It’s been an inspiring few weeks for me lately.the credit goes to the Summer season( read as the calendar month of May) without actually being the Summer.

It’s the season when the new exhibits pop up,the plays and musicals seem more available as people rather be out making the most of the daylight, The books you have been waiting for gets released, and finally the wait for Great Gatsby is over!

I have had the joy of seeing great exhibits starting with David Bowie,to Musicals like Once (I know!! The best birthday present ever! Only Once fans will understand that emotion.)

So it was just natural for me to say Yes,when I was Invited for the English National Opera’s latest production :The Perfect American.

I must be honest,I lived in Sydney and never actually managed to go to the Opera,so when I was invited for an Opera in London,I was well excited, and that too an ENO commission to celebrate the renowned composer of The Perfect American, Philip Glass’s 75th birthday.

Based on the novel by Stephan Jungk and written by Philip Glass, who is one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century,The Perfect American imagines the final months of Walt Disney’s life, including mythical imaginings of Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol. One can only imagine the concoction of those two!

Glass describes himself a “Classicist” with a certain repeat structure in music, well I am no critic of Music, since I never studied it and have the worst hand-eye-ear co-ordination so physically incapable of playing any instrument but I am totally preparing myself for my first ever London Opera by listening to Glass’s music here.

See the Rehearsal Video here:)

Now the big question! What do I wear? So According to the Opera Etiquettes here, I don’t have a dress code, which is a relief, but One should never be underdessed…EVER!

So I decided to go unconventional with a Digital Printed dress and Summery Makeup! P.s: Loving the Nars Satin Lip Pencil currently, If you haven’t tried it, get your hands on it ASAP!

See a sneak peak of my wardrobe here:)

Have you been to an Opera before, do share you Fashion Diaries:)

Love,

Di x

LDN Bloggers and French Start-up Rentez-Vous partnered for an event on the 11th May at Port-Of-Entry in Old street.

Rentez-Vous was founded in 2012 by Fiona Designi, with a novel idea of renting out your wardrobe. The idea is simple, as we all MUST acknowledge we all have loads of clothes in the back of our wardrobe which we sometimes forget about(Cheeky me) or just one those “I don’t know when I will wear that dress” dresses! The idea is to recycle these clothes, and get some money out of the money you spent on it initially by renting out your clothes for 2-3 weeks! Something like renting out your couch for a period of time. None of us mind a bit of extra ch-ching!

So, this was a one of a kind event, held for the very first time in London. To mark the launch of the website, Rentez-Vous partnered with LDN Bloggers to get a hand selected-invite-only Bloggers in with 5 pieces of their clothing, equipped with a functional Paypal account and a willingness to style themselves in other’s pieces!

The result was spectacular afternoon with clothes being swapped and cameras clicking away!

Any-who, my friend Chloé, founder of chloedigital.com and I are such geeks, that we decided to fuse her undying love for tech codes and my street style images into this little widget! Of course this would have not happened had Fiona not randomly mentioned it over a glass of vino! Birds of the same feather you see!

It tells you what Blogger rented who’s clothes, how very clever? Even if I have to say it myself!

If you are a blogger and want to attend the next Rentez-Vous’s event on the 30th May, Email bloggers@ldnbloggers.com to receive your invite.

Till then! Adios, Happy posing and now even a bit of coding, thanks to Chloe!

Au Rentez-Vous déjà?

Love

Di x

Last time I wrote about Justin O’Shea was my Monday Men post in December and secretly everytime I saw his mere presence in a blog or a magazine, my heart skipped a beat!

Thus, it was no surprise when I found out that the amazing Adrien Sauvage did an exclusive shoot with Justin O’Shea wearing sartorial pieces from A.Sauvage’s Classic collection.A secret bird tells me Justin and Sauvage spent time hand selecting the pieces shown below on Justin.

Clicked in Mayfair, London, The pictures are powerful and sauve. Credit goes to both the men!

Justin joins the likes of Jude Law,Spike Jonze, Craig Roberts and many more who have been photographed by Sauvage.

Sauvage, is multi faceted talent bag! London based Fashion Designer,Photographer and Director, is the man behind This Is Not a Suit and talks about the Art of  D.E (Dress Easy) in a video which he directed in 2011.( Video at the bottom of the page)

Have a browse through A. Sauvage’s latest collection. I love the overlay of print and texture and the juxtaposition of wool and leather all coming together to resonate his philosophy of D.E. 

Have a look at the complete collection here:  A. Sauvage’s latest collection.

See below the video from 2011. “Art of D.E”

Images: Via http://www.asauvage.com and thisisnotasuit.tumblr.com

If you are not following me on my Instagram account,worry not, you won’t miss on these Vogue Festival snippets which ran over the weekend at the South Bank Centre. Enjoy these sneak previews of my upcoming blog posts!

Having said, why are you not following me on Instagram already??

Di x

As some of you may know, the Vogue Festival is on again at the South Bank in London.

More pictures to come in soon, but this a sneak preview of what people were wearing!

Pam Quiñones, a Fashion stylist from Philippines looks great in in the monochrome with a flash of green and killer cheekbones!

Special attention to the Sergio Rossi pumps there!x

I am being cheeky and posting quick images without much text and hoping I can get away with it.

London Street style images of some amazing ladies in London!

Meeting Sandra Hagelstam of 5inchandup.com recently was like bumping into a college friend. I had heard her speak at a few events before and I always thought she was really approachable, and that she was! Smiling away with her camera and her stunning Celine shoes(don’t know how you do it girl!), Sandra is the girl next door both on and off her blog(Albeit a very stylish Girl next door)!

If you ever spot her on the streets for her street style blog “The Neighbourhood watch” or outside Fashion Weeks, you must observe her while she is taking pictures. She dives likes a swan to get her self in a position to get her shot.Her footworks, (including the shoes) are a sight!

Here are some of my pictures of her taken recently.

I just made a quick video of the above images to try my hand at Vlogging!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWRdJUeRXVM

Love,

Di x

I know I have been AWOL for a while, and I will thank LDNBloggers for that! It is always a joy and struggle when you start something new!

Like this blog,Trendbridged!

Wordpress.com just sent me my 2nd birthday card, and it made me squeal like a teenage girl (not very different from my usual squeal!) I remember when I started TB, I was always out and about capturing images, cribbing how big the camera was and that I will never carry it again, and the day when it wasnt with me, I was cribbing why the camera is not with me!

My regular readers must know ,that it was Scott Schuman’s website The Sartorialist is what inspired me to start Trendbridged.com, and I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting him last year at Fashion Week.

In the 5 minute conversation (First 2 went in me finding my voice to say Hello!!) he said things which made me want to do more with Trendbridged.com. He shared tips to click better images, what he looks out for in a shot, what lens he uses, that Garance was joining him after her Lunch before they head into a show, and how to KEEP ON clicking pictures to get better pictures!

That was the day I wanted to do so much more with TB!

Well this LFW I saw Scott walk past us (I was chatting with Yvan Rodic and The Sophie Lear of  Face Hunter and The littlest things) and I could not resist clicking him in action, only curious to see what the final image would look like. So here it is guys!

Image source : Thesartorialist.com

And this is my picture of him clicking the above picture.

Work in Progress

Who inspires you to be better at what yo do? I would love to know!

I promise to post more..

Keep a look out,

Di xx

I met my friend Chris Chasseaud last night for a catch up from our crazy blog-hobnobbing schedules and we started talking about this new label who he is the Brand Manager for, Dent De Man. I absolutely loved the new photo shoot…watch the space for more..and I realised I have been awfully slack in posting this image!

The first 2 images are what I clicked at London Collections of Toni Tran of Fashitects.blogspot.co.uk who is an Ambassador of Dent De Man and it looks as if he and Dent De Man and Toni are a match made in Fashion Heaven.The rest of the image are from their campaign.

It’s an upcoming label and has already created a buzz around with its eclectic African Inspired prints individually sourced, each telling its story.

It is a great change from the existing sartorial scene and gives a new twist to the Modern Gentleman’s wardrobe.Of course, you need to be open to work with prints in your wardrobe..New Year Resolution Number 31 perhaps?

Have a look and go “like” them on Facebook to know when they start selling online soon!

Trousers: Dent De Man, Shoes: Zara, Shades: Fashitects Blog, Jumper: Trine Lindegaard Blazer: Topman, Brooch: Vintage

Love,

Di x