Sunday 10 July 2011

Dazed and Confused's July 2011

Hello Dazed! This summer Dazed and Confused has brought one of their best issues to date, in my opinion. I finally got the time to sit down and flick through one of my favourite magazines before the August issue was sent through my door and boy was it a treat.

The front cover oozes vibrant sexyness with a brilliant shot of the one and only Beyonce Knowles looking as strong and beautiful as ever. The fantastic shoot by Sharif Hamza captured Beyonce's pop icon status perfectly, capturing the confident, fierce and breathtakingly beautiful 27yr old star. The juxtaposition of the run down location and the incredible outfits (made especially for the shoot) created a vibrant, incredibly cool and perfect atmosphere to capture one of this generations most successful and talented stars. Here's a little taster for all you bloggers...











After the Beyonce shoot, comes "In Bloom" a fashion shoot by photographer Viviane Sassen and styled by Katie Shillingford. This shoot has to be one of my favourite magazine pieces. The colourful flower field location clashing with the bold colours of the clothes modeled, creates the most visually vibrant and audacious fashion stories I have ever seen and I absolutely loved it and can't wait to try something similar myself.

So cheers Dazed for refreshing the fashion scene this summer. I was getting a little bored of the dull, unimaginative shoots that have been filling the fashion magazines at the moment.















Friday 8 July 2011

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 premiere

Well to all you Potter fans like me out there you will be glad to hear that the new and final (sob) installment does not disappoint. I attended the Leicester Square premiere last night of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2, walking the red carpet adorned with hundreds of screaming fans starting from Trafalgar Square and through to Leicester Square (a 1/2 mile walk in killer heels, not fun but no falling on my face thankfully!)The crowd was incredible, all there to support a woman who wrote one of the most fantastic children books we've had in a long time J.K.Rowling, and for that I thank her for bringing me so much joy as a child right through to my teenage years and adulthood and also thank you for encouraging a generation of computer gamers and TV watchers to read again!

The last film is definitely the best yet and I encourage EVERYONE to go see it straight away.

After the film I was lucky enough to go to the after party, rubbing shoulders with some of the best actors. It was a brilliant night filled with booze, delicious food and dancing. I managed to score Alan Rickman (Severus Snape), Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix LeStrange), David Bradley (Argus Filch) and Emma Watson's (Hermoine Granger's) autographs, but met many more of the cast!

It was the best night of my life and a perfect end to over 10 years of loosing myself in the world of Harry Potter and all his friends! A very emotional night not only for the cast and the creator J.K herself but for all us adoring fans too as we see the end of an era come to a close.