"GURL, you's a HAUTE MESS!!"

Vogue Italia released gif's of a photo shoot shot by the AMAZE Steven Meisel, called "Haute Mess"!



I LOVE these images! The styling, make-up and hair are SO trashy they're the BEST EVER!!



The spread features my fave models like Abbey Lee, who's look unbe-weave-able, and the BRILL Coco Rocha, who proves she can even WERK a stray!!



This is what I LOVE about Vogue Italia, they push the boundary and find the beauty in ugliness!! Bravo Franca Sozzani, you've once again stolen my heart!

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uh-oh-oh, I love her because, she moves in her own way!

In the past, it took a certain sophistication to be photographed and have your picture appear on page 6, mingling with your fellow intellectual- and wealthy - beings. Years past, and soon a trend started occurring, people who we watched on screen, started showing up in our newspapers, thus the age of the celebrity was formed.



It started with classic favourites like Marilyn Monroe, Bridget Bardot,Twiggy and Edie Sedgwick, and slowly filtered down to current 'celebs'. The celebrity trend spread due to globalisation, soon African and Eastern women were getting their hair cut into a tres chic boys cut made famous by Twiggy and Sedgwick. The age of celebrity grew, and spread faster than Swine Flu, and is notably present in todays modern culture.

Today it seems one no longer has to be a Gossip Girl, or even a mega-movie star to be an iconic It-Girl, today in Britain, the world is your oyster, and seemingly 'normal' girls are making big names for themselves.

The fabulous life of the British It-Girl!

The tres chic and ultra exclusive gang consists of model, muse and fashion icon Agynes Deyn

Music jocky and model Alexa Chung


and the It Girl scene has been invaded by the indescribable beauties, the Delevigne sisters, consisting of high fashion model of the moment Cara and well.. socialite Poppy!!



Cara has kinda been the muse and model for Christopher Bailey, both walking and appearing in the ads for Burberry! She has a striking look, with bold unique eyebrows, and her style is incomparible! She rocks anything, anywhere and never forgets her leather jacket and black boots.. something that I can identify with!! Her has got to WERK and look CHIC everywhere she goes!! Most recently she has walked for the couture collection of Chanel.. which as you know is NO JOKE!!



Poppy on the other hand is more of a socialite and is ofthen seen on the arm of fashion designer Matthew Williamson, and boy does he dress her up!!







Aggy, a world renounced model is hailed as the industries next supermodel, and by the looks of things, she certainly is.

Aggy, born Laura Hollins, was spotted shopping with Henry Holland, and was signed to SELECT Models. Since being signed Aggy has been on numerous fashion magazine covers, such as Vogue, which was a major breakthrough in her career! It wasn't until Aggy scored a major advertising campaign with British fashion brand Burberry, that her career rocketed and made her a household name. In the campaign, Aggy was placed with the next generation of supermodel's, like Lily Donaldson and Coco Sumner. Aggy has reached that super status many models desire, as she has been featured numerous times on famous celeb gossip queen, Perez Hilton's site, and has moved on to become a figure at modern socialistic events, rather than working them!



Aggy met Henry Holland when they were both kids, and have together since. Aggy has posed, walked, and accompanied Holland, as it appears she is his Edie Sedgwick, and she continues to inspire him.



Aggy and her and her close friends has recently started an online magazine, called NAAG. NAAG incorporates fashion, music and pop culture into an inspiring digital experience.



To visit NAAG click here.



Alexa Chung is still relatively unknown, but to those who know her, know that she is the latest muse for contemporary designers, and because of her trendy and quirky sense of style has generated serious buzz in the fashion industry, so much so that fashion house Mulbery has named a bag after her, cleverly named the Alexa.



Chung was scouted by a modeling agency, after completing her A-Levels, with two A's in English and Art. Chung went on to appear on the cover of various magazines like Elle and Harpers Bazaar, and was hired to work the runway for contemporary English designer, Vivienne Westwood.



Alexa has recently graced the covers of many fashion magazines, further spreading her celebrity status around the world. Chung has become so well known, that once her MTV show It's On With Alexa Chung, ended, she was offered the position to replace MTV's Zane Louw on the musical rock show which interviews and features some of the world's best underground bands, Gonzo.



What is really admirable about these woman, is that even though they are models, and are expected to be blank canvases for their designers, they each posses their own certain, and individual style, which really adds the je ne sais quoi to a world, which seems so two dimensional at times.

Therefore we at Delusions of Grandeur salute them for their fashion risks, musical tastes and their rockstar attitude which basically reads, "I don't give a fuck!"




For more pictures on London's It-Girls, follow the link below:
She Moves in Her Own Way album

Lanvin Spring/Summer '12

So a couple of weeks ago, i DIED at the site of the new Lanvin ad campaign under the creative direction of Alber Elbaz!!

It's literally the GREATEST thing EVER!!

It's about the rich and famous hosting a dinner party, some snakes later invade the party, and shit gets REAL and NASTY!!



The song Cookieman by Maxine Ashley is ACE! It slays me!! She's gonna get A LOT of attention after this!!

From the high contrasted pictures, styling, snakes and music, it literally is PERFECTION in a video!! It's the PERFECT way to advertise a STEALLAR collection!



This is another stunning ad campaign from Lanvin, shot and directed by fashion photogrpher GAWD Steven Meisel.. All I've got to say is LAWD ALBER ELBAZ had done done it again!!

Chinese School Gurl

Doctor: What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.

Cecilia: Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl



Pre-MCQP outfit!!

Yes, I was drunk before the main event.. Stop judging me!!



Literally spent an hour putting my face on, and it ran all over me an hour after arriving at MCQP.. LAWD, WHY ARE YOU TESTING ME?!!

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Playground Love

So I have started college again!! While writing this I am two weeks into my 2nd year of fashion design!!

It's actually TOO crazy to process. I roam the halls feeling slightly superior to the first years.. Like seniors to little kids on the playground.. It's actually rather silly, innit?!! LOLZ

Shit got SO real though, we've made a t-shirt and have done our first storyboards, which was fun, exciting yet still SO challenging..

Our theme was knitwear and basically my collection was called The Virgin Suicides. It was inspired by the Sofia Coppola film and psychiatric institutions for the mentally ill!!

Here's what I came up with for my typography(below) and moodboard (above)



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I Am In Love With A Man Named Marc

So lets get personal..



I am in LOVE with a man named Marc.. Th only Marc worth mentioning in fashion, Marc Jacobs, OBVZ!!

From his 1920's Asian fusion inspired collection, to the sugary sweet collection both at Louis Vuitton, Marc has really proved that he is a fashionable force to be reckoned with.. not like that needed proving though!!



In my first year of fashion school, my lecturer said that if you want to be commercial and sell your products, you have to think along the lines of Marc Jacobs, thus he has become my inspiration and current obsession!!



I think what is SO fab about Marc, is that with his two separate labels (the Marc Jacobs line and his creative direction at Louis Vuitton), he has total creative freedom, to do whatever he likes, get inspired by something completely different each season, yet the two collections never intertwine or collide, both have their own creative edge that makes them unique!



I credit Marc Jacobs for introducing the public to the fetish trend. Yes, Riccardo Tisci had been doing it for MANY seasons at Givenchy, Jacobs gave it that approachable and commercial feel, which landed the Fall/Winter 2012 collection on literally almost every cover!!



What I also admire about Jacobs is his strong sense of sexuality. Marc has stripped down for an LV campaign, cross-dressed in the most adorbz Prada outfit ever and let us not forget the MOST AMAZE campaign poster for his menswear cologne, Bang!!



He's a creative genius from his designs to choice of models.. He's everything!!

So remember that time when Mrs. Lisbane found Lux's underwear, and had Kevin Hain's name (the gargbage man.. eww) written all over it.. Well I did the same, in dedicaion to my one true love Marc Jacobs!!


Headband, Marc Jacobs (Spring/Summer 2012) stlye



Marc makes me go into a CRAY hysterical fit.. Like a female with hysteria!!