My First Giveaway

As you all know my blog has been running for about 18 months now and since I started it I’ve never done a blog giveaway before. The main reason is because I’ve never really been interested in affiliating myself to any particular brands. But a couple of weeks back I got the idea for giveaway [...]

Links à la Mode: IFB Weekly Roundup; March 10th

I’m happy to say I was selected again for independent fashion bloggers links a la mode again for my post on ethics in fashion. I was quite over whelmed by the response I received so a big thank you for everyone who has commented on the hot topic so far.   Making it Your Own [...]

Fashion Time Line Part 5

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 I remember going to the interview after I finished work at River Island one evening. I turned up in my River Island clothes (I did forewarn the HR department) and sat down with a group of other potential candidates. The actual job I applied for was a for a [...]

Fashion Time Line Part 4

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 2007 While I had been searching the internet trying to find the best way to colour a laptop I came across vinyl dye, it’s a dye used in the car industry that soaks into plastics, they used it to colour dashboards and other car bits. I went down to [...]

Fashion Time Line Part 3

Part 1 Part 2 2006 2006 started with me really focusing on self improvement and also focusing on my creative energies. I enrolled at Leeds College of Music so I could familiarise and learn more about music, I started going out in Leeds more on a night and generated a new circle of friends. As [...]

Fashion Time Line – Part 2

Part 1 1998 – 2006 My style continued to be heavily influenced by the Hip Hop culture, I grew a collection of baggy clothes, basketball vests and timberland boots. There was a famous Hip Hop publication called The Source, it used to be full of adverts for brands that were influenced by the culture such [...]

Fashion Time Line

1984 – 1998 The first 14 years of my life were nothing out of the ordinary for a typical child in the North of the UK. I was born in Huddersfield on the 26th of April 1984 to my English mother and Iranian father who had come over to study in the UK during the [...]