Photographer Moselle Foley and I did a shoot last December in my apartment, with my miniature collection of ballgowns. To be honest, apart from the excuse of getting to work with Moselle, I just wanted to give the dresses a day out. They were feeling a bit neglected. I need to wear them somewhere…anywhere!…hmmm - Coppers?
I’m a huge fan of Moselle’s creative approach to photography, really looking forward to working with her again soon! See her website >here<, and her flickr page >here<.
The dress is by Ema Savahl. Thanks again Moselle!
xBlanaid
P.S - Part 1 of the shoot with the green dress is>here<if you missed it and fancy seeing it! x
Here it is now, only a week late - the second part of the shoot with photographer Andrew Clancy..
All the clothes in this shoot are from the Savida collection from Dunnes Stores. I’m quite in love with the ruffled lace top and the leggings, both Savida. I picked up the cropped floral t-shirt in Dunnes for a tenner the week previous, I’m not sure if I’ll ever take it off. Maybe to wash it. For that money, I could get a few more and rotate….My next purchase shall be the skirt below, which is just €25.00…good deal!
Thanks once more to Andrew for his photograph-taking abilities. You’re a legend Clancers x
Here’s our second episode of ‘All of This’, shot on location in Oxfam in Rathmines. In this episode, we showed a black lace number, a sliiightly demented office wear look, and a host of retro dresses that they are bringing down to the shop floor for Hallowe’en..unless you don’t need that excuse and like yourself some retro…
This was SUCH a lovely shoot, with the very beautiful model Naomi Casey, the brilliant production team; Helen and Emer, and our very special assistant on the day - Zarah Casey, who you can hear at 1′59″! You can kind of tell from the out takes at the end that we spent much of the time larking about, it was a fun day at the office!
You can WIN the black lace dress - it’s very simples - all you have to do is ‘cast your guess’ (yeah, I don’t know why I said that either…) as to how much YOU think Oxfam in Rathmines were selling the black lace dress for. You can do this over on >> Style Nation<< ,on >>Twitter, <<or on>> Facebook<<!. Click on the links to join in the game! It’ll take about two seconds and you could get yourself an elegant black lace dress for nada…good deal!
Part of the absence from the blog last week was due to the fact that I was filming my very first piece forStyle Nation.ie. In a new programme entitled ‘All of This’, I travel to charity shops around the country and put together a few outfits. Then YOU have the opportunity to win one of the outfits by playing the ‘All of This’ guessing name on Style Nation! Simples.
This week, we travelled to Oxfam on George’s Street and put together three or four outfits…and out of ‘all of this’ (!) we chose the H-AMAZING Karen Millen gold sequinned, drape back, long sleeved mini-dress as the prize of prizes. Watch the video above and get over to Style Nation.ie to guess the OXFAM price of the dress, not the original price, and you may just have a shiny, sparkly new number in your wardrobe for Christmas!
A HUGE thank you to the producer - Helen O’ Reilly from Straywave, who is a seriously multi-skilled multi-tasker, and made me feel incredibly at ease on this, my first time presenting to camera on my own. She’s a Burlesque dancer too, legend. And also to Dawn, our model, who was very patient and kind, and gorgeous! Which is handy…!
Vintage red fringed leather jacket : €45.00 Oxfam, George’s St.
Black Double U neck dress : €38.00 American Apparel
Shoes : €80.00 Topshop
Hope you like the video!
x Blanaid
P.S Here’s a hint to the price : it was a seriously expensive dress to buy originally, so remember that Oxfam wanted to get the most they could for it, as it is a ‘future classic’… think less than a hundred euro but….;)
I won’t DIE if I don’t get this YSL ring (sold out everywhere), but I would probably feel a little faint on the occasions when I catch a glance at my fingers and realise it isn’t there. That amount of fainting could do me harm, for instance, I may bang my head on something during one particular faint, so technically, I MIGHT die if I don’t get this YSL ring.
I love this classic letterpress poster ‘Work hard and Be Nice to People’, by Anthony Burill…although I prefer to read it as ‘Work Hard AT being Nice to People’…!
It fits perfectly intoTHIS Ribba frame from Ikea. (I went for the oak veneer)
Welcome to my blog! Allow myself to introduce myself, my name is Blanaid Hennessy. I used to be the only Blanaid Hennessy and then some other Blanaid bird in Waterford married a guy called Richard Hennessy (no relation, to me, or her…) and now there are two Blanaid Hennessys…but! I have devised a cunning plan to beat her in google, and that is to type Blanaid Hennessy a lot in this post. Take that Blanaid Hennessy (2)!!! I’m not saying that I hope they get divorced….(joking!)
At this stage in internetting history, there is no real need to go into a big boring spiel about what I intend to do on here, save for the fact that it is expected of me to do just that in the very first post…so I shall.
I’ll be posting on: outfits, shoots, interiors, design, media, photoshop tutorials, stuff I’m selling, a song I like, shoes I fancy, boys that are nice and other randomness and frivolity that is completely and totally unnecessary.
Sometimes I’ll post on an outfit I’ll be wearing, other times on a shoot in a magazine I liked, or I’ll feature a house I’ve been working on…as I said - randomness and frivolity, randomness and frivolity. Good times.
I’ll be updating most days, so please, add me to your bookmarks and come pay a visit every now and again.
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