Project Perfect

When the gorgeous Sarah from Fashion is my H2O told me about her new Project Perfect mission I couldn't wait to get involved. Her aim is to make all of us feel gorgeous no matter what size we are. Each week she has 6 bloggers all in different sizes from 6 to 16, and each person styles that week's selected item of clothing in their own way that makes them feel body confident and happy in their own skin. It's such a fab project and shows that we really don't all need to fit in to a particular shape or size in order to be beautiful.

This week's challenge was to style a blazer. And here's what I wore!

Blazer - River Island

Shorts - vintage

Top - Primark

Shoes - Topshop

Necklace - Fossil

Each of the other bloggers look amazing in their blazers, what a gorgeous bunch! Have a look at Sarah's fab blog here.

 

Here comes the high street bride

A while back I blogged about the impending Richard Nicoll bridal collection for Topshop. As you can see, here, I wasn't too convinced by the idea. Much as I love Nicoll's designs, and much as I love Topshop, who doesn't?? I just wasn't convinced that the collection would be aisle worthy. Well today the first images of the collection were released.

The collection consists of 7 dresses, all priced between £75 and £350. He's named the collection Tie The Knot (cute!) and the dresses are really beautiful. However as someone who dreamed of, and had the perfect fairytale wedding (don't worry, no Katie Price style carriages were harmed in the making of my wedding!) I can't help feeling they're just not special enough. They'd make really lovely bridesmaid dresses, or even wedding guest outfits, but I just don't know that they stand the test of time as the most important dress of your life. Here's every dress in the collection...

£350

£200

£170

£200

£75

£350

£170

What do you think? Would you wear any of the dresses for your big day?

Chloe Green at Topshop

Being heir to the Arcadia fortune must be a bit like being a princess. So Chloe Green is one lucky lucky girl. Daughter of the mega-minted Sir Philip Green, CEO of the Arcadia brand, Chloe was bound to become famous in her own right sooner or later. And who can blame her?? I can't honestly say that if my dad owned Topshop I wouldn't want in on a bit of the action. Can you?

After a stint on Made in Chelsea and plenty of trips down the red carpet scattered in amongst nights out with Rihanna and La Moss, the "it girl" (are we still using that term? It seems a bit Paris Hilton circa 2002) has certainly been making a name for herself. And it seems that’s not all she's been making as today her line of shoes, ingeniously named CJG Shoes, launches in Topshop.

With prices ranging from £115 to £175 the shoes certainly aren't the cheapest out there. Plus I don't see the name having nearly as much of a draw as the Kate Moss range had back in the day. Yes Miss Green has been on TV but she's certainly no mega star! And, dare I say it, after having a browse of the collection earlier today, I can't help feeling that they're a bit cheap looking…

Channeling her famous surname she's given them all a signature green sole. Not the most glamorous of colours, but I can see what she's trying to do. However the green sole combined with sky high platforms, sequins, studding, straps, zips and cheap looking colour options just really isn't doing it for me….bizarrely actually as that list contains some of my favourite things in the world!

Anyway, have a look for yourself, what do you think of the range? Will you be splashing out on a pair of Chloe's shoes?

Topshop bridal

I got married last summer, which therefore means I should never look longingly at another wedding dress (or man for that matter!) for the rest of my life, right? However I'm also a female who grew up on Disney films, so the site of all that tulle and embellishment is always going to get my heart beating a little bit faster.

I couldn't help myself getting a little excited last week when I heard that Topshop were bringing out a bridal collection designed by the fabulous Richard Nicoll. Unfortunately there's no sign of any pictures of the collection yet though so we'll all need to imagine what the designs will be like until they are released in June.

I'm not going to lie, when I first read the news I did get some terrifying Britney, Christina and Madonna style images in my head. How can a company as trend led and fashion forward as Topshop design wedding dresses that will last the distance and still look as elegant in 20 years time as they do today?

Eeeeeeek!

But then with designs that are as sleek, sophisticated and classic as Nicoll's SS12 collection surely they couldn't go too far wrong?

The jury's out until the designs are revealed in June, but with prices from £70 to £495 and a fan base as massive as Topshop's there's bound to be a queue at the door waiting for their high street wedding dresses. What do you think? Would you go high street for your wedding dress?