Two worlds collide

For those who haven't been following the No Debutante antics over the past few weeks on social media, this is a quick catch up covering the side of Love Saves the Day that doesn't feature in my articles as fashion editor for Bristol 24/7! 

Here's some moments of friends and fun that happened at Loves Saves The Day festival here in Bristol, alongside a gig with my band Mono Dots for the M32 Skate Jam after party at The Chelsea Inn, that I managed to squeeze in between the two day event! Phew! It's been a busy one, but that's how we like it! Find out what happens when my two worlds collide!

 Love Saves The Day 2019

Hanging out with our festival faves The Fashpack including the lovely Joh Rindom from That Thing and the hilarious Zoe Zedhead, plus the No Debutante partner in crime, sister fashionista, " I only exist in this realm" Rachael. 

The No Debutante chosen outfit for the Saturday was this amazing pair of Lucy and Yak X Emotional Waterfall dungarees which are just the comfiest thing ever, worn with a crop top on this gloriously sunny day at LSTD. 

Getting my glitter did by Zoe Zedhead and hanging with independent designers Pluma and Balulu! I acquired the sun visor after a few large rum cocktails but it seems to match nicely with my Zedhead pom-pom earrings!

The No Debutante LSTD Sunday outfit (above left) features my fave catsuit by Mannerswear, a bumbag purchased at the festival by Butchi and Gosmos, the antique kimono given to me by an elderly neighbour - who thought I might wear it - (Thank you Mary!) and my lovely new XL tassel earrings by the brilliant Bristol designer, Dakota Rae Dust that arrived just in time for the weekend!

Love these girls!

A couple of amusing shots from the Sunday including Zoe Headhead and NOT Idris Elba and Rachael with the tallest, most fabulous drag queen at LSTD coming in at 7' 2"  (well, she was wearing ridiculously high platforms). 

The M32 Skate Jam After party gig at The Chelsea Inn (Saturday Night)

Rocking those festival vibes in a punk mash-up with my band Mono Dots at The Cheslea Inn at the M32 Skate Jam after party, where local skaters had come together to raise money for the skate park underneath the M32, here in Bristol. 

The Los Savages  - an awesome surf-skate band of goofballs that features Mr Debutante on trumpet.

My new favourite band Tropical Nightmare!!! A- MAZING! 

FIN

Bristol's finest Insta fashionistas July 2018

Here at No Debutante I am totally obsessed with Instagram! The amazing imagery shared, and the stories people tell, are just so vibrant and unique, well, the people I seem to follow are! A daily snippet into peoples lives, inspirations and captured moments, albeit a slightly staged view on many occasions, ahem! 

I am no innocent in this beautiful instagram charade and if I want to believe everyone is wondering about wearing beautiful garms with their beautiful friends and families then let it happen. Instagram isn't about disrespect and being down on people, it's about supporting and influencing each other and aiming to be the best you can be and being HAPPY!!! And what's wrong with that eh? Instagram gives me the feel good factor from people liking my posts to getting inspired by you beautiful lot!

This is the second installment of a feature I did back in April where I shared a few of my fave instagrammers who were also local independent fashion designers too. Well, since Bristol is so full of fabulous fashion I just had to share a few more of them with you today. 

Here's a peek at the last lot in case you missed it Bristol's Finest Insta Fashionistas

Zedhead Headwear

The fabulous and hilarious Zoe Thompson from Zedhead Headwear creates the most amazing head-wear from outrageous carnival crazy feathered headdresses to more quirky pieces with My Little Ponies and dolls attached, from headdress crowns, pom-pom earrings to super-fly visors, Zedhead has all your festivals, Hen parties and summer holiday's covered. Boom!

Emotional Waterfall Art

Colourful and creative Jemma Bursnell of Emotional Waterfall is a living piece of art from her brightly coloured and printed personal style to her amazing illustrative hand drawn prints that carry an abstract, free hand Memphis style that Jemma has made her own. From T-shirts to earrings, plant pots, furniture and even bigger art displays including a residency at Upfest in Bristol, I think Jemma is slowly painting the whole of Bristol bit by bit.

Dulcie's Feathers

Dulcie Horn is a fellow blogger and fashion designer who recently launched a range of beautiful garms made entirely from vintage sari's, she went all the way to India to get them made and then got all her lovely friends to model them for her. The Dulcie's Feathers range includes jumpsuits, shorts co-ords, kimonos, playsuits and two piece hareem sets and are just perfect for the beach and as loungewear. 

Kokomo

Super sexy, perspex queen....It's Kokomo! 

These amazing dare to bear garms are made entirely from perspex discs lovingly pieced together by designer Jess whose amazing perspex garms mix festival showgirls with 60's spaceage glam.

You have got to love the Kokomo necklaces too with words like Disco and Yes, what could be more positive and fun?

Kuccia

Not technically a Bristol brand, but I feel we have adopted them and No Debutante has been in love with Kuccia for what seems like forever! The cuts, the prints the sparkles, the Lookbooks! What's not to like here? I finally got to meet the designers this year at Loves Saves The Day festival and they were just the most loveliest people ever! Get your sequin dreams and festival fashion fabulousness here.....as Kuccia say 'want some?'

All images courtesy of the instagram accounts of Zedhead Headwear Emotional Waterfall Art, Dulcie's Feathers, Kokomo Kuccia

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Emma Gorton-Ellicott

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Thanks for checking in Fashionistas

ND xx

Loves Saves The Day again!

As the festival season is in full flow, I would like to share the No Debutante moments from my fave festival,  Love Saves The Day in Bristol! 

There are many fantastic moments from this weekend back in May, from meeting so many festival fashionistas as I roamed around, looking for the best dressed and latest festival fashion trends for Bristol 24/7 Magazine. My LSTD partner in crime & bestie Rachael joined me, workin her head wrap, Gangster Wraps earrings, Tatty Devine tiger necklace, Monki shirt dress and sparkly leopard print leggings with me in my amaze new monochrome Manners jumpsuit, purchased at the That Thing festival fashion launch party, worn with monochrome Tezla earrings and a Butchi and GosMos bumbag! Yeeessss! 

Getting ready to go to Love Saves The Day at my house with my oldest friend Rachael

We loved hanging out with one of my oldest buddies Chris who was working backstage at LSTD.

SEQUINS SEQUINS SEQUINS at Kuccia as part of The Fashpack crew

We hung out with The Fashpack team who supply a fashion fest of glitter and sparkles from their treasure tent, as the place to go get your obligatory (and sustainable) glitter face paint did and all your fashion fixes from sequined kimonos and bodysuits from Kuccia, heart or daisy shaped sunnies and vintage gems from That Thing, feathered headdresses from Zedhead Headwear, jumpsuits and co-ords made from saris from Dulcie's Feathers and festival fashion galore!

Joh Rindom from The Fashpack doing my festival face paint 

Wearing daisy sunnies from That Thing at The Fashpack tent

The Fashpack fashionistas inc Dulcie's Feathers, Zedhead Headwear & DJ Steven Stone working the room (tent)

The only photo of my Saturday LSTD outfit taken by Rachael! 

The weather was scorchio after mad rain and thunder storms at the beginning of both days, which saw people cutting down their welly boots and stripped down to barely there outfits, it couldn't have been any better and the sunshine just added to the whole fun-filled vibe!

Kuccia Mama outside the Fashpack tent

Wearing florals and black  - Frau DJ Katie Dane in a Lazy Oaf dress & Joh Rindom from That Thing & The Fashpack

A few members of SisterWorks were representing female DJs over the weekend including Frau DJs, who I shall be collaborating with as a Bang DJ at this years Pride (more on this very soon) and Dutty Girl DJs DissMiss and SafeSoul who were killing it at the Cocktails and Dreams stage on the Sunday.

DJ DissMiss from Dutty Girl playing her set on the Cocktails & Dreams stage

SafeSoul from Dutty Girl

I arrived at the festival solo on the Sunday wearing a crop top and my Duvet Days striped trousers and silver Reebok trainers. I dropped in on the Dutty Girl set and found myself taking photos of their crowd of dancers and handing out SisterWorks stickers to everyone - SisterWorks is a Bristol based female empowerment collective that I am part of, for those who didn't know -  It was great to see lots of young men wearing our stickers, not for the eye candy you understand (LOLs) I'm not sure they completely got it but to have them promote SisterWorks whilst dancing to female DJs was empowering! Yeah, yeah, it is equality that we are looking for and it shouldn't matter whether the DJs were women or not but one step at a time, right?

Young men representing - wearing SisterWorks stickers

Loved these girls style twinning in fur hats, matching skirts and lace tights on such a boiling hot day! 

Rainbow Bright - No Debutante's best dressed award! 

The icing on the cake was bumping into Loyle Carner before he went on to perform! I was completely starstruck, I really like his music and love the style and tone of his vocals and yeah, he is  (too young for you.....Loyle Carner reference from Damnselfly) so sweet. I am sure that myself and fellow fashionista/mum, Zoe (from Zedhead Headwear) terrified poor Loyle Carner and Sampha (yes, two musicians in one swoop) as they finished their lunch, but Zoe insisted on meeting her music hero Sampha and I was not gonna stop her for a chance to meet Loyle!

Celebrity stalkin' No Debutante meets Loyle Carner

I managed to get myself right at the front of the Loyle Carner performance with my lovely new Lumix camera and got some great shots, considering I wasn't aloud over the barrier to take photos with the official photographers. Who needs access all areas eh?

There were so many moments and I had the best time at this brilliant Bristol festival, just 20 minutes walk from my house! If you would like to know more about the festival fashionistas, check out my article for Bristol 24/7 Love Saves The Day Festival Fashion special  


See you next year Love Saves The Day! Thanks for having me! 

All photography by No Debutante 

If you are having a fashion event, a new collection or fun event you would like No Debutante to promote please get in touch!

No Debutante promotes fashion independents, new designers & sustainable fashion. 

Check out my work with Bristol 24/7 magazine under my name 

Emma Gorton-Ellicott

If you are interested in collaborating with No Debutante or getting featured on the No Debutante blog please contact me nodebutanteblog@gmail.com

Keep up with No Debutantes OOTD posts, collabs and current fashion obsessions posted daily on all of the following. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest all under the #nodebutante name. 

Thanks for checking in Fashionistas

ND xx

Velvet Goldmine

It was no secret that No Debutante's Christmas seemed to be wrapped in velvet and with the Velveteen blog post being the most popular post of the month in December, let's have a quick look at all the velvety loveliness that I bought to Christmas 2017 before we move on into a new year and new ideas. Of course it isnt real velvet but let's not ruin the fabulous illusion here!

Working the vintage home bar on Christmas Eve in the black Monki mini dress.

Christmas Day - Couldn't get enough of the black mini dress from Monki so got a pink one too! Cheers!

Double love for Zedhead Headwear with my amazing Venus Female symbol pink earrings and super cute pom-pom earrings!

Another fab Velvet Monki mini t-shirt dress for Boxing Day

Another day of Christmas another velvet garm, this time a sweet little tee from Kuccia

I loved that Kuccia tee so much I got one in my new favourite colour Cyan.

Star Trek style Kuccia tee with Tezla triangle earrings!

A Tiki party at Christmas

Managed to squeeze in one more bit of velvet (Urban Outfitters velvet culottes) before NYE! 

Velvet Obsessed

Photography by No Debutante

All clothing featured from Monki, Tezla, Zedhead Headwear, Lazy Oaf, Kuccia, Puma, Dr Martens, Topshop & Tail End. 

If you are having a fashion event or a have a new collection you would like No Debutante to promote please get in touch!

Check out my work with Bristol 24/7 magazine here under my name 

Emma Gorton-Ellicott

If you are interested in collaborating with No Debutante or getting featured on the No Debutante blog please contact me nodebutanteblog@gmail.com

Keep up with No Debutantes OOTD posts, collabs and current fashion obsessions posted daily on all of the following. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr,  Pinterest all under the #nodebutante name.

Thanks for checking in Fashionistas.   

ND xx