I Blog Fashion's Fashion Wrap Up

It's been an eventful year at I Blog Fashion; such that I've had little time to actually blog. Let's take a bit of a look back on the year that was. Wishing you all an amazing 2011 filled with good weather and absent of any water restrictions, cancelled flights or thermal 'fashion'. Here's to the new year. A xx

January

The month that gave Ireland its first installment of the Big Freeze. Unaccustomed to dressing for Baltic temperatures, I Blog Fashion spent a lot of time wearing her sister's climbing boots. Who would have guessed they'd be reprised later that autumn as footwear fashion must-haves. Good call. ;)

February
I Blog Fashion had the pleasure of joining Philip Treacy on the judging panel for the Hennessy Best Dressed Competition at Leopardstown and interviewing David Koma, Merle O'Grady and Matthew Williamson at LFW. The Matthew interview was a bit of a 'robbery' as they'd say on Jersey Shore. I snuck back stage through the back door when the bouncer wasn't looking. Jesus, I can't believe I just quoted The Situation....

March
Slow news month. Face Hunter came to Dublin. I prepared for a busy April.

 April

 I Blog Fashion took the mic on a number of awesome shows, workshops and judging panels. Starting with a capsule wardrobe workshop at 'Absolut Style at Set' organised by the lovely Blanaid Hennessy from Blanaid.com. Next Joanne Hynes and I held at trunk show at Brown Thomas Cork to introduce her s/s 10 collection. I then got my glad rags on to host the Hennessy X.O Literary Awards at Trinity College Dublin and was kindly asked to join the judging panel at Cork Fashion Week's Young Designer Awards and SaySo.ie. This was also the month that kickstarted a summer of Brown Thomas and BT2 style masterclasses and my weekly In Style column in The Dubliner.

May
My birthday, a month of Brown Thomas style masterclasses and a fun interview with Henry Holland.This was also the month that gave us 'The Plume'.

June

'Holiday! Celebrate! Just one day out of life...' And not a moment too soon. Neil (I Blog Fashion's Gaydar contributor), Joanne and I headed off to Frigliana, Spain for a week of sun, wine and poolside lounging. I managed to bring and further amass over 4kgs of jewellery which tipped my 20kg allowance at Malaga airport. Cringe!

July
More styling fun, this time a beautiful millinery shoot for The Irish Examiner shot by the very talented Miki Barlok.

August
More shoots and new people to work with -a  front cover fashion spread for The Dubliner and another front cover feature for The Irish Examiner - this time with Daithi O'Se. A major thank you to my erstwhile assistant Catherine Glasheen who was a tremendous help on all of these shoots. Dublin's loss is London's gain! Also a big hello to Maurice Flynn and Beta Bajgartova who I Blog got to work with again during the year.

September
And the madness steps up a notch...or three. Front cover a/w trend report for the The Irish Examiner, London Fashion Week which saw Joanne Hynes leather armour jacket becoming engendering a pap frenzy including Vogue Nippon, WGSN and Browns Focus. Also shot the Oxfam tee for the amazing Eilis Boyle.

October

Joanne Hynes and I team up for two more catwalk shows including The Irish Tatler Designer Showcase in Shanghai and a crazy successful trunk show at Brown Thomas with Big Brother's Caoive Guilfoyle and actress/author Amy Huberman in attendance. Also had the pleasure of styling two showcases for Image magazine at BT2.

November

Another great shoot for The Sunday Times Style (out this Feb) shot by Andreas Pettersson. I Blog Fashion also had the opportunity to host a style workshop for the Women in Business and Finance. Speakers' fees tradtionally go to a chosen charity; with mine donated to Focus Ireland. A big thanks to the gorgeous Louise O'Reilly who offered her modelling services on the day.

December

With The Big Freeze; Part Deux firmly ensconsed in Dublin, I Blog Fashion bucked the 'stay at home' trend and held a Christmas-themed shoot on the roof of The Clarence hotel. -7 degrees, snow and Christmas songs blasting from the radio. Thanks to the superlative John Geaney and Kate O'Reilly whose hair and make-up skills erased all traces of frostbite. I Blog Fashion also made the shortlist on Faye Dinsmore's 'Most Influential' list in the blog category. Many thanks missus. I Blog is currently working on a lovely project for Louis Vuitton with some exciting secrets to be revealed in 2011. Watch this space....