Uppin' sticks

It’s four days until I move house... Upping sticks from scruffy, arts collective filled south east London to the (slightly less grubby and equally eclectic) Stoke Newington – Dalston is only a short bus ride away after all. Hurrah! It’s a heinously stressful situation all round – coming home after work to clean and pack for a week does not make a happy Alice – but with a brief two-week stay at my boyfriends in between, by Easter I will be all happily moved in. Let the springtime fun (and drinking pear cider on the park) commence!

Spring fling

It's British Summer Time in less than four weeks... Eeek, there goes my lie in. But hello sunshine! Feminine florals and ditsy blooms have taken over our garments for the past few seasons, adorning clothes, accessories and handbags with a liberal scattering of oh-so-pretty petals. And in an ode to their staying power (S/S '10's catwalks were littered with a smattering of blooms) - and the sun that is ever so slowly losing its coyness and peeking out from behind the clouds(!) - here are some lovely pics for us all. *

*Ps. I want that balcony on my new house!

Hello, goodbye

Last day on my magazine today until two weeks of fashion work experience... Going to a big warehouse party tonight too so DOUBLE excited!! One last word of the day for Elie Saab's Spring 2010 Couture show. It's a full blown, ruffled-adorned love affair of romance that this year's couture designers are swooning over... And with aubergine punching through delicious ice-creams hues of summer yellow, mint green and blush, this is one of my favourite shows so far. SO pretty!

Read Dolly Jones from Vogue online's show report for Elie Saab* here:

"ELIE SAAB's show today was an array of flesh, cappuccino and shadowy grey shades and washed-out pastels – for a collection of the almost all full-length gowns which are really his forte: dresses for starry galas and weddings.

This collection majored in intricate lace creations and was a full-on, romantic, billowing display of what he does so well – wonderfully beautiful, feminine evening gowns. In the current climate his fans might like to see him develop in some other directions, perhaps using the couture techniques in different ways to try tailoring or daywear.

However, there is no doubt that women both like and trust his dresses – famously well-fitting, they are very light but have invisible structure. Held up by sexy shoe string straps they boast incredibly clever construction to give the superstar effect."

*yummyness

[Images: Courtorture]