Cat Walk Shopping

I used to be glued to the screen when the cat walk shows came around, my favourite port of call used to be style.com, sadly the website is so full of moving this and flashing that I have had to move on to elleuk.com, which is where these images are from.
I only ever chose something I would defiantly wear so it has been slim pickings this year, falling back on some old favourites, struggling to wade through some very formal eighties glamour, not me at all.
First up

Doo Ri

My favourite goldish yellow, I do love a bit of asymmetry

Limi Feu

Always does good draping, luckily I am just about tall enough to get away with this as long as the layers are thin.

Phillip Lim

Just how lovely is this coat? Perfect
Finally

Margaret Howell

What I love is that she never compromises comfort for vanity, no pencil skirts and cinched in waists here, just perfect shape and portion.

I do miss photographing my clothes, I hope to have a go over Easter, but otherwise my head has been down reading, reading, reading. I'm trying to research and write about the almost impossible dynamic of Artist Teacher Mother Wife, does such a thing exist? Well often 3/4 has been achieved, but often it is the husband not the children that destroys an artistic career. My favourite research so far was an interview with Louise Nevelson, no slouch in the style stakes herself, but the vitriolic gossip she dishes from New York in the fifties has been riveting. Many artists have been unveiled in a whole new light shed by what can only be described as searing honesty! This is always the fun bit though isn't it the reading. I have also been sidetracked by a couple of books which confirm what I knew in that my own art education was so monumentally poor it is a wonder I left with any self esteem at all. As late as the eighties it was not uncommon for classes of 70% female or more to be taught wholly by men, most of whom were never to be found. I had two tutorials in 3 years! It appears to be very different now, but in a way I wish I had been aware of it earlier.

I have a tutorial next Friday, and boy am I prepared, this time they are going to earn their salary!!