It was a toss up between fashion and family and I chose the latter.  As I missed Chinese New Year, the day last week, I was of course obliged to celebrate with the family today despite it being the first day of London Fashion Week and despite missing some fab fab shows, there was no question that I'd be chowing down dim sum and receiving some much appreciated red packets. 

However, some people really did dress up for the occasion and noted the traditional colours with care.  My sister Yonnica for example did in fact dress up like a CNY decoration albeit with some shiny black and some wicked accessories that I had to keep quizzing her about (I miss not knowing all the minor details that are going on in my sisters' lives....well and truly....).  I was all up in her face with 'That watch!  That bag!  That dress!  Those tights!'.  Perhaps it's me just forgetting that my sister has actually gone through the same stage of 'Getting into fashion' as I did and probably being the last to know. 

Now I know we had a discussion about kids getting into fashion and all that but I really couldn't NOT snap this girl whose red patent swing coat and chopsticked bun caught my eye, causing me to chase after her and stoop down to ask if she wouldn't mind having her picture taken.  The combination of her pink braces and black flicked eyeliner I guess says a lot about the the way kids mature these days but hey, I'm not about to judge and I'm not gonna be the one to take her cute outfit away from her (to top of the red patent coat, a grey ruffled mini dress, polka dot bloomer shorts underneath which you can't see, grey tights and multistrapped silver high tops... ack...)

Her sister was also equally cute in a wonderful mulberry coloured embroidered Chinese jacket and trousers with a pale yellow jacket on top and what looks to be floral kids DM boots.  Just listing these items does make the mind boggle.  I'll just put it down to CNY and pray that these kids aren't this cool 365 days a year because that would really put me to shame...