{the lighter side of freja}

{freja beha erichsen by patrick demarchelier for vogue UK, february 2011 via oh}

{falling stars}

{frida gustavsson, vogue UK december 2010 via studded hearts}

{deep mauve}

{editorial - and god created woman, guinevere van seenus by javier vallhonrat for vogue uk, september 2010, styling by lucinda chambers, via fashionising}

{freja}

{freja beha erichsen by josh olins for vogue uk august 2010 from this is glamorous}

David Bailey- 50 years in Vogue

This month marks 50 years in which David Bailey has worked with Vogue.
He is a real rags to riches story, and went from living in East End London as a child where he was born in 1938 during World War 2 where he says during the winter his family "would take bread-and-jam sandwiches and go to the cinema every night because in those days it was cheaper to go to the cinema than to put on the gas fire. I'll bet I saw seven or eight movies a week" to becoming the photographer whose images defined the Swinging Sixties.

He left school, enrolled in the RAF and then determined to become a photographer, bought a Canon- he said "I was smitten, and gradually the prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable"- and worked his way up from a photographers assistant, to freelance work and then finally owning his own studio.
His images, my favourites the fashion photographs he made whilst working at Vogue, just ooze simplicity and his story shows how talent and ambition can pay off.
These photos speak for themselves but the man behind them is equally inspirational.

Photos 1+2- the truly beautiful Jean Shrimpton

3+4- Catherine Deneuve and who he later married. Lucky man, as shown in the wonderful 4th photo.

Bailey's word of advice to budding photographers:

"The first and most obvious thing to do is to ooze awareness - and really look and act as if you know what you are doing. That means knowing your camera backwards: never fiddle with it during a shooting session - load it, focus it, fire it, but never fiddle. And get your background sorted out well before its time to press the shutter. Choose where you're going to do your portrait shooting, and place your subject there without dithering."

Beth Ruby xoxo

ps) I would love to stay and reply to all your lovely comments on my previous posts but I have to go and revise for my English Language paper tomorrow. But I promise as soon as this hellish week is over (I have 10 exams left now...) I will get back to you all individually. Or follow me on twitter here @bethrubytweets and say hello, now I have a Blackberry I am addicted haha :)
Hope you are all having a good start to the week and good luck to everyone else who is doing exams!

To clog or not to clog? That is the question...

So clogs have apparently "made a come back." Not that I ever thought they were "in" in the first place, but still.
Ever since they were seen at the Spring Summer 2010 Chanel collection and then on the front cover of British Vogue in the Alexa Chung photo shoot (see above and last photo) they have been gradually seeping down from the high end to the high street and infiltrating normal peoples wardrobes. And I really don't know how to feel about this.
Pictured below are my mum's old pair of clogs-which fit me so I could theoretically wear them- but I really don't think I will be making a public appearance in them any time soon.
To start with what do you wear with them? (I am not going to kid myself that I can pull off the double-denim look like Alexa below)
Anyone got any ideas?
Has anyone seen clogs EVER pulled off well?
And more importantly has anyone seen them be pulled off on a mere mortal, not just on a supermodel?
What a tricky trend. Lets just send them back to the Chanel runway where they came from, hmm?

Beth Ruby xoxo

ps) Thanks to everyone who wished my blog a happy one year birthday! They really made my day.

{inspiration: the beach}

{editorial: from sheer to eternity, constance jablonski by regan cameron for vogue uk may 2010}

{editorial: the white album}

{images: editorial: the white album, photography steven meisel for us vogue march 2002 via moodboard}

British Vogue's Lobster Earrings. Yes really.

Dear British Vogue,

On the back page “One Last Thing” section of latest March issue you said “we'd like these ruby earrings part of Georgina Chapman's dazzling new collection for Garrard."
Now when you lovely people at Vogue say you are lusting after something I usually am quick to jump on your bandwagon too but this is an exception.
Were you hallucinating/asleep/under the influence/intoxicated in any way when they wrote this?
They look like LOBSTERS.
And very expensive lobster lookalikes as well at £12,500.
What were you thinking?

However it was an amazing issue- Nick Knight AND Tim Walker my two favourite fashion photographs in one issue?! You spoil me.

But if you want a tip for pulling off ‘Lobster Chic’ then here is Isabella Blow doing it like a pro, follow her lead; wear one on your head, not a lookalike dangling off your lobes.

That’s all.*

Your biggest fan,
Beth Ruby Lambert

xoxo

*Meryl Streep/Anna Wintour Devil Wears Prada reference. In case you didn’t already get that. Which of course you did.

{editorial: stone age}

{editorial - stone age; lara stone shot by mario testino for british vogue december 2009, styling by lucinda chambers; via fashion gone rogue}

{runway to editorial: christian dior}

{on the runway}

{on emily blunt}

{on natalia}

{images: 1 - bruna tenorio in dior via the lish list; 2 -"couture club", emily blunt in dior for vanity fair, photographed by michael roberts via the lish list; 3 - natalia vodianova in dior for vogue UK may 2009 editorial photographed by mario testino}