Girl about Town

Could there be a better city to blog about?

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so lisa? whats up?

Hi stranger! Who are you I wonder?

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HAI BENJI :D

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ANYONE ELSE NOT ABLE TO WAIT TILL CHRISTMAS??

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Eddie Redmayne for Burberry Spring/Summer 2012

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hhhumunuuhhh <3

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This is just so ME! heehee…

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Classic Eton Style

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Don't you wanna be them :')

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How we spend our time at school...

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I'll be gone to Albion...

This week I ventured up to the unknown that is Shoreditch. Located near Whitechapel, its safe to say that I don't go there very often and am about as familiar with it as a Texan in the North Pole. So I decided to explore the area and IT'S SO COOL. It is east-end chic personified.

Now, exploration makes you hungry, and by coincidence I walked past the cutest little bakery/cafe which screams 'artisan'. Albion is about a five minute walk from Shoreditch High Street station, and is conveniently located not far from the pop-up shopping centre on the high street, as well as various other grungy but curiously elegant boutiques. The cafe doubles over as a miniature food store and so wooden crates of various veggies meet you upon entry, (NB. Watch the step...I didn't). They pride themselves on selling mainly British produce, and the variety is certainly impressive. The in-house bakery means there is a wide selection of freshly baked bread, as well as various tinned products such as homemade jams and sauces. There are also various foods and sweets which are marketed as 'traditional' and all have pretty boxes and generally target the inner nostalgists. The main body of the premises is taken up by a cafe/tea shop and they have a wide selection of homemade sweet and savoury pastries, as well as meats and cheeses which are available in-house or to take-away. What caught my eye especially was the HUGE Yorkshire tea bag with 250 tea bags in them. Enough to last me till Christmas. Hell yeah.

Definately worth a visit if ever you're up there, the cupcakes are to die for...mmmm...

Here's the website, so do check it out! http://albioncaff.co.uk/

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Twiggy in Paris, March 1967

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Oooh Mother Russia...

For those of you who don't know, I am half russian thanks to my mother. And so naturally I'm more than a little partial to a bit of Russian food every now and again. I can vouch that my Granny makes the best food ever. I promise.

But sadly, she lives in the motherland, so I don't see her all too often. But now thank the lord, I can go somewhere to satisfy my cravings for some Pilmeni or Borsch. My granny will soon have firm competition from them. All praise Mari Vanna.

Although they opened their London restaurant before the summer, hosting Prince William's 30th birthday party there, they had their launch party just over a week ago and I can vouch for the russianness. Vodka on tap, little meat pies, and raspberry juice.

The food on an ordinary day is similarly as Russian as Russian food can get. They serve Borsch (traditional beetroot soup), Pilmeni (the Russian version of ravioli but usually filled with meat), beef stroganov, as well as Russian deserts such as the Napoleon cake and Honey cake, all accompanied, naturally, by Kvas, the most delicious drink made from fermented rye.

The decor is also very homely. It reminds me of the decor of my Granny's dacha. Not gonna lie, it makes me want to go there! They have Russian dolls, soviet newspapers hung up, lots of frills and pictures, skis and skates, homely china and traditional russian spoons. The sideboards and the large number of small tables dotted about makes it feel like you've walked into someone's front room.

They're located on Knightsbridge, just around the corner from Harrods and serve lunch and dinner. Here is their website should you be interested:

http://www.marivanna.co.uk/

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All praise the LBJ

So about two weeks ago, my mum and I were invited to attend the opening of the Little Black Jacket exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea. Not gonna lie, I almost died of excitement when they took our names at the door and MY NAME WAS ACTUALLY ON THE GUEST LIST, not just as my mum's +1.

I'd never been inside the Saatchi Gallery before. Its quite imposing on the outside, but pretty modern and marbled on the inside. The exhibition is made up of four rooms full of pictures taken of notable celebrities all sporting the iconic Little Black Jacket. It was so cool. Some of the people photographed wearing the Jacket are Lilly Allen, Edie Campbell, Clemence Poesy, Alice Dellal, Sarah Jessica Parker and oh so many more.

I'd gone there expecting to perhaps spot several of the MIC cast, not really expecting anyone else, but BOY was I wrong. I'm not ashamed to say I found myself in the company of some of the finest in the industry. Karl Lagerfeld held respectable court, and milling around were the likes of Edie Campbell, Alice Dellal, Poppy Delavigne, Nicholas Coleridge, Henry Holland, as well as countless others. Its safe to say I was a tad starstruck.

It really was an awesome night. They served yummy canapes and lovely champers, and they had great huge stacks of poster replicas of the photographs from the exhibition which you could take if you liked. I took three. Upon leaving, each of us were given a large catalogue with all the photographs in them which is very gorgeous. Mother ended up taking several too many, so one of them is now on ebay, have a look here if you're interested:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Little-Black-Jacket-/281010420592?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item416d86bb70

The exhibition is in London till the 4th of November and I strongly recommend that you go and see it! Check out the website here for further details:

http://thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com/en_GB/home?loader=0

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The name's Bond...

Having watched Skyfall and several of the other most recent 007 films and being the pedant that I am, I couldn't help but wonder one thing:

How is it, that James Bond has managed to remain a secret agent?!

He is frequently involved in frankly very messy chase scenes, broils with the police and leaves a huge number of dead men in his wake. In reality, were he a real person, and unless every single one of the Bond movies misses out the details where 'M' and the rest of MI6 erase Bond's records from systems across different countries, 007 would have long ago been exposed.

The wake of destruction which he leaves behind him would, in real life, not go unnoticed by news channels, and surely it wouldn't be long before some conspiracy nut had Bond tracked, or followed, eventually leading to his uncovering.

Obviously, one would argue, James Bond is a figment of Ian Fleming's imagination, and he is a notoriously unruly agent, but even so, it has to be said that Bond seems to disregard the 'Secret' part of being an agent. Also, one must say that these are based on books, not originally intended for film. But regardless of the medium through which this story was intended to be told, you'd have thought that someone must have wanted to instill some vague note of credibility into these already fairly incredible stories.

Don't get me wrong, I love a bit of 007, but it just baffles me how he gets away with being so incredibly messy and unslick movie after movie after movie...Just a thought...