A few weeks ago we spent a couple of days filming in central London. Now I don’t tend to go too often to Oxford Circus, but it is a great place to go Sale shopping and our afternoon was surprisingly really fun. After trawling through racks and racks of clothes, we decided to go to Liberty’s, a very unique British department store housed in a Tudor revival building on Regent’s Street, constructed from the timbers of two ships: HMS Impregnable and HMS Hindustan. This is a place where the famous fashion blogger’s come to take pictures of the beautiful flowers outside this building’s unique facade, but it is also the perfect place for fashionista’s to find new styles, designers and unique garments.
Indeed, Liberty’s third floor’s central atrium is home to the Liberty Haberdashery department and is dedicated to the Liberty Art Fabrics collection, which introduces new designs and reused updated prints each season. Indeed, ever since it’s opening in 1875, when the shop began by selling ornaments, fabric and objets d’art from Japan and the East and then in 1884 when it introduced the costume department into the Regent Street store, creating in-house apparel to challenge the fashions of Paris, Liberty’s has been a fashion trailblazer and pioneer. Strong relationships were then built up in the 1890s with many English designers, many of whom including Archibald Knox, practised the artistic styles known as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. In this way Liberty helped develop Art Nouveau through his encouragement of such designers and the company became associated with this new style, to the extent that in Italy, Art Nouveau became known as the Stile Liberty, after the London shop.
If you are a designer it may be of interest to know, that every year, Liberty’s has a “Best of British Open Call Day” that you can register to go to, where you can pitch your designs directly to the store buyers. Every year they will choose the garments and products that they feel would fit with their brand and which they think will be of interest to their customers and they will then sell them in their store! Their webpage states that they are always on the lookout for undiscovered talent so maybe in 2015 you should have a go 😉
The Christmas lights were still up in town and it was just so nice walking around. It was a bit cold though, so we decided to be a bit extravagant and go to the Dorchester for a Gingerbread Man cocktail, which I highly recommend for a perfect girlie day out in town! For our outing I decided to wear a cute embossed jumper with pink roses that my boyfriend brought back from Spain and which is really feminine and bright, with an elegant white shirt, ripped jeans and a sprinkle of glitter in the shape of some London Rebel lace up creepers. To add some detail to the look, I added some gold and turquoise accessories that brought out the color of the leaves in the jumper. In the second outfit I am wearing all black everything, which is what I wore for filming, with rips in my knees and a backwards cap, but I will feature that look in another post coming soon 😀
WEARING
Cream Coat – ZARA
Rose embellished jumper – LEFTIES
Ripped Jeans – PRIMARK
Glitter Creepers – LONDON REBEL
Gold and Turquoise Rings – PRIMARK
Turquoise triangle earrings – LEFTIES
White Shirt – STRADIVARIUS
PS: We have two new videos now up on my Youtube Channel “Abigail Royston” about my time at fashion week and giving some tips as to how you could go too!
Great post and fabulous pictures. Nice!
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Thanks so much for saying so! I am so pleased that you like it, Abi xxx
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That’s so cool about the ships’ timbers (<–likes maritime history). Also, this bit was really interesting! "Strong relationships were then built up in the 1890s with many English designers, many of whom including Archibald Knox, practised the artistic styles known as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. In this way Liberty helped develop Art Nouveau through his encouragement of such designers and the company became associated with this new style, to the extent that in Italy, Art Nouveau became known as the Stile Liberty, after the London shop." Very rad!
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Thanks so much! I am so glad you liked the post and the info. The outside of the building is so stunning so I too was really impressed that the wooden timbers were from actual ships. I am so pleased you enjoyed it as well and my photos. Truly appreciate the encouragement and your kind words ❤ Abi xxx
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Love the white top, looks fabulous! The Tudor building and the timbers, very nice, such history. Looks like a great place to spend lots of money! 😉
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Thank you, I am so pleased that you like the top. Your comments are always so kind, I really appreciate them. Yes the building is stunning so I thought its history deserved a mention! It’s all pretty expensive in there and quite avant-garde fashion wise, but they do have some cheaper things like scented nail polish and other quirky things that are a bit easier on the wallet 😉 Abi xxx
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gorgeous photos!
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Thank you so much :))) So pleased you liked them! Abi xxx
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Reblogged this on sentencedtoread and commented:
I found this to be very refreshing as I live in a rural American place. I really liked the film. Somehow, I feel hip now.
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Thank you so much for the re-blog. I am so pleased you liked the post enough to share it! I am so pleased I was able to bring a little of London to you and thank you for your really awesome video feedback 🙂 I am so happy that you enjoyed it ❤ Abi xxx
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Ah, lived in London for 3 years but never actually visited Liberty even though always took photos of it! Must fix this when I come for a visit in March 🙂 love your floral sweater!
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Aww I’m so pleased you like the sweater :)) That’s great that you are visiting in March! Do let me know when you are coming over and if you have time we could go for coffee :)) You should defo visit it, they have some really cool fashion pieces and inside the building its so beautiful, but I agree sometimes its nice to just walk passed and take pics of the beautiful flowers 😉 Abi xxx
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beautiful pics. Love the jewellery. I want!
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Thank you for your lovely comments! I’m glad you like the rings, when I saw them I thought they were really original :)) They are from Primark and are super cheap. They do some great ring sets there if you have the chance I would definitely recommend a browse! Abi xxx
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I love the jewellery..
And I do miss the Liberty store, need to plan a visit there soon!
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Thank you I am so pleased that you like the jewellery 🙂 I hope you can visit soon, I agree Liberty’s is so unique! Abi xxx
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Thanks Abi, you’re too sweet! 🙂 xxx
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Beautiful pics 😍
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