URBAN OUTFITTERS SUMMER SALE

Heads up, y'all, the ever-awesome Urban Outfitters summer sale starts tomorrow.

Some summery lovelies I'm hoping to see come down in price include:

Insane but fierce, right?

Oh Urban, This is so dangerous, it's PAY WEEK! Jeeze. REALLY Hoping the weather picks back up so I can kick about the park in some of these wee dresses...

Also, if you were expecting a post about the Scottish Fashion Awards, sorry to disappoint but I wasn't there! Instead I was out having a lovely time watching Prometheus which, by the way, is awesome. Don't believe the crap reviews - although some of the characters are a little 2D it's still a total EPIC. Go see it.

HOWEVER I did check out the winners this morning and I'm glad to see Mulberry, Hayley Scanlan, Karen Gillan and William Chambers among the list. Shame to see David Black miss out on Scottish Graduate of the year, but Joanne Mcgillivary was a worthy winner. Here's the list...

Scottish Designer of the Year – sponsored by Instyle – Christopher Kane

Scottish Young Designer of the Year – sponsored by The Scottish Fashion Council – Hayley Scanlan

Scottish Textile Brand of the Year – sponsored by House of Fraser – Dashing Tweeds

Scottish Accessory Designer of the Year – sponsored by Swarovski – William Chambers

Scottish Fashion Icon – sponsored by Captial FM – Karen Gillan

Scottish Communicator of the Year – sponsored by Glasgow Airport – Faye Mcleod

Scottish Model of the Year – sponsored by Radley London – Tali Lennox

Scottish Retailer of the Year – sponsored by Braehead – Shhh-Oohs (Luxury Shoe Retailer Edinburgh)

Scottish Fashion Photographer – sponsored by The Herald and Times Group – Jonathan Daniel Pryce

Scotland’s New Face – sponsored by Smart of Glasgow – Kerry O’May

Scottish Graduate of the Year – sponsored by Marks & Spencer – Joanne Mcgillivary from Herriot Watt. David Black Was Also Awarded A Highly Commended Certificate

International Designer of the Year (for use of a Scottish fabric) – sponsored by Toni & Guy – Mulberry

Scottish Fashion Innovator sponsored by BareMinerals – Brian Rennie – Creative Managing Director of Basler

Fashion Ambassador sponsored by Mercedes-Benz West of Scotland – Colin Mcdowell MBE (Author, fashion esteemed fashion journalist and founder of Fashion Fringe).

Scottish Hall of Fame  – sponsored by Hartmann Media – Stella Tennant (Over her 20 years as an international supermodel, Scottish born Stella Tennant remains at the top of the game as the face of Chanel and cover star for many of the worlds leading fashion bibles).



CHEERZ BIG EARS

Wow, don't I just have the gift for awesome, witty blog titles...

Oh my, this post is super overdue! I feel like I do that all the time - make plans and lists of things I'm dying to blog about then then end up leaving it all so late that I have to bung 'em all together into one hideous-Frankenstein- mishmash of about ten different non-connected things?

^ GAHD, one too many coffee's much? Anyway... Firstly let me thank few bloggy folk:

A couple of weeks ago I won Fritha Louise's giveaway on The Fish Tank - a blog I've been stalking reading for ages as I love Fritha's effortless style and magical trouser-wearing abilities. Seriously, the girl can wear the SHIZ out of a pair of trousers. Go see what I mean.

So yeah, the giveaway was a voucher for online shoe shop Zalando (I am loving their new roffle-worthy advert on telly with the wummin screaming, then the bf screaming then the delivery man screaming - AHHH!)

After a few weeks of humming and hawing I think I've decided on a new pair of Doc Martens. The pair I have at the mo are the brown shearling-lined ones which are amazing for winter - practically lived in them at the end of last year - but now it's allegedly warming up for summer I reckon I could be doing with a new pair. I can't decided between these two colours, whaddya reckon?

UHHHFT It's like Sophie's Choice up in here.

But anyway, yes, mega thanks to Fritha and Zalando!

Secondly I must, must, MUST thank Ann from Girl in the City Glasgow for picking me up a truly amazing goody bag from the Scottish Fashion Awards the other night. You guys can read all about the glittering event over at her blog, or at Kirsten's and Morven's as well...

Inside the amazing bag were loads of gorgeous smellies, including literally hunners of products from the Organic Surge range, and Label M dry shampoo which I LOVE!

But my favourite product is most definitely the little bottle of gorgeousness that is Untitled L`Eau by Maison Martin Margiela:

According to some fancy-shmancy perfume website, this is "an aromatic fragrance for women and men with top notes of citrus, mandarin orange and Amalfi lemon; middle notes of African orange flower, green notes and mint."

Aye.

It's fresh at first but settles into a really gorgeous warm, comforting scent. I spritzed myself with it before I went to bed last night and had a WONDERFUL sleep - is that a bit weird? Hmm. Anyway, I love it cos it's not too floral or girly, clearly since it's a unisex fragrance, and it reminds me a lot of two of my other favourite perfumes in the whole world - Jo Malone's 154 cologne and Prada's Infusion D'Iris.

So aye, total winner all round :)

Thanks again ladies, really feeling the blog love recently <3

One last thing - if any Scottish ladies are at a loose end tomorrow night, can I recommend y'all head to the Heriot-Watt fashion show at the Dovecot in Edinburgh? I wrote a little preview of it for The Skinny (which you can read HERE) and I'd love to go, but I'm actually heading off to a lodge at Gleneagles with my girlfriends this weekend so can't...

WHAT A SHAME! I'll have to make do with endless games of Ring of Fire, awesome banter, drunken twister, clay pigeon shooting (?!) Crossroads marathons and junkfood. GUTTER!!!

No, but really, you should go...

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PSSST! I reviewed Emmy The Great's new album Virtue for The List which you can read HERE, and may I recommend you go buy it. It's a truly beautiful album - that girl can SING summat amazing.