Ireland!

Hello everyone! I am so sorry I haven't updated before now but I don't have internet where I am staying. I am having an amazing time in Ireland despite the atrocious weather (better than England though) On the second, I start an intensive Spanish course at the Spanish institute here which I am so looking forward to! 

I think I will be in Ireland for at least two months, if anyone is visiting or lives in Ireland and wants to meet up feel free to message me, it would be great to make some friends here :)

Anyway on to the photos! I flew out last Wednesday on the Irish delight that is Ryanair.

I'm staying in the city centre in the row of Georgian houses below. 

I'm staying with Donald, my mums best friend and one half of Irish design team Tyrrell & Brennan (name drop) and I went to their studio and showroom last week.

It's so cold here (especially after Argentina) that I've been wearing my winter coat that I bought in Helsinki, every single day.

The Irish government buildings on the street where I live

That's all for now! I shall try and post again next week if I can. Now that it has stopped raining I will go out and take some better photos of beautiful Dublin. I hope the weather isn't affecting too many people out there! To all of my friends and family in Finland, Spain, Argentina and England I know I am distant at the moment but I am thinking about all of you and I love you :) 

Tobi :) <3 x

Indie Kid

Hola mis chicas, Cómo estás? This is just a little post based around my outfit from the other day. It is something I haven't done in a while. Clari and Guille (my cousins) knocked the top off my tripod so these photos aren't wonky for some cool affect it's just because my tripod isn't straight any more.

On Friday we went into Buenos Aires in the evening for a family dinner and this was my outfit.

1) My new shirt from La Toscana

2) Necklace, a present from my dad (Nigeria)

4) H&M jeans

5) Ankle Boots from Oona

6) Buffalo Leather bag

My beautiful baby <3

I loved this shirt because of it's little details and I tried my best to take photos of them. Please excuse my spot and my pathetic chest hair in the photo above but isn't the colourful beading around the popper amazing <3 You can also see my necklace as well :)

I love how the colourful embroidery thread and the beads contrast with such a boring manly shirt. It has definitely given me some ideas for future clothes related stuff. 

SPEAKING OF CLOTHES! My beautiful and extremely talented designer/model friend (name dropping because obviously she will be famous in the future and I must piggyback upon said fame like Gaultier at the Cannes film festival with Madonna) Lucinda has just released her new Sanctus collection and it is TO DIE FOR. The collection is called  Adramelech, named after the demon in charge of Satan's wardrobe. What people don't know about Lu is that she always sources the best quality fabrics for her work making them extremely comfortable and her digital prints are just SINFUL. It is a phenomenal collection, reminiscent of a love child between Christopher Kane and Gareth Pugh and I think every one of you reading this should go check it out! Here.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl

I hope everyone is enjoying the end of summer/looking forward to spring.

Tobi x 

A New Year and Big News!

There is so much I want to say but I need to keep this as short as possible so I don't bore you all. I want to start by thanking everyone who has been a part of my life in the last year, even if it was only a brief one. I have grown so much as an individual and made some amazing memories and had some incredible experiences. I feel truly blessed to have spent the time I have in Helsinki, Kensington and Barcelona and to have met some of the incredible people I have. In the last year I feel like I have grown a lot as an individual both emotionally and "style" wise and I hope 2013 will be a continuation of all this and more.

Here is a mini photo summary of my 2012 :)

Just a quick summary of my year and some of the fun looks, things and people I have done and met.

I have never been the type of person who makes resolutions and lives by set rules but I do set myself goals to achieve. I'm also a firm believer in starting how you mean to go on and I think this applies to how you enter a new year. For me I started 2013 in Barcelona with friends enjoying food and culture as well as having lots of fun while picking up some Spanish. This is how I want 2013 to be. I am hoping to be fluent in Spanish again by the end of year and to continue travelling, learning and exploring both myself and the world around me and that is why (TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE BIG NEWS) I am moving to Buenos Aires in Argentina for 7 months at the start of February! I am hoping to rediscover my cultural roots, spend time with my family, learn Spanish properly again and explore South America. I am so excited about this and hopefully it will be another life changing experience.

Buenos Aires, also called the Paris of South America. Another exciting adventure and a fabulous excuse for me to change my look and my wardrobe as it will be summer when I arrive.

I wish all of you luck and prosperity for the year ahead and I hope you all take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. With love, Tobi x

DIOR DIOR DIOR

Salut tout le monde! Ca va? Recently I have been hanging out with my friend Sam who lives in London. I stayed at his for a few days last week and we went clubbing, had a trip to the V&A and made some yummy food but I will talk more about that in another post. 

Last week we went to visit some friends of his who work at Dior in Westfield to pick up something he ordered. 

Christophe the nice man working in Dior took this photo for us, I look rather chunky in it but I don't care. Sam's outfit is all from Dior and mine is ... not.

We were also lucky enough to each be given a copy of the first ever issue of the Dior magazine, released in time for a new era in Dior's history as Raf Simons takes over as Creative Director of the fashion house.

When I got home after my fun adventures in Laandan I felt inspired to do some little doodles after reading the magazine on the train home.

Also check out how cool my chair is! My step brother had it made for me by a friend of his. The seat is made from an old T-Shirt and the back of the chair from a vintage leather jacket.

(Also got this at the V&A museum)

As you can see I am a bit rusty but hopefully I will start drawing, illustrating regularly again (because I bloody need the practice)

I loved the magazine. Dior has always been my favourite fashion house and to be able to read about it's history and current goings on in the shape of a magazine was a real treat!

I have a few more blog posts from the last two weeks to upload and write about because I have been very lazy with blogging recently! I hope I can get them up soon and my blogging inspiration will come back to me. Also, I have been thinking about trying to arrange a fashion/blogger meet up for people interested in designer fashion, alternative fashion and street fashion in London similar to a gal meet, involving meeting somewhere, chatting, taking photos and a bit of shopping. Is anyone interested? Does it sound like a good idea? Please let me know! Ciao for now, Tobi x

London week part 1

As always I promised something and then didn't deliver, I'm sorry! I said I would live blog from London but actually I was too busy or too hungover or had lost my camera for the entire holiday. Jami flew in on the monday afternoon and Emilia joined us later on Wednesday.

I've been looking back at some of my older sources of inspiration and trying to think of new, better ways of working them into my looks. We have had terrible weather in England recently and it has been getting very cold so I took my Alba Rosa coat out of retirement for the winter. 

(Also I apologise for our drunk Robo.to gif update on the left, I can't change it until I do something with my face) 

My look for travelling down to London on Monday was "Nu Goth Manba" something warm and comfy but still easy to travel in. By the time I arrived at Kings Cross it was dark already.

On the Tuesday Jami and I decided to do a bit of sight seeing in Westminster and Trafalgar.

We were both incredibly hung over so didn't take as many pics as we should have but I did manage to get my outfit pics outside Buckingham Palace. I was wearing Jeremy Scott and Jeffrey Campbell with a vintage Longchamp bag.

I will blog about the second part of our trip when I get more photos from Emilia. The bits from our holiday that we can remember were mostly amazing! despite having two very bad hotels on the outskirts of London and Emilia and I emptying our bank accounts after a few too many drinks in Ku Bar (which led to some horrendous events that even I am too embarrassed to share.) I will tell you some of our terrible stories in the next post.

I'm in London again this weekend seeing War Horse and visiting my fabulous friend Sam, we also might be going to the Burberry menswear store opening in Knightsbridge next week. I hope everyone is looking forward to Christmas! I know I am. Tobi x

I've been getting a lot of inspiration from Daphne Guinness and Gareth Pugh recently and I have a few interesting ideas I am working on, In the meantime enjoy this Fashion Video by Gareth Pugh and Ruth Hogben.