East London Street Style - Rosie

Meet Rosie - Hackney girl, writer, and wearer of excellent layering.  Her coat and velvet dress, worn over a vintage lace top, hint at some sort of victorian/goth melting pot of inspiration, all topped off with a bargain Berlin beanie and natty accessories (I'm bringing back 'natty' by the way, get on board).  What I love about this girl's style is that it's very natural, very un-try hard, she just goes about looking frickin' cool in her quiet little way.  Find Rosie at her blog or on Twitter or just look out for her hanging out round E5, no doubt in some excellent coat.

East London street style - Be happy

Style crush alert!  This is Frances, of Happy Because.  She always looks amazing.  Not in a "I'm going to Brick Lane and there might be streetstyle photographers" type way, but in a "I just rolled out of bed (ill) and chucked this on but just happen to have a damn frickin' good sense of style" type way.  She always looks cool but never try-hard - the jersey flares, Cons and sleeveless jacket here being a case in point - and she's also a fan of a great hat and/or neck detail.  Maybe that's why she's so happy.

Now also seems an opportune moment to thank Company Magazine for a highly enjoyable and successful Style Blogger Awards ceremony this week.  I was so happy to be nominated but not at all shocked to be beaten in the streetstyle category by the man himself - Facehunter.  Congratulations to all the winners, oh and you can see who wore what (cos clearly that's what you're wondering) here.  Also this week, the very eagle-eyed among you may have spotted this photo I took of Fumie flash up on Friday's edition of The Culture Show on BBC2, featuring Styleeast's good friend David of the Nyanzi Report talking about the streetstyle phenomenon.   And that concludes this week's edition of Styleeast News, thanks for tuning in! 

London Fashion Week street style - D'you wanna be in my gang?

Do you wanna be in my gang, my gang, my gang, d'you wanna be in my gang..my g-a-a-ang.  

#inappropriateGaryGlitterreference

But yes, we do, for it is the most colourful gang in all of Fashion Week.  And also because you have the most nonchalant denim jacket, sheer shirt and pastel hair.


Featuring: Second from left Anna from Anna Lee Fashion and, far right, photographer Erick LeStrange

London Fashion Week street style - Chameleon

Styleeast loves a fashion chameleon which is why I was pleased to bump into Elizabeth, who works at Elle, two days in a row at Somerset House.  Not that I recognised her the second time, but perhaps I can blame the fact that by the third day on the cobbles my eyeballs (along with my fingers and toes) had completely frozen.  Choosing my favourite of Elizabeth's looks isn't easy, so I'm going to sit on the fence and say I like her different takes on masculine tailoring in both outfits, though I do have a particular penchant for that lime green beanie.  Which is your favourite?

*post-edit.  By the way, I saw Kanye West today.  KANYE WEST!  You can see my rubbish photo here on the Styleeast facebook page.  I'm also chattering nonsense on Twitter, here

Fringe benefits

The first photo was featured on the BBC's Culture Show on  Friday 9 March 2012

Spot the theme!  Brick Lane is being taken over by coloured hair.  Not that I'm complaining, especially with Fumi's interpretation of the trend - just a dash of jade in the fringe, beautifully complementing the accents in her scarf.  I'd become a bit jaded (get it!) myself recently and sick of the sight of just black black black, as if dressing to match the sky helped beat the cold weather; so this colourful ensemble was like a breath of fresh air.  Welcome to all of my new readers, joining me from the Observer article last week and thanks for following.  Don't forget you can also find me on here on Twitter.  See you at Fashion Week! 

Hazy shades of winter

You'll either have that song in your head now, or be far too young to even know what it is (as am I, she adds hastily).  But hazy shades perfectly sums up this gorgeous winter ensemble.  Though still understated, it's an antidote to all the black on the streets.  It's what I'll call wartime chic, given a modern twist with the kneesocks and leopard scarf.

Say you want a revolution

Styleeast loves a Russian revolutionary fashion reference and there's no doubt it's now firmly fur hat weather.  Following on from what I've been saying about the importance of details in an outfit, this fur-topped fashion pixie shows how to use them to dramatic effect - the two-tone brogues, checked wool trousers (cue major style envy), cape, scarf, bucket bag.  It's all going on.  But the result is a beautifully coherent outfit, which will be keeping her lovely and cosy too...

London Fashion Week street style - knitwear

Ok, so I lied when I said there wouldn't be any more, but we can't have great style like this going to waste.  I'm one of those annoying people that isn't sad when summer comes to a grinding halt (as it felt like it had today) - I like jumpers, and cardis, and tights, and hats.  Just like these girls, bringing some new season chic to LFW....

Karina from Stylesnip

Veronika of Venkavision in the midi trend - in her grandma's skirt

Beckie and her marvellous hair - from brand new blog Bibi and the Antlers 

London Fashion Week street style - Colour Pops

Today was another tiring but exciting day at LFW, kicked off by the Masha Ma show at the Freemasons' hall - I'll be posting on that separately, it really blew me away and was particularly impressive that it was the debut show.  The Mulberry show was the hot ticket, where Alexa and Olivia (of course) could be found front row - keep your eyes peeled for Adorngirl's video, she's captured the new collection perfectly.  Today's other highlight was meeting the man behind the camera of the blog that pretty much inspired me to start one up - the Style Scout.  It was great to see him in action, and he's a lovely guy too.

It would be hard to try and define the style at LFW, it's a little mix of everything, as described far better by Jill of Street Style London for her Next blog. But today I definitely noticed a theme, to stick to classic black, chuck in some amazing accessories - hats, glasses, belts and bags - and add just a splash of colour....

Blogger Elle of Oh Elle

Featured in Frock and Roll

Three times two

Streetstyle - or should that be yard style - from Sunday's bloggers' yard sale.  More of which later...

Featured in Frock and Roll

The very lovely Hannah and James - Hannah from His and Hers Daily Stylings .  Stay tuned for more news of his t-shirts and her pants (all will be explained, I promise)

Featured in Don't Panic magazine

My new favourite self-style blogger, Alice of Alice Point and her sister in lustworthy baseball jacket 

I am reliably informed by my helpful readers that this stylish lady is from Frou Frou - another great self-style discovery.  Men take note and maybe you too can look this good sockless and in a necktie.

3 friends, 3 ways with denim

These three friends all live together so just imagine the potential wardrobe-sharing opportunities. I loved how they were all wearing staple vintage denim but had their own individual thing going on.  It's hard to pick a favourite so perhaps I could have the first one's shoes with the second one's dress and top it all off with the third one's hat...

Hat-tastic

This girl was manning a stall on Brick Lane (by Vibe bar) selling, as I recall, some lovely head gear.  But I liked her own hat even more, especially the tie under the chin, and the incongruity of it with the slightly military shirt worn as a dress and shiny gold buttons.  Proof indeed that the best outfits are those where you just wear whatever you fancy and if it doesn't 'go' in the traditional sense then so much the better...