My name is Blondina, and I am a model, welcome to the first instalment of my blog! The first thing you need to know about me is that I am a huge Vivienne Westwood fan. I have been a follower of 'The Dame' since I first made the pilgrimage to ‘World's End’, way back in the day when that was the only shop she had!

Oh yes I remember ‘punk rock’, the Pirate Collection, Rocking Horse shoes ,Harlequin and Columbine, Buffalo Girls, Sarah Stockbridge (my favourite model ever), The mini-crini, “Don’t you ever kiss me once kiss me twice”, Harris tweed, the man who forgot his trousers, and even the dame who forgot her pants at the palace!

Now I know I don’t look old enough to go that far back, let’s just say that good genes run in my family, and any way what’s lacking in nature can always be made up for with a good plastic surgeon! So age aside here I am, at the peak of my career now working as the Platinum Blonde showroom dummy; and I have to tell you it’s a job I love, for I am in Vivienne Westwood heaven! I spend all day surrounded by gorgeous Vivienne Westwood accessories, handbags with specially picked matching purses. The costume jewellery is to die for and there are delicious scarves made of silks, wool and fine linens, to wraparound my delicate neck; and now we have added Vivienne Westwood ‘Melissa’ shoes to our collection, What girl could ask for anything more?

There is a lot more to being a showroom dummy than one might think; apart from the usual requirements, flawless milky skin, exquisite cheek bones, and thighs to stop a truck, one must also have the ability to sit still for hours on end, gazing out at the high street, looking fabulous and giving the people of Coleshill something to aspire too!

I suppose you could say that I am a bit of a mentor, so I am going to make it my task to guide all you Vivienne Westwood fans towards, what’s in and what’s out?, what’s hot and what’s not?!!!

Lots of Love Blondina x

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Don't you ever Kiss me once!


S/S 2012 Vivienne Westwood Jewellery look book 

 "Don't you ever Kiss me once Kiss me twice, Treat Me Nice" this is a line from an Elvis Presley song - and the reason it featured so heavily in this summer's Vivienne Westwood jewellery collection is because it's twenty years since Vivienne spoke the words in her acceptance speech, when she won the 'Designer of the Year Award' for the second year running.

I was there and I have the original t-shirt to prove it!

Vivienne Westwood Designer of the Year '91 & '92 

So why after twenty years at the top was our gloriously eccentric fashion designer only briefly mentioned in the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics?  How can a British, world wide event celebrating our greatest fashion achievements not have focused more closely on Vivienne Westwood????

I admit we were treated to Lily Donaldson wearing a gold Vivienne ball gown but I was expecting a fashion ensemble of young and old, Punks and Pirates, Harlets and Harlequins, a wonderful carnival, expressing trend, style and altar ego through the language of clothes!

Instead we had Victoria Beckham hailed as a fine example of a Brittish fashion designer! Now this is the kind of talk that makes my 'cameo' skin turn red!  For this is quite a slap in the face to our many brilliant designers who cut their teeth on the edge of a pattern cutting table! I wouldn't mind betting that 'Posh Spice' wouldn't know what to do with a pair of fabric scissors; if they were diamond encrusted and presented to her in a velvet box!  Putting your very famous name to a fashion line does not a designer make!

Our Queen of Punk (well Dame technically), is a woman who has given us more thant just quirky clothes - she inspires us to follow fashion as individuals; to use her creativity as a back drop for our own.......she makes us think about what we are? who we are? and what we wear? And to be honest I don't think she was treated very nicely and it was a bit of a kick in the teeth.

Twenty years on since there age of acceptance; Vivienne is still saying " Dont you ever Kiss me once, Kiss me twice, Treat me Nice!"

Me wearing the original t-shirt on a beach in a top secret location.  

Ciao Bella Sorellas;  will speak soon from my 'Holiday Hideaway'!

Blondina x


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