I've been quite lucky with work locations thus far in terms of Chances for Lunchtime Shopping Sessions.  I had the lovely Lamb's Conduit Street seconds away and it only took a wee bus ride to get to Topshop Oxford Circus and I must grudgingly admit that that has served me well on the occasional emergency outfit situations.  Now however, in my new location, whilst I'm not stranded on a desert island, it's not exactly a bustling hub-hub either.  Though, I am in foodie heaven being right next to Whitecross Street that smells of yummy chorizo sandwiches, Thai curry and all artisinal baked

If you were wondering whether Nasty Gal Vintage had done an 'Agathe' (of Style Bytes...

  Like I said last week, I'm going through a bit of a DIY-dry patch what with...erm... there being not enough hours in the day.  It's some bad day-pie carving I know which I will try to alleviate.  However, it doesn't stop me from acquiring items that are obviously MADE WITH LOVE, a quality which my DIY items are often overflowing with but rather lacking in *ahem* skill.  Such is the time poor, cash rich (well...not MASSES of cash.... but in proportion to time right now.... there is definitely more of the latter...) existence that I'm living leaving me no choice but to seek out the ready-made 'Made with Love' items...   

I don't really know what to say about Andrea Crews in that IT is hard to define....what DOESN'T this French active creative collective do?  I say collective because Andrea Crews is a culminative effort with Maroussia Rebecq being the founder.  I say active creative because they mix it up fashion, art, music and a lot of fun, all the while, working with humanitarian projects, schools and communities to send out their message.  What is the message?  It's something that probably doesn't sound very to us but when Rebecq started in 1999 to recycle clothing to reinterpret them, Andrea Crews, the label was one of the first to really get the id

If I didn't follow up on my curiosity trails, I think I might go to the graves with about a gazillion question and it seems in online fashion, those trails are growing by the day.  Are the sites down or up?  Are they live?  What is this weird holding page that I'm on?  It's all very 'Ta-da!' when whatever site is finallyu unveiled.  So the big 'ta-da' came for Shop Curious which I wondered about a while ago and whilst I'm not blown away or yanking out my credit card, it does healthily contribute to what Shop Curious call the shopping equivalent of 'slow food'.  As in carefully saving up for beautiful things as a backlash against the fast-paced consumer frenzy.  The selec