Fashion through history at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Zoo Lates!

Last Friday I went to the ZSL London Zoo with Logan, James and Erin for Zoo Lates. It's an adult only event from 6-10pm where you can see all the animals and watch live entertainment.  They have comedy shows, improv, cabaret or you can go to silent disco. They even have face painting (yes really!). There are champagne, Pimms and Ale bars in various areas of the zoo as well as an international food festival where we got the best mac n cheese.  If anyone knows me they know how much I love a zoo.  I really think the Bronx Zoo or Central Park Zoo needs to bring this idea over to NY! It was rather pricey at 25 quid but it was worth it.  The zoo is at the end of Regents Park. The park is beautiful and if the weather had been warmer and drier, I definitely would go back to take a nap in the grass.

I'm in The Daily Mirror today!!

Interning at The Daily Mirror

My internship has been going really great. These past 2 weeks Ayana and I have been able to do tasks both inside and outside the office.  We were given one task to recreate celebrity outfits for less. I found outfits to replicate Liv Tyler and Rochelle Wiseman which were in the paper this week! In the beginning of last week we went to Oxford Circus to scout out any Olympic themed merchandise in the stores.  We also had an opportunity to book in-store appointments at some of these stores and pull items to use for an Olympic photoshoot (stores including Marks & Spencer, Next, New Look, Topshop and River Island). 

No fashion internship at a magazine or newspaper would be without some closet work. We did returns as usual and organized the storage closet and donated all the clothes, accessories and shoes to Red Cross. 

There are so many choices of restaurants to eat at Canary Wharf and luckily we get an hour lunch break.  Our last day of interning each week Ayana and I have picked a restaurant to eat at for lunch.  So far we’ve been to Byron and Nando’s which are conveniently placed in the adjoining mall. I cannot believe we are approaching our last week of interning. The time seriously flew by!

Kingston Fashion Show 2012

I was lucky enough to win a ticket raffle to go to the Kingston Fashion Show on Tuesday! It is a graduate fashion show consisting of 27 collections with 6 looks in each collection.  The designers had such creativity and all of the clothes were made really well.  Here are just a few shots

Office Lobby or Garage?

I walked into work this week to find some fancy and expensive cars on display...apparently the cheapeast one is 350,000

So Many Markets!

So I am finally writing about this past weekend! This week has been busy and the days are really starting to fly by and I don't like it. Saturday was Sarah's birthday and we spent the whole day celebrating which was so fun! We went for brunch at The Breakfast Club after "queuing" for over an hour but it was so worth it.  I had the "Reggie the Veggie", a vegetarian english breakfast with scrambled eggs, toast, veggie sausage, tomato beans and potatoes with a caramel latte. It was really phenomenal.

Afterwards we went to Portobello Market for a few hours and surprisingly I only bought one item. I think I was overwhelmed by how much was there. Logan convinced me to get a silk romper and I'm glad because I love it.


For dinner we went to Aladin on Brick Lane for some curry. I tried the vegetable ceylon (medium hot coconut curry) over rice. So good! Afterwards we walked around the area and went to a few lounges.


On Sunday I went to Brick Lane and happened to stumble upon two other markets in the area; Petticoat and Spitalfield.  My favorite of the three is Spitalfield.  It is all under one roof with rows of little shops and food.  Brick Lane market was massive and it took us a while to realize that the main street was entirely food vendors and we had to step off into the 'Backyard Market' and vintage clothing building to do some shopping.  I bought clothes, jewelry and art.