Meeting Style Icon Alexa Chung

Her book has been on the market for a while now and definitely has been featured in thousands of instagram pictures. Which is totally understandable.
Alexa has this one-of-a-kind charm she casually puts in all of her work.
I was truly excited when I randomly found out she would do an exlcusive book signing in Westfield. Of course I made my friends come with me as early as possible to join the queue for her signing on Tuesday, 12th of August. What I particulary love abut Alexa's style is that she always looks effortlessly stunning. As if she spends less than 2 minutes in front of her closet and still arranges flawless outifts.

Alexa arrived dead on time and looked absolutely stunning in her dress! She took as much time as possible to talk to every person and sign their books.When it was our turn I had a nice little talk with her and she signed my book. We were also able to take pictures with her which is awesome considering there were a lot of people waiting! Anyways Alexa was so kind and made sure that everyone gets their picture taken.

 

 

 

 

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Africa Fashion Week 2014

I've already told you about getting lost on Friday when trying to get to the Africa Fashion Week. So that's why we went on Saturday. (Let's just ignore the fact that we got lost again and realized it was near the place we went on Friday but anyways..)
The Fashion Show was amazing! I've never been to such an event but have read e-n-o-u-g-h about it that made me wanna go. The collections were really beautiful and I would've loved to wear a few of the clothes. The atmosphere was extremly catchy with all the music, people and fashion.
We definitely had a fun day there and I would go again any time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 That's what I call London Fashion!

 

 

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Coffee Bowls & Many Laughs

On Friday we originally planned on attending to the Africa Fashion Show. Somehow we got lost and didn't find the place. Don't even ask. (But we made it there the next day, so you can look forward a blogpost on that!) Anyways. Instead of going to the fashion show on Friday we sat down in Costa and had the biggest cappuccino cups ever! It was such a fun afternoon with many childhood stories, laughs and people watching. Lovely!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Highgate... Literally

Yesterday we went to Highgate. The same day we realized how much cheaper taking the bus instead of tube is. But anyways. After taking the wrong overground twice.. we finally arrived in Highgate. It's very beautiful there. High above the city.

We planned on visiting the Highgate cemetery which we actually found but unfortunately it happened to close at the exact moment we arrived. So we decided to visit the park right next to the cemetery where we also had some nice coffee. ♨

 

 

 

 I'm wearing a Miss Guided blouse, River Island skirt with my Topshop bag.

 

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Flowermarket Columbia Road

Already on our way to the flowermarket yesterday we saw people heading back home with giant bouquets of flowers. So we hurried up just to see that the flowermarket still went full speed. The flower sellers were screaming and promoting their goods. The beautiful smell of all the flowers floated around everyone. "Two of these a fiver!" Yes, fiver is a word you'll always hear.

We couldn't imagine that this scenery repeats every sunday! We went on to find the cutest coffee shops in hidden corners. A must-come-back for us. I'm already looking forward trying some of those delicious cupcakes!!

Home again we decided to sit in our nearest park to chill out a bit. I was doing some photo editing while my friends either doodled, read or just enjoyed the sun (just like me).

 

I'm wearing: Zara kimono, Brandy Melville top, Topshop jeans & bag, Vintage shoes
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Later in the park

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Hackney Farm and London Markets

Saturday is market day. So we went out to explore a market really near to our home. On our way we unexpectedly passed a little farm which was open for visitors. We could see some sheep, goats, chicken, pigeons and even a donkey! The farm also had a cute garden attached.
The markets we visited then were really nice and in the afternoon we sat down to have some coffee. It was a wonderful day as we got to see many beautiful things...

 

My beautiful friend is wearing a Topshop dress paired with River Island Flats.
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I'm wearing a Zara shirt with my Miss Guided highwaisted shorts and a Topshop bag.

I specifically love this graffiti because if you look at it closer you'll see that the bird's coat contains 4 colours only. Black, dark blue, a light blue and white. I'm no professional in graffiti but I think it's quite fascinating how the artits can create such three-dimensional looking pieces with a few colours only!

Another favourite graffiti. Amazing how the artwork trails around the environment e.g. the door, street sign and especially the pipe which seems to be the creator of the stream of colours. Not to forget the Fish & Chips sign that happens to be the same colour as the graffiti! :)

Causually taking pictures of strangers, ahah. But I loved how they both wore red which was a great contrast to the greens in the water of the canal.

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Back to London for New Adventures

I'm excited to tell you that I'm back in London since today. But this time, instead of 3 weeks on my own, I'm staying for 3 freaking months together with two of my absolute best friends! How great is that?
Unlike probably every other person we chose to travel by bus for 20hours. Of course it hasn't been that comfortable but I've honestly had worse (and longer) bus journeys. And one big benefit is the unlimited amount of luggage you can carry with you.

London right now is burning hot. But we were so happy when we've finally arrived at our little home for the next three months.
After refreshing ourselves we went grocery shopping at Tesco and made the biggest bowl of noodles!
oopsFor today we'll just be chilling at home and maybe watch a movie.

Excited for what tomorrow might bring!