Motel Rocks Street Style Team

It has been almost a year since I became and ambassador for high street brand Motel Rocks and it has been thoroughly enjoyable. From writing articles for my university newspaper to the Motel Rocks blog to hitting up London Fashion Week AW 2011 as part of the Motel Rocks team and gaining a few little treats along the way, I owe them a very big thank you for allowing me the privilege! 

Recently, I was contacted by Laura of Motel Rocks, manager of the new Motel Rocks Street Team, and was kindly asked if I would like to join the ever expanding Motel Rocks team. So of course I said yes! One of the perks of being part of this fantastic team is that I get to offer all my readers a whopping 20% off any order with Motel Rocks using the code above. Just enter 'melitakiely' at checkout and the pennies and pounds will come tumbling back into your bank account while their clothes make a pretty addition to your wardrobe. Not a bad deal, huh? 

London Fashion Week 2012

Instalment two of LFW goes to my favourite street styles of the day. It was quite a surreal atmosphere with everybody dressed to the nines, six feet tall and just waiting to be snapped. Armed with a mass of tote bags, camera and my trusty Motel  Rocks intern side kick Katie, we hit the cobbles searching for the créme de la créme of London town. These are just a selection of my favourite dressed people:

Incredibly beautiful pattern; feathers, be they real or printed, were a very popular statement at Somerset House.

But, my absolute top favourite of the day was this amazing jacket worn by the most disgustingly pretty girl bitter:

Another top favourite of mine was the girl below who looked wonderful in her pastel ensemble. There were quite a few pastel/coral coloured maxi skirts floating around (see above) and it has made me really want one, if I such an item exists that doesn't drown me or turn me into a floor sweeper!

Not to forget the celebs of course!

Louise Redknapp LFW

Kate Nash LFW

Kitty X-Factor, celeb? hmm...

Jameela Jamil, I just love you, okay? 

Motel Rocks @ LFW

My Ambassador role got taken to the next level this week as I was asked if I would be interested in helping to promote the brand at London Fashion Week and of course, I had to say yes. Although I wasn't fortunate enough to go to any shows, simply being around Somerset House photographing and talking to so many beautifully dressed ladies was a great experience. It was quite a surreal atmosphere with everybody dressed to the nines, six feet tall and just waiting to be snapped. I have quite a few photos to share with you so I'm going to spread them over two posts so as not to be too photo-heavy. Instalment one goes to the Motel Rocks clan, especially to Taz and her killer Jeffrey Campbells, which caused quite the stir to say the least!

AMAZING SHOES! 

La Mode

The beautiful Clémence Poésy was my muse for this month's Motel Rocks Amassador task. We were asked to write about an inspirational style icon relating to our degree subject and quite frankly, the French don't come a lot more stylish. Have a read and a perve over how stunningly belle she is here!

Last night, Rob and I went to the cinema to watch The Iron Lady. We sat awkwardly in front of a cinema full of OAPs and ended up being completely fascinated by the depiction of a woman we admittedly, knew very little about. Meryl Streep gave a flawless performance as the older version of Margaret Thatcher. The film gives quite a sympathetic view into the life of the UK's first female Prime Minister and has a terribly sad ending which moved me to tears, (although that is quite easily done, be it films, TV or books). I'm interested to find out how factual the film is, but if you haven't yet seen it, I would definitely recommend it for an interesting watch. 

Next on my 'to watch' list is The Artist, has anybody seen it yet? 

I Love London

After a week of frantic essay writing, this weekend could not have come soon enough and was well worth the wait. On Saturday, Rob and I ventured to London with excited hopes of hanging with the celebs in all their wax work glories in Madame Tussauds. Alas, our dreams were soon quashed by a sign at the end of the queue reading '2 hour wait from here.' So with dismayed hearts, we headed to Eat. And boy did we. Then with fully fed yet dismayed hearts we hopped back on the tube and allowed our feet to lead us to Harrods. Welcomed by the beautiful lights decorating the exterior and the glorious smells of the perfume counters, (which I shall one day own), we were like children in a toy shop. I reckon we could have quite easily made a whole day trip out of Harrods, I can't recall the last time I 'oohed' and 'ahhed' so much. And this was only increased by escalators leading me to the Harry Potter section and then to the Christmas World.  One day, I will be rich enough to afford a box of 6 crackers for £600 and all of my Christmas guests shall go home with sterling silver zircon earrings and Swarovski crystal USB flash drives.  

But we didn't allow ourselves to enjoy the day away inside a department store, so a few more tube stops later, a barely there queue and we were aboard the London Eye. Now, Rob has a terrible fear of heights but some mind lapse lead to him forgetting this until things were in full swing and we were rising to some 135m (443ft) in the air. (Google is so very, very clever). So sitting on the bench with sweat beads dripping from his brow, our romantic trip was somewhat different to how I had imagined it to be. London looks beautiful at night though and I only wish I had remembered to bring my camera so that the photos could do its views some justice. But my 5MP Blackberry camera will just have to suffice for this post I'm afraid. 

We then found the most amazing Chinese Restaurant, Canton, after stumbling into China Town and once we were full enough to roll ourselves back to Charing Cross, we did. The rest of the weekend was spent in what turned out to be a very sunny Canterbury. But yet again, no camera bad blogger. It has been so nice to have a weekend not worrying about deadlines and reading. The next 4 weeks leading up to the end of term are set to be jam packed with deadlines and tests but I'm a bit more ready for them than I was this time last week so I'm hoping to be able to blog more frequently nonetheless.

In other news, the Motel Dress that I chose arrived but was just a tad too small so once a replacement has been sent I will share it with y'all. Also need to start getting some Christmas related posts in the pipeline. Has anyone else seen the Coca-Cola advert yet? I caught it today and jumped in excitement. And it's only mid-November!

Fashion Fundamentals

I know it's not really considered great blogging etiquette to do two posts in one day BUT, I am just too happy and excited to leave it until tomorrow. On returning home from uni this evening I had a lovely email from Selena who works at Motel Rocks informing me that I had won Ambassador of the month for the article I wrote about Motel for my university newspaper! As a result there is going to be a little something about me on the Motel Blog and I get to choose an item from the currently beautiful collection on their website! Definitely something to blog about. What a bloody brilliant day!

Motel Rocks

Today was my first day back at uni and boy oh boy have I missed it. A year out had left me craving lectures and seminars and I cannot express how much more enjoyable it is to be taught than to teach! (Ask me again once fourth year work has started mounting onto my desk and the response might not be so optimistic).

And it just got better as the day went on with an email saying that I have been chosen to be the Student Ambassador for my university for Motel Rocks! I only found out about the application on Thursday here and as the deadline was Friday it was somewhat rushed. Then with moving back to Canterbury for uni over the weekend I completely forgot about the whole thing until I got an extremely exciting email this afernoon! All in all a bloody good start to my last year as a student :)