The Invasion of Whisty… North London

Hello, ‘Wish you were here’,

Postcards from London…

The City of London, from Highgate Bridge, London N6 – The invasion began, my mates room, trashed as soon as my bag landed. So out we go and straight into town

First stop was, lunch at Sketch with Sophie from ASOS… Mine was the black bread Croque Monsieur

If portaloos were like this… the bathrooms at Sketch, Conduit Street, London WC1 W1S

Evening drinks with Amy and DSThe Boogaloo, Highgate, London N6

The Boogaloo Moggy… How much do I want that to be a G’n'T…?

Feeling nostalgic for the ’50′s at the ‘World Famous Boogaloo Juke’

The Notting Hill Carnival, 2011Passes for the fabulous Wrangler Carnival Party, at Bumpkin, London W11

Our welcome party at Westbourne Park Tube station

Our talented and incredibly down to earth entertainment for the evening, Maverick Sabre. In case you’ve ever wondered, being half cockney (he was born in Hackney) half culchie, (raised in New Ross, Co. Wexford) gives you one hell of a mad accent. Even so, he played a bloody beautiful acoustic set. Image via glam.co.uk

Post Party; neon specs and pints at The Good Mixer, Camden Town, London NW1

Hair of the Dog…

Whisky Cider = Whisty Heaven

Getting my tourist on. Note actual rucksack.At Highgate Cemetery, armed with map and nerves of steel. This is one atmospheric graveyard.

The gigantic stone head of Karl Marx on his Tombstone at Highgate Cemetery

Angel tombstones

Peaceful in the woods

And back to the land of the living…A rainbow at Aces & Eights Saloon Bar, Tufnell Park, London NW5. If I could imagine the kind of place Huey Morgan would live in, this would surely be it…

Curry heaven, London E1

Back to Highgate Village, before calling my Mum to tell her I’m effing nackered.

Yours,

Whisty Xx

Massive thanks to DS, Amy, Lynda & Sean, Sophie, Holly at Wrangler, and Ashley, for graciously returning a favour. Xxx

Tall Ships and Shades of Grey

Hey All,

You know sometimes when you just have a really great week? Enjoying being around genuinely good people and the like? Well that seems to have been the running theme of my week; So to all the people I ‘enjoyed’ in the last 7 days, cheers and thank you (loads!).

There was also a bit of a French theme thrown in as well. Bastille Day was Wednesday so that might have something to do with it. Anyway, I went to see The Concert on Monday; good grief that is one heck of a film. Melanie Laurent (Shoshanna Dreyfus, Inglourious Basterds) is in it. Nuff said? Yeah, nuff said. If you don’t mind subtitles and Tchaikovsky have a think about seeing this one on the big screen. It ‘s beautiful.

I also went to the French Market by the Samuel Beckett Bridge. I saw the bridge for the first time about a fortnight ago and I was actually dumbfounded. I love it. I was like, I gotta take some photos with that, so I did. Et voilà!

Yeah, it was a bit windy alright.

More photos and outfit details at HerApparel.

Xx

A Sunny Weekend In Dublin

Chères Readers

It was a fantastic, hectic, busy, lazy weekend. I shan’t bore you with the details, most of it was nothing to do with fashion, it was all about Dublin though. I’m just going to post a few words that made up one of the best weekends I’ve had in ages.

The Liffey Boardwalk, The Morrison Hotel

White Wine, Tanqueray

Cigarettes, Baths

McDonalds Cheeseburgers

New Friends

Old Friends

Reading Outside, Wild Horses

A new moon

The Seaside, Yachts

Talking, Laughing

Rocknroll

Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix

Flip flops and Dirty Feet

Taxi drivers

Lazy Sunday Mornings

Hugs, Photos, The Royal Marine Hotel

Vintage Festival

Buses

Boys, smiles

Ryan, Gavin, Stephen, DS and Emily.

More photos and all outfit details on HerApparel as usual.

Xx

Get your cuban heels on!

Fancy jetting off somewhere exotic this weekend but the pocket money is a tad short? Then head in to Wexford street and spend a ‘weekend away’ in Cuba. From this evening at 6 until the early hours of Sunday morning, Solas, Shine, Whelans and The Village, are hosting the Little Havana Wexford Street Festival. In a celebration of all things South American, dancers, bands and performers will hit the bars and the streets to bring some serious heat to Dublin.

What’s amazing about the weekend is that ALL the Little Havana events are FREE admission so we’ve no excuse not to get our hips moving and heels stamping to bands like the Cuban Jazz Project and The Cuban All Stars. The latter being Ireland’s only 100% authentic Cuban Band.

Win a Philip Treacy Creation

Okay it’s safe to say that for this summer at least I’m a Trilby girl but I couldn’t resist blogging about this gorgeous Phillip Treacy hat. The Irish Milliner ‘brewed up’ this beautiful creation, inspired by Irish Tea brand Lyons. The hat will be on display at Taste of Dublin from June 11-14, in a Mad Hatter-inspired marquee where visitors can enter a draw to win the hat!

The Galway-born fashion designer (pictured above with Model Klaudia Molenda in the design) said of the hat; “I grew up enjoying Lyons Tea, the tea evokes many happy memories of my life in Ireland. I wanted to create a hat that would symbolize how the tea swirls in the cup as it is poured, and how the leaves and tea bag infuse the water fortifying the brew. I think I have captured this in this very special commission, which celebrates my favourite tea. I am delighted that a fellow Lyons Tea drinker will have the chance to win my unique creation and enjoy it for many years to come.”

NB: Philip Treacy’s creations caused a stir when Sarah Jessica Parker wore this beautiful butterfly piece to the premier of Sex & The City in London last May.

Posh Tea in Dundrum

Pret-a-Portea comes to Harvey Nichols Dundrum…

Fresh from a stint at glorious department store, Bergdorff Goodman during New York Fashion Week (NYFW), (spotted in an episode of The City fashion factsters), London’s chicest hotel The Berkeley’s ultimate fashionista lunch, Pret-a-Portea, will take a short visit to Dublin at the end of the month!

With delicious goodies inspired by the biggest names and most iconic pieces in fashion, the First Floor restaurant at fashion Mecca, Harvey Nichols in Dundrum, will be awash with quirky style from April 28th to May 2nd!

During NYFW fashion forward foodies munched on a Michael Kors’ Regatta dress mousse, a Chanel quilted handbag Petite four and a pretty cookie version of a Christian Louboutin shoe. Similar treats are promised to be served at Dundrum, with rumours of Lanvin, Balmain and Christopher Kane inspired goodies.

I’m not 100% convinced that the €75 price tag on cakes and cookies for two is really worth it though, but if you have the cash to splash and you want to indulge your fashion passion then this is such a cute way of doing it! Naturally you get a glass of bubbly with your treats and the chance to browse the real thing after you have devoured the sugary copies!

www.dundrum.ie/happening.asp?nid=745

www.harveynichols.com

www.the-berkeley.co.uk