New York Fashion Week: Elie Saab

Now for those people who aren't into fashion, and more specifically fashion week, this may not be something you're enthralled to read about. For me, as a fashion student, it's an integral part of my course for inspiration and ideas on new trends to aid our assignments and as a general part of research. 

Recently, were were asked to create moodboards on London Fashion Week,which is coming up in the next few days, so for inspiration we looked into New York Fashion Fashion Week, and as it comes to a close this week, it's the perfect time to look for ideas of the next trends for the autumn/winter period. 

The designer who stole my heart from the whole week, was Elie Saab. The Lebanese fashion designer with whimsical designs and intricate embroidery. The extravagant dresses went from beautiful pale shades of blue, yellow and pink to striking grey and black hues. But the dresses that ultimately made an impression, and totally stole the show, were decorated with hundreds of butterflies and flowers, crafted with a gorgeous intricacy. Many of the other dresses were detailed with tiny feathers, giving them movement and life. 

This show was truly breath-taking, yet so unusual and unique- it was definitely my favourite and will stay in my mind for a long time. 

Personally I can sometimes find Fashion Week overwhelming and hard to digest, with so many designers and collections vying for attention, it's hard to know where to even start! Yet the Saab collection was such a pleasure to look at, I could sit all day just watching the amazing dresses being shown, in my opinion, it was a triumph. 

Chloé

xo 

Granny's Vintage Tea Room

Anyone who knows me, knows I love all things vintage, the music, the fashion, the history of the era, it's just so fascinating to me. So, when I went to this beautiful tea room on Friday with my mum, I fell in love.

Granny's Vintage Tea Room is a gorgeous old fashioned little cafe run by a mother-daughter duo, in the small village Todwick, Sheffield. As I live really nearby, I'd driven past and not usually thought much, simply thinking it was just another cafe trying too hard to be 'vintage'. but I was totally wrong! 

The place is decked out in the most lovely old fashioned furniture and crockery all around, with pictures and other items such as radios making an addition. It's such a nice spot for some afternoon tea, or for lunch like me and mum went for.

Although it was just a cafe, there actually seemed to be a lot of choice in terms of the menu, with a vast choice of sandwiches, toasties, jacket potatoes and salads so there's definitely something for every taste, all the food is home-made too which made it even nicer! I went for the mozzarella and pepper toasted sandwich and mum went for a tuna mayo which got a thumbs up from her, as for mine it was lovely and I'd definitely have it again. 

We then got a pot of tea to have with scones which was delicious and a great end to the meal, and although we seemed to have quite a lot all the food was really light which meant you didn't leave in a food coma! 

Overall I'd totally recommend this place if you're ever in the area, as its a really quiet and underrated little spot, all in all a fabulous lunch!

Chloé

xo