For those who aren't stuck in the thick of LFW, you can immerse yourself in the fun via The Daily Rubbish (byline- "Everybody's Talking It!").  Irreverant fashion tidbits, random interviews (by random, I mean the questions as opposed to the interviewees) - Mandi Lennard asking Gareth Pugh whether he would like to make a rug for elephants in Africa for example, show-goer streetstyle pics, party snaps and some pretty collages...

Just got homw from Perth boy Richard Nicoll's London Fashion week show, which I watched alongside the lovely Immy Barron- YEN and Dazed's resident fashionista. Nicoll sent some beautiful creations down the white concrete runway, beginning with white transparent high waist pencil skirts, and fitted jackets with broad shoulders. In typical Nicoll style each look was relaxed glam embellished with slightly skewed detailing- such as transparent box frames around the hips or sculpted jacket hems. The colour palette was stunning, from crisp whites, soft pinks and mauves to gritty gunmetal silvers, to the final pieces which were gorgeous metallic nude skin tight dresses with pleats and button down backs. With more sponsorship than ever before behind him, Nicoll has had complete freedom this season. His use of fabrics and intrictaely crafted detailing is testament to what a bit of money can add to a hugely talented designers eouvre.

For a procession highlighting the illegal trafficking of women into sex slavery...

Sam Roddick, owner of erotic emporium Coco de Mer and daughter of recently deceased Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, has sent out a request for women to join her in a procession through the City of London today. Creative collaborators and partnersin crime, Sam and her Mum had designed the procession together, hence she wants to continue as planned to honour her spirit. The procession, strangely enough, will march through the Old Bailey complete with an East End horse drawn hearse with flowers spelling 'sex slave'. Led by a twenty-piece gospel choir, women will be dressed as mothers holding the pictures of their daughters who have disappeared into the clutches of criminals who have imprisoned them through torture.

Did you know?
80% of England's prostitutes are thought to be imported sex slaves
Their age range is from 13 years old to 22 years old
They are sold at source from as little as £150
Their UK landing price is from £3000 - £5000
They are forced to have unprotected sex and no act is un-marketable
They make their traffickers around £250,000 a year
They are tortured and controlled by horrific fear and threats

The procession is a lead up to an art installation, which will be housed for a week in Trafalgar Square from the 23rd September to the 30th September. The installation consists of seven shipping containers conceptualized by seven different artists who have documented one woman's journey and the story of how she ended up in England as a sex slave.

Just arrived home from a wonderfully messy musical festival- End of the Road. Indeed it was the last of the season and not a moment too soon. Luckily it's also been the driest and the most relaxed, cause I could not have survived another rock n roll mud bath. Held in Lamer Tree gardens in Dorset, the place is a quaint English oasis, with peacocks roaming, old Tudor thatched cottages and manicured gardens, complete with an enchanted forest sparkling with fairy lights perfect for folky troubadours to trill to their hearts content.
My recently blogged about fav's Liz Green and Eugene McGuinness made my weekend, while Super Furry Animals, Midlake and Findlay Brown got our feet moving. Good clean fun.

Online mag Dirrty Glam was started by a handful of female friends from London and
Paris, in November 2006. At the time they were organizing gigs in Paris (Poupées de Son club nights) dedicated to UK Indie rock'n' roll bands, “and that's how we decided to put a webzine together about the Parisian and Londonian music scenes.”
Word spread fast and they were soon contacted on Myspace by designers and photographers who wanted their work featured in Dirrty Glam, and it evolved to encompass music-fashion-life-art. “Today we work with people from all around the world. Lots of fashion and music artists are contacting us to do the famous "dirrty" interview.” The girls Cory Kennedy collaborative shirts line is coming soon.

The crazy kids at Sydney's Duke magazine have found a clever way of raising funds for the next issue of their chuckle inducing, acid tongued, fashion skewed periodical. By selling a page to
 the highest bidder! The owner is then free to do with it what they please- so if you're up for airing some pent up greivances or gags, bid away.

This lil' Mancunian is rocking my boat at present. When Liz Green, a frail 24 year old from the Wirral, gets singing she swings from a wavering sadness to a ballsy, bluesy big momma from the Deep South (America that is). Painfully shy, Green has been known to imbibe some moonshine before performing, but with a finger-pickin' guitar technique and haunting vibrato from another time, she is capable of summoning up the "real" spirit of folk, acoustic blues and bluegrass.