Vintage Vogue

Last year, one of my Twitter friends tweeted about getting her 'Birthday Vogue'. I thought this was an awesome idea for a present for my mum for Christmas, and while scouring the internet for vintage magazines, I stumbled across my own... December 1979. I thought it would be rude not to buy it!

I have a Vogue subscription so I'm always flicking through the pages, both for my interest in Fashion, but also because I love getting inspiration for shoots, and seeing the latest photographic trends, so it's interesting to see what was en-vogue (pun intended) over 30 years ago!

Imagine Fashion

In the last few years, we've seen a massive change in the way fashion magazines use the internet. More and more, publications are moving away from just replicating their print based counterparts in favour of video and interactive content. Imagine Fashion is taking this a step further...

Combining fashion, beauty, music, art and commerce, Imagine Fashion brings together some of the biggest names in the industry as well as showcasing some of the best emerging talent.

Out : More Tea Vicar?

Tea is good... and there's nothing more British than a tea party in the afternoon! So when I got invited along to Teapod @ The Fashion & Textile Museum by London Bridge, I could hardly say no.

Teapod offer a range of tea blends to satisfy pretty much any tea craving. I went for the very manly "strong brew" which went down a treat! Not least because Felicities PR were also tempting us with an assortment of Teapod's amazing cakes, and their awesome homemade scones with clotted cream and jam!

Using only the very best loose leaf tea (none of this teabag nonsense!), and offering free Wifi to all customers makes Teapod an awesome place to do a spot of work whilst sipping on a proper brew.

Everyone invited really did have a very enjoyable afternoon, and I recommend all you tea lovers out there to take a trip to one of Teapods 3 London stores for some proper good honest tea!

Out : Paris Fashion Week AW11

So a week after finishing all 6 days of London, I re-joined the fashion circus in Paris, for 9 days of shows and exhibitions. Unlike London though, where I was there purely to see the shows for myself, at Paris I was shooting for New York based magazine, The Dirty Durty Diary.

I've always said my worst nightmare job would be in the pit at a fashion show, and after 9 days of it my opinion hasn't changed much. Pit photographers are quite territorial, and mark out there position and defend it to the death haha! I'm just too placid and laid back to fight for position. Plus, most of the central positions will be taken at least an hour before the start of the show, so if you're doing lots of shows, you'll never get in the middle. Thankfully, I've always preferred to shoot models from low, so sitting on the floor at the front worked well for me anyway... although I did often end up with a sore arse!