Last week the lovely folks at
Selfridges and the
Bullring invited me along to a bloggers evening for a little pampering, and the opportunity to explore some of the new season's trends. It was an absolutely fantastic night, and I want to thank them sincerely for looking after us so well. I ended up taking lots of photos, so have decided to divide this across 2 posts, one today concentrating on the fabulous fashion treats that I saw, and one tomorrow on the more pampering aspects of the evening.
So, on with the fashion!
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| Yummy canapes and a glass of fizz at the Selfridges Champagne bar |
I gathered with the other invited Birmingham bloggers (wonderful to see some familiar faces again, as well as meeting some new ones!) in the Moet Champagne bar to begin the evening with a glass of fizz, some delicious canapes and a bit of a catch up and chat. We were then given a presentation on Spring / Summer 2012 trends. This was a fast-paced whizz through what we can expect to see in store next season, and there were definitely some gorgeous trends. My favourites had to be 1950s style tailoring and sundresses in pastel colours mixed with pops of brights, and I also thought that the prevalence of black was interesting, and great for people with Deep colouring, who often find it difficult to shop in Summer.
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| Style Presentation |
We were then shown some of the white designer pieces that are exclusive to Selfridges. They were all gorgeous but I have to say that the one that really caught my eye was the McQueen Union Flag clutch with gold skull accents. Yum!
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| Exclusive white pieces for Selfridges |
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| The McQueen clutch - LUST! |
We were then taken on a guided tour of the store to take a look at some of the new accessories collections. Again, I was swooning all over the place. The main headlines? For colour think gorgeous pastels - coral pinks, periwinkles, lilacs, mixed with neutrals like camel, grey and navy. There were also lots of healthy pops of lipstick red - gorgeous, and especially great news for Lights, Softs, and Cools. I fell in love with a Mulberry Alexa in coral pink with rose gold chain and fastening and found myself stroking the gorgeous buttery leather! Style - wise, the big news was mini bags. Yup, we're definitely heading back to the 90s folks! I had a serious 'Clueless' moment as we were shown miniature versions of some of the best selling lines for Prada and Mulberry. They are super cute, but as a blogger and stylist I'm usually hefting round a fair amount of stuff, so not sure they're really for me. Lots of the other bloggers were emmitting audible squees at the very sight of them, however. We also went back to the 70s with Gucci, with handbag designs inspired by their work in 1977. I loved the ivory and teal boxy bags.
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| Gorgeous pastels from Mulberry (hands off the coral, it's mine! I wish.) |
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| Mini Mulberry! |
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| Camel coloured neutrals from Mulberry |
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| A classic navy design from Prada |
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| Prada mini bags |
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| Neutrals at Prada |
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| Lipstick red sits alongside pastel pink for Spring with Prada |
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Another mini bag from Prada (alongside a normal size red lovely, for scale!)
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| 1970s inspired bag from Gucci |
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| 1970s inspired bag from Gucci in teal suede - yes please! |
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more lipstick red from Gucci
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| More camel and lipstick red from Dior |
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| Dior also does mini |
We then wound our way towards the shoes, and en route, I couldn't help but snap some Christmas sparkle from Vivienne Westwood (again, yes please!) and Burberry.
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| Rhinestone and beaded detail Mac, Burberry |
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| Gold Mac, Burberry |
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| Rhinestone and beaded detail shift dress, Burberry |
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| Gold Jacquard dress, Vivienne Westwood |
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Bronze sequin dress, Vivienne Westwood
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We were then shown a range of exlusive shoes to Selfridges from Jimmy Choo. My particular favourites were the Sex and the City shoe in teal and purple with feather details, and a towering pair of gold platform sandals, perfect for parting the night away (although the heels may prevent extensive dancing. Although apparently Choo's are super comfy. Given how beautiful they are, I'd be willing to test this theory!)
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| Jimmy Choo exclusives |
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| Jimmy Choo at Selfridges, oh how I'd love to party in these this Christmas! |
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| The Sex and the City Shoe. Swoon. |
By this stage, we were all pretty much a mass of salivating, accessory - crazed fashion blogger crazies. Luckily we'd now be moving on to the pampering portion of the evening, which I'll be telling you all about tomorrow!
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