Sing along mocking bird, you don't affect me

Vintage dungarees: Rokit Hoodie: Dirty Harry Vintage Dr Martens: hand-me-downs

Over-sized velvet jacket: charity shop Nirvana T-shirt & alien necklace: eBay

Photography by Melissa Arras.

Hey guys! Here are some medium format shots my uni friend Melissa shot of me around the Portobello area of London on 23rd Feb. It was really fun shooting this, we had various different denim items for the shoot (ones labelled are mine and the rest are hers) that was based around the subject of a denim campaign. Unlike the weather that we're having now, back then it was quite chilly which came to our advantage as the wind has brought my hair to life in some shots, which I do rather like! I've only ever shot on medium format briefly in the studio at uni before, and that was digital, but shooting with Melissa that day really inspired me to get going with medium format on film when I go into my second year. We can rent out the cameras for free so really there should be nothing stopping me! I'm so looking forward to getting taught about how to use those cameras again when I start back, even though I've been taught before, my memory needs refreshing!

Meadham Kirchoff Spring/Summer 2014

all images taken by me

 On Tuesday I managed to head up to London for the final day of London Fashion Week and get into a show that I'm happy to say was my first proper catwalk show I've seen. I enjoyed it so much, it was most definitely worth the big wait in the rain beforehand! Held in the Topshop tents in Regents Park I rushed to capture what would be my ultimate favourite SS14 collection that I've seen so far. I think the historical references, lace and ruffles, wide-brimmed hats and baloney curls all fitted to a magical elegance. Whilst watching this show I felt like I was going back in time, every piece was very Victorian/vintage which I adore and the patterns and details were also incredibly beautiful. Edward Meadham & Benjamin Kirchoff, hats off to you!

You can view the show on YouTube here.

Summer's in the air and baby, heaven's in your eyes

Here are some photos that were taken recently with my film camera :) I hope you like <3
I've now finished my first year of sixth form college and am on my Summer holidays. I really look forward to doing more outfit posts in my spare time and sharing more photography with you - get this blog extremely active like it should be! I'd like this Summer to be a very productive one, where I can get my motivation back up and be as creative as possible, in the art aspects. I plan on going out and about as much as possible, meeting new people and taking regular visits to the beach to collect my thoughts whilst people watch, sipping at whatever Starbucks beverage takes my fancy :-) My Summer read is going to be The Virigin Suicides which I bought recently, morbid I know, but apparently it is good so I don't mind. When I've finished with that I shall move onto another book. At the moment I'm reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower and I love it. I'll also be working voluntarily at a charity shop this Summer, starting soon, so that shall keep me busy too.

~~ just a reminder that my photos are always (c) to Candy Coated Fasion, don't steal ~~~

 

I can see through you and I don't get it

 On Friday 25th May my best friend and I went up to London to see The Horrors at the O2 Academy in Brixton, London. Before The Horrors came on there were 3 support acts; Toy, Beak and another band that made up of 3 Japanese women who sung hardcore rock in Japanese haha, it was a bit mental! Then the moment I saw Faris Badwan (dude above) I was extremely excited! I had been waiting for this moment a long time! Throughout the gig I was second row and it was so great being that close to them :D I really love the music from The Horrors and hearing it live makes it so much more special. Unfortunately the after party at Brixton Jam was 18+ so we couldn't go to it. The Horrors would of been there again and I'm pretty sure I read Orlando Bloom aswell?! Weird! Sucks we missed out. We'd also stayed after for a bit in the hope of meeting them when they come out for a bit but then we had to leave after about half an hour to get the tube back, but I really hope I will get to meet them another time in the future.

The outfit photos and photo of the union jack flags on Oxford St. were taken the next day. I would post more photos from the gig but they are all just cloudy, this was one of the clearest and I've just quickly went wack with Photoshop and created this montage effect hehe, as you dooo.

Outfit: Sunglasses from Snoopers Paradise, floral top from Jane Norman, velvet shorts from Urban Outfitters, bag from Select (?), fishnet tights from tights shop in Camden, frilly socks from Topshop, creepers from eBay.

I'm not Snow White, but I'm lost inside this forest

Hey! Here are some fashion photos that I took for my A Level again that I'd like to share with my readers, hope you like them! :) Also sorry I haven't been blogging that much, been so busy with college and everything.. ugh. I need to do a new lookbook post aswell soon. The title of this is a line from the song Wonderland by Natalia Kills - such a great song that I got to experience live once, hehe. In these photos I really wanted to capture pure beauty of the surroundings and natural poses and I'm really happy with the way it turned out :-) Shoot was done on 19/04/2012.

Loving Strangers

Levi jacket from charity shop, cardigan from stool in Portobello, tights from Portobello Market, jumper from charity shop, butterfly necklace from Primark, shorts & backpack from Urban Outfitters, socks from TJ-Hughs, sunglasses from Primark, boots are Dr. Martens.

In these first two photos I used the AV setting on my camera to capture light streams and have the shutter speed set automatically to about 1 second, this captured movement and light in really interesting ways, and gave a panning effect in some. I took much more of these sorts of photos, of my friend for my Photography, and they are really cool, but I just want this post to show a short selection of photos that have been taken recently... So I then bring you to a pic of myself and friends at the beach! Recently me and my friends from my Acting class have become really close, we've been out to the park twice this week, then had a BBQ party (the photos of me in purple jacket), then to finish off, yesterday on a lovely Friday evening, 5 of us went to an American diner and had dinner whilst having lots of laughs and chats on the night before. I've loved these past few days, the sun really helps too because it's stayed out and it really feels like Spring now!

Russian Red - Loving Strangers