Sports Tailoring

Topshop orange crop / Vintage tailored trousers / Adidas Stan Smiths / COS socks

Location: Tour Saint Jacques, 75001 Paris

Happy hump day lovelies! Just a simple outfit mixing tailoring and sports vibes, which I find is the perfect outfit for work. I was drawn to this orange Topshop crop like a moth to a flame, and let's face it, I'm probably going to end up getting it in white and black because it's just great.

Just a brief one from me today as I have lots to do before I head back home to Bristol for a long weekend on Thursday evening. I am so excited as I haven't been back since Christmas so I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with family and friends over good food and lots of G&Ts. Cheers!

Bon mercredi les chéris! Juste un outfit simple qui mélange du façonnage et du style sport, ce qui je trouve parfait pour bosser. Dès que j'ai vu ce crop orange de Topshop, il fallait que je l'achète, et honnêtement, j'imagine que je l'achèterai en blanc et en noir parce qu'il est génial.

Juste une parole brève aujourd'hui parce que j'ai plein de choses à faire avant que je rentre à Bristol pour un weekend prolongé jeudi soir. La dernière fois que je suis rentré était à Noël alors j'ai trop hâte de passer du temps avec ma famille et mes potes en mangeant de la bonne bouffe et en buvant des Gin & Tonics. Santé!

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PFW: Designers Apartment

During Paris Fashion Week I was invited to view some of the collections at Designers Apartment, a showroom for several designers and here are some of my highlights…

Etienne Deroeux

My friend Gina and Etienne’s wholesale manager, invited me to view his SS15 collection at Designers Apartment and I absolutely loved it. Tailoured clothing and the sports fashion are some of my favourite trends at the moment and Etienne brings these together perfectly in his wearable sports luxe collection. Not only are the cuts flawless, the range of materials used are beautiful and just what I love right now, from sheer, mesh and fishnet to silk and wool. I love the fishnet detailing, one of my favourite pieces being the worker-style jumpsuit with mesh detailing on the top. Apart from the beautiful silk striped pleated skirts, the collection generally consists of block colours, from monochrome to pastel pinks and bright yellows. Etienne won the Marie Claire prize of excellence during Paris Fashion Week so he is definitely the designer to watch!

Iris Cantabri

I was an absolute awe when the extremely friendly designer, Guillaume Michel, began telling me about his vision. His collection consists of tops, skirts, trousers and shorts that can be zipped together to create what could be an unlimited amount of looks. He believes that women should be able to create their own looks and not necessarily feel restricted by current trends. If you had all the pieces from this year’s AW and SS collections, which would consist of about 80 items, you could create over 650 different looks just by zipping different pieces together! Incredible. The model tried on 5 pieces for me and created these 4 completely different looks. It is such a flexible idea that is perfect for many situations. For example, if you are going out after work you could just change your top for something slightly less formal and voilà! Or if you had lots of weddings to go to in the space of few months, instead of buying a different dress for each one you could buy a few of these pieces and mix and match! As I said to the designer, I can really relate to this idea because as a blogger on a limited budget I am always trying to find new looks to blog about but using the same pieces!

Monographie

This collection is right up my street for SS15. The designs are beautiful and very wearable with sports luxe vibe, which you know I love. A wide range of fabrics have been used, each of which are interesting and unique. Despite not owning anything in this material, I am pretty obsessed with scuba; I just love its squishy and smooth texture. The cobalt blue scuba skater skirts and dresses would be high on my wishlist for SS15. Sheer is always a winner for me and I absolutely love the black tailoured trousers with vertical sheer panels. From delicate sheer to tough, plastic-like mesh tops and jumpers, Monographie shows the diversity of their inspiration and skill, which is what I love about the collection. Each item is very different from the next and yet they all go together very well.

PFW: Etienne Deroeux X Le Mont Saint Michel

Location: Le Mont Saint Michel, 96 rue Veuille du Temple, Paris

Paris Fashion Week commenced yesterday and I kicked things off by attending the capsule collection launch of Etienne Derœux X Le Mont Saint Michel. I went with my friend Gina, who is Etienne's wholesale executive for Paris Fashion Week so it was nice to start with an event that felt a bit more personal. 

The collection brings together Etienne Derœux's sport luxe style and Le Mont Saint Michel's work-wear influence and the result is beautiful. The clothes are simple yet unique and very wearable and the monochrome and pastel colours used meant the collection was instantly right up my street. I am a huge knitwear fan so I adored the chunky, soft jumpers that made me excited to get cosy in my jumper collection over the coming winter months. The graphic print silk shirt is the stand out piece of the collection and it looks great styled with a cropped jumper over the top, as seen in the last photo. And how fun are the woollen hot pants?! Perfect for keeping your bum warm under a black sheer skirt or trousers!

Keep checking back for more Paris Fashion Week posts throughout the next week and follow me on Instagram for instant updates! 

Izzie x 

Red Sox

Vintage Red Sox t-shirt / Vintage skirt / Asos leather jacket (old) / Doc Martens shoes

Having a wardrobe crisis this morning, I grabbed Lewis' Red Sox tee and paired it with my cheerleader/tennis skirt and I love the result. This is me dabbling in the sports fashion trend, which I love but it is perhaps not naturally my style. So, I added my trusty Docs and leather jacket to toughen up the outfit. 

About two years ago I was doing a classic North American road trip with Lewis and as we were going to see the Red Sox we decided to hunt down some t-shirts in Boston's thrift stores. For now, my navy one is residing back in Bristol but I'm definitely going to pick it up when next back!

Izzie x