#59

Okay so let me start by saying a big thank you to http://grassandlemonade.blogspot.co.uk for my nomination for the Liebster Blog Award. A few weeks back I was nominated for the sunshine award but for one reason or another, never got round to doing the featured post-not this time!

"This is an award to celebrate blogs with 200 or less followers and ultimately tell someone how much you love their blog! The nominations are chosen by bloggers and given to the bloggers.

When you receive the award, you post 11 random facts about yourself and answer 11 questions from the person(s) who nominated you. You pass the award onto 11 other blogs (make sure you tell them you nominated them!) and ask them 11 questions. You are not allowed to nominate the blog(s) who nominated you! (To get the button, right click the picture on my page and save the picture to your compute. You can then upload to your blog.)"

11 facts about me

• I'm super short, like just over 5ft
• I have a twin brother
• I have a slightly inappropriate crush on Johnny Depp
• James Morrison is my go-to artist, I adore him
• I have a 1 year old cat named Ivy (my baby)
• my favourite films include Love Actually, Pride and prejudice, One Day and Mulan
• Keira Knightly is probably my biggest girl crush 
• I sing (classical training)
• I took ballet until grade 5, I wanted to be a ballerina until I was about 12!
• one of my dreams is to go travelling and experience/embrace new cultures 
• Camden and Kensington are my favourite districts of London

11 questions from Grass and Lemonade

1. Favourite designer?

       I know she's not exactly current, but can I say Coco Chanel? She changed Women's lives via fashion.

2. Favourite book?

       A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

3. Most expensive item of clothing?

       I expect my prom dress at £80

4. Who are your style icons?

       Alexa Chung, Anne Hathaway, Keira knightly and Olivia Palermo-all though I take inspiration from everyone and anyone!

5. What time period was your favourite for fashion?

       I couldn't say, I love Fashion today as it's constantly evolving and changing...but I'm a sucker for the 1920's

6. Cat or dog?

       Cat

7. Something on your wish list?

       I'm going to say the whole of Whistles

8. Autumn/Winter or Spring/Summer?

       Autumn/Winter for fashion, Spring/Summer for lifestyle

9. Favourite designer from this years SS13 Collections?

       I loved the crazy colours and prints from Issa

10. Best thing about blogging?

       The lovely people you get to meet and speak to!

11. Dream job?

    Editor at VOGUE magazine, owning my own business, being a travel writer, working in international politics, ballet dancer, pop star...the list is endless!

My nominations:

http://floral-jam.blogspot.co.uk/

http://beahllionare.blogspot.co.uk

http://whattaylorbuys.blogspot.co.uk/

http://elizabethgracie.blogspot.co.uk/

http://iliketowearsillyhats.blogspot.co.uk/

http://abritishmuse.blogspot.co.uk/

http://alm-c.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/uni-chic.html

http://caringcowls.blogspot.co.uk/

http://emc-dot.blogspot.co.uk/

http://eloisecamille.blogspot.co.uk/

http://floraldisastersblog.blogspot.co.uk/

my questions:

1. What's your favourite album?
2. Go-to pair of shoes?
3. favourite highstreet shop?
4. favourite designer brand?
5. What's your least favourite current trend?
6. Who inspires you the most?
7. What's your 'safe' hairstyle?
8. Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?
9. What's the most important thing in life, to you?
10. City or countryside?
11. Who's your favourite celebrity?

      

#58

Chanel's Little Black Jacket-highstreet copies

With the Chanel Little Black Jacket exhibition opening earlier this week (further details here), I thought it was only right that I hunted down the best look-a-likes from the highstreet and showcased them here. Although finding an exact replica of the iconic garment is up there on the unlikely scale with being eaten by a crocodile on leaving your front door today, revisiting this eminent Chanel piece has caused the highstreet to begin stocking jackets in similar styles to the original, but with more variation, such as in the stitching and colouring.

Here are my favourites:

£35, Boohoo.com

£45, Boohoo.com

£34.00, Missguided.co.uk

£55, ASOS petite

£29.99, MANGO

£65, Topshop

#57

Weekly round up: part 2

This is the more substantial part to my Friday weekly round  up I suppose. If you're one for the pretty pictures and not the text this post probably won't take your fancy. However if you want to know 5 of the top stories in fashion this week, keep reading because there are some right goodens' I can tell you!

1) Kate and Cheryl

It has emerged this week, via Cheryl's autobiography, that the Duchess Of Cambridge dressed up as Cheryl in a bodysuit and split trousers on her hen night and performed 'Fight For This Love'. Apparently William told Cheryl this after her performance earlier this year at the Jubilee Concert. This delicious little bit of gossip is definitely a positive (in my opinion) for both of the beautiful ladies. It shows that the lovely Cheryl is still very much a national sweetheart, adored by all. Add this to the naked Harry business and topless Kate on holiday (quite a bit more outrageous but none the less amusing), and all of a sudden it seems the latest generation of Royals are fun, genuine and even more respectable because of it!

2) Chanel's Little Black Jacket exhibition

Chanel opened it's Little Black Jacket exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London today! The notorious Karl Lagerfeld took all of the images (there is over 100, spread throughout four rooms) and used his favourite Iconic Chanel faces, as well as a few unsuspecting ones too.

The exhibition is open until the 28th of October and admission is free.

3) Alexa on the Chanel Hula Hoop bag

Alexa Chung receives a personalised Chanel Hula hoop beach bag live on the Anderson show. I love what she has to say about this piece. Watch it here.

4) Alexa Chung's book

Alexa has squashed rumours that her book will be a "style bible" in which she will dictate what people should wear and how they should wear it.

"It's basically a compendium of drawings and photographs, and I'm going to write about a bunch of stuff," says Chung. "It's not like a style bible - which I keep reading it being reported as." 

The book is set to hit the shops next September.

5)Well Dunn with Jordan Dunn 

Model Jordan Dunn is set to have her own cooking show on Jay-Z's Youtube entertainment channel, Life and Times. As you may have guessed, it's title is to be "Well Dunn with Jordan Dunn", and I admit I had a little giggle in response. The Channel is to be launched this weekend and will touch on areas such as food, fashion, music and architecture. 

It's great to see models expanding their horizons and showing off their skills and talents in other areas of life besides appearance. After following Dunn on twitter for a while, I personally have taken a strong liking to her and her fun, down to earth vibe which her and her best friend Cara Develingne exude.

#56

Weekly round up: part 1

Happy Friday everybody! Here's a weeks worth of sensational street style snaps and inspirational images to get you in that autumn mood. You know, the one where walking through your door is the best feeling because the warmth hits you like a big hug, where your outfit has kept you cosy and warm and you're ready for a toasty hot chocolate. NOT the one where the wind and rain have ruined your hair/make-up, you've forgotten what it's like to be warm and you want to assassinate every spider that enters your home looking for warmth! 

X

#55

Hello lovely blog readers! Exciting things are happening in the world of Elise; 1) I'm writing this on my iPad (so sophisticated right?!) 2) I made a new twitter! @with0utacare

I will still be using my current account, but less and less as I shift the focus onto the old blog and the fashion/journalism industry. I'd been considering having a separate twitter account for my blog for a while but didn't know whether to simply turn my current account into the new one or create a new one altogether. I went for the latter, I liked the idea of having a clean twitter slate, if you will, and keeping it separate from my social site. Anyway, the price I have to pay however is the fact my follower count is rather minuscule (I think so far I have one spam follower!). So please please please check out @with0utacare and give me a follow-I aim to use the account to make people aware of sales/discounts, give-aways, fashion news, trends and blog posts, but it'll also double up as a slightly personal account inevitably. Depending on how it goes it may well become my regular account, so hit that follow button okay? Okay!

xxx

#54

Just a super quick, bad quality post for you guys today. I was in a mad rush when I took these so I apologise in advance-they're really not great. I wore my sleeveless check shirt under the jumper, styled as an 'off the shoulder' jumper (although I stupidly did not take a photo that shows this!), but basically it was my attempt at the cut-out trend. I Added my favourite shorts, tights, Chelsea boots, key-chain necklace and waxed jacket and ta-dah, this outfit was born. I thought the way the layers, textures and colours worked together in this outfit sort of epitomised autumn as well as being very much in my comfort zone, I just hope it looked better in reality than in these photos!

x 

#53

OOTD

Well, well, well, look who's decided to make an appearance...yes I'm talking about the sun. After a completely miserable spell of weather over the last fortnight I am more than grateful to the sun for gracing us with his/her (is the sun male of female?!) presence. However, as other fashion/style bloggers will know it can make the photography side of things quite difficult! I couldn't get the lighting right inside so decided to take this little shoot into my garden. As a result of this, the photos have a much nicer backdrop, and in some ways are more vibrant, but I must apologise for any photography let downs caused by a) the sun or b) my mum's photography skills (yes I am a blogger without a tripod, but Christmas is coming!).

I haven't done an 'outfit of the day' post for a while on here, purely because of the amount of time it takes up, but make sure you're following me on instagram (search elisemckeever) to briefly see most of my ootd's!

 

Today I teamed my favourite new-ish Zara zebra print shirt with my ASOS staple winter skirt. I belted it and hung the shirt so that it fell down further on the sides than in the centre (above the belt buckle) to create a nice shape within the outfit, although this is a little more noticeable in real life than in these photos as I had no mirror to do arranging/composition during the shoot :-(

I always feel a little pretentious calling it a 'shoot', but what else can I call it? I wonder if other bloggers have this problem...

Anyway back to the outfit, um, yes boots. I bought these on Thursday for £30 from h&m. I thought they were a bit of a bargain so even though heeled boots weren't on my shopping list, I had to snap them up (oops). I do think they were a good buy though because they can be styled casually and smartly, and the extra height is a bonus for me being a short-ass! I'm still unsure as to what people's reaction would be if I wore these to sixth form though, as in, are they acceptable for school wear? I like to think so but we will see won't we!

Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine!

x