Spring Summer Moodboard

Just a quick post with a photo of a mood board I made to let you know that I am alive and well and that the exams haven't killed me (yet...)
I have lost my voice and have been living on soothers and cups of tea for the past 2 days but still, you get the idea. 6 exams down and 11 to go so once they have all finished expect much more posts to make up for my current absence.

Anyway, back to my moodboard. It is a spring/summer themed, taken by my beautiful Canon 1000D and consists of a few things that are currently inspiring me.

From top left clockwise:
Red topshop heart shaped clutch, designer dress (any idea who designed it? I stupidly cut off the label when I cut it out of Grazia) Pastel coloured nails, feather skirt from topshop, vintage photo, Miss Dior advert shot by Tim Walker, Vivienne Westwood for Melissa heels, 50's advert cut out of a Guardian supplement, my fan I got out of a Christmas cracker, lace print nails, Emma Cook for topshop heels, makeup print clutch bag, Gemma Ward photo from Vogue, Luella SS2010 collection, Juicy Couture advert (LOVE the pink zebra) and floral Nike dunks.

Oh and a parcel arrived for me yesterday from Conde Nast...

Yes that's right I got the first of my years subscription to Vogue. Still buzzing that one of those beauties will land on my humble doorstep every single month.

Hope your all having an amazing bank holiday weekend. You doing anything exciting?
I am just off to watch Dr Who now :)

Hugs and kisses,

Beth xoxoxo

Current Style Inspiration- Pile on the jewellery

There is the famous fashion quote from Coco Chanel, "When accessorizing always take off the last thing you put on" as well as the timeless dictum "less is more."
But my current style inspiration are people who are confident and clever enough to ignore these and do their own thing. So layer up loads of bracelets on one arm, put on all your rings or all your watches at once and wear them loud and proud.

1.Cobra Snake. 2. Unknown source of an Olsen. 3. Unknown source. 4. From Rachel Zoe's book The A-Z Of Style. 5. Chanel lovliness from an unknown source. 6. Also unknown. If you know the source of any of these gorgeous photographs please comment or email me and let me know.

Beth xoxo

Yummy chocolate studded Wang bag

Latest favourite bag.
This 'coco studded mini' Alexander Wang bowling style bag is right up my street.
Love it.

Beth Ruby xoxo

List Mondays- Top 10 Fashion Blogs

I am currently off school revising for my 13 mocks and 1 real GCSE exams over the next week (wish me luck!) so excuse this quick and easy List Monday post on my top 10 blogs.

Obviously I have loads of favourites but these are the big must read ones of mine which I try to check out daily and were the ones that inspired me to start blogging in the first place.
You have probably heard of all of them (I think of them as the big shots in the fashion blogging world haha)

Needless to say they are extremely popular and unique fashion blogs:

1. The Sartorialist
2. The Cherry Blossom Girl
3. Stockholm Street Style
4. Sea of Shoes
5. Le Blog De Betty
6. Style Rookie
7. Garance Dore 8. Jak and Jil 9. Igor and Andre
10. Karlas Closet

I will probably come back to this and add a bit of information about why they are my favourite but I have to get back to some physics revision so ta ta for now.

Beth Ruby xoxo

Latest Obsession: Patterned Tights

My current style obsessions has to be patterned tights.

Seriously, what is not to love?

They are fun, good for wearing under winter dresses, everywhere this season and most of all extremely cheap- it means I can have my own slice of House of Holland for a tenner!

Here is a round up of all my patterened tights inspiration:

The tights which started this love of all things patterned tights: Henry Hollands pair of Alphabet tights for only £10.

Love the pair with houses on as well.

Tabio Tights as seen on one of my all time favourite bloggers: The Cherry Blossom Girl

Both images from weheartit.com

The amazing LV patterned tights

Gorgeous redhead on Facehunter

Beth xx

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress" -Coco Chanel

My current style inspiration is jewellery inspired dresses.

They are bright, bold and beautifully patterned which means that you will definitely stand out from the crowd in one of these creations...

It all started with McQueen sending his jewel-like designs down the runway last year in his SS09 collection:

But the great designer also has competition from Mary Katrantzou, one of my new favourite designers. She stole the show in February at London Fashion week when she showed her AW09 collection, which was inspired by perfume bottles and glass:

Her latest collection for SS10 previewed last week and continued using flowing silks and the theme of surreal jewellery but with a disco twist and a pinch of added sparkle:

And I also had photos of these little gems saved onto my computer but I have no idea who the designer is (why didn’t I save with the name? why, Beth why?)

So has anyone got any ideas who designed these? Let me know in a comment if you do, it has been buggind me for days that I have forgotten who created these stunning pieces:

B xx