SpiritHoods UK Blogger Competition with SS13 Styles

May 24, 2013 by Self Service UK

SpiritHoodsUK have teamed up with five fabulous fashion bloggers who, over the next couple of weeks, will battle it out to win two tickets to Alton Towers Live 2013. The creative competition features the latest SpiritHoods Spring / Summer 2013 Collection – styles that are perfect for the festival season this summer (and that also come in handy with any less summery surprises). The prize for the winning blogger is two tickets to Alton Towers Live 2013 on Saturday 6th July which […]

Categories: Fashion, SpiritHoods • Tags: alton towers, alton towers live, alton towers live 2013, blogger competition, facebook fashion, fashion blog, faux fur, festival fashion, SpiritHoods, spirithoods uk, spring summer 2013, style blogger

Genetic Denim launch Be You video series

May 23, 2013 by Self Service UK

Genetic launches Be You  video series and new website today, featuring Hawaiian artist and photographer Tasya Van Ree. The denim label’s vision adheres to a person’s genetic composition that helps shape and define the message to believe in oneself. With this in mind, the ideation and creation of the Be You video project took place: an ongoing project carried out each season that showcases a range of people from all different walks of life, with the same common thread, to Be You. […]

Categories: Fashion, Genetic • Tags: genetic, fashion photography, genetic denim, genetic jeans, tasya van ree, black white photography, be you video, genetics, video portray, woman photographer, brandon boyd

LNA Pre Fall 2013

May 16, 2013 by Self Service UK

The LA label, that creates the most beautiful basics releases its Pre Fall 2013 collection into UK stores. Simplistic and seductive, chic yet comfortable, this collection encapsulates LNA‘s take on what we will be lusting after during this time called ‘summer’. Especially if you’re going to spend a large part of your pre fall in the UK, make sure you layer. It is both smart and sexy to focus on baring only one part of your body, rather than exposing […]

Categories: Fashion, LNA, Self Service • Tags: LNA, tie dye, summer 2013, emerald, dungarees, pre fall, pre fall 2013, fashion basics, LA fashion, key fall looks, key summer looks, overall

Finders Keepers Field of Dreams

May 15, 2013 by Self Service UK

Having just dropped into UK stores, Finders Keepers’ latest spring collection Field of Dreams remind us that we will reap what we sow. Regardless of what your dreams are made of, working a little bit towards them every day no doubt is going to pay off. Even if you are still at the figuring out stages of your life’s dreams, understand how the process of building a field is a perpetual cycle of doing and waiting. Allow your dreams to […]

Categories: Finders Keepers, Self Service • Tags: bomber jacket, earl nightingale quote, field of dreams, finders keepers, he will come, If you build it, Melbourne Fashion Festival, rose head band, rose print, spring 2013 collection, spring collection, spring summer 2013

WILDFOX rocking Cannes 2013

May 15, 2013 by Self Service UK

As all eyes are turning towards France with the opening of the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival this evening, we look to what’s chic in the French Republic right now with Wildfox. Opening the festival tonight will be the much anticipated adaptation of the 1920′s novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby. Leonardo DiCaprio who plays the lead role spoke about the event and said, ’Every time I go to Cannes, it feels like I’m entering the helicopter scene in La Dolce Vita. It’s […]

Categories: Self Service, Wildfox • Tags: big floral print, Cannes 2013, french fashion, French fashion blogs, french fashion press, great gatsby cannes, high leg swimsuit, Vice France, Wildfox Cannes, wildfox jumper, wildfox sunglasses

Claire Aho at the Photographers’ Gallery

May 11, 2013 by Self Service UK

If you’re in town this weekend and are looking for something to do, pay a visit to the Photographers’ Gallery in Soho, to look at Claire Aho’s work that is currently on display until 21st July. Upon entering the room in which Aho’s studio work is displayed, one is immediately struck by the compelling look of the photographs that span from her studio work between 1950 and 1970. All elements of her photographs point to a modern aesthetic that is […]

Categories: Exhibition, Fashion, Self Service • Tags: 50s fashion, 50s photography, 60s fashion, 60s photography, Claire Aho, colour coding, female photographer, finnish design, Finnish photographer, Photographers Gallery

Interview with a Stylist

May 8, 2013 by Self Service UK

For the grungy spring editorial for The Storm Magazine titled Into The Black, stylist Juli Molnar popped in to the Self Service showroom to select LNA, Finders Keepers and Keepsake pieces. We asked if she was up for allowing us a look behind the scenes. In the below interview, the former model gave us a snapshot of what goes on in the life of a stylist. Juli took some exclusive pictures on the set of the fashion shoot with photographer Bartolomy, hair & make-up artist Charlotte Fisher and models Lou Lou and […]

Categories: Fashion, Finders Keepers, Interview, Keepsake, LNA, Self Service • Tags: behind the scenes, fashion stylist, finders keepers, grunge spring, keepsake, LNA, london fashion stylist, london stylist, powder pink, storm mag, stylist interview, the storm magazine

Style stalking with Stylestalker

May 7, 2013 by Self Service UK

There’s no denying it, Stylestalker looks amazing on stars and bloggers. See who has been snapped in the Australian label recently. Quite randomly, many of the celebrities in Stylestalker in this post go by the name ‘Jessica’: check out Jessica Alba, Jessica Hunt, Jessica Stroup and Sarah Jessica Parker in Stylestalker. (We have even thrown some Met Ball 2013 images of the Jessicas in for good measure!) Here are some stunning shots of Australian model Jessica Hart wearing the Baller Tank – […]

Categories: Fashion, Self Service, Stylestalker • Tags: bambi northwood blyth, Bip Ling, celebrity fashion, cheyenne tozzi, friend in fashion, Jessica Alba, jessica hart, jessica stroup, met ball 2013, roger vivier, Sarah Jessica Parker, stef bambi, style stalker, Stylestalker

Breakfast Press Day at Home House with Finders Keepers

May 2, 2013 by Self Service UK

On a gorgeous first day of May filled with sunshine, B Public Relations hosted an exclusive breakfast event as part of their AW13 press day that also included Self Service brand Finders Keepers. Home House in London’s Portman Square provided a beautiful backdrop for the fashion and beauty on display, with pretty spring flowers in yolky yellow and indigo dotted across the breakfast buffet and the rest of the two spacious rooms. Fashion collections, accessories and nail art were juxtaposed […]

Categories: Event, Fashion, Finders Keepers, Self Service • Tags: all stars collection, antipodean fashion, fashion event, finders keepers, harvey nichols fashion, home house, london fashion press, Mollie King, press day, replay collection, the saturdays fashion, una healy

Hello Sailor! Wildfox Summer 2013 Collection ♥

May 1, 2013 by Self Service UK

In a collection that draws inspiration from 1950’s pin-up girls, Wildfox is set to make women look even more beautiful this summer with a gorgeous collection that is all about strutting off one’s femininity in style. The muse of this summer collection, model Valerie Van Der Graaf, is the ultimate American pin-up girl who was shot and styled by the woman behind the label Kimberley Gordon. Kim speaks about the inspiration behind the summer 2013 collection, “I’ve always been a […]

Categories: Fashion, Self Service, Wildfox • Tags: 1950s fashion, baggy beach jumper, hello sailor, kimberley gordon, lookbook images, new collection, pin up girls, summer 2013, summer collection, valerie van der graaf, Wildfox

Wildfox Clueless Competition

April 28, 2013 by Self Service UK

Remember when Cher Horowitz announces that she never trusts mirrors and always snaps herself in her outfits with a Polaroid camera before she leaves the house? The main character of the 1995 cult film hit Clueless, who also said that shopping was her cardio, inspired a recent Wildfox collection The Kids in America that was at the heart of a competition taking place in Harrods on Friday and Saturday. Any Harrods Wildfox customers wishing to participate in the photo competition […]

Categories: Fashion, Wildfox • Tags: bath towel, clueless film, Harrods, lennon sweater, steff mirror, Wildfox, wildfox clueless, wildfox dress, wildfox jacket, wildfox jumper, wildfox sun, wildfox swim

Shades of Pink and Blue

April 26, 2013 by Self Service UK

As the two colours associated with gender, blue and pink seem to have fixed connotations. Pink for girls and blue for boys. But while, when it comes to dress, women have any colour of the palette available to them, men seem to stick to more conservative tones. Only recently, men have started to be more confident wearing this seemingly ‘girly’ colour (and it is then often disguised as ‘salmon’). Assigning pink and blue to gender is a modern thing and […]

Categories: Fashion, Finders Keepers, Genetic, Self Service, Stylestalker, Wildfox • Tags: blue boys, blue hair, charlotte free, dip dyed hair, disney castle, finders keepers, genetic denim, pink girls, pink hair, rosie fortescue, rosie made in chelsea, Wildfox, wildfox swim, yeah yeah yeahs

Keepsake Carousel

April 23, 2013 by Self Service UK

Keepsake’s latest collection to hit UK stores Carousel  brings us a spirited, feminine range of cute spring dresses to dance, laugh and play in. The Carousel spring wardrobe comprises floaty maxi dresses, mini dresses, cigarette pants, high waisted mini skirts and cropped tops — all perfect for strutting off during long summer nights and on mild sunny spring days. Continuing from Keepsake’s previous drops Diamond Lights and A Silver Lining, we see the label’s distinctive features translated into spring summer […]

Categories: Fashion, Keepsake, Self Service • Tags: beaded clothing, cropped top, draped dress, emerald, fashion cycle, floral print, keepsake carousel, lace detail, maxi dress, paneled dress, Spring 2013, spring summer 2013, spring trends

AW13 Press Day for Elvine & Sick Girl

April 18, 2013 by Self Service UK

Yesterday saw the second day of the AW13 Press Day of Fabric PR in East London who presented Sick Girl and Elvine to key press. After a successful UK Launch at 68 Dean Street in London earlier this month, many of the editors, stylists and bloggers returned to see the Swedish label’s autumn winter 2013 collection. Some very lucky key press and bloggers received the coveted Grundens x Elvine raincoat as a giveaway, in either classic fishermen-style yellow or in […]

Categories: elvine, Fashion, Press Day • Tags: autumn winter 2013, aw13, Elvine, fall 2013, menswear fashion, Nicki Minaj, Nicki Minaj stylist, press day, shoreditch pop up, sick clothes, sick girl, sick girl clothing, truman brewery shop

Hot Hot Coachella

April 17, 2013 by Self Service UK

Last weekend Coachella kicked off festival season 2013. See what Self Service are currently obsessing about from the party with killer bands and killer fashion at Palm Springs. We don’t know about you, but we have been all over the Coachella hashtags on Instagram these past days. The first weekend at the US festival produced an abundance of beautiful shots of festival goers, their outfits and the fun they’ve been having. We can’t get enough of it! And the best […]

Categories: Fashion from the Festivals, LNA, Self Service, Stylestalker, Wildfox • Tags: clubfox, Coachella, Coachella 2013, coachella style, festival fashion, leather shorts, LNA, ludi delfino, spring summer 2013, Stylestalker, summer trends, Wildfox, Wildfox t shirt

Press Day for LNA

April 12, 2013 by Self Service UK

A day of press days in London, yesterday was also the second part over at Nicole Levy PR who looks after LNA. Welcoming visitors to her gorgeous brand new Soho showroom, Nicole Levy was host to representatives from Look, Marie Claire, Elle, You, Drapers, MTV and Grazia among more fashion press, stylists and bloggers such as Liberty London Girl (pictured below). Refreshments and freebies focussed around all things kawaii. There were Japanese stickers, sweet coconut water, candy and fairy cakes by […]

Categories: Fashion, LNA, Press Day, Self Service • Tags: autumn winter 2013, aw13, cat lamp, embellishment, fall 2013, Fashion, LNA, nicole levy pr, press day, sweat pants, tees, tshirts, winter 2013