I’ve been admittedly feeling uber fatigued about fashion week season this year. As much as I’ve been ‘keeping up to date’ with the shows and the collections and the trend reports, I’m just not ‘on it’ as much I have been in previous years. There wasn’t really a set of collections or pieces that really made me go ‘GOD YESSSS’ recently. That was until my eyes laid rest on the ever reliable Alexander McQueen line and BAM. I’m back in.
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Playlist | 2006
How do you know you’re getting old?You start reminiscing about music in the good ol’ days of yore.2006 does not feel like 10 years ago. Yet here I am casually scrolling through *procrastinating through the Wiki archives of music, thinking 2006 really was a freaking banner year for awesome songs, incredible albums and soon-to-be-massive debuts artists.Timberlake had brought sexy back, Amy Winehouse went back to black, and Take That made their comeback. Emo-bands like MCR, Fall Out Boy, AAR and Panic! At The Disco reigned the airwaves as did well established pop acts like Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, and Pink. The Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks and The Plain White Tees all broke into the mainstream, McFLY were killing it with their third album, and a little known country artist called Taylor Swift told us a love story ;)~When You Were Young: The Killers~Walk Away: Kelly Clarkson~Hey There Delilah: The Plain White Tees~Love Story: Taylor Swift~I Write Sins Not Tragedies: Panic! At The Disco~Smile: Lily Allen~Dance, Dance: Fall Out Boy~Please, Please: McFLY~Keep Holding On: Avril Lavigne~How To Save A Life: The Fray~Man Eater: Nelly Furtado~Supermassive Black Hole: Muse~U + Ur Hand: Pink~Touch The Sky: Kanye West~Excuse me whilst I kick back and listen to these songs and a pretend I’m 14 years old again cause honestly I forgot just how fecking good these songs were – and this is just a select few.Let me know what your favourite music memories from 2006 were too.Come forth and feel old with me!Ria -
Travel | NYC Bucket List 2.0
So…cat’s out of the bag. I’m off to NYC again at the beginning of April! This time I’ll be heading with my family in tow, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a serious agenda of places I want to hit up whilst in town. I blasted through my first bucket list and ticked off many of the ‘essential’ places and more when I actually visited (go me!) But as always it’s impossible to pack everything into just one visit to New York, so this time I’ve got some additional places new and old which I’m hoping the ‘rents and le sis won’t mind me dragging them to when we jet set off.
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THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Arguably I did see a whole lot of the Brooklyn Bridge via the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges, on a Downtown bus tour and from Top of the Rock. But I never actually got to do the proper touristy thing and walk a c r o s s it. As well as the bridge, once I’m Brooklyn side I’m still quite keen to visit the Brooklyn Bridge Park too.