Issue 2 of The Coveted Mag

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Supporting & Promoting The Scottish Fashion Industry

on the cover Illustration by Chloe Windle. www.kuro-e.com info@thecovetedmag.com www.thecovetedmag.com

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3 Editor’s Letter 5 Dress it Up 10 Featured Designer - Jo Gordon 11 Featured Designer - Lauren Ridley 13 Featured Blogger - Kingdom of Style 14 Featured Illustrator - Chloe Windle 19 Xmas Gift Guide 21 Up on the Roof 26 Adjust your Brightness 27 Street Style 28 Events 28 Contribute ADVERTISE / SUBMIT / GET IN TOUCH VOLUNTEER / FEEDBACK / SPONSOR INFO@THECOVETEDMAG.COM Photo: Susan Castillo

Hellooooooo...

So.This is the ‘difficult second album’.

I would firstly like to thank everyone for their support and for checking out the first issue and for reading our pointless drivel on the blog.

The second issue gives into all the Xmas Issue cliches like Christmas shopping and Party Season Dresses. This format has been drummed into us over years of chronic fash mag abuse.

Enjoy.

Laters.

Sarah Editor in Chief

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Dress it up.

We know you would much rather be curled up in your PJs in front of a roaring fire, but it’s the festive season and wearing a dress is compulsory. Get used to it.

Knitted Bow Scarf, ÂŁ20, Knit & Destroy @The Maisonette Cinderella Rag Dress, ÂŁ60, Rachael Albert Designs

Photography: Susan Castillo. Styling: Sarah Graham. Model: Fern @ Model Team.Make Up & Hair: Louise Ballantine.

Blue Feather Rosette Fascinator, ÂŁ30, Margolily @The Maisonette Vintage Lace Dress, ÂŁ24, Vintage Guru

Lift your spirits

in dreary Winter months by adding some floral prints.

Floral Halter Dress, £80, Flossy & Dossy @Rachael Albert Boutique

Stockists: Rachael Albert Boutique DeCourcey’s Arcade, Cresswell Lane, Glasgow The Maisonette DeCourcey’s Arcade, Cresswell Lane, Glasgow Vintage Guru 195 Byres Rd, Glasgow Images copyright Susan Castillo, www.dripbook.com/SCastillo.

FEATURED DESIGNER

jo gordon www.jogordon.com

The neat thing about living in a place as depressingly drizzly as Scotland, is that you can wear knitwear all year round!

Jo Gordon is a knitwear designer with a background in fine art. Her modern take on on a traditional textile method results in brightly coloured, luxurious pieces that will make you long for the colder weather.

Our Editor’s picks left: Tweed Lace Scarf. below: Poppom Choker in charcoal/flouro. (both 100% lambswool)

£129.95

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Featured designer: Cherry Loco

jewellery by lauren ridley

www.etsy.com/shop/laurenridley www.folksy.com/shops/Cherryloco

FEATURED BLOGGER www.kingdomofstyle.typepad.co.uk Reading a fashion blog is like reading someone’s diary. It’s voyeurism without the tacky Big Brotherness. These fashion bloggers have brains. Does the average BB contestant even know how to switch on a computer, nevermind start a blog and update it several times a day with interesting, witty and relevant info? Unlikely.

Take Michelle Haswell (left) for instance. One half of dynamic blogging duo, Kingdom of Style, she is a graphic designer by trade, Scottish Fashion Award nominee and more importantly to her legion of fans, Queen Michelle is the dahling of the blogosphere.

She lives in Glasgow with her Prince, gorgeous dog and a wardrobe overflowing with vintage treasures, Topshop, Jean Pierre Braganza, etsy Neckpieces, Tour de Force Headpieces and dresses that she has helped up and coming designers such as Norwegian Wood to design.

A key element of her blog posts are personal photographs of her daily fashion choices. I guess it helps that Michelle looks like a model with her long lean limbs and startling resemblence to supermodel Irina Lazareanu. Couple this with her computer-whizzkiddery and her photography, styling and design could rival the spreads in the glossies. One of her style trademarks is ‘deprettifying’ frilly dresses with PVC leggings and leather boots and you can definitely see her love of heavy metal music in some of her outfits.

Michelle is honest. If she doesn’t like something, she says it. In a world where bloggers are fast becoming blaggers, giving false praise in exchange for Fashion Week tickets or free gifts, and in some cases, bloggers who are nothing more than brand employed endorsers, it is refreshing to find someone who really doesn’t care about all that.

Sarah Graham Photo: Kingdom of Style

ILLUSTRATION by chloe windle www.kuro-e.com

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Schuh Gold Mel Lace Brogue Flats, £49.99 www.schuh.co.uk

Frozen Peas Fawn Earrings, £15 www.hannahzakari.co.uk

For Her...

William Chambers Cut felt flower headpiece, £225 www.williamchambers.co.uk

9NBT (JGU (VJEF Nat Thakur Piggy BankPurse, £20 www.welcomehomestore.co.uk

Betsy LaBelle Playful Promises Magenta Silk Corsage Brief, £15 www.betsylabelle.co.uk

I love Candy Candy Watch, £1.50 www.ilovecandystore.com

Miso Funky Crack Whore Emo-broidery, £15 www.misofunky.com Audio Chi Black/Pink W-Series Headphones, £69.95 www.audiochi.com

Trespass Claim Snowsports Jacket, £89.95 www.trespass.co.uk

For Him...

Oddities Clothing Scotland Contrast Crew, £50 www.odditiesclothing.com

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Che Camille Gift Vouchers, multiples of £25 www.checamille.com

Linea Monochrome reversible spotted scarf, £25 www.houseoffraser.co.uk Haberdash House I’ve joined the circus badge, £10 www.haberdash-house.com

!"#$%#&'(#)$$* Photography Susan Castillo Styling Sarah Graham Make Up Gemma Rapallini for Bobbi Brown Model Aelrid Turner @ Model Team

Vintage coat, Barnardos Boutique, ÂŁ39.99

On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there the world below can't bother me

I get away from the hustling crowd And all that rat-race noise down in the street

Vintage Coat, Barnardos Boutique, £39.99 Vintage Belt, Barnardos Boutique, £2.99 Leather Bag, Dazed Dorothy, £85

Vintage Coat Barnardos Boutique, £39.99 Ophelia Tights, Hilary Laing, £18 Shoes, Kurt Geiger, Barnardos Boutique, £80

Vintage Coat, as before Hat, Pea Cooper Millinery, ÂŁ40 Stockists Barnardos Boutique 54 Wilson Street, Glasgow www.dazeddorothy.co.uk www.hilarylaing.com ww www.peacoopermillinery.co.uk

I've found a paradise that's trouble proof (up on the roof) Images copyright Susan Castillo, www.dripbook.com/SCastillo. Words: The Drifters

ADJUST YOUR BRIGHTNESS You’ve got to admire the Scots. It’s winter. It’s getting dark at lunchtime and the temperature has dropped to a number that in Spain would signal the purchasing of a large coat that looks like a duvet. But what do we all do, the minute the excitement of a night out looms on the horizon? Wear teeny tiny dresses. Get our limbs out. Act like we’re on the deck of a cruise ship, when we’re really having a fag outside a pub in Leith.

For people like myself, who hoped in vain that the trend for opaque tights would save us from pasty faced, public humiliation, this is a frightening time. Because just to look ‘game,’ we need to join in. And if you are, like me, a pale, Edinburgh-dwelling sort of person, you need help before you get out your legs and arms. Seriously, you do. Nobody really thinks Nicola is the prettiest in Girls Aloud, do they? But what do you do when ‘summer’ has gone, and we didn’t really get enough sun north of the border to give us a tan anyway?

At this time of year, nobody’s expecting you to look really bronzed, so rather than go for the sort of fake tan that needs surgical gloves and an oxygen mask to apply, let’s talk about the ‘body lotions with a bit of fake tan

for the unforgiving lights of a bar foyer.

Starting with the cheaper stuff, I tried Johnson’s Holiday Skin (£4.99), which I believe is quite the bestseller.

They’ve re-launched it this year as ‘Light Glow’, which is meant to enhance your skin’s natural colour more gradually, and also not smell like Bisto. I’m quite a tough test for the whole perfume thing as I seem to have the capacity to make any fake tan absolutely reek while others claim that they have used it and it smelt ‘nice’. This one didn’t reek, nor did it smell ‘nice’. It was a bit like Playdough, which is better I suppose than a beef-based cooking product. The colour was good, too. I will purchase again.

Nivea’s equivalent is Sunkissed Skin (£5.86), which had a nice consistency but only deserves an ‘OK’ as it was disappointingly streaky around the ankles. I was really careful, too. It also smelt a bit like chicken. Time to ditch the Boots Advantage Card and get serious, methinks.

St Tropez is the grande dame of fake-tanning, and a brand I have tried before. But what is a bit different this year is their new ‘Aromaguard fra-

grance technology’, which claims to reduce the inevitable fake tan stink by a whole 70%. How they measure this I don’t know. But the amazing thing is, it’s true. I tried their Everyday Body Lotion (£12.72). I wouldn’t go so far as to describe it as a ‘subtle, yet refreshing fragrance’ as they do, but it doesn’t make my other half want to sleep in another room, and the colour is actually really natural – a true brown rather than anything vaguely approaching Tango Orange.

Clinique’s Self Sun Body Daily Moisturizer (£14.68) is equally skint-making and, yet again, pongy, although more like soggy digestive biscuits this time. The resulting shade was good, though, and it lasted longer then any of the other ones I tested.

And the moral of the story? If it’s going to make you smell like meat, or indeed biscuits, stick to under a fiver.

Or just put some opaque tights on and go for a long-sleeved frock. Your granny will love you for it.

Words: Eleanor Tucker www.productplacementtheblog.com ww

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WHERE Che Camille, Glasgow WHEN 9th Dec 2009 - Jan 2010

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New art exhibition 'The Collector' by Christine Clark and Judith R. Clark featuring paintings inspired by Christine’s obsession with hoarding objects and memorabilia. Also on display will be garments by fashion designer Judith R. Clark.

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WHAT The Collector Exhibition

WHAT Pam Hogg Exhibition Archival video footage, recently produced music videos, garments and images from fashion designer and GSA Graduate, Pam Hogg’s, A/W 09 and S/S 10 ‘Goddess at War’ collections.

WHERE SW3, Glasgow WHEN 5th - 20th Dec 2009

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