Rogue Gone Vogue: Search results for st. lucia

I had the great privilege of going on Holiday with my family to St. Lucia this January! While I was there it was great to explore my favourite seasonal wardrobe; summer. Anything goes really, I had such fun over the week I was there experimenting and playing with different looks, and pieces of jewellery, and makeup. Looking back on this holiday now (while I'm in rainy London) gets me excited and has me planning for summer 2015. I followed the Spring Summer 2015 shows avidly in winter 2014, and so had had a field day playing with the trends for 2015 early! So here are some candid family photo's from our trip, landscape photo's, and pictures of my SS15 inspired wardrobe.

Rogue Gone Vogue living up to her name.
Sports bra's make for great beach crop tops I've discovered; and notice the 'candelabra's' earrings as they came to be dubbed. Big statement over the top earrings make anything look glamourous.

Beaut.

A favourite of the trip was very thin gold jewellery.
So dainty when a chain so small makes such a statement when glinting in the sun!

Long sleeved/legged pyjamas are a must for battling mosquito's.
These faux silk ones were enough to protect me but not leave me cooking!

Reflective Sunglasses are a huge trend for 2015.
Spoiler alert: they are always summer trend,
but roll with it especially this year.

Gym gear, hiking boots and a backpack always look super
fashionable to me when you are on holiday.

Mum nails every outfit; but this was just uncanny.
(Vintage Moschino none-the-less! It's almost as if were related...)

How cool Matt Damon got married at our hotel?

Turtleneck backless floor length dresses always look fabulous; in chill or heat.

Insane sunsets and random rainbows were a common occurrence.

This was just ironic.
Glamour UK magazine doing a photoshoot right in front of me.
The model there is dutch Victoria's Secret Angel Bregje Heinen who
I saw walk the VS fashion show just a month previous.
On an island across the world and my fashion industry follows.
Hm: seeing as it leads here however... I'm thinking I made the right career choice.

Breathtaking.

This super sexy outfit is way ahead of the trend for summer 2015.
It's called The-Padi-Certified-Look. ;)
Scuba Gear: Gucci. (kidding)

Sheer shirts all the way. So dainty, cooling, and high fashion (if done right).
Best part about it is you can wear comfy bra's and leave them on show because:
you can justify your choices by reassuring yourself you were wearing a bikini
and nothing else less than 10 minutes ago and didn't feel awkward.

John Lenon Green Lensed Ray-Ban appreciation photo.
I lived by these sunnies. Real protection and real cool.

Vintage Moschino Top (of course it was a hand-me-down)
was so cute and fun to wear on this holiday.
The trend I was going for here was 70's beach chic.

Such a beautiful place, met such beautiful people, and looking out a dreary London right now it's a dream to know that once a week there is always a direct flight from Heathrow to St. Lucia...

Recently I was asked back to my high school to give a talk on my experiences since I left high school.

In my usual over-the-top fashion, I went back and looked back in depth at my year in review, and wrote up a speech. (Which was in turn scrapped last minute after my friends reassured me it was totally unnecessary and 'uncool').

When I got up there, I told them what I'm about to show you. The crazy and incredible things I got up to this year!

Unlike my peers: I decided to take a gap year between high school and university to figure out what the heck I wanted to do in life. 2015 was my gap year.

Safe to say, I figured it out. (coin drop moment: hence my blogs title Rogue gone Vogue)

But not without one rollercoaster ride of a year to figure it out!

So without further ado: here is my fashionable year in review!

(Note: Technically my year started in October 2014 and ended in October 2015, so humor me as I hope it's not too confusing!)

October-December 2014: Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design.

(Graduated!! With an award in excellence too! Fashion Nerd!!)

Four Highlights:

1. Meeting incredible industry people who would come lecture us at college!

The designer Mary Katrantzou! (See my Blog Post)

Karl Willet, Paloma Faiths Stylist!

(Who I have bumped into more than once in my following internships!)

2. Visiting Vogue House!

See my hand drawn sketches and tale of the Vogue Floor in this Blog Post!

GQ headquarters!

3. The just-as-crazy, fun, and most certainly fashionable friends I made!!

3. Attending the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!

Would it be sad to say this was probably the best day of my life? oh well. it was.

(See my multiple full blog posts on the event here!)

These "exceedingly good quality photos" were taken by me.

Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift being cute <3 <3

Queen Candice !!! <3

January 2014: St. Lucia.

Hear me out: this trip was a considerable step in my fashion journey!

While on this holiday, I witnessed a (super exciting!!) fashion shoot with Bregje Heinen (who I saw a month previous in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show), styled by Alessandra Steinherr (Glamours beauty director).

Long story short: it sparked my interest into fashion publications specifically, and my research into how shoots are done, set the stage and came in handy when it came to my internship...

Here is the shoot taking place! (above) and here is the result below!

See my full post on my trip to St. Lucia here!

February 2014: My internship at Ralph Lauren!

Read about the, rather silly, mistakes I made on my first internship (so embarrassing)

or the amazing celebrity involving tasks I handled, all in this blog post!!

Working with pieces such as this totally impractical

but to die for parachute dress were what made my day.

Marie Claire interns and PR team get an A* in my good books.

My mahogany office <3

Above: my resume/Portfolio after Ralph Lauren.... Left Vogue, right glamour... not too shabby!

March 2015: Las Vegas, New Mexico and Aspen!

Another sturdy step into my fashion future I can assure you. I picked up a LIFE changing skirt in New Mexico, I did some heavy research in the Las Vegas shopping malls and I developed an ingenious winter skii-bunny style development which is my thesis point in this blog post here!

They named a hotel after the salad???!

Glam glam glam. Not going to lie, this trip was pretty fab!

April 2015: The Vogue Festival and Kate Upton!

She was super sweet and complimented my skirt! She complimented my skirt !

(the aforementioned one that changed my life???? Yeah. Now you see why it's life changing)

Met some very fashionable girls along the way!

Alexa Chung and Olivier Rousteing

Jean Paul Gaultier!

However the John Galliano talk where no photo's were allowed was by far the best!

Needless to say why this was Fashionably Beneficial. Education is the key to success!!

May 2015: Backstage at London Bridal Fashion Week!

Our awesome girls ready to rumble! Lunch break in the exhibition hall.

With my wonderful dresser girlies!!

Cuddles with the designer!

Just-as-crazy as me and wonderful model Marieke! <3

Learned a lot through this experience: crisis management, working under pressure

and also keeping cool (very underestimated in the stressful fashion world).

If you want to read more about this event check out my post!

June 2015: The Communications Store!

The Communications Store is a PR agency unlike when I worked at Ralph Lauren which is canned working 'in-house'.

I'm not sure which I prefer yet (in PR you are kind of one or the other). But working with a huge variation of brands like at TCS definitely was one of the perks!

My Favourites included: House of Holland - Versace -Salvatore Ferragamo - Derek Rose - Belstaff

Miss Josephine busy at work!!

I helped out send the Mens Fashion Week invitations!!

A lovely challenging task: but nothing stops me ;)

Our incredibly beautiful headquarters!

Such an incredible opportunity, and so glad I got to work at such a tight knit company.

Juliette Dexter (co-founder) greeted me on my first day by name!

If that isn't a welcome then I don't know what is!

July-August 2015: Japan!

No, I didn't go for two months!! But one might have thought considering the amount of clothes I brought back (guilty).

A key step in my fashion journey this year: a totally different style over there on the other side of the world..

I learned about so many seedlings of trends, that I can already see popping up over here on the western world, a few months later! Harajuku girls are either ahead of the trend by months, or void of trend at all! (a rare feat).