Matthew & Sienna

Seems like best friends Matthew Williamson & Sienna Miller had quite the eventful weekend. Both took part in the fashion festivities that is London Fashion Week yesterday.

Early in the day Sienna sat front row at Matthew's Fall 2010 show. And later that evening she, along with her sister Savannah presented the Fall 2010 showing of their Twenty8Twelve line.

Matthew's show was inspired by Spain and the culture of the matador. It seems as if he's designing for a more mature woman these days. There was a bunch of tweed which I was really surprised about. But he didn't abandon his younger clientele completely. There were a bunch of classic MW fiesta prints, sexy draped dresses and shine, shine, shine!

Here are some of my personal faves:



Sienna & Savannah's line, Twenty8Twelve, was inspired by 1980’s underground club culture. There was lots of velvet, lots of shine & some knits. Sienna could pull off any of the pieces. Me...not so much. Here are the few that I would go for.


Can't wait to see what's up next at LFW.

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Walking Round London Town

Happy Friday everyone! Well I finally figured out how to upload the photos from my new camera so today I can begin to share some of our amazing trip with you.

First of all I have to say that I LOVE London. Absolutely love, love, love it and would definitely be a very happy girl if I could live there. I didn't even mind the weather which is really remarkable because I'm usually a bit of a freak about my hair in such conditions. What can I say? It's just my kinda town :)

Me in London on one of the rare blue sky occasions. It was quite windy though...as you can see I'm looking pretty flushed because of the wind-burn!

We stayed at the Grosvenor House in Mayfair. It was a lovely hotel in a great location. Just a few blocks away from Oxford & Bond Street shopping, Hyde Park, and the Marble Arch tube which made it really convenient to get around town.

One of the highlights of the trip, besides the shopping (I'll get to that in another post), was the Winter Wonderland festival that was held inside Hyde Park.

The festival features a traditional German market with amusement rides (they even have a huge toboggan slide and an even huger ferris wheel!), musical entertainment and an outdoor ice skating rink.

It's hard to describe exactly why but was a really magical experience that I'll remember forever.

Here are my top three favorite things at the festival:

Mulled Blueberry Wine

The Candy Bar

German Pancakes with Nutella - Yummmm!!!!

The happy girl with her mulled wine, nutella german pancakes & yes, that's a Laduree shopping bag :)

We had been to London once before 13 years earlier for our 1st honeymoon after our commitment ceremony so we didn't need to visit many of the tourist attractions. But there were a few that we wanted to catch this time that we missed the first time around...the Cabinent War Rooms and Churchill Museum, which was a really interesting peak inside the underground complex that Churchill used as an operational command and control center during WWII, and the London Eye, which wasn't even around when I made my first trip.

Me filming J with the London Eye in the background

For the most part we just walked around and shopped, had cocktails and ate delicious meals. Oh and I have to say, the culinary experience I had was muuuch different than the one I had 13 years before. On my first trip to London the only decent meal I could find was a local fish and chip shop that we ended up eating at three times! A few years ago I read in Gourmet magazine that London had a culinary revolution but I still had my doubts and my expectations were really low. I'm happy to say I was pleasantly surprised with the cuisine.

Enjoying one of many apple cinnamon martinis in The Red Bar

Next week I'll be back with more of the trip...London shopping & Amsterdam. Hope you all have a happy weekend!

Farewell London!

Hallo Amsterdam! Venice of the North here we come!

Hope you're all having a lovely Tuesday. Check back later today for another recap :)

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London Lust

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend. I'm planning on hitting up the shops today for some fab frocks. Wish me luck!

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London Lovely

Best wishes from London for a lovely Saturday :)

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Someone's Excited!

Happy Friday everyone! I'm over the moon today because today's the big day that J & I head on over to Europe for Honeymoon Part Deux! I seriously cannot contain my excitement!!!

We'll be in London for three nights and then we're heading on over to Amsterdam for five nights. It should be an amazing trip. We have a few things planned but mostly we're just gonna kick back & leisurely explore both cities . Oh and thanks everyone for all the suggestions of what to do. All the info is really helpful :)

I didn't want to leave you all for so long so I scheduled postings for while I'm away so be sure to check in daily.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! xoxo

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Happy Monday!

Sorry this is so late today...Blogger was giving me issues earlier but it's finally working now. Hope you all had a great weekend. I had a fantastic one and I got to do a bunch of the wonderful things I was looking forward to doing.

Now my main focus is VACATION! I'm frantically trying to plan where to go and what to see. I can't believe I've waited so long to start to think about such things. What was I thinking??? I haven't been to London in 13 years so I'm sure a bunch of things have changed. And I have never been to Amsterdam before so I have no idea what to expect. All I know is that I'm totally excited and can't wait to get on that plane!

If any of you have ever been to either of those cities and have any suggestions you'd like to share I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!!!

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Honeymoon Part Deux!

We're in the process of booking our second honeymoon. As I mentioned a few months ago, we planned on taking a longer, more adventurous honeymoon sometime around the US Thanksgiving holiday.

Well after much consideration we finally decided to go to London and Amsterdam. We went to London once before 13 years ago (wow I can't believe it's actually been that long!) for our honeymoon after our commitment ceremony. We've been dying to go back for years so we decided it would be the perfect place to go. We have such great romantic memories of the city and listen, I'm not gonna lie, I cannot wait to shop there!!!

After a few days in London, we're going to take a quick flight on over to Amsterdam. We've never been so we're really excited to go.

The flights are booked, now we're just working on hotels. I'd appreciate any recommendations you guys may have. Thanks!!!

LDN - Lily Allen

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