its the taking part that counts...

NOT.


lets be honest, put the cards on the table like.

its the winning that counts.

and so i put this to you, I've been lucky enough to be shortlisted for the Wonderbra Full Effects your life competition to be A FASHION BUYER IN PARIS and WORK AT WONDERBRA HQ IN LONDON!

battling it out with 9 other girls , who I'm sure are equally deserving of said prize BUT

and thats a biiiiiig BUT - there can only be one winner and we all want to be that person.

So heres the link , get crackin!

http://wonderbrafulleffect.co.uk/UK/phase3/profile.php?t=buyer&n=Amy_Thomlinson

just think the more votes - the closer i am to buying all those lovely yummy scrummy vintage goodies and sharing them all with you on this very blog.

cool.

peace :)

in demand

their are pro's and con's to being a fashion blogger...

great for getting your work seen and your thoughts about all things stylish aired but when you fall off the radar for a while the need for your return is in demand ! (well atleast by one person anyway ... YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE :P )

soo now im feeling the pressure of what to write about! and yet THERE IS SO MUCH I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT!!

so bare with me , I've been slack. I'm sorry.

Lets start at the very beginning... a very good place to start.

I took a trip to South America - I've been back over a month and haven't even shared with you what I found out! Gosh how awful of me !!

Ok a few facts : Havaiana's are my new summer crush - nothing says traveller like wearing a pair.

You got a pair?

ok well, did you get yours in Brazil home of the Havaiana? Doubtful. I WIN hahahaha

but seriously if you are from Brazil and your reading this then I'm going to sound pretty dorky.

its just quite exciting for us in the UK to have what we might think of as a flip flop sensation.

http://www.havaianas.com/ - go pick yourself a pair ready for next year ;)
I WANT THESE ONES NEXT TIME PLEASEEEEE^^^^^^^^^^

riiiight - ok well, ALSOOOO I was lucky enough to find myself in a cheeky little nightclub called Fosobox in a little well known city called Rio de Janeiro ...

NOTE: if you go to Rio try go here - you wont find this place in lonely planet let me tell you.

BUT WHAT TO WEAR WHAT TO WEAR?!!!!

obviously the most important decision of them all....

My advice - don't think that everyone in Rio is walking around in Haviana's ,shorts and T-Shirt because by night the young locals are all about Europian style. Especially London.

(Ironic when you turn up trying to look casual to blend in)

Yeah - totally glammed up , like out of a music video.


And now to end this post :


what better than my favourite shopping purchase...


the most beautiful leather ive ever witnessed... im going out on a limb here but better than italian leather ...ARGENTINE CARPINCHO LEATHER

So I bought it in bag form...with the matching wallet...and ofcourse I had to have the matching coin purse.

(er obviously ... cant have one without the other right? - its like Sophies Choice!)

Currently dont have photos of said bag, who does not yet even have a name incidently BUT here is what carpincho leather looks like - and it feels like suede! god its amazing. going back for more next year fo shooooo.

(oh also - argentina's economy collapsed a few years ago so everything is DIRT cheap but great quality - plane tickets kinda pricey but best place to shop...)

I'm baaack

Its been a while , but I'm back on track with the blogging!

Everybody deserves a cheeky vacation and I have LOTS to tell you about fashion in the Southern Hemisphere...

but firstly , let me find my feet again after 6 weeks, ease me back in to fashion mode slooowly

ok , I'm here to say I have a massive girl crush on Hannah MacGibbon's spring/summer collection for Chloe.

(I'm wondering if shes ever going to experiment with colour but hey, maybe its just her thing!)

here is my ultimate FAAAAAAYV dress , its a bit alberta feretti actually but it is B.E.A.Utiful - I hope to god the highstreet pick up on this collection...

Manga Britney

2 posts ago I commented on my love for POP magazine

... aswell as weird collage stuff






*tumbleweed*







ANYWAAAAY

WELLLL
what you may or may not know is that neither of these live up to my guilty pleasure of being a HUGE Britney Spears fan.


And do ya know what ... Britney has only gone all manga for POP's A/W issue! I'm glad shes channelling her weirdoness into a publication that can celebrate her strange antics...

awwwwwww, here she is!

(You can buy POP from Sept 1st. Do it.)

WIX

I have a new website


sooooooo yeah :)

you can check it out :

www.wix.com/amy_tom/Amy-Tom


An edited selection but none the less I like it, and it will be added to and improved as the year goes on.

Maybe drop me a line, tell me what ya think...

two things I like alot

Distorted collaged imagery and POP magazine -

so when I find that the POP blog is harbouring said distorted collaged imagery I feel it is neccassary to share the wealth with you via Tales of Fashion Happiness:

mmmmmm yum.




All images courtesy of THEPOP.COM - this is just a small selection but you can check out the rest at http://frombrazilwithlove.thepop.com/ (seeeeee arn't I good to you!)

Hot off the press...

Heres a little story for you...

I finished my first year of uni in May and a long stretch of lazy summer days were ahead of me , which for most people is heaven but for me


is hell.


I've picked up bad bad habbits since those precious school summer holidays of doing absolutely nothing , NOTHING with my time and before I know it its September all over again... *sigh*
4 months of doing NOTHING?? (capitals required)

no no no no no no


-so I made it my mission to gain as much experience as possible working with other photographers/ models etc (amongst all the city hopping) and its worked out pretty schweeet.


So yesterday I had my very first 100 % DIYtotally in charge (dun dun DUUUUUUNNNN) shoot where I casted my models , took a chance on a photographer I'd never worked with , styled it up , slicked hair down , smudged some eyes etc etc


and the photos?

well they are my favourite work from the whole summer...


Maybe I was subconciously saving my best until last?

Here goes:

Models: Mark Air - Veronika Ashlee Jones - Jade Lyon

All Photographs Copyright Dan Tidbury.