ALISON ELWIN - FASHION STYLIST: February 2011

A grey March day...

...somehow manages to look full of optimism with the blossom in this landscape by Peter Yates.

Ok, so I am a little late on blog things because of one thing or the other, but I cant help but 'late blog' on Prada's AW11 collection show in Milan in the past week. Python cut into cocoon coats with fur lapels, and over sized transparent sequins making the girls look like there wear magical multicoloured mermaids. I'm fascinated, and in love with....shoot it, own it..which ever way, it has to be in my life by AW11

Backstage at Margaret Howell

Whilst I was running around tweeking the final bits and bobs before the Margaret Howell A/W 11 show begun, all of this was going on around me. How luxurious do those knits look? I want to be all of those girls and own all of those clothes. Simple and charming as masculine collides with feminine...what better way to sum up the mood?

Diana Vickers at the Get A Life Launch Party last night

For the first evening of LFW, we opted for a long look for Diana teamed by Tatanaka with Mimco hard case bag and Disaya shoes when attending the Vivienne Westwood 'Get A Life' launch party last night

In love with..

Kel at Select! After seeing tonnes of girls for the Margaret Howell casting, wonderfully done by Angus Monroe and Noah Shelly, Kel at Select has stuck in my mind all day. Heavy browed, defined features and her mid length hair with blonde ends (you're going to have to wait to see just exactly what I mean until after the show on Sunday) is just how I want to look right now

Diana Vickers at One To Watch, VFS

Whilst I am in the thick on model casting for the Margaret Howell show on Sunday morning, I sent Diana out to some our favourite designers to see what offerings they have instore for AW11. Numerous outfit changes later, here is Diana Vickers today at Vauxhall Fashion Scout's Ones To Watch wearing Krystof Strozyna, Camilla Skovgaard, Margaret Howell belt and Mulberry Handbag.

Its birds at Fashion East too....

Alex Noble

Can not wait to see Alex Nobles presentation over Fashion Week. If his window at Selfridges is anything to go by, then its going to be major....

Amazing jewllery alert

These amazing hand crafted rings have just arrived on my door. Zena Khan, a graduate from Central Saint Martins is about all I know about them right now, but Im on a mission to find out more!

ok, maybe is colourful birds I love...

...and not wallpaper, as this Sass and Bide invite, with the show title of Boogie and the Histotymaker has sent my brain into a tizz

Theres more, theres more

Falguni & Shane Peacock have produced this offering...kinky

Here come the show tickets

Never do I receive so much real post as I do in the run up the London Fashion Week, and on Friday, the first few trickled through the letterbox. Unique's elegant greyhound in black and white already has my brain spinning about the potential of the latest Topshop offering, and with Bora Aksu's Julie Verhoeven esque wide eyed illustration on his hand tied note pad...more to follow....