No Debutante X Jolanta Valeniece

It's here! The No Debutante X Jolanta Valeniece photo shoot collaboration!   

Jolanta is a photographer who works in both Bristol and London, capturing reportage style photographs of clubbers to edgy streetstyle photoshoots. 

This fun female collaboration took place on the same week as International Women's Day and was a great way to celebrate female empowerment! 

Thank you so much to the amazing and inspiring Jolanta xx

Location - Dean Lane Skate Park, Bristol

Photography by Jolanta Valeniece  
Styling & Model No Debutante



Boilersuit  - Lucy and Yak
Rainbow jacket - Primark
Trainers - Nike Air Force One Jester XX
Catsuit - Mannerswear
Mesh dress - Monki
Earrings - Tezla Designs
Beanie - That Thing

Little fashionistas at Hooligans Magazine

The award for the No Debutante fashion shoot of the week goes to......a children's wear fashion shoot for Hooligans Magazine?? Oh my gosh! This photoshoot is the bomb! Brilliantly styled by Yeon You, an 80s inspired concept by creative photographer Michelle Marshall who has created this super styled up fashion delight! 

Where to begin? The colour, the oversized, mish-mash styling, bright colours, kawaii cuteness, crimped hair, socks and sandals? Oh stop it! Just look at these kids, they are cooler than all of us! 

I love the way the girls are styled up in adults clothing in a clown like oversized style rather than in a inappropriate kids dressed as adults way. It's a fine line but it has completely been achieved in this photoshoot! I am barely interested in where the clothes came from as it's all about the styling here! 

I am feeling inspired to recreate these looks No Debutante style, actually it does look a bit like they are wearing my wardrobe! Sadly, my 6 year old daughter Sylvie has different ideas about her style than me, so I don't think I shall be recreating a similar photoshoot with her anytime soon (mores the pity!). 

Hooligan mag also welcome contributor's so any budding photographers and stylists out there should give it a go should get in touch. The June theme is We're All Animals. What? A No Debutante photoshoot? Don't encourage me! 

Random shoes and red tights 

Yellow faux fur and polka-dots? Yesssss!

Animal paw gloves, a gingham smock and sports socks! 

Clown style cuteness

Crimped hair and a rainbow jumper and a ballerina skirt - amaze!

An oversized jumper worn as a dress

Loving the oversized red mesh adult garms layered over white. 

All photography by Michelle Marshall for her Double Trouble fashion shoot for kids fashion and art magazine Hooligans. (images were originally sourced from Junior Style blog). 

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 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

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Thanks for checking in Fashionistas

ND xx 

Sista Fashionistas

I have many fabulous & creative friends, each have their own style & dress well, but there is one friend who is positively on the same fashion wave length as me. We barely see each other anymore & live in different cities but we always seem to rock up with similar looks. My fashion twin is Selena,we are sista fashionista's, who are inspired by street style, bright colours, clashing prints & have been working the Harajuku girl look since the early noughties. 

Streetstyle devotees No Debutante & Dilly Foxtrot on our recent meet up

I met Selena when I lived in Leicester (where I also went to uni), at the time we both liked skate style & punk so were already on a similar fashion vibe, we then discovered Fruits, a Japanese street style book & magazine that featured quirky, Japanese kids from Tokyo, wearing the most amazing outfits. I was hooked from the moment I bought that book & went on a hunt to buy as many stripey long socks & brightly coloured tights as I could to perfect my Harajuku (the area in Tokyo where many of the Fruits photographs were taken) look. Independently to me, Selena was doing the same thing.

Winter layering featuring my new favourite polka dot trousers, a polo neck & a Fix Up Look Sharp sweatshirt.

I am not as influenced by Tokyo fashion as I used to be, the original Harajuku scene ended years ago & Fruits Magazine,sadly, no longer exists. It was also kinda ruined a bit for both Selena & I by Gwen Stefani (who was one of Selena's style icons up until this point) Gwen in 2005, announced she had discovered a new look & started the Harajuku Lovers perfumes, had the 'Harajuku Girls' dancers in her shows & just completely took it for herself, Harajuku had gone mainstream, everyone was into it. 

The Fruits style had been sold out to the corporate giants & whenever something starts 'trending' like that I immediately jump off the bandwagon. Selena and I were late-comers to the scene ourselves back in 2001, as the Harajuku style was first documented by Fruits creator & photographer Shoichi Aoki back in 1997. I, like a lot of people, wanted to remain unique in my style, so the popularisation of kawaii fashion was a fashion nightmare for me, the high street went Harajuku! Nooooo! 

Selena rocking her layers in a mustard jumper & tights, with a cute monochrome shirt & camouflage shorts.
"I got the shorts in the mens department in Primark" 

There is another side to the Fruits style that I am not too comfortable with; these Japanese kids were mass buying clothes, they were from comfortable backgrounds, had disposable incomes & nearly everything they wore was branded with labels from Vivienne Westwood to Super Lovers. It was more bling than the DIY kawaii-punk style that it first appeared to be; although the styling was amazing, there was a price to pay for kawaii fashion & that's not just lining the pockets of big brands, it was also wasteful, unsustainable & ethically bad. Disposable fashion is not something I want to be associated with. 

I took my inspiration from the styling alone, there was no way I could afford Comme des Garcons & Jean Paul Gaultier, so I became inspired to make my own clothes & recreate the look mixing my existing wardrobe with clothes I had created & contemporary items from the high street. The Fruits styling was always about the accessories too, so that was another easier way to covet the style, I am highly inspired by streetstyle these days but the roots to my look stem from Fruits magazine & a need to wear playful, comfortable, non-conformist fashion. 

Don't forget the twinning short crop pink hairdos - another fashion coincidence! 

Selena is also a fashion blogger & is known as Dilly Foxtrot Investigates in the blogging community, the blog is based around childrenswear, as Selena (like me) also used to be a childrenwear designer & (like me) had to put a hold on her fashion career to look after her (yes, like me again) three children (I told you we were fashion twins) & (there is a pattern emerging here.....like me) started a fashion blog to keep spreading the fashion love whilst looking after small children; blogging was a away in, to remain in the fashion industry & by any means necessary! 

The Dilly Foxtrot Investigates blog covers topics from raising children to her latest fashion obsessions. I personally get just as much fashion inspo from childrenswear as I do from adult fashion, the colours, prints & shapes are always so playful, I'm gonna dress like a kid for the rest of my life! Being a blogger, Selena also gets it that I love to document what people wear, many friends like fashion but aren't too keen to have me sharing their looks on my instagram & blog, which I totally respect, Selena let's me photograph her which is inspiring & much more fun! 

Modern vintage twinning back in 2003

Despite our love of playful styling Selena & I are still inspired by underground fashion trends & streetstyle, which is why, even after not seeing each other for a year, except on Instagram (which we both love), we still manage to have followed similar fashion routes & end up looking like we planned to dress the same way. It's laughable really, as we both get comments from people about the way we dress, we know we don't dress the same as the people around us but somehow we seem to follow the same fashion paths without being influenced by each other. As Selena put it at our most recent meet up "People think I am unique, that nobody else dresses like me but I tell them, there are thousands of people who dress like me, all over the world, I follow them on Instagram!". 

We both agree that we love Instagram, it is so friendly, people actually talk & compliment you, there are so many different people to follow & it's great to connect with fashionistas all over the world who have the same fashion vision as you, which was a connection we didn't have before social media. This platform really works, if you don't get hung up on how many followers you have, blissfully ignore the false/ like for like followers & just follow people that generally inspire you, it will make you feel happy, supported & inspired in a positive safe place. Spread the fashion love we say & find your fashion twins they are in this big world somewhere, in their thousands! 

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 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, Pinterest all under the #nodebutante name. 

Thanks for checking in Fashionistas

ND xx 

Urban Decadence

A fashion salvage inspired collaboration between fashion stylist Emma Gorton-Ellicott  (aka No Debutante) and creative photographer Patryk Boron 

Mixing voluminous shapes with reworked fashion salvaged pieces, layered up with vintage sportswear styling, bold colours and clashing prints. All vintage garments fashion salvaged from Bristol Textiles Recyclers.  

Pretty Tough -  Contemporary sheer layers mixed with vintage fashion salvaged sportswear
Honeycomb mesh maxi dress, stylists own, Somewhere Nowhere X Lazy Oaf. Silver bikini top (worn underneath), stylists own, by Monki. Vintage padded ski gillet by O'Neill, fashion salvaged from BTR. Vintage pink shell-bottoms, Diamond Cut by Umbro, fashion salvaged from BTR. White socks by Adidas. Metallic platform sliders, stylists own, by Primark. 

 

Bright clashing colours and prints styled in voluminous layers with a traditional Japanese influence.
Red hooded dress, stylists own, by Monki. Vintage padded ski gillet (as before). Vintage Abstract floral maxi dress, fashion salvaged at BTR. Socks and Sliders (as before).

Photography - Patryk Boron at Emulsional Photography.

Styling - Emma Gorton-Ellicott

Make-up - Bridget Esmonde

Model - George Hampton-Wale

Thank you to Pat, George and Bridget xxx




If you are interested in collaborating with No Debutante or getting featured on the No Debutante blog please contact me

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

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

No Debutante X Megan Bilcock Photography

Here's a little collaboration I did with the Editorial and Advertising Photography student Megan Bilcock.
Megan needed to find a fashion blogger to photograph for one of her uni projects and she stumbled across No Debutante on Instagram and liked my look. 

The brief was to catch the person in their home / creative environment, Megan was looking for colour and she certainly got it with me! 

Here are a few of my faves from the shoot. 

All Photography by Megan Bilcock Photography.

If you are interested in collaborating with No Debutante or getting featured on the No Debutante blog please contact 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 No Debutante name #nodebutante

Thanks for checking in Fashionistas xx



ND xx

Fashion Front Females

Pheewwwy! Turn up the heat cos the Summer has finally arrived in Bristol! Apologies for the lack of blog post but these long awaited sunny days have been taking up No Debutante's time! Here's a post that should have got up on the blog a couple of weeks ago, but it's never to celebrate all things girl fronted and Bristol Fashion.

On Thursday 26th May, No Debutante attended the The Fashion Front event at the Old Market Assembly in Bristol (great venue BTW!). The event was hosted by Eden House Women's refuge and Tail End Fashion House who together in a collaboration with Fran Rennison ran a creative project for vulnerable women across Bristol to come together and produce a fashion collection, which also featured in the fantastic catwalk show at the event. The show also featured an array of the best Bristol fashion talents including House of Junk, Neat Frontage, Puckoo Couture, Kokomo, Fix Up Look Sharp, Filthy Squirrel & Tail End. It was a fantastic and fun mix of festival style and streetwear with lots of bare skin, big prints and brilliant metallics with many wearable items that No Debutante wants/needs to own!! Well Done Bristol!

 Filthy Squirrel

 No Debutante Loves........pastel houndstooth crops and tropical print shorts

Dollar Bill

 No Debutante Loves....Bodysuit & Kimono

No Debutante Loves.....Pastel sheers and holographic leggings

 Kokomo Accessories

 No Debutante Loves...... Metallic catsuit with long tassel detail

Amazing Mermaid style details

Neat Frontage

No Debutante Loves....Fruity Bomber & sequin Bralet

 

 

No Debutante Loves....Graphic print crop & sequin hot pants

 

Puckoo Couture

No Debutante Loves......Polka-dots & Panels Bodycon!

Tail End

 

 No Debutante Loves......Graphic print trousers

No Debutante Loves....Sheer Maxis

House Of Junk

No Debutante Loves.....Crop Dungarees 

Palace Flophouse

No Debutante Loves....Bright Sportsluxe

 

No Debutante Loves.....Sheer panels

Fix Up Look Sharp

No Debutante Loves....Upcycled kids prints

 

No Debutante Loves.........the Fix Up Styling

 Shindig Village

No Debutante Loves.........Sequin Hoodies

 

 

The Eden House Collaboration

 No Debutante Loves......Graphic Print Panels

 No Debutante Loves............Tassled Shoulders & Glam Military Influences

The Finale

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

All photography by No Debutante

Designers featured in todays post include Filthy Squirrel, Neat Frontage, Dollar Bill, Kokomo, Puckoo Couture, Tail End, House of Junk, Palace Flophouse, Fix Up Look Sharp, Shindig Village & The Eden Project Collaboration.

If you are interested in collaborating with No Debutante or getting featured on the No Debutante blog please contact me / send me a message on any of the following social networking platforms all under the No Debutante name #nodebutante


Keep up with No Debutantes OOTD posts, collabs and current fashion obsessions posted daily on all of the following. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr,  Pinterest.
Thanks for checking in Fashionistas xx
ND xx