London Street Style....Erin O'Connor

Introducing the ever-fabulous, gorgeous (yay for pale skin!) supermodel Erin O'Connor!!!

Erin joined The Clothes Show in celebrating its return to London (the show's been absent from London for 20 years). I have spotted Erin a few times at London Fashion Week but have never worked up the courage to ask if I could take her photograph....this time I took a deep breath, said a little prayer and scampered up to ask if she would mind if I took a quick snap. And she was absolutely lovely.... and extraordinarily beautiful, even after what must have been an achingly long day (plus a loooong day and night on Friday) at The Clothes Show. Thank you Erin :)

p.s. You can check out Erin's blog on Vogue.co.uk. She blogs about her fabulous globetrotting adventures-love the entry on her attendance at The Met Ball earlier this month. Could you imagine Erin, Maggie Rizzer and Karen Elson all rooming together when they started their careers?! OMG, the gorgeousness of it all! Check it out here.

London Street Style...Voilà! Voilà!

Love this girl! She and her three equally fab teenage friends had travelled from Kent to London for the day to attend The Clothes Show. She was rockin' those little ankle socks, hat and very sweet cream lace dress....AND she wasn't adverse to a little twirling for my camera :) :)

p.s. Hee Hee! Can you tell I would love to work for Teen Vogue?!!! I adore shooting teenagers and tweens- so much fun :)

London Street Style...Navy and White Stripes

Love this navy and white striped dress- she manages to look summery, fun, fresh, breezy and effortlessly s*xy all at once.

Beautiful girl, and her mum was as gorgeous as well (um, duh, obviously where her genes came from!)....in hindsight I should have got a shot of them together. I love the ad campaigns that the French label, Comptoir des Cotonniers, produces which feature "real" mothers and daughters together in the label's chic clothes. The benefit of hindsight, huh?!

London Street Style....Black&White

I've been looking for a photo to "black&white" for awhile but somehow none seemed to really work. I guess a lot of my street photos, because they are about personal style, rely on colour and "pop" to work and, while they are shot on busy city streets with (occasionally) a lot of distractions in the background, none seemed exactly right for conversion to monochrome. When I was shooting this girl, I knew I wanted to emphasise the shadows and light on her face, her shape and sensational short platinum hair. B&W was playing at the back of my mind.....

Et voilà! I finally got my b&w photo!

And who is she? A talented fashion student who has just finished her MA at the London College of Fashion (some of her clothes were on the catwalk at The Clothes Show at ExCel). Her friend, Manjit Deu, who I photographed (2nd photo from top) at London Fashion Week earlier this year, actually won the Collection of the Year Award at the postgrad awards in January! And no, they didn't tell me this (too modest).....I secret-squirreled it out with a little stealthy googling :)

Keep these two on your fashion radar: I suspect they are going very fashionable places.

London Street Style..."B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful"

I spotted this make-up artist having a quick, very well-deserved break outside ExCel just as the sun was going down. I loved her red, red lips and cute floral skirt. And of course I loved that "magic hour" light :)

Her lipstick shade? B Never Too Busy to be Beautiful 's Boudoir : a take-no-prisoners, "I am all woman" kind of red. Divine.