Glamorous X Trafford Centre

Hey,

So a couple of weeks ago, I got an exciting first look at the new Glamorous flagship store in Manchester's Trafford Centre.

The Glamorous team invited a few of us over to the store early on the first day of its launch. We were treated to a tour of the store, some lovely breakfast and a little shopping spree!

Felt fedora - Topshop

Gold choker - New Look

Long striped top - Ragged Priest

The store is lovely - fairly small but beautifully fit out for a great shopping environment. As the first standalone retail space for the brand, it's important that it sets the bar, and I think they've done just that!

It was so good to walk into a store in mid-August that wasn't covered in sale tape! The store is filled with new season trends, with a disctinct 70s, folksy vibe.

Glamorous has long been a brand I've loved; with a great knack for hitting new trends right on the head while keeping the ideal balance between price and quality.

I'd highly recommend a trip to the store, which is in the Trafford Centre's upper mall, close to Debenhams, Schuh and Lipsy.

I got some awesome pieces that I'm taking away with me to Italy this week so I'll be sharing those soon!

Are there any pieces that have caught your eye?

London Collections: Men - Private White V.C. A/W'15

Hello!

Last Friday my work took me down to London for Private White V.C.'s first ever presentation at London Collections: Men- an event launched by the British Fashion Council as a platform to showcase the best of British menswear brands.

Here's what I wore:

Shirt- Warehouse (sale)

Trousers- Oasis (sale)

Heels- Oasis (sale)

Trench coat- Private White V.C. (sample, not yet released)

Stupidly, I forgot to ask anyone at the event to take a photo of my outfit for me so I had to recreate the look the next day (such a blogger thing to do, right?).

As a men's fashion event, I wanted to go for something menswear-inspired and quite androgynous. I actually bought my outfit in the space of about 15 minutes the night before the event, in a rush after work right before the shops shut! It was pretty easy to make the snap decision because everything I got was such a bargain, being in the January sales.

Before Christmas, I was invited to a blogger event hosted by Ladbrokes Bingo and was lucky enough to win £50 in Love2Shop vouchers. After disappointingly discovering that they couldn't be used in Topshop, I headed to Warehouse and Oasis where they are accepted and was chuffed to get the white shirt, trousers and heels for less than the £50!

I was also pretty excited by this amazing trench coat. Sadly it's not mine, but borrowed from work as it's a new sample from one of Private White V.C.'s upcoming womenwear collections. It's such beautiful quality and set the outfit off perfectly.

Here's some photos from the evening:

We had such a great turn out for our debut at LC:M and even some celebrity guests including US hip hop star Wiz Khalifa and UK singer Bipolar Sunshine, above. I also had a great chat to Made in Chelsea's Andy Jordan who popped along. I couldn't resist getting a photo- MIC is my guilty pleasure and he's genuinely my favourite boy in the programme! You can see the selfie he took of us (yeah he did) over on my Instagram.

If you want to read more about the Private White V.C. A/W'15 presentation, I wrote a piece over on La Vida Magazine online.

Were you following any of the LC:M action? It's made me really excited about the upcoming fashion weeks!