Here We Go!

Hi,

My name is Lydia and I will be your guide through my scattered and surreal thoughts on fashion, art, music and culture (and maybe the occasional political turn too (really whatever takes my fancy)). I am a fashion design student at Westminster University (ooh get you!) and like most art campuses we have been banished to the outskirts of the vast city of London to the less the merry town of Harrow. No, not the high brow 'Harrow-on-the-Hill', they have the joy of looking down upon my new Harrow crib if they bother to crane their necks to the east of their affluent seat. Unfortunately I am due to be stationed in this grey town, looking longingly in the direction of the East End for at least three years.

Never-the-less, I hope the intensity of the next few months will help to distract me from the pain of not being permanently sited in East London (West just isn't me if you couldn't tell already). My course promises to be full-on. 10am-5pm five days a week to be exact. I have also managed to keep a weekend job at Office Shoes for over four months now. Despite this I seem to have the earning power of a chinese sweatshop worker, so the real test will be managing both my financial survival and course stress. 

Setting up 'Run and Fell' is part of one of my very first course projects, but not my first blog. I attempted to begin one early this summer as a means of earning a London Fashion Week pass, but my lack of enthusiasm got in the way of that dream. Here's hoping that being forced to start what could act as both coursework and a therapeutic exercise pays off his time!