The most innovative design Britain has to offer.

NEWGEN, Vauxhall Fashion Scout, Fashion East, Estethica, Fashion Fringe and On/Off hold bespoke pieces made in tiny numbers. Keep your eyes peeled for new emerging labels featured at London Fashion Week 2010, you could be owning a piece of the next up and coming McQueen. 

From humble beginnings at East London's Brick Lane market The Orphan's Arms experienced a fantastic response to their poignant and reactionary motif; it seemed there were more than just a few similarly minded individuals jaded with the modern face of faceless manufacture.

Wear as a vest, as a layer or as a brief dress. This irreverent 'Saint Martins Must Burn' piece is sure to start and stop conversations as soon as you show its face.

A few of my favourite pieces.......

Sykes
Ink Blue Silk Drape Skirt

Felicity Brown 'Gabrielle' Dress

Danielle Scutt
Striped Mohair Coat

Irwin & Jordan

Navy Lace Shire Dress 

Elliot Atkinson

Leopard Print Silk Jersey Leggings 

Sykes

Black Leather Wrap Skort 

 Nina Dolcetti

Bev Boots

Sophie Gittins

Taupe Mabel Shoes

Issi Girl on Fire Purse

Meli Melo
Black Leather Guia Bag

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A December masquerade ball.

This little beauty from Club Monaco is the ideal statement clutch you've always dreamt of owning for this years festive cocktail parties. 

Running out of time? Hunt around your nearest vintage stores or even get creative by making your own feathered brocade bag, attach a feather trim from the craft store onto a vintage brocade clutch purse. 

Ostrich feather trim can be purchased for £4 a foot and comes in many colors. Look for this at shops that provide millinery supplies.

Horsing around with Victoria Simes, where equestrian harnesses make ideal accessories.

Victoria Simes is a jewellery designer, stylist and retail consultant for Zero+Maria Cornejo. Her first collection Saltalamacchia is a stunning array of handmade pieces combining natural materials and fibres such as leather, feathers, wood and horsehair with chains to create ‘wearable art’.

This fabulous necklace was unveiled in Bleeker St. NYC at Zero, rumour has it the designer is going to be opening a store in London next spring. Keep your eyes and ears open before you get pipped to the post.

Share the spirit and fascinating layers of this city through the words and faces of those who live here.

People come to San Francisco to be part of something, be part of the changing world and place their passion into something productive. These people are true pioneers of that movement. 

Everyone has their own way of connecting with a new city. I found a San Francisco living room in the alleyways of the Mission and Soma. The network on the ground of murals and hidden doorways to crowded apartments- this was the side of San Francisco I got to know intimately. The city becomes most alive when you learn it's vibrant history. 

There is an overabundance of talent in the city with people dedicated to sharing emerging artists and building community consciousness through the arts including elaborate theatre productions and live recording sessions. San Francisco is edgy and sassy a place where you can passionately love your work and community.

At Tutubi Park

Corner of Russ and Minna Streets

SoMa

Community Organiser

"I've always been a music fanatic and applied my organising to the arts when I realised there weren't a lot of places to showcase the talent in the city. I co-founded a performance venue space dedicated to bringing people together. We called the space Locus Arts. By day I was creating new neighbourhood models, and by night I was privileged to be part of an amazing collective braindump of creativity."

Near the freeway overpass, 13th Street
SOMA

Traveler, researcher, photographer. 

"I am a nerd with velocity… an aerodynamic nerd, a nerd who needs to meet adventure head-first with little regard to his own or anyone else’s safety. It is hard to explain exactly what I mean by this so I will give you some examples; I am a nerd who needs to dance, to dress in costume on a weekly basis, to go to bear bars for the cheap drinks and the congenial patrons, to strut across the city in little more than my skivvies to prove a point, to attend to art functions in the day, and get mugged in the park at night. A nerd with velocity needs diversity, adventure, and a sense of unbridled freedom. A nerd like me needs a city like San Francisco"

on a rooftop in SOMA

Artist

"I’ve recently started collecting pieces of scrap metal I find in the street. I’ve always been a collector, but previously my habit had been limited to Legos or CDs or typewriters — useful things. Now I pick up discarded hunks of rusty metal.I mentioned this to a friend, saying, “If I’d been picking it all up, I’d have a gallery-ready art project on my hands by now.” My friend said, “You should do it!” I said, “No, no, then I’d be an insane person". The compulsive collector in me took over, and now the piles of junk on my coffee table at home and on my desk at work are getting bigger every day. I’ve gotten some good stuff on Valencia, on Duboce, and on Bryant"

Creation meets street-chic in this boutique of eco-conscious must haves.

aRCHETYPE Boutique, 984 Market Street, SF. CA. 

Add a sweater here or leather straps there and your good to go to San Francisco. 

aRCHETYPE boutique is part of an initiative headed by GAFTA Fashion Initiative Lead. The Gray Area Foundation for the arts is a non-profit organisation in San Francisco which works to bring about social consciousness through digital culture, by utilising art, design, sound and technology.  

aRCHETYPE will showcase sustainability inspired fashion with themed product installations every two months. 

 aRCHETYPE Boutique

A trip under the arches and Bethnal Green's best kept secret.

Fed up of being treated like a robot? Well that's how I feel when I get my haircut. Over-friendly excitable hair dressers force their 'miracle' products on you when all you want is a relaxing experience. In London its difficult to find. Your just one of many. Thats why when I stumbled across this place I was absolutely delighted. 

10 Gales is a sanctuary, catering for your every need. Whether it be fashion, live music, art, secret cinema, nude poetry or indeed a hair cut.  Within seconds your no longer one of many and invited to their next media event. 

10 Gales unisex Salon prices: Every cut between £5 and £15

seriously undercuts the average London Stylist. 

To top it off, Asami's an absolute babe. Get involved 10 Gales