tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340263782011-12-31T22:25:40.081Zlondon adventures, vintage dresses, looovely fashion things (especially with prints and sequins)...gunillanoreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34026378.post-88164699767880636222011-11-26T13:11:00.005Z2011-11-26T13:26:12.449Z

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18 months down the line, it was time for a change. And so, i left Ted behind for new exciting adventures elsewhere – and of all places, i ended up at Topshop! Younger, more fashionable, more fun and more me, i ♥ TS! And of course, a few favourites, including looovely knitwear: i want these!i got this!bring on winter!

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months on from my last post, i have managed to score myself the LCF equivalent of a 1st (oh yes, 'pass with distinction' indeed), convince 2 heads of merchandising, a director of buying & merchandising, and a head of buying to let me do work experience at their company, and have (among many many unsuccessful CVs, cover letters and applications) managed to end up with a job!it all sounds rather

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i would buy it, wouldn't you??

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Ashley Olsen - The Row, Claudia Schiffer - Atelier Versace, Emmy Rossum - Carolina Herrera, Kate Moss - Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton 

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the A/W 09 fashion weeks have long been and gone now but i'm still so excited about some of the collections that were shown. this is just a little selection of my favorites (oh so painfully pretty, i want it all!):Peter Jensen3.1 Phillip LimRodarteMary KatrantzouBalmainMarc Jacobs

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i have relocated away from the beautiful (but cold) scottish capital and have started an exciting and, hopefully, career-advancing PG Cert in london-town so i figured it was time to make this blog about all the great things that life has to offer instead of so much of the crap...after 2 months, i can safely say coming here was the right decision. i love london (i cant believe how anyone possibly

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until i once again have broadband internet (oh broadband internet, i miss thee so!!), here is a photo montage of what has been rocking my world since i last posted on this blog. biggest change since then though: life is good. finally. and hopefully this time for a while...Barnardos Vintage... too many pretty things!!I heart the Chicago skyline in Decemberonly in America is this an acceptable, and

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my final thoughts on Cuba:What an absolutely fascinating place - natural beauty, rich cultural heritage and identity, and truely unique in its relative isolation. Whether being a Cuban national is miserable or not, as a result of the government currently in power, is not my place to judge. I wish I had known Spanish because i think a lot of the 'authentic Cuba' is lost in the tourist-trail that

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Location: La HabanaArriving in Havana that tuesday afternoon felt like a homecoming - a place we felt familiar wih and one we knew how to navigate sans Lonely Planet.This time around we opted for a casa particular rather than a hotel which i'd definitely recommend. we were given keys and could come and go as we wished, and the location on Calle Amistad, Centro Habana, near bar/paladares hot-spot

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location: Santa Clara, Villa ClaraHome to all the Che Guevara memorabilia any tourist could ever dream of, Santa Clara's subtle beauty easily gets overlooked. i personally thinks this is such a shame because the mix of architectural styles throughout this city is truely amazing and incredibly fascinating. our opinions on Santa Clara were thus very mixed. while Amy and Rachel didn't seem to take

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location: Trinidad, Sancti SpíritusRather than risking not getting bus tickets onwards to Trinidad after arriving in Havana from Viñales, we opted for sacrificing an extra CUC$3 each to get a taxi straight from the door in Viñales to the door at Mandy y Marilyn's casa particular in Trinidad.In practice, this was not as horrible of an idea as initially feared. I got stuck in the middle seat since

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location: Viñales, Pinar Del RioOur first trip out of Havana of course happened to coincide with a sunday which, momentarily, had us worried there would be no buses or trains. However, the tourism industry is massively important and Cuba's impressively efficient bus system is proof of that.For CUC$12 each, we secured spaces on a Viazul bus to Viñales in the Pinar Del Rio province, west of Havana.

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it's been a long way coming and it took the rapidly deteriorating health of a certain revolutionary and commander in chief to make me book tickets for a trip, but i've finally made it to Cuba...Got here safe and sound with trusty Virgin Atlantic and after making our way through the slightly intimidating security at the airport, experiencing 3 power cuts while waiting for our luggage (which

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As summer officially began in june (despite the weather indicating otherwise), the regular live music scene dried up to allow for festival season to take the entirety of Great Britain by usual enthusiastic storm. As a result of that, and the inevitable end to my official 'student' status, the only gig i managed to catch since The Shins in april, was my rather brief encounter with nu rave wannabes

gunillanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34026378.post-71737195736838233462007-05-04T16:21:00.000Z2007-05-04T16:34:00.722Z

Sooo, instead of doing this bit about The Rapture as a review of their march 4 gig at the ABC in Glasgow (there is no point, they were fucking amazing and I cant say anything critical, even if I wanted to), its just gonna be a general appreciation post about The Rapture and the band that opened for them at the Glasgow gig; Shitdisco.I was soooo annoyed when I missed The Rapture/The Presets at

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These little reviews/reflections are coming so so so long after the actual gigs that there is really very little point in writing and posting them. However, I kinda like this tradition ive started where I write a bit on how all the gigs I go to have been because its far too easy to forget the momentary brilliance or complete lack thereof of certain bands. I really dont want to start feeling like

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Had the shittiest day yesterday, marketing revision was going nowhere, everyone I know was either too busy revising to hang out or still at home for Easter vacation (which, considering it was Easter Monday, would be the logical place to be). The library was depressing, the weather was depressing (although no rain so I suppose I shouldn’t complain too much...) and I was not feeling any positive

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i haven't written on here in ages now, dissertation stress and course assigments and life in general has been getting on top of me and i havent had a chance to sit down and write my thought on the music ive managed to catch live in between all the madness. i still want to do it, though, cos it's nice to reflect upon gigs afterwards... there is nothing worse than when they begin to blend into one

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Dissertations suck! that should really say everything about my current state of mind. i have another 1½ week to get 15'000 words down on paper and at the moment that seems near impossible. a few things, apart from bucketloads of coffee and a newfound addiction to cinnamon and raisin bagels, are keeping me going:fujiya & miyagithe velvet undergroundthe pics emerging from london fashion week (it's

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Oooh, january 29th has been and gone... and Klaxons’ ‘Myths of the Near Future’ and Jamie T’s ‘Panic Prevention’ are now sitting pretty in my CD collection (finally!!). yep, it’s been a long time coming and there is now no chance ill get any work done on my dissertation anytime soon – ill be playing those albums over and over and over and over... The View got its fair share of plays last week (

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The Enemy / Figure 5, cabaret voltaire, 26 january 2007.I find it slightly worrying sometimes just how old certain things make me feel – like some of my mates being 20 (!!) on the day of their uni graduation, my flatmate complaining about turning 21 last week, being able to have relationship conversations with my cousins (they used to be so litte and innocent!!), realising that some of the people

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there's a first time for everything, as they say... and last monday was the first time ever that i have waited (im)patiently for an album and bought it on the day of its release. The View got that honour and, more importantly i think, they deserve it.i have wondered a few times whether or not it would even really be worth shelling out the £9.99 for this album, but their tracks are just

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i just had to post my opinion about klaxons' new single. how amazingly brilliant is 'golden skans'? wow, wow, wow... yes, it may be more mainstream than 'magick' and less of a mashup than 'atlantis to interzone' but what an absolute blinder this track is... it's the first song ever to make it onto my top 25 on itunes within the space of just 2 weeks (and any musician knows they've made it when

gunillanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34026378.post-8140710510934584492007-01-04T23:37:00.000Z2007-01-09T12:17:08.952Z

So, 2006 has been and gone. It has been a weird year – definitely more downs than ups but still with higher highs than I’ve had in a very long time. I had big plans to publish this post on dec. 31 to finish off the year with some thoughts on it but, as usual, life got in the way. but jan. 4 isn’t too bad though, right? :DIt’s been a really long year and I think I’ve come a long way with certain

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Gig: The Films, Bar Academy Islington, 15 december 2006.So, this gig was kind of a random decision to attend... the tickets were cheap, I was in town anyways, and the idea of catching the kooks’ opening act on the recent leg of their european tour at a tiny venue didn’t seem like a bad deal to me (afterall, the noisettes, brooklyn, and second sex were brilliant opening acts for them in paris this

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The Duke Spirit, ICA, 13 december 2006Every once in a while, a gig comes along that completely surprises you and makes you remember why you couldn’t ever live without music and why music is vastly superior when it’s live......this was one of those gigs.Walking to charing cross after the gig, I wondered if maybe superior gigs is a London thing. Does london somehow provide the perfect setting for

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The Pigeon Detectives, cabaret voltaire, 10 december 2006.Some gigs just get off to the oddest starts... this was definitely one of those gigs. Had to show ID at the door and was then given a wristband that would have to be shown at the bar in order to get served... yes, it was also one of those gigs. Once inside, however, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t packed with 14 year olds,

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gig review: the sunshine underground, cabaret voltaire, november 21 2006NME loves them. That, right away, makes me doubt their musical promise. The NME notoriously backs a hell of a lot of posers (im not taking away credit for those brilliant bands that NME has helped along the way, there is just far between those with originality and serious long-term potential) so is it really any wonder I had

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they only went and did it, those Rave Magazine editors... they actually mailed me a copy of the october issue! I know they said they would but considering how they seemed to think of us while we interned this summer, i doubted this was anything more than a ‘uh-I-really-should-try-to-be-polite-and-provide-a-copy-of-the-magazine-they-have-contributed-to’ gesture.But then yesterday, it actually got

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gig review: the blood arm / the low miffs, cabaret voltaire, november 6 2006for some reason, it wasn’t untill this year I first set foot in the cramped underground cave-like venue that has played host to many an up-and-coming band on scotland’s live music circuit. And although I have my issues with the layout of cabaret voltaire, there is little doubt that even not-quite-sold-out gigs (such as

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gig review: the cooper temple clause, liquid room, October 30 2006on October 30th, i made my way, once again, to that wonderful Edinburgh venue known as liquid room. The reason for the trek from the comfort of my marchmont flat all the way across the meadows in the cold October weather? my second encounter with the brilliant cooper temple clause in the space of 5 months…the coopers were the last

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Jamie T 'if you got the money' - brilliant track, much more haunting (in that positive way only purely genius songs are) than 'sheila'. in fact, his tales of modern surburbia are some of the best lyrical contributions to what is currently being played on the radio in this country. im disappointed in the general record-buying UK public since this track only went to #13 while My Chemical Romance

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british charity oxfam has always been incredibly good at generating attention for their causes (remember the white 'make poverty history' wristbands that we all wore in 2005 when bob geldof was trying single-handedly to change world politics?) and it's a charity that deserves immense credit for the work they do and aid they provide. and their latest project: OXJAM. it is described as oxfam's

gunillanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34026378.post-1160313233043685112006-10-08T13:13:00.000Z2006-10-29T20:49:50.656Z

NME is the bible for most 17-year-olds as they desperately attempt to stay at the front of the pack of followers of today's trendy music (as determined by who? why, NME, of course). i kind of missed the whole NME phase of my teenage life on account of being surrounded by good charlotte obsessed americans in my tiny little high school bubble (which, on the upside, does mean that i know they were

gunillanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34026378.post-1157938840153903882006-09-11T01:28:00.000Z2006-10-29T20:49:19.563Z

oh how horrible student nights can be. yes edinburgh is wicked and yes edinburgh does have some fab clubs and bars. but tonight proved just how horrid student nights can be. no one should suffer through 1½ hours of shit dance music maskerading as entertainment... no one!!! stereotypes were arife... girls with blonde hair-straightener-damaged hair and far too much make-up wearing hotpants (how on

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i may well be person #3'128'746'736 to set up a blog but who cares if it gives me a chance to rant, make judgements, and generally share my sarcastic comments about anything and everyone without all my friends immediately being updated on what im thinking (thank you for that, facebook)? i know i don't...

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