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Entries from May 2006

Nadia from Big Brother

Posted by Rebekah Roy on May 31st, 2006

This is the cutest room. It’s so tiny without feeling tiny but then I’m barely 5 foot 2, and I’m sure someone of six feet would feel like a giant but I love this compact little room! My Hotel is just off Bedford Square. It’s like a boutique hotel – which I just love. Who wouldn’t want to live in a hotel? Someone who makes your bed, leaves mints on your pillow, and cups of tea and toast in the morning…sounds like love! Have I mentioned how much I like hotels?

Now the cute little girl jumping around is actually the picture editor, Kali. We are shooting Nadia , who won Big Brother a few seasons back. She’s actually a small girl with big hair & big personality. There’s defiantly something about her! Piers MacDonald is the photographer today, ok so he’s a bit blury, but he’s very fast! I can’t wait to work with him again!!

St Pancras Renaissance Hotel

I've always wanted to style a shoot in the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel - the Victorian exterior is so beautiful! The corridors are...

St Martin’s Lane Hotel Summer Party

St Martin's Lane Hotel had it's summer party last night. In London it's important to celebrate summer as it may only last a moment. It's been a...

Istanbul Mo-blog Hotel

I just arrived at my hotel as we've finished shooting & are all packed up. It's 2:35am & I'm being picked up at 5am. Ohh the bed looks so cozy &...

Erika Trotzig and Yuval Hen: The Yellow Wallpaper

Erika Trotzig recently collaborated with Studio Private and photographer Yuval Hen. This is one of the images from their exhibition in London. I...

The Arden Project – London College of Fashion

For the fifth consecutive year, Elizabeth Arden and London College Fashion have collaborated on the Eight Hour Cream Photographic Project....

Death In Vegas – Dirt directed by Andrea Giacobbe

A very cool video from about 10 years ago, directed by one of the coolest photographers ever: Andrea Giacobbe, represented by Art Department.

Appointments and Book Shopping

Models go on castings on a daily basis, the rest of us make up artists, hair stylists, photographers and stylists go on appointments. It's hard...

Madame V at the Miller’s Residence

How exciting, I love the Miller's Residence. It's one of my favourite hotels, it's so charming and eclectic and it has it's own brand of gin -...

Fashion Shoot in an East London Studio

We had a great shoot day. We did lots of prep for this shoot; we went to PRs and designers and found lots of fabulous...

Road Trips and Fashion Shoots

As a kid I hated road trips but this trip has really been great! It felt like the kind of trip that you take with...

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Ginette Spanier – It isn’t all Mink

Posted by Rebekah Roy on May 30th, 2006

Ginette Spanier, the Directrice of Balmain.

I love a good book and I cannot resist buying them at little sales, maybe
it’s a church sale or a market stall but I love a used book. Not a library
book, although I do have a library card. I think I bought this at a bookstore near Hoxton Square.

Anyway I recently read “It Isn’t All Mink”. I saw the cover and
just had to buy it. It was first printed in 1959 but the copy I have is from
1961. It’s not the year it was published that’s appealing to me, it’s the worn
pages, corners that are bent, also the black and white photos in the book and
everything sounds so glamorous. But it’s some how it’s just not the story you
expect from a “fashion” book. Definitely worth the read!

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day off

Posted by Rebekah Roy on May 29th, 2006

It’s good to take a day off, or maybe it’s really more of a day in. I didn’t leave the house today. It felt ok it be inside when the sky was dark & grey & there was drizzle, but as soon as the sky turns blue I feel obliged to go outside, but I resist and stay inside. Every now and then I really just don’t want to go out. I spend most of my days running around picking things up and returning things, oh and of course standing in line. What is London with our queues? Most fashion students don’t realized how much running around there is. It’s lots of logistics, how to find things, and find them fast! It’s all errands. I get lots of e-mails of wannabe fashionistas who all start their e-mail with "I have a passion for fashion". It drives me a bit nuts. Everyone asks how do I become a fashion stylist? Well, you just do it! It’s funny, in a way it’s like asking how to I become an artist? No one has asked me that.

Anyway, It’s good to eat popcorn,have a laugh, and just forget. Have you seen the movie Kung Fu Hustle?

Fashion Talk

Today I gave a fashion talk to some new photography students who were taking a short course at Central Saint Martins. It's quite a lovely...

Visiting UCA in Epsom

I got to meet quite a few students in their final year of a three year programme, Fashion Management & Marketing BA in Epsom. These students...

Fashion Merchandising & Fabric Shops

I recently met a fashion merchandising student who had graduated from university; she'd had never been in a fabric store and had no basic sewing...

Matthew Williamson Exhibition, and the wisdom of Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue

All day I was looking forward to the fashion debate at the Design Museum, it's part of the "Matthew Williamson 10 Years In...

Designer Forum

I went to give a lecture today in Nottingham to some students. It's so hard for fashion students to break into the market so it's great that...

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Spitalfield City Farm

Posted by Rebekah Roy on May 28th, 2006

Animals in the city!!!
Spitalfield City Farm! The urban donkey!!

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Markets

Posted by Rebekah Roy on May 28th, 2006

I went to Spitafield market today to visit one of my friends who has a stall there. (Sheryl is on the left!) She designs fun girly clothes, lots of dresses! Spitafield market is great, lots of great food, and cakes and of course lots of clothes!!