Saltaire, Salts Mill and Cream Cakes...

One very cold Friday me and my Mum enjoyed a trip to Saltaire Village and the Wonderful Salts mill. The mill houses one of the largest collection of David Hockney's art work as well as textile exhibitions, antique shops, arts and crafts supplies and the Salts Diner (serving beautiful cakes and sandwiches). 

The David Hockney (who was born in Bradford, like myself) collection includes a variety of pieces, paintings, sketches, etchings and photomontages. My favourite piece has to be Celia, 8635, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, 1973.
I wanted to buy everything, beautiful cards and note pads with William Morris and Liberty prints and all the books from the fashion table. The antique shop had some amazing things, vintage cameras and telephones, fur coats, china teapots and even a tea making machine!

After getting lost among the books and antiques, Salt Village bakery provided us with a much needed cup of tea and a gorgeous scone with cream and jam. 

Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford

Beautiful books and note pads

Lovely antiques

 My gorgeous cream and jam scone

 David Hockney at Saltaire Road

 Celia, 8365, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, 1973

 Red Wire Plant, 1998

 Grand Canyon, South Rim, 1982

  25 Trees

The Eccentric....
Louise Gray Autumn/Winter 2013 

A must see show at London Fashion Week, Louise Gray sent an array of eccentric and crazy garments down the Catwalk this A/W13, but eccentric and crazy in a good way! 

Geometric prints covered girly seperates of skirts, cami's, jackets, shirts and tee's.  Fabrics were bright and colours clashed and giant earings (and rings) topped off the eccentric designs that are Louise Gray. 

 

Louise Gray Autumn/Winter 2013

Image sourced from insideout.topshop.com

Louise Gray A/W Show live from the Topshop showspace!

The Wonderful…..

Topshop Unique Autumn/Winter 2013

Topshop Unique were not afraid this year to push the boundaries of fashion, it was all about colour and texture!

I loved the layers of, fur, leather, silk, PVC, suede and sequins in was all truly amazing.  The colours were striking, from bright orange to dusty pink and chocolate brown to that electric red!  

The garments were oversized yet feminine with midi length wool coats, bomber jackets, fur shawls, fitted cropped trousers in all colours and my favourite the flowing midi length skirt, which graced the catwalk in a variety of textures and colours, my favourite being the shimmering dusty pink one.

Models looked truly stunning with hair warn long and loose, I personally loved the blue eyes, a contrast to the clothes, but it just worked!

Topshop Unique A/W13

 Image Sourced from insideout.topshop.com

Take a look at the Topshop Unique A/W13 show for yourselves

The weird the wonderful and the downright eccentric!

London fashion week kicked off this weekend and thanks to topshop.com I can watch shows live from the Topshop Show Space at the Tanks Tate Modern.

My weekend has been full of weird and wonderful designs starting with Topshop Unique yesterday (Topshop's unique collection was beautifully feminine with dusty pinks and fabrics to die for) down to Louise Grey just after lunch today and with many more to watch, including Meadam Kirchhoff tomorrow at 1pm which I’m sure will be full of amazing and eccentric treats to feast our eyes on.      I can’t wait!!

My Topshop Showspace Schedule

Today I'm Wearing.......

Jacket Levi's, top and skirt Topshop, clutch bag Kurt Geiger, trainers Nike