If you love all things vintage and are getting married then the place to be on Sunday 26th February was Mrs Scoops & Little Miss G's Vintage Wedding Fair. Even if you weren't getting married it was such a wonderful day and included so many cute and vintage exhibits that would be perfect for organising your own wedding. 

When I say perfect, I mean perfect, there was almost everything you needed to organise your wedding from; invitations to decorations, chair covers to cakes, florists to crockery, hair stylist's to jewellery, photography to transport, wedding dresses and not forgetting Vintage Scoops. No, I will not be getting married for a long time but if I could have planned my day based on the exhibits shown at the fair, it would have been so special. Here are the two lovely lady's that organised this fabulous event.......

There were two cake exhibits I came across, both very cute and vintage but both very different.....

Angelina Cupcake's were cute cupcakes and the decoration was so sweet and girly.......

Nevie-Pie Cakes some of the most interesting cakes I've seen in my life, they were so unique and adorable and the decorations were very vintage..........

The House Gallery were there exhibiting their wonderful wedding themed products.......

Polkadot of Winslow had some extremely sweet items......

Vicky Trainor;  The Vintage Drawer  had some of the most adorable stationary and gifts, she had some very cute embroidered and appliqued wedding invitations........

Rose & Aster had some stunning wedding jewellery on show.......

 For wedding chair covers their was The Sophisticated Touch ............

Manic Botanic were showing some beautiful flowers and bouquets..........

Calico Moon had two of their adorable classic vw's............

Rubys Vintage Teas had some very vintage crockery................

Not forgetting, the most important thing of all on your wedding day, the dresses. Johanna Hehir had on show a small selection of some beautifully designed, vintage inspired dresses.......

The whole day was absolutely gorgeous and of course very vintage.

mispoppybee

xoxo

So, Topshop is celebrating 10 years of supporting the British Fashion Council NEWGEN scheme and what better way to celebrate than releasing a T-shirt range designed specifically by the schemes most successful and famous designers.

There are 20 T-shirts on offer of which all are very unique and different at a very reasonable price considering some pretty top designers have designed them, including; Mary Katrantzou, Christopher Kane, Erdem, Peter Jenson, Holly Fulton, Jonathan Saunders and many many more.

Peter Jenson

Mary Katrantzou

Erdem

I think my favourite t-shirt out of the whole collection is the Squirrel Heart Print Tee by Peter Jenson, it is quite cute but also a bit 'indie' (yes I said the word indie but there is no other way to describe this t-shirt) and what the best thing about it is its a designer t-shirt! but it is not logo-ey like some designers today it is just subtle and all over cute! Another one of my favourite t-shirts is the China Print Collar Tee by Erdem, this is a very girly tee and I can imagine anyone wearing this and my immediate though would be 'oh that's so pretty,' what is good about this t-shirt is that you could wear it tucked in with shorts or skirts or just wear it really casually with jeans and a cardigan/jacket. I know at the beginning of this paragraph I said that my favourite t-shirt is the Peter Jenson one but the truth is, I have a few favourites!

Richard Nicoll

Now, the last favourite I am going to write about is the Heart Tee by Richard Nicoll, I know this isn't a t-shirt that you could wear out the house but I just love the design of it and how it looks so casual and simple. Even though it looks as if he has just designed it on his way 'out of the studio at 9 o'clock at night,' that is what makes it so fantastic! I'd like to think of it as a t-shirt you wear when your having one of those 'slouchy days'

Holly Fulton

Michael Van Der Ham

The t-shirts are available now in store and online but unfortunately due to great demand there will quite a few that are sold out in the shops. However, if you do manage to get our hands on one of these unique t-shirts then £7 of the proceeds go to Centrepoint, a charity helping give young homeless people a future. This is a very worth while cause and as your buying y our new designer t-shirt you are also helping young people all over Britain which is just an added bonus.

Much Love

PoppyBee xoxo

So, after many years of attending every London Fashion Weekend since I was 10 years old and seeing many catwalks, on Sunday 19th February I finally got to go to a London Fashion Week catwalk. Well I say London Fashion Week but what I really mean is a Vodafone VIP catwalk that was during London Fashion Week, so I'd say I'm one step closer to attending an official London Fashion Week catwalk. When we entered the main tent where we had to queue for a bit we were greeted with some champagne or elderflower presse; for the younger ones, which included me. Whilst we waited, the tent started to get busier and the atmosphere more exciting. After waiting quite a while for the doors to open we were finally shown to our seats, where a very nice complimentary Richard Nicoll shopper was waiting for us to stuff all of our bits and pieces in.

The designer that was showcasing his Spring/Summer'12 collection as well as a sneaky preview of his Autumn/Winter'12 collection was young British designer, Richard Nicoll. The whole atmosphere of the show was just incredible as it was very busy and there were so many different types of people there which was really good to see. The collection itself was probably one of the most feminine inspired collections I have seen on a catwalk so far. 

The overall theme of the Spring/Summer collection I would say was definitely chiffon as when the models walked down the runway there was a definite floaty/feminine vibe, even the Autumn/Winter'12 collection had some chiffon inspired garments.

What I noticed from the structure of the show itself was that the colour scheme became bolder as it went through the collection, for example in the Spring/Summer collection the models started coming out in peach pale colours then some came out in pale blues and some floral prints and then went to more pale brown/beige colours, which obviously fits in with this Spring/Summer trend of pastel colours.

            

             In the Autumn/Winter'12 collection, as you can imagine, the colours were a lot darker and warmer. There wasn't as much chiffon material coming onto the runway, it was more about the structured dresses, coats and skirts and also some patterned knits however there was still a few pieces from the collection that were chiffon like there were some shirts and even trousers but the colours tended to be more bold and warm like blues and bold oranges that remind everyone of Autumn/Winter. 

    

Overall I thought the Spring/Summer collection was a lot more feminine and there were more items I would prefer to buy but that could be because we have only just come out of winter so could not stand to see any more warm clothes. Although there was one piece in the Autumn/Winter collection that really caught my eye and it was a bright pink outfit that was so bold and striking, as soon as I saw the colour I was excited about the next few models to come out in bold colours like that one but sadly there was not.