Alfies Antique Market

Alfies Antique Market

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Bond Street

We visited New bond street on the 27.09.09.It was a very busy street on the day because the Roller skate festival was going on around central London .It was quite a surprise to see so many roller skates all at once,dressed in bring colours roller skating to loud music.We walked further up on bond street where all the shops where.All the shops where top designer and expensive.The window displayed the latest autumn collection which looked amazing.The street was very quite,almost empty.It looked like an exclusive street where all the rich and famous come to do their shopping.We spotted a little boutique called "Doly",We went in and discovered that it was a famous very expensive bridal shop.After talking to the shop assistance we discovered celebrity customers such as Katie Price are regulars.

History of New Bond Street



Bond Street takes its name from Sir Thomas Bond, the head of a syndicate of developers who purchased a Piccadilly mansion called Clarendon House from Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle in 1683 and proceeded to demolish the house and develop the area. They also built nearby Dover Street and Albemarle Street. At that time the house backed onto open fields and the development of the various estates in Mayfair was just getting underway. It moved predominantly from south to north, which accounts for the southern part of the street being "Old" Bond Street, and the Northern half being "New" Bond Street, the latter being added in a second phase as London continued to grow. John Rocque's map of London published in 1746 shows the whole length of Bond Street and all its side streets fully built up.

Shops in New Bond Street

# Next
# ROC
# Reiss
# Baroni
# Francesco Biasia
# (Dering Street)
# Leonidas
# Watches of Bond Street
# Basler
# vacant
# Boudi
# vacant
# TM Lewin
# Fobia
# vacant
# Oliver Sweeney
# Calvin Klein
# Pellini Uomo
# (Brook Street)
# Fenwick
# D & G
# Emporio Armani
# redevelopment
# redevelopment
# F Pinet
# (Maddox Street)
# Avi Rossini
# Wempe
# Mulberry Company
# Smythson of Bond Street
# Ermenegildo Zegna
# Other Criteria
# Sotheby's
# Richard Green
# Furla
# Anne Fontaine
# Halcyon
# Longchamp
# Jimmy Choo
# Lucie Campbell
# Russell & Bromley
# (Conduit Street)
# Burberry
# refurbishment Louis Vuitton
# (Clifford Street)
# Watches of Switzerland
# Patek Philippe
# Georg Jensen
# de Grisogone
# Adler
# Chopard
# Moira
# Longmire
# Breguet
# Van Cleef & Arpels
# vacant
# Graff
# Ralph Lauren
# (Burlington Gardens

Little Venice, Warwick Avenue, Maida Vale, Edgeware Road, Church Street etc...

Here is a selection of our photos from our trip around these area's of West London;



Little Venice,






Warwicke Avenue,




Maida Vale,







Edgeware Road and Church Street,











Patricia the owner of Modo Italia, and one of our interesting folk,



Low getting dressed up in vintage Chanel by Patricia,

Burberry After Party - see all the celebrity fashion and style (Vogue.com UK)

Burberry After Party - see all the celebrity fashion and style (Vogue.com UK)

SHOWstudio: FASHION REVOLUTION

Below are the pictures from the SHOWstudio exhibition at Somerset House, I went to see the exhibition a good couple of weeks ago but have only just got round to uploading them. Opinions will follow later:

Investigating Covent Garden

Covent Garden is one of Londons most famous areas. Taking its name from its foundations on an ancient Benedictine Convent, it was passed on by King Henry VIII in the early 17th Century to the 4th Earl of Bedford. It was then that the shaping of Covent Garden as we know it today began.

Redeveloped by Inigo Jones, the first and arguably the greatest of Englands Renaissance architects. The area quickly attracted traders and, with the great fire of London destroying most of the competition, the market flourshed and became the largest and most important market in Britain.

Despite the market moving in the 70's, the streets today are still among the busiest in central London with the area being home to The Royal Opera House, The British Transport and The National Theatre Museums and Neal Street, famous for its large numbers of shoe shops.

Below are some of my favourite finds in the area:

Apple market was a small indoor market style arcade just past the original market square. I quite liked it although it missed the energy of a real market and it just felt like a glorified shopping mall trying to appeal to the upper-class.

Here is an example of the street performances Covent Garden is famous for. It is the only area of London liscensed for street performers and entertainers and thus attracts acts woldwide. This guy was doing some form of strip whilst throwing a diablo and the audience were mesmorised.

This was the cutest shop! It was really small and really kitch. The array of cupcakes was impressive and although they weren't amazing, they were pretty good.

My coffee cupcake

A store in Apple Market devoted to tea. I really liked that the exterior was traditional and in reference to Englands world renowned love of tea. I also quite like the pigeon perching on top.

This was a stall devoted to old board games and mainly marbles. Marbles aren't something that you see much any more and I loved the way they were displayed almost like fruit.

Some chocolates

A stall selling traditionally made soaps in the style of cheese

A real cheese store, this place was so popular. The range of cheeses and the sheer size of some of the wheels were incredible. A must for any cheese fan.

A guy I stopped to ask about Covent Garden, he worked round the corner and said his favourite place was a Thai restaurant called

The creation of West London Mapping begins

We're getting there! Just a few gaps to fill in now. Clarissa and Jazz busy being creative! We have decided the map should reflect ourselves as a group and also the constantly evolving, exciting, stylish and eclectic world of West London.

We decided to go for a punk/Jackson Pollock style map, after our earlier attempt with oil pastels failed miserably!! On reflection this style suits the group perfectly.

The initial outline carefully created by Steph and Inka, each group is then in charge of creating a masterpiece of collage with pictures, illustrations and information about all our amazing finds!