A new vintage gem

This vintage dress is from newly opened Blitz on Hanbury Street near Brick Lane which prides itself on being the first vintage department shop and has a distincitvely more high fashion feel and pleasant shopping environment than your run of the mill vintage shop. I am fortunate enough to count their lovely PR manager Ella as one of my friends so was invited to the blogger evening and opening party for the shop at which I discovered this beauty of a dress! If you are ever in the area I would fully recommend going to Blitz as everything stocked is of an exqusite quality (the sequins and embellishments were all intact on the dress) and extremely well selected so definetely a new place on my shopping map!

Stella's wardrobe (quite literally)

So I thought as my blog is named Stella's Wardrobe it was about time to show you what mine actually looks like! I have just moved into my first proper flat in London and was happy to be given a big build in wardrobe in which I can fit all my stuff and hang everything in outfits (yes I am a bit of a geek when it comes to my clothes!) I find if I have everything sorted in categories like evening shoes,belts,everyday shoes, scarves etc its much easier to build new outfits and get ready quickly in the morning!
PS: tomorrow there will be a new outfit with a very vintage twist!

Late summer brights

I've been waiting to find an outfit to wear these beautiful Sonia Rykiel vintage earrings with for a while so was delighted when they provided the perfect finishing touch to this one! I love the colour combination here which despite the strong shades of the orange and green still harmonises, allowing me to cling on to the idea of summer a little longer and inject a bit of brightness into a currently very rainy and grey London!

Understated sparkle

The red shoes

 

Shanghai chic

These trousers were a Topshop flash sale bargain par excellence at a mere £7 (£6.30 with student discount which I of course insisted on). At first I wasnt too sure about the flick hem cut of the trousers but the lovely dark blue colour, silk like material and delicate print convinced me to take the trousers even with initial doubts how I would make them work. Accesories are key here as I tried to keep the rest of the outfit quite simple to make the trousers really stand out, using the earrings, choker necklace and floppy hat to pick up on the colours of the print and compliment the quite dressy look of the trousers. I am currently slightly obsessed with combining strong colours within outfits as seen on the Gucci A/W catwalk as you have probably noticed by now and there is more to come!!

Colour clash

                           

 

                     
 

Back to the future

This dress was an absolute bargain and once again a real gem within the ASOS black range. As you have probably noticed I have a dress or two from this collection and each one is always qualitative superb and with a real high fashion touch. This one was reduced from £155 to £50 and fits perfectly into A/W1's futuristic trend with its geometric perspex embellishments. It works extremely well with the Miss Selfridge blouse which is from their special new capsule collection Project 1 and gives young designers the chance to design some key pieces sold in their shops nationwide.