Loves Young Dream

Black and white movie stills, the beat of an old song, spine tingling quotes or just a simple photograph are one of the hundred ways to catch a glimpse of classic romance. One of my favourite photographs in the entire world, taken of the most effortlessly chic couple to exist, Jonny and Kate. So they aren’t together anymore and love didn’t conquer all, but this picture captures a special moment and to me is romance at is purest.
What makes these images, songs or quotes so special is the way that two people communicate to each other or how it connects to you. In the present day however communication is a terrible thing, gone is the nostalgia of life, the mystery, nothing is as simple as boy likes girl today. Not with toxics like the telephone, text messaging, instant messaging, email, facebook, twitter, voice notes, blackberry messenger, I could go on and on and surely we wouldn’t want to give any of these up? Not even for a chance of real romance? I’ll leave the decision to you….

‘True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights..if you hear bells ..get your ears checked’

The Old Faithfull's

I’ve been receiving a couple of emails lately about who I think has some serious style when it comes to the dudes and today I shall do exactly that. I often find when you develop a crush (love that word) on a guy; their style is half the reason, well for me it is anyways. And even though today’s three guys are extremely beautiful and that one of them is my future husband (it’s not hard to guess). They are on this list only, for their impeccable style.

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp is an instant classic when it comes to style, he some how always manages to add just the right amount of edge to something so simple and it becomes quirky. I mean this is a man who can rock feathers and doesn’t look like a drag queen. My favourite pictures of Johnny are when he is owning the red carpet, whether it’s the shaggy pinstripe suit, or the little red silk handkerchief adding a pop of colour to a slick black tuxedo, he’s instant old school Hollywood glamour.
Childhood Memories of Edward Scissorhands will always stay with me, the images of a leather clad Johnny Depp coated in eyeliner or a bearded drunk foul mouth Captain Jack, are not easily forgotten.

Robert Pattinson
Fashion draws inspiration from everywhere, music, books, people on the street and especially films. If you didn’t fall in Love with Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga and you didn’t swoon at the cinema over Robert Pattinson, then there is certainly something wrong with your health. No questions asked, Robert Pattinson is the modern day James Dean when it comes to style, a total heart throb that works a plain white T-shirt like a nobody else. Robert is a little bit gentlemen, a pinch of boy next door and just a smidge of vampire what’s not to love?

Jared Leto
There are only three words to describe Jared Leto (and they are not I love you, for today anyways) bonafide rock star. For me the most important rule of style is that, if somebody is looking at you like you’re a little crazy, then you’re probably doing something right and Leto lives by it. Whether rocking a Mohawk in studded jeans on stage at night or classic Burberry in a pea coat by day, channelling the many different looks comes easy to the front man. But nobody and I mean nobody can work a plaid shirt like Mr Leto does, after all the name of the blog is called?

Offspring Perfect

When the Birkin bag was named after your mother, you know fashion runs in your blood. The daughter of famed actress Jane Birkin, allow me to introduce you to Lou Doillon model, actress and collaborative designer. French, quirky and smoulderingly sexy are only a few ways to describe her.
Lou says her love of fashion began at a young age (she had tattoos and a tongue piercing by age 11) she was often found dressing up in men’s shirts and eccentric top hats, a look she still sports in the present day. I adore Lou’s undone masculine style which she still manages to keep sexy in a classic Parisian fashion. Lou says she almost all the time will wear anything focused on the waist, as it just works for her, but mostly she dresses to just make people smile.

French, chic, eccentric and perfect DNA, in my next life can I be Lou Doillon please?

LA Women

Meet Hanna Beth, quintessential California dreamer ,born in New York raised in Los Angeles, is a model, fashion designer and favourite LA scene queen. Most known for her angeleno social status, buzznet and MySpace popularity. The Hanna Beth phenomena was created by the digital generation, but I noticed Hanna for her off beat, impeccable, personal style.

Usually photographed in fedora and wayfarers as a staple, Hanna mixes up her look with leopard print, laddered tights, shredded denim and a siren perfect Scarlett lip. Despite her impressive wardrobe (she has a jewellery box you would fight for) she has an impressive collection of tattoo’s, my favourite being the ink on her hands, wrists and arms pictured on her many twit-pics.

A firm fixture in New York and LA, at 21 Hanna is definitely going places. Where shall we see her next?

Leigh Down The Law

Taking a moment to pay tribute to the one and only Leigh Lezark model, DJ, style icon and front row darling. I admire Leigh’s tough rock and roll look from her blue black hair and porcelain skin to her smouldering dark eyes, she’s the new girl on the block.

A style that’s polished yet simple, (think ladies who lunch and caught in a corner of CBGB’s ) you’ll probably catch Leigh in leather leggings, shrunken jackets, second skin body con dresses and out of this world sequined vintage treasures. Leigh reminds me of an urban Edie Sedgwick, if Mr Warhol were alive today it goes without saying Leigh Lezark would definitely be a factory girl.

Calm Your Templer

As I sit flicking through a personal stack of magazines and endless fashion books I can't help but gaze and admire at the beauty of Karl Templers work and understand why this man after so long is still such a powerful force in the fashion world. Calm is not by any means an emotion inflicted upon you when you look at one of Karl's creations, most often when you look at pieces of his work you are not even looking at the clothes but more the drama, the depth and the story he captures with his extraordinary vision.

As one of the worlds most sought after fashion editors/stylist's Karl has had a career that only most of us could dream of ,with a ten year stint at Arena Homme plus as editor in chief, countless international magazine covers and most importantly Francisco Costa's right hand man at Calvin Klein.

Mr Templer does not just create photographs, he does not just edit fashion and he doesn't just style editorials, he demands the energy on every page ,creates the characters and tells the enchanting stories, a story I will be forever reading.