The GQ Awards

I know I said that my next post will be on my style icons, but after seeing photos of my favourite celebrities attend this event last night in glamorous outfits spamming my Instagram today, I thought I must do at least a little post about it about a few of my favourite and least favourite looks.

GQ is a magazine I have recently started to be interested in due to the huge style sections online (here incase you want it http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/style ). Even though its aimed at a male audience and looks into the current male fashion trends and all things man, I still adore looking at how they can create works of art and tell a story through the clothes from mainly just trousers and shirts (dresses and skirts are not usually accepted into male fashion!) To be honest, I sometimes like more clothes from Topman than Topshop and I have been known to purchase clothes from the male sections of shops - I love the over sized baggy jumpers, skinny jeans and Vans look, and just the effortlessness of menswear overall, so some days when I'm feeling lazy fashion-wise, I opt for a more boyish look. Anyway, less about me more about last night!

On 2nd September, the GQ Men of the Year Awards were held at The Royal Opera House in London, and I plan on looking into a bit of the the red carpet fashion that attended (best dressed/worst dressed kinda thing), so for a proper update on the actual awards that were received see here for a list of all the GQ winners, so here goes! By the way, everything I say below is my own opinion on their styles and in no way am I saying things factually, I'm looking at what they wore, describing it and giving my opinion:)

The Woman of The Year Kim Kardashian West wore what many have described to be "her most revealing outfit to date" in a black latex bodysuit with a gunmetal skirt by Ralph & Russo's haute couture. I actually really like this, especially the length of the skirt and the mechanical and industrial feel to it that makes it modern and interesting, kinda like a sexy robot I suppose.

In my opinion the best dressed couple of the GQ Awards has to be Lewis Hamilton (Sportsman of The Year) and Nicole Scherzinger (worst went to Dougie Poynter and Ellie Goulding; her dress reminded me of loo roll and Dougie looked like a Captain Jack wanna be!) However, I love Lewis' look slightly more (it was the Men of The Year Awards after all I suppose). There's a lot going on in Lewis' look and a lot that could've easily gone wrong but I like that; the tie, the trainers, the slightly wet look jacket but combined it totally works and shows a good mix of designers Armani and DSquared2. As for Nicole's beautiful pale pink bandage style gown, she presented class and elegance whilst looking absolutely stunning, styling this with beachy waves (simular to Kim's) and shiny black nails (to match with her boyfriends tuxedo/tennis look of course). Overall the couple were a grand success on the red carpet.

Moving on to slightly less successful looks with surprisingly Pharrell Williams (Solo Artist of The Year) who is usually one of my favourite male style icons. While some may be all over this laid back, mix of styles and colours, I personally was not a fan (and I think the lady on the left of him agrees with me). I found it all too much - the customised Chanel boots can stay along with his signature Pharrell-style hat but the rest can go and be worn on another occasion (or just never), totally not for red carpet.


Now for this one I may be slightly biased considering she is one of my favourite celebrities out there, but for me Cara Delevingne absolutely rocked the red carpet last night in highwaisted black shorts and a laced naked dress by Burberry (can I also add that the My Burberry Fragrance ad with Cara and the legend Kate Moss was one of my favourite campaigns to date, an image shown from it below) teamed with an exciting splash of yellow in her gorgeous velvet coat and also her cute little purse and then those Tabitha Simmons boots oh my, the outfit was a recipe for perfection, bravo!

The final look I will talk about is from Rita Ora, I actually find myself in love with a lot of what she wears a lot of the time and style wise although no one will ever top RiRi, she reminds me of Rihanna quite a bit. So her GQ look was in my opinion: spot on. Her sheer thigh-split one shouldered gown wowed everyone at the event, showing off her perfect pins and what The Mirror described to be an "ample amount of cleavage". Although the striking glittery gown was amazing, I found myself more in love with her make up and hair, the classy yet modern up 'do with an awesome French side plait matched with the dark and mysterious smokey eye look did it for me, along with the beautiful dazzling earrings. Another perfect look from the girls!

I could talk about this forever going into the looks from Daisy Lowe, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jourdan Dunn,  and more but I don't want to bore you on my second post, however I think from the little I've covered it's fair to say even though it was the Men of The Year Awards, the girls clearly stole the spotlight fashion-wise!

(: Thanks for reading :)

Hey There!

Hi, I'm Hannah! I decided that it's a known fact that most bloggers will revisit their first post and cringe at the embarrassment of their younger selves and their lack of blogging knowledge and experience, but you've gotta start somewhere! So I plan to make this introduction as cringe-free as possible (and also waffle-free but that's another target all together!). 

I also noticed that bloggers tend to kick-start their blogs with 50 facts about themselves,  I considered doing this and then decided against it based on the fact that I'm simply not interesting enough for that, so instead I shall divide 50 by 10 and attempt to inform you of the 5 best facts about me, hopefully giving you a sneak preview into what's to come on this blog (like reading the blurb of a book), so here goes:

1. The Basics - I'm fifteen and I live in Ashford (sometimes appropriately nicknamed "Trashford"), and unfortunately, always have done. Ashford is in the county of Kent and the country of England (I had to add that just in case). It's fair to say its not the prettiest of towns and one day I hope to move to somewhere slightly more scenic and ideally by the sea, however for now it will do. 
   
   Here I present to you a cheerful selfie of me from April, wearing my favourite dress, but more on denim and the Eiffel Tower to come on my blog.
2. The Fashion Industry - Filled with excitement and new trends constantly being made, fashion fascinates me and always has done. I long for a career in fashion and textiles, preferably as a journalist (editor of Vogue would be nice) so I thought I would get a head start and create a magazine style blog to get a feel for the industry and what people enjoy reading about.  My blog name represents my style, this is because many different eras, people, and places have helped influence me, like the individual squares of a patchwork quilt coming together to produce one unique piece (with also an element of sarcasm and guilty pleasures too, also shown in my blog title). I won't say anything else about my style as I will leave that to other posts. 
3. Music - Much like every other teenager on the planet, music is a huge part of my life. My wardrobe and iTunes are extremely similar actually: varied, questionable that the same person owns everything there, and both mostly revolving around the 1980s.  So here we go with my top 3 bands: Arctic Monkeys, The Smiths, Oasis. I saw Arctic Monkeys live on the 23rd of May this year with my Dad and it was without a doubt the best day of 2014 (so far), and it pains me to know that I wont be able to experience my other two favourite bands live - yet another disadvantage to being born in the wrong decade, I'm just too late! 
   
4. Literature - English is my all time favourite subject, and I hope to take English Literature for A level next year. I love to indulge myself in the beauty of words on a page and I have to admit that sometimes I will be that person in the class that takes the meaning of poems way too far, but its yet another one of my passions, hence why I have started this blog - to express myself and love of all things fashion through letters and punctuation, my favourite! I must also confess that I was among the thousands who sobbed endlessly at the beautiful film "The Fault in Our Stars" (don't panic; I read the book first). 
5. Haribos - For my final fact I thought I should do something a little more fun. So, Haribos are my favourite snacks, I like the hearts because they make me feel loved. If you didn't get that then check out this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9scm3NCIH_E . Anyway, I've figured there's not much else I can say about Haribos so I'm going to be sneaky and add another one in here: Tumblr. I love the community feel of it and how we're all roughly the same age and so all have the same views on things (and also the same sense of humour) its the number one home of fandoms and I'm almost 100% sure that all of my funny stories/jokes will start off with "I saw this post on Tumblr..." So if you want, have a nose around my Tumblr blog here: http://thirteen-balloons.tumblr.com/.

So there we go, Fashion, Music, Literature, Food and the Internet, the basics of my life in 5 points. Not all my posts will be this boring but hopefully you have now got to know me a little better. My next post will be about my style icons and influences (God knows when I will post it; I'm going into year 11 this September so my GCSEs are right around the corner, but I promise to do it asap!) 

:)thanks for reading(: