends

• The rise of chat, the death of email
• The threat from automated styling solutions
• The new opportunities for stylists with smartphones

Tuesday 11th February

8:30am to 10:30am

The Village Hall
33 Hoxton Square
London, N1 6NN

Schedule:

08:30 to 09:00
Breakfast & Networking

09:00 to 10:00
Presentations & Panel Discussion

10:00 to 10:30

Networking

RSVP laurene@shopchat.com

Places are limited. Fashion industry only.

Event hashtag

#wearethestylecouncil

www.shopchat.com/style-council

Temperley / London Fashion Week AW13

Location
The Dorchester set the tone for an elegant show, tea coffee and biscuits were served.

Influence
BYRDS collection cited Hitchcock actress Tippi Hedren as muse, creating a darker streamlined style than usually synonymous with Temperley.

Look

Beautiful whites and cream checks. Swing coats. 60s influenced. Neat fitting polo neck jumpers. Long lean floor length white evening dresses (that could be easily worn as a wedding dress). Bold embellishment using large crystals or gold beading, in a clean modern configuration or scalloped 30s pattern. Heavy weight gold square jacquard brocade. Sapphire blue. Signature Temperley prints with a slight art nouveau element. Pointed extremely high Charlotte Olympia court shoes with thin heels. Covetable half hand covering white or black leather gloves, and full length black leather gloves.

Issa / London Fashion Week AW13

Models

The stunning Cara Delevingne opened todays Issa show, I can honestly say she lived up to the hype. Jourdan Dunn looked flawless and chic.

Front Row

Zandra Rhodes pink bob looked great, whilst sitting next to Jodie Kidd. The Saturdays.

Look

Relaxed 70's, huge pheasant feathers in fedora hats, close fitting knitted hoods, geometric prints and long sleeve jumpers under silk jersey dresses. 

Additional pictures from My Daily.

David Koma LFW 170912

Once again was delighted that I was able to see one of my favourite London designers at London Fashion Week SS13. David Koma is someone who I identify with creatively both in terms of research, inspiration, interpretation and end result. Koma's love of graphic, geometric, linear and multi layering was heightened by his bold use of contrasting colour palette (white, black, spearmint & emerald green, sapphire blue and orange). To add extra dimension Koma injected sexiness into the sportswear (30's tennis dress and racer front neckline details) inspired outfits with sections of high shine patent leather in highlight colours or sleek black. The pattern emerging through the collection seems to be similar to that of the metal wire mesh fencing seen on sports courts, in keeping with Koma's tennis inspiration. It's great to see designers who are not scared to reference their past collections showing a natural progression and sense of being true their long term vision. Here's hoping Koma one day seeks someone to collaborate with him on swimwear!
My iphone pics weren't great as I was at the back of a packed show, images of models from style.com.

Holly Fulton / LFW

The Holly Fulton show did not disappoint! A beautiful mix of fuschia pinks, turquoise and aqua bluey greens adorned with VERY sparkly necklaces and oversized bags. I spy with my little eye, Tolula Adeyemi, Colin Mcdowell and Hilary Alexander in the front row.











For further pics and a video of the show look at Catwalk Queen, and London Fashion Week.