classically brit

Emma watson (from another british staple - Harry Potter) has recently signed on to be the new face of burberry. good call as she looks amazing.. and I actually am tempted to buy a classically brit bag.. (but I want the trench coat below more)

Images via Lainey Gossip and net-a-porter.

from american to french

The French have an easy elegance about the way they dress - that's really no surprise. But I thought that Hende showed how to go from North American to French perfectly through just two pictures on her etsy store.

Photo 1 - See her fancy shoes, her skinny jeans and her tank. They are all nice, they are all in fashion but there's just something missing - a 'je ne sais quoi'

Photo 2 - oh wait - it's a perfectly subtly matching scarf, an amazing belt - it's apparently the accessories that make a french woman.

by the way - Hende's store is adorable and many clothing filled with birds and leaves and a suggested tranquility.....

finally - my store in london

Anthro is finally coming to London. You can order Anthropologie in the UK but there are no stores, no sources of inspiration, no sighs where everybody can hear you in this city.

It's silly and finally they are changing it. Anthropologie is opening two stores in London. 1 - Regents Street (end of 2009) and 2. so much closer to me on King's Road in an old textiles factory....... (early 2010).

I'd buy these if they were open now....... Images via the always wonderful Anthropologie

kate is back

When the Kate Moss collection for Topshop comes out for the season, I normally like (and buy) about one thing. But this high summer collection blew me away and resulted in coveting so many pieces.... Another may long weekend is approaching and we're not going away... Splurging on a few of these pieces instead?

Images via Topshop

weekly shop topshop

a new feature of the blog: the weekly shop. Instead of going so crazy (like last week) on recent trends I am going to highlight a shop around town each week. This should minimize my excessively long posts and let me keep blogging on my love for fashion.

like any good inaugural london shopping post- I start with Topshop. Despite the craziness of Oxford Street - the flagship store is the place to go. Three floors for women, and Topman on the fourth - you can find any trend in this building. Currently they are just eating up the floral english afternoon tea or the punk agyness deyn looks. While they're probably best known for the kate moss collection over in North America, I love the vintage collection of handbags and the coveted restored vintage pieces you can find on the very bottom floor. They also have the largest selection of knits I've ever seen.

Currently coveting this. - simple but purple....definitely wearable with jeans or suit pants (Their website is near impossible to steal pictures from - a big negative)

Note: the new kate moss collection comes out September 9.