chadchad of the day 7.6

top / Issey Miyake Men
trousers / American Apparel
shoes / G.I.L. Homme
sunglasses / Resurrection
clutch / Louis Vuitton

This outfit shot was taken last month during London Fashion Week, I've just been way slow in updating these days.  I was so in love with this pleated neon top that Issey Miyake Men lent me to wear and the color popped so well against the navy trousers, cobalt blue clutch and sunglasses and powder blue loafers.  I'm definitely a fan of shade blocking at the moment!

See if you can find me in this adorable spread from the LFW Daily featuring a rainbow of street style.  London is so vibrant and not so into the black on black looks that many fashion cities routinely follow.

xoxochadchad

chadchad of the day 7.5

polka dot suit / Topman
floral vest top / American Apparel
blue clutch / Louis Vuitton
sunglasses / street vendor
blue loafers / G.I.L. Homme

Thanks to Pause Magazine for this street style snap out my outfit on Day 2 at London Fashion Week.  I wanted to play with pattern and varying shades of blue for this look and it was one of my favorite outfits of the week.  Unfortunately I don't get to keep the polka dot suit as it was a loan, but the rad floral tank top is all mine :)  Too bad I'll have to wait til next spring to wear it again.

xoxochadchad

xoxo 2.1: LFW SS13

xoxochadchad

1883 Meets...

In the week before this seasons FW12 shows at London Fashion Week, I had the chance to meet and interview a few London based designers for 1883 Meets by 1883 Magazine.  My first such meeting was with Georgia Hardinge, the warmest and most welcoming person you'll ever have the pleasure of meeting.  We met at her studio in east London where she discussed some of the processes she used in designing her well-known prints and introduced us to her stylist Aldean, who also styles for Florence + the Machine.

Next up was the charming designer duo Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman who join forces to create Fyodor Golan, last season's Fashion Fringe winners.  I met them in their amazing studio right next to Somerset House where the walls were covered in mood boards and inspiration ranging from Russian princess folklore to insects and Indonesian headdresses.  They spoke about their first on schedule catwalk show and the positive sides of working as a team.  

Finally, the night before their runway show at Vauxhall Fashion Scout, I met Wouter Baartmans and Amber Siegel.  They are the lovely Dutch/British couple behind up and coming menswear brand Baartmans and Siegel.  They were nervous and unsure about speaking on camera, but came across so eloquently and passionate when discussing their design ethos and the inspiration behind this seasons 'Cadbury Milk Man' collection.  

xoxochadchad

chadchad of the day 6.8

Quite the nice surprise reading the Metro Lifestyle section on the tube to work this morning and seeing one of my fashion week outfits on display for 4 million readers to see.  Also feeling very good about the fact I'm alongside such dapper company including menswear designers like Patrick Grant from E.Tautz and David friggin' Gandy himself!  Big thanks to Paul Hartnett for the photos - he was such a nice and talented gentleman to get to talk to during fashion week.




Also thanks to T.Lipop & Cutler and Gross for lending samples for me to wear.  For this outfit I decided to play with tones using blue accessories on T.Lipop's very sharp (and buttonless!) blue suit.  I found the braided belt at a street stall in Myeongdong in Seoul and the dark blue leather gloves at a street stall in Covent Garden.  


xoxochadchad

chadchad of the day 6.7

patterned trench / Human Potential

yellow shirt / Issey Miyake

teal trousers / Topman

blue clutch / Louis Vuitton

orange socks / UNIQLO

maroon shoes / Zara

brown sunglasses / Cutler and Gross

I went hella bright for London Fashion Week day 4 as it was a blue skies kinda afternoon and I wanted to put myself in a spring sort of mood.  Korean label Human Potential sent me this bold trench coat a few months ago as a gift and fashion week was the first time the weather felt right to wear it.  The neutral almost burnt looking pattern has pops of aqua and purple and I wanted to bring those colors out by color blocking the rest of my outfit - yellow shirt, aqua trousers, blue clutch, orange socks, maroon shoes.  It's a lot but I'm not afraid to experiment with color.

Below is another one of the daily videos I made for 1883 Magazine's Fashion Insider during the week.  This time we focused on the confidence and craziness that makes up London's street fashion scene, which is louder and prouder than most other cities in the world.  

**X's and O's to London Fashion by Paul and Rachel Phipps for some of the photographs!


xoxochadchad

chadchad of the day 6.6

black jacket with zips / Asger Juel Larsen
grey harem trousers / Issey Miyake
brown sunglasses / Cutler and Gross
black clutch / vintage
black boots / Aldo
boots chains / vintage


My outfit for day 2 of London Fashion Week this season was again mostly lent to me by some amazing PR agencies & designers while I did some filming for 1883 Magazine.  Big thanks again to Cutler and Gross for the sunglasses and to Blow Pr for the AJL jacket - I love the zips and layers and leather detailing and it was the perfect match for these baggy grey trousers from Issey Miyake.  Check out some backstage shots from the Asger Juel Larsen FW12 show HERE.

On Day 2 we were having a few technical difficulties with focusing and I said 'um' like 75 times I swear in that 2 minute video - I definitely got a lot more comfortable later in the week!  Click on the links for backstage pictures of the shows I talked about including Elisa Palomino who had the models in bright pink & purple hair and the Avatar meets Last of the Mohicans styling that went into the Florian Jayet show.  

Here's a close up of the western style buckles I wore over my boots - they are meant for cowboy boots but look great over a simple ankle boot or a pair of Doc's.  
ps. Thanks to Toni Tran from fashitects.blogspot.com for the first two photographs! 


xoxochadchad

t.lipop fw12

xoxochadchad

xoxo 0.4

xoxochadchad

baartmans and siegel fw12

xoxochadchad