17

I turned 17 this past Sunday despite the fact that I inhabit the body of a prepubescent 12 year old and I was lucky enough to have gotten an invite to a screening of Maleficent (due to being a blogger for this Disney Hub) in Leicester square that morning to I headed up to London with my mum and watched the film. Reviews/reactions were embargoed until today because it wasn't yet released so I left posting this until I was able to say how it was. I was genuinely shocked at how amazing I found it. Of course being Disney it was going to be good but!! i!! was!! not!! expecting!! how!! good!! it actually!!!! was

I got there early and left late so I inevitably missed seeing anyone famous that was there. v v v v v v stupid of me (im a shameless made in chelsea fan and lucy watson was there).

I then went to Brick Lane for the afternoon after getting cake in the cafe 'Look Mum No Hands'. I had banana bread there and it had unidentified nuts inside it. This was marginally distressing but the decor in the place was cool.

Jumpsuit - Clobber, vintage shop, £18

Shoes - Dr Martens, eBay, £20 ish

Mesh lurex top - Salvation Army, £2

Cutoff 10 denier tights for socks

Necklace - Salvation Army, £1

Earrings - Molly's den, £3

Green/grey jumper - Molly's den, £8

My complexion/face skin is uncontrollable. not in a good way

This was in All Star Lanes in Shoreditch. I watched Made in Chelsea briefly on Monday night and they were in there!! My food was good apart from the seeds that pillaged the inside of the burger which was very exotic for anyone nearly as fussy as me.

Anyway as of two days ago I started driving lessons and had my first shift at a new job last Saturday. I also decided to do a photography short course at the Arts University near where I live because I felt like a bit of a fraud using a manual film camera without the faintest idea what I was doing. I'm 3 out of 10 weeks in and it has been really useful so far. So despite exams finishing and not having school again until the 16th of June I've managed to somehow still have a lot to be doing with my time?????// 

- Hollie

Disney Maleficent Hub

Hello! Evidently, I haven't been posting. I've been quite busy with revision - my exams finished last Friday - but the main reason for my absence has been that I am one of the 'key ambassadors' of the official tumblr microsite for Disney's upcoming film release 'Maleficent'!! It has all been confidential until now but I've been working on stuff for it for maybe two months. I'll probably be producing 3 pieces of content a week there for about 6 weeks, in the styles of the two main characters of the film, Maleficent, played by Angelina Jolie, and Aurora, played by Elle Fanning. I'll crosslink some of the stuff I put there on here and I have about 3 other outfit posts (photos from the last couple of months) written and two others that I need to do within the next couple of days so I'll be back to at least weekly posting either way. 

My first two pieces are up here and here so do go over to the hub and have a look around - there's a few other bloggers doing similar stuff as well. The trailer for the film is below - although I'm sure you've seen it already as it seems to be everywhere! The scale of the production seems mammoth and I watch every film of Elle Fanning's/every Disney film anyway so it definitely looks worth seeing!

Below is a collage of high street/designer garments from one of my first pieces for the hub - based on feathers akin to those of Maleficent's wings in the film. I loved the Alexander Mcqueen collection as a whole anyway (as always) but the red in the (Alexander Mcqueen) leggings and top added here tie in with the same kind of red accent you get from Maleficent's lipstick.

 The layered, textured, red/black/monochrome theme of the moodboard also reminded me of one of my textiles products from this year - photos of which are below, mainly because they match colour-wise and make this post longer yet tenuously cohesive.

Text from a post I wrote back in April:

When I was brainstorming for my second and third textiles projects of the year back in March, I became obsessed by the idea of texture and juxtaposition (I basically took my somewhat dormant (following my black clothes only clothes detox) obsession with matched clothes to the nth degree). I looked for examples of clothes with this essence to help form a moodboard for the projects and  found Junya Watanabe/Wild and Lethal Trash on Tumblr once having scoured various late 90s/early 2000s fashion blogs. I also looked to Bjork.

 By coincidence, I also discovered the second skin video series by styleliku around the same time - I had seen snippets of it from their instagram posts for weeks before and had always been intrigued but always managed to forget to pursue it, until I saw Arabelle Sicardi's when she posted it on her blog. I watched all of them within 24 hours and found an obsession in Lindsey Degen. I hugely recommend watching all of the videos in the series though!

For my third project I looked more in detail at knitwear designers (still texture oriented) such as Clare Tough and Katie Jones. I attempted crocheting some samples for my folder and just about managed but I really want to learn properly how to knit.

Katie Jones

Clare Tough

I'm wearing my finished second project skirt (the other two turned out very ugly/unwearable) below.

Stripe polo neck - vintage, Clobber, £7

Mesh black tshirt - vintage, eBay, £16

Docs - vintage, eBay, £20 ish

15 denier tights

This was about a month ago and since here I've tried my best to work on not looking so disgusting/stiff/awkward!! I've also had my hair cut and my roots done.

Photos of the skirt in the textiles rooms at school (used for lack of a better space) which were just generic ones for my folder. But I happened to be wearing a co-ordinating red shirt that day so they kind of work as outfit pictures too.

- Hollie