Retro Primary Colours

DUNGAREES - OLD ZARA (SIMILAR VIA ASOS & ZALANDO | TURTLENECK - VINTAGE (SIMILAR VIA REVOLVE) | NECKSCARF - VINTAGE | SHOES - CONVERSE

Location: Boutique Eva B, Montreal

Hello there!

I apologise for my mini hiatus last week - often I take a little break when I am feeling uninspired but that is not the reason this time. This time, time is the reason (how many times can I say time?!) and that I have not enough of it. I am currently writing this post on the bus home from work after a 10 hour shift. Since December I have been juggling a marketing internship and my new role at the vintage shop and I feel that my work/life/blog balance - or imbalance - has finally caught up with me as I mentioned in a recent INSTAGRAM POST. 

It's frustrating because I am feeling really inspired and I often spend some of the weekend creating content, only to not have the time to edit and post it during the week. So writing posts on the bus might have to be the answer for now but today I'm sharing some photos with you that I had been thinking about for a long time and finally shot this weekend. 

As soon as I moved to Canada, I knew I would struggle with fashion blogging in winter and even though the temperatures have been quite mild recently, I still wanted to try shooting indoors for change - and for the comfort! These photos were taken at BOUTIQUE EVA B - the craziest, most interesting vintage shop I have ever been in. Amongst the (mostly organised) mess, there are some special corners that I knew would lend themselves perfectly to shooting outfits photos, including this awesomely retro wall of old VHS cases. I took to PINTEREST for inspiration for the outfit and this editorial GEEK CHIC photo and this artificially lit RETRO SUPERMARKET SHOOT confirmed my vision that primary colours and a 60/70s silhouette would go well in this setting. 

It certainly was a challenge to shoot indoors (on a dull day) with a mix of natural and artificial light but I think it adds to the aesthetic to the photos and it is the kind of glow I was hoping to achieve. They are certainly not perfect photos but they are pretty good for a first try and I think it's good to also show experimentation on here - and not just the glossy stuff - because I am damn pleased with the result. 

The outfit is simple - I layered a bright red turtleneck (I've recently rediscovered my love for red) under these blue denim kick flare dungarees that I have worn to death on and offline since I got them over a year ago, finishing off the look with a patterned neckscarf which really brings the primary colours together. In an ideal world, those white NIKE CORTEZ with the red tick would have been my footwear of choice but alas, I have not got round to purchasing them yet so I opted Converse instead and they compliment the boyish look perfectly. 

What do you think of these photos? I hope you like this retro inspired shoot!

Izzie x

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Montreal | Photo Diary & Life Update

Hello from Montreal! As you may or may not know, I recently moved to Montreal with the love of my life and amongst the stresses of finding work and an apartment, we have been exploring this wonderful city. We have climbed the 'Mont Royal', relaxed on the banks of the Lachine Canal, walked a lot around Le Plateau and Mile End and I have been pretty snap happy along the way.

I wanted to share some of the photos I have taken so far from urban streets and beautiful houses to street art and, well, photos of us! Montreal is a super arty city and there is something to look at on almost every corner in Le Plateau. I love the industrial vibe to the buildings and I am so excited to shoot outfits photos here!

As for a life update, we have had no luck so far finding jobs but we are keeping our hopes up and persevering! We are hopefully on the cusp of getting an apartment - it has been relatively easy to find an apartment despite not having a job but we are just quite indecisive! It is also quite scary signing a year lease when we do not even know if we will find jobs here! To quote Lewis: "I hope this city is kind to us" and we feel more settled soon.

Izzie x
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Indian Summer

Shirt - vintage, SIMILAR, Shorts - vintage Levi's, SIMILAR, Shoes - CONVERSE, Sunglasses - RAY BAN

Location: Parc de Barceloneta, Barcelona

As a nod to this Indian summer we are having and as an ode to real summer which has officially come to an end, I am sharing one last summery outfit. Lewis and I shot this look spontaneously, on 35mm film, while on one of our early morning strolls in Barcelona a few months ago. I absolutely love the look of these photos - the light is perfectly golden and the colours are beautifully enhanced by the quality of film photography. I have already spoken about my love for shooting outfits on film in MONDAY'S POST, so to avoid repeating myself, let's just say this is something I want to do a lot more of.

This outfit is just what I need for this up and down weather we have been having recently - just add a little cami top under the shirt for layering options on those hotter days. This gingham shirt is one of my favourites, with its cropped sleeves and loose fit, it is such a versatile summer shirt. Worn casually over my Levi's denim shorts and paired with Converse, this makes for the perfect summer - or Indian summer - look.

Right. Now I am ready for woolly jumpers, faux fur coats and lots of boots now please, thnx.

What are wearing during this Indian summer? Are you fed up of the heat (and your summer wardrobe) and just want to get stuck into autumn?

Izzie x
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Fashion On 35mm Film

My love for photography truly began when I studied analog photography for A-level but because of the ease and cheapness of digital, I have only been sporadically taking film photos...until now. I had been toying with the idea of trying film photography for an outfit post for a while and finally took the plunge this summer. We did not even take any digital back-ups because I wanted to be fully committed to this experiment and I was confident enough in the art and in my photographer that I thought they were not needed - and I was right. These days we are too spoilt by being able to shoot hundreds of photos, pick our favourites and edit them to perfection and although this is extremely convenient, sometimes I wonder - where is the beauty in that? Even - what is the art of that? So I thought I would strip things back, take just eight outfit photos - all of which you see here and have not been edited - and try fashion blogging the way our mothers would have done it, if such a thing had existed back in the 80s.

Blouse - ZAFUL*, Jeans - TOPSHOP, Boots - OFFICE

Location: Redland, Bristol

I am absolutely chuffed with these photos. With just eight photos to play with, I had to really pose and there was the danger that these photos wouldn't look natural but I don't think that is the case at all! In fact, I almost like that in the third photo down I am mid-blink as this makes things more real. 

I love the aesthetic of film - its vintage grain, different colours and perfectly imperfect out of focus blur - and it is certainly something that I want to incorporate more frequently onto this blog. I have another mini film outfit post coming later in the week that we shot one beautiful morning in Barcelona and after that I have to get shooting in Montreal!

Let's talk fashion now because this is an outfit post after all! I have already posted a summery outfit featuring this WHITE BLOUSE but this is a much more transitional look that I have been craving oh so much recently. I always think that white blouses look so great just tucked into a pair of jeans and today I have finished the outfit with my favourite silver boots to make this look a little more special for the film! 

What do you think of film photography? Would you like to see outfits shot on film become a regular feature on Fashion Et Moi?

Mon amour de la photographie a commencé quand j'ai étudié la photographie analogique au lycée. Cependant, dans les années récentes, à cause de sa facilité et son bas prix, je préférais la photographie numérique et je prenais des photographes de pellicule de temps en temps...jusqu'à maintenant. Depuis longtemps je pense à essayer de la photographie analogique pour prendre en photo une tenue et je l'ai fait cet été - enfin! On n'a pas pris des photos numériques de la même tenue au cas où cet essai n'a pas marché parce que je voulais me commettre totalement. J'ai eu assez de confiance dans l'art et dans mon photographe et j'ai eu raison. Aujourd'hui, on est trop gâté car on peut prendre des centaines de photos, choisir nos préférés et les éditer pour qu'elles soient parfaites et même s'il est plus pratique, je me demande, où on trouve la beauté? Même - c'est l'art? Donc, j'ai pensé à revenir à la photographie traditionnelle, prendre que huit photos de tenue - vous voyez tous sans éditer - et essayer le blogging de mode comment nos mères l'auraient fait s'il existait dans les années 80s.

Je suis vraiment contente avec ces photos! Vu qu'on ne prenait que huit photos, il fallait poser et j'avais peur que ces photos ne paraîtraient pas naturelles mais c'est le contraire! En fait, j'aime que je suis en train de cligner dans la troisième photo - c'est plus réal comme ça.

Je kiffe l'esthétique de pellicule photo - son grain retro, ses couleurs différentes et son flou imparfait mais parfait au même temps - et je veux bien faire des photos comme celles-ci plus souvent sur ce blog. Plus tard dans le semaine, je vous montrai un deuxième petit poste de tenue shooté en pellicule à Barcelone et après il faut que je commence à shooter à Montréal!

Parlons de la mode maintenant parce qu'après tout c'est un poste de tenue! Je vous ai déjà montré un look d'été avec ce CHEMISIER BLANC mais aujourd'hui c'est un outfit de transition. Je trouve que des chemisiers blancs vont super bien rentrés dans un jean et aujourd'hui j'ai mis mes bottines argentées pour un look plus spécial pour la pellicule.

Qu'est-ce que vous pensez de la photographie en pellicule? Voulez-vous que la tenue shooté en pellicule devienne une poste habituelle sur Fashion Et Moi?

Izzie x
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Photography: Structures in Paris, Barcelona And Berlin

Back in Paris in the spring of 2015, I started a 36 exposure black and white film with the intention of photographing structures, both natural and man-made. Since then, I have lived in Barcelona, revisited Paris and travelled to one of my favourite European cities - Berlin - and my SLR came with me.

PARIS

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Paris is known for its beautifully classic, sand-coloured, Haussmann buildings but there certainly is more to the city's architecture than that. These photos were taken along the gritty, more industrial Canal Saint Martin where the different lines and grids were beautiful to photograph. As I started this film not long before I moved, unfortunately I was unable to fully explore this unusual way of photographing the white city.

BARCELONA

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From Paris-esque Metro signs to interesting trees and the mix of industrial and picturesque architecture, I could not help but photograph such a variety of subjects in Barcelona. While shooting this film, I spent the most time in Barcelona, which was both an advantage and a disadvantage. Perhaps after a while, some things that would have photographed so well, I took for granted although the more I explored, the more photographs I could take. Watch this space for my colour film photos of Barcelona coming soon.

BERLIN

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Berlin is a very urban city with street art on every corner and vast open spaces of both development and nothingness. What particularly struck me was how many organic communities there were around the city who had created camps or makeshift shelters. I feel that I cannot comment further on this because I do not know about these communities but it certainly was intriguing to photograph.

I hope you had enjoyed seeing a few snapshots from my latest film. This follows on from my film PHOTOGRAPHING PEOPLE IN PARIS, which I shared on the blog a year ago yesterday. Yep, I must take more photos, more quickly - duly noted!

Izzie x
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