Style gets Luce.

Right guys, I have just come back from my first actual lecture of second year in uni and I am freakishly looking forward to my next big project. For the last two years my course leader has created a magazine called Platfform. It is a fashion focused magazine that allows students in the second year of Fashion Promotion and Design to come together and help to create and publish the magazine show casing some of our work. Now as part of the first section of our brief our aim is to distribute and promote the current issue of Platfform (Platfform 12) to the right target audience. The magazine is free for everybody and is a great way of networking and introducing yourself to the new generation of Fashion lovers.  The best thing about Platfform (apart from the obvious) is that it is written in a completely different voice to some famous and loved fashion magazines out there. Focusing on enticing the younger generation the voices behind the magazine are the stud...

Ok so New Look are about to announce a whole new collection of denim into their stores. To run along side this they are opening up a competition with the help of Sparkle fashion blog to win £200 to spend in New Look and a pair of their jeans! All you have to do is create a look focused around the jeans with items from New Look. Fun right? You simply need to follow this link  http://asteria-sparkle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/new-look-denim-competition-denimcomp.html and submit your details with your post URL and there we go! Check out my entry for some ideas! xoxo

So Paris Fashion week is drawing to a close and one of the last shows of the week is the beautiful Chanel. Now as I follow pretty much everybody in the fashion world on twitter and instagram it is hard to not be aware of how breath taking the Chanel show was/is this year (I think it's still going as I type) With wind turbines as the shows main decorative focus Karl Lagerfeld has once again out done himself. Keep your eye out for some of the most stunning clothes and freshest trends from one of the worlds best designers! I will be doing a post on the best of Paris fashion week very soon! I am currently enthralled in watching the shows live! xoxo

So now winter is well and truly on it's way *sob* it's time to start looking for those perfect winter boots! I always find it difficult to buy boots because I tend to wear brown more than black, but I do wear a lot of dresses with tights. Once you decide on the colour you then have to choose a style. Do you want ankle boots, riding boots, chelsea, brogue, heeled, flat, hidden? Leather, suede? Studs or no studs? Laces or no laces? The list can be endless, so I have been browsing some of my favorite online stores and have found that  Nelly.com  is my go to place for the best boots this winter! Take a look at some of  my best picks and see what you think! These gorgeous studded boots are a bargain at £51.95, you don't often see boots with contrasting soles but these work really well. They also come in grey which are stunning too! Find them here - http://tidd.ly/f188f49b Fitting in with the grunge trend that has hit this season these pu leather capped bo...

Now I know I have just started working in H&M but boy oh boy am I glad! Lana Del Ray has become the new face of the Autumn/Winter campaign in store and online. If you were going to take style advice from anyone it would be her right? I'm sure most of you will have seen the new adverts too, they give H&M an un-predictable and new edge that has never really been seen before. Using Lana who is possibly one of the most admired style icons at the moment is set to draw in crowds of young fashionistas looking for amazing clothes worn by their idols. These trousers caused a little bit of a disagreement, I personally love them but they have had some negative reactions too! I think to pull these off you really need to team them with heels to lengthen your legs and balance out the contrast of wearing printed bottoms. This is skirt is possibly my favorite thing that has EVER been sold in H&M. The cream feather skirt is adorable and a bargain at £25.99!! This stunni...

With smokey eyes, finding the right balance of colour and darkness is difficult. I always tend to use browns to create my smokey eyes with a combination of light to dark moving out of my eye. However on a night out last week I decided to go for black eye shadows and eye liner to create my desired look. I was wearing a dark red shift dress from H&M that had a leather peter pan collar, I wanted to pick up on the black and create extra pow with my eye make up. So to create my look I used a combination of different eye shadows and eye liners. I had treated myself to some new  make up from  Feelunique  because it is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying it from any high street store. I will list below what I used so you can have a go at creating your own smokey eyes.  As an all over base I went for a natural colour from my rimmel eye shadow palette. Found here - http://tidd.ly/955cc942 go for one of the lighter shades to start with. I then built...

Gabriella Wilde Allyson Felix Laura Bailey Pixie Lott Alexa Chung Olivia Palermo And finally possibly the most stylish friendship group ever! Kelly Osbourne, Pixie Geldoff and Alexa Chung front row! So jealous! xoxo