Soviet Kitsch

Bonjour Mes Amies!! Hope the New Year is going S'wonderfully for you all (sorry, I went to the see the English National Ballet perform 'Strictly Gershwin' last night and am still trying to come down from the insane high).

Just a quick picture post, as promised in my bid to be a better blogger this year. I've been rocking a 'soviet kitsch' look for a while now thanks to an amazing faux fur hat I bought (new) from a London vintage shop. Not only is it warm, but it protects my lovely straightened hair from the awful British weather. I get killer hat hair though.

I paired it with this INSANE oversized man's coat I found in a charity shop a while ago and have been meaning to share with you all. My waist is one of my best features (the exact same width as Audrey Hepburn's don'tcha know?) so I've sinched it in with a belt, and my suede wedged boots (you all know I love me a wedge). I realise I look like a Russian soldier. But hopefully a very fashionable one...

Hope you're staying safe and chic chéries,

English Rose x

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

BONJOUR MES AMIES!!

I just wanted to wish you all the happiest, healthiest, luckiest, and most fashionable year yet. I'm so hopeful and excited about 2012. I hope this is the year when all of your dreams come true.

Thank you all so much for your love, support, advice and emails about the last post. I'm still trying to figure out the best thing to do, but I know that this blog will keep going. Nobody puts baby in the corner. I'm constantly telling everyone to dance to the beat of their own drum, not to care what other people think, and to find their own voice. I practice what I preach in ever other area of my life so it's about time I applied it to this blog. Things will have to be different but there will be things, I promise.

New posts, new pictures, new fashion, new rants, new year. <3 

Starting with these new pictures of Christmas where I got this INCREDIBLE jacket from the mothership. I'm obsessed with it. You all know that I live for Chanel, but I'm nineteen not ninety. My wardrobe is full of Chanel-esque "grandma" jackets and although I try to make them more edgy and youthful, let's face it, they're not. Which is why I'm so obsessed with this jacket. It's got leather on one of the lapels which makes it so much more rock 'n' roll. I paired it with my purple tulle skirt, I <3 Marc, Karl, Coco tee, vintage Fender Stratocaster (is it lame that I name my guitars?) and my 'rock chick' ankle boots.

I've got the moooooooves like Jagger...

I know better than to tell you how often I'll be posting. I'm going back to Cambridge soon and may not be able to make good on my new year's blogging resolution but I am aiming for AT LEAST once a week, so please bear with me. Continue to spread the word, follow (and TALK to) me on Twitter and just generally be the amazing and super fashionable readers that I know you are. I love you guys. Here's to 2012!!! <3

 Stay safe and chic mes chéries, 

English Rose x