Coffee morning

With mama on her last fashion feet we decided to take a little coffee break at the electric house. Mini was obviously in her element, greeting everyone as they entered and lounging on the new sofas. For the occasion mini went high fashion with her Stella floral dress and Bonpoint brick red cardi and converse trainers.

The next day was chilled out for everyone. Mini took to her little gym class, practicing her forward rolls and balance beam in her new H&M stripy leggings and matching purple body. I love the off beat mix of mustard, purple, cobalt, grey and hot pink without them ever getting too garish and they mirror this season's hot colours perfectly.

Taking a break

Today mini's taking a break from high fashion and having a dress down day in her knitted leggings, stripey t (both from Phin's hand-me-downs) and her pillar box red Bonton cardi and gap bear slippers and all stylishly topped off with a Cos chain link necklace and hair ribbon. mama however is on day 4 of fashion week and wishing she could also bin the heels and put on her slippers. Only one more day...

LFW 3

It's london fashion week day 3. But it's a Sunday and that means it's a ok for fashionistas to show their friendly face and cart their kids/dog/pet rabbit along for the day. I'm afraid I can't quite manage the whole day with my little pocket rocket creating havoc (who knew her middle name would ring so true) but I took little min to mulberry in the morning. Decked out in her Caramel floral long sleeve dress, in off beat hues of salmon, ink and mustard worn with matching tights and giant bow and her new mushroom knitted bow ballerinas from H&M, a real steal at a fiver. She kicked some fashion ass!
The show was a riot of British seaside paraphernalia including this wall of animal balloons. Of course mini charmed her way into getting one asap. We then hotfooted it off to a quick brunch with papa and Phin at Automat and then to the launch of fashion label Bolzoni & Walsh hosted by Julia Restoin-Roitfeld. Phin coordinated perfectly with mini both in his colour palette (all down to papa I might add) and his crazy energy. With Phin sporting his Gap tangerine skinnies and blue checked shirt, Bonton grey jacket and linen boots from Pepe he too wowed the fashion crowd. What a morning!

Mini's first fashion show

Mini rocked her first fashion show with team Red today. She wore her Gap short dungarees, Marie Chantal floral shirt and neon j crew pearls to Australian label Sass and Bide's show. Whilst i slightly overdid the pom pom theme with my pompomed lanvin sandals, dana levy bracelets and tibetan bag paired with a simple grey linen jumpsuit from isabel marrant.
Mini loved all the pumping music but fell mainly in love with red fashion assistant Lucy's bling necklace and glitter bag. She's a magpie that mini.
Post show she mingled with the gorgeous Sophie E, queen of all things Aussie and her crew. And bedazzled not only singer paloma faith, fashionista Julia restoin Roitfeld but film director Tom hooper. What a first day in fashion.

Transeasonal Tike

I find dressing pre season tough work. You've been bare foot, draped in light weight clothing all summer, then September comes and you want to wear all your new gear but although mornings may be chilly it soon heats up and your sweltering. somehow chunky knits and capes don't feel right yet, so It always takes me longer to get dressed at this time of year. For mini that just means more layering. Her long sleeve t shirts worn under summer dresses or her Stella for Gap leggings and a light weight cardi do the trick. Today mini is flexing a little colour with her cobalt linen dress from Bonton, burnt orange ribbed cardi, her new Cos beads and her brand spanking new converse double Tongue trainers courtesy of cousin cherry and Miri. We love that they come with a choice of two coloured laces but the apple green are definitely our fave.

Later in the day Mini changed for little Alices 5th birthday bash. And in her honour (well sort of) she wore her older sister grace's peach sorbet Bonpoint party dress with super size bow. Delicious. 

Little gym

I'm back home after a fantastic shoot in Stockholm and raring to go with mini's fashion file. Today is little gym where mini gets to perfect her moves on the balance beam and contort herself into a forward roll. For this she needs clothes which max out on comfort. But then this is mini we're talking about, it's never going to be a simple pair of trackie pants. So yes to leggings but they're covered in sparkle stars from The Gap and worn with a super soft fine rib t worn under her flared babydoll cotton top both from Bonton. Never without a bow she's also sporting big bros old Nike trainers for that added athletic feel. Sporty spice indeed.

Little miss tulle

Mini celebrated her friend Mina's first birthday today and as is required wore her best party frock (or in mini's case one of her many gorgeous party outfits). Todays was a pale pink satin body with layers of jagged tulle quite monique l'huiller but actually from The Gap. She wore them with her new dusky pink suede desert boots from Clarks, not pictured. And although it may strike an odd combo pairing a bit of tough with tulle it strangely worked. Minis also discovered books, mainly the ones you can touch and scratch but Phins mr men's work just fine too. I'm off to Sweden for another fantastic shoot for Red so no fashion file for a few days but mini will be back for duty mid week and raring to flex her fashion prowess for london fashion week.