Kate Moss collection launched

Frenzied fashion fans gathered outside Topshop on Oxford Street as Kate Moss's fashion collection hit the high street retailer's flagship store.
The crowd frantically took pictures on mobile phones and cameras during the brief show as the supermodel posed alongside mannequins in the shop window for around 10 seconds dressed in a long red dress worn with a belt.

A few minutes later the model enjoyed a glass of champagne inside the store and chatted to Sir Philip Green, billionaire boss of Arcadia Group, of which Topshop is a part.

Sir Philip walked Kate towards the collection as the first batch of 150 shoppers rushed in for their 20 minutes viewing.

Describing the launch, Sir Philip said: "It is exciting. It wouldn't be here if we didn't believe in it. This is about building a business. This is about whether we can build something that is real."

Commenting on Kate's designs, he said: "Her style is different."

Each batch of 150 shoppers was allowed to browse for 20 minutes after which they could buy up to five different items. A £45 floral pansy print dress was one of the most popular items.

Customers were allowed to try on a maximum of eight items and buy five to discourage shoppers selling on eBay.

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view the look book here
http://www.katemosstopshop.com/

anyone in the Cork area check out CorkNow magazine with my pic of Aisling the new Miss Cork on the cover.

'backstage'

Did a fun fun shoot on Thursday with Corina and make up artist Carol Beecher who both rock supremely. Photees will be up shortly, they rock supremely also. Here are some behind the scenes (stole some of these off Carol's bebo)

it looks so gorgeous. but it was f***ing cold.


these lads had the time of their life watching gorgeous Aoife strut her stuff.


Stylist Corina Gaffeygaff never ceases to amaze me with her fantastic poses!


Carol and Corina


me taking photeeees

beauty shoot

with make up artist Lucy Gunning.

Kimono Make Up

I recently did a beauty shoot with amazing MAC make up artist Lynn McKenna. Be sure to check out her site very soon when it is launched. In the meantime, here are a few photees from the shoot

WAAAAAH! WESTLIFE!!!

Last week after a crazeee busy day I gathered my last energies to go shoot Westlife in The Point during one of their 12 nights there. I was never a massive fan or anything- but now I am! They were BRILLIANT ! I could completely understand why all the girls were going mad (JAYSUS it was loud!) The guys were so very charming (and hot!). Here are some photees.

cuuuuuutsie

shot this on a photoshoot yesterday.
there were also cuuutsie rabits and cows and little ponys.

i luv CSS

the weekend started Thursday really when me and Corina Gaffeygaff went over to Agatha Stoinska's launch of her new studio which was loads of fun. Ended up going out afterwards with the lovely makeup artist Ellie from Morgan and her mate which I forgot the name of. oopsie) and just went to all the lovely hot spots on Hartcourt Street (including Crystal and Coppers- what were we thinking)
On Friday just went for tapas in town (which were shit) and then got some dvds and chilled. Watched "Wolf Creek" which so wasn't as scary as Una said it would be so I was a bit disapointed. Also watched "Pledge this" which was so crap but also amazing because Paris Hilton is in it and she's hot. Saturday I met up with Co and we went to the launch of the Loft Market in Powerscourt which was great.

Bumped into many familiar faces like fab Jewelerry designer Jennifer Kinnear who will soon be launching her new website with my photees and stylist Aisling Farinella who runs the The Loft. Also met loads of people which I know from the world of the interweb like Arsheen from Dublin based fashion blog FashionFilosofy who was there snapping away and stylist and designer Ciara O'Donovan who has her own label in the Loft.
Then on our way out, I was just telling Corina how slippy the stairs were when an elderly lady behind us slipped and hurt her ankle. Poor thing. We waited around for the ambulance with her and then went for foodsies in Cafe Irie.
Later on that evening we did flyers for the CSS aftershow party outside the Ambassador and randomly ended up with 3 free tickets to the show which was completely sold out. YAYSIES.

I had never seen them before so I was really excited, and omg they were BRILLIANT! The amount of energy on stage was unbelievable!
We then headed to the CSS aftershow party where they were doing a DJ set which was loads and loads of fun.



Well done to Anto and the Remedy crew for this night. After that we headed over to the music Centre for Anthony's 2nd night which was DJ Hype. He was just finishing his set

so we did our usual of backstage jumping around

Mr. Anthony Remedy


and then finally headed back to Party Central for some SingStar. Very Good nite!

behind the scenes

Isabel giving some final touches to Joanne


Sara just making sure Valerie is ready for the camera

some shots I like from last week

Leona








Philip


Amy



Joanne





Paula

new faces at Assets

Mary




Christina

lack of posts lately.......... been way too busy... which is a good thing.. I'm not complaining! I shot Aisling yesterday who is the new Miss Cork 2007 so congrats to her. Anyone in the Cork area will be able to see the pics on the cover of CorkNow next month. I also shot chef Kevin Thornton (who stood me up the first time and made me wait for him for over an hour the 2nd time!!) of Thornton's restaurant (on Stephen's Green) which will be in Lifestyle magazine next month so will put up the shots then. Here are some behind the scenes shots of a beauty shoot with MAC makeup artist Lynn Mc Kenna who launches her website www.kimonomakeup.com very soon! Shots will be up soon so watch this space!

Limerick modelling agency The Holman Lee Agency have recently launched their website
www.holmanlee.ie

Here are some of the Limerick girls I recently shot!

Susanne


Emer


Avril


Aisling


Bianca


Niamh

Joanna Newsom at The Olympia

Got asked to take pics of Joanna Newsom at the Olympia on Saturday night. Joanna is awesome. She has a big massiv harp and the coolest voice. If you're into crazy folky lovely intense music (can't really think of other ways to describe it) then do check her out. I was gonna link to her myspace, but I can only find one where she has 12 friends so I doubt that's her real one, considering she sold out the Olympia on Saturday?!

Lorraine

styled by Maria Smith
hair by Aimee Murphy
make up by Lara Ford

Urban Outfitters Good Friday bash etc.

The Urban Outfitters Good Friday Bash was very much the funsies! We could see the big massif que from Corina's window but we thought fuck it, lets head down anyway. Thankfully we didn't need to que at the end thanks to the delightful media list. At the start it wasn't too jammers. The only packed section was infront of the drinks mixing lady. So we got ourselves two drinkies each (the drink was vodka mixed with flavoured vodka eeeek!) It then got pretty packed. Great atmosphere I might add. Bumped into many a heads such as model Vogue, stylist Dave Brittain, photographer/artist Johnny McMillan (who I'd never met before so that was nice) and Darragh from Codes. Then, goodybags a plenty (full with fantastic stuff such as a sky diving monkey, slinky, novelty mugs, lipgloss, hats and bling chains) we went back to Corina's before heading to Izzy's party in her new sexy fancy gaff.

some photees from last nite

Good buzz! Mary and Marita aka Maggot turned up which was so nice as I haven't seen them in ages. Also Burco, Killer and Hannah Eve so yay.

my photees


me and Scary Mary


The Killer


Maggot, Ruth, Mathias, moi and Mary


Hannah Eve


PACMAN! I want it in my gaff. someone buy me a pacman machine pretty pleasies. (pacman machine... is that what its called? it sounds weird. Yesterday I could not for the life of me remember whether a helmet was called a helmet or a hemlet. first they both sounded weird. Then they both sounded right. Then I gave up. Then I decided it was hemlet. Then Ian told me it was helmet. aaaargh! now they both sound wrong again. And now I am going to shut up.

don't forget!

It's the opening of the Totally Dublin Artwork Retrospective exhibition tomorrow evening at 7pm in The Bernard Shaw Pub in Portobello. Among many other fantastic work, you will be seeing some of my photography which was featured in Totally Dublin Magazine.

Like this shot of the gorgeous Miss Sarah Fox in her JJ72 era (she is now in an amazing band called Lluther)


and this shot of the lovely and fab Niamh of Ham Sandwich who rock very much.


Bring your monsies and buy my photees. Only joking. Actually I'm not joking. :-D

The Shaw Space
The Bernard Shaw Pub,
11-12 Richmond St Sth,
Portobello, Dublin 8

worst day ever

my camera is sick :-(
and she decided to get sick in the middle of a shoot meaning I had to send everyone home as I don't have my spare. It seriously sucked. But thankfully my team was very understanding and didn't think (well I hope not) that I am the biggest loser ever. Anyway, I bought a new spare now (D200) and on Wednesday I get to bring my D2X to camera hospital (Conn's cameras) where a camera doctor comes to pick her up and fix her. I hope she gets well soon. Apperantly the shutter is bwoken.

it all started so well.....


lovely Lara the makeup artist. Who by the way has a fab new site which I made for her so do check it out! www.larafordmakeup.com


Hairdresser Aimee just fixing Olga's hair


And then.... this started happening.... scary stuff. I was really confused when I took the pics and looked in the screen seeing a massive black thing.



meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee all mad and stressed

ITS PASSOVER!

CHAG SAMEACH!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

good weekend

After I finished work on Friday. I ended up staying in and just did some work and caught up with things.. Not with The Things in The Hub which I missed. As well as Killian's gig which I also missed (again!). Perhaps it was a good thing as I had to work early the next morn. On Saturday I tried to watch Harry Potter for the first time but ended up falling asleept after 20 mins. In the middle of it I appearantly opened my eyes and said" this is the best film ever!" and passed out again. Later that night we headed to the Music Centre to check out the Scratch Perverts which were awesome! I esp loved the Dynasty visuals. Blake Carrington rocks! half the set was hiphop, the other half drum and bass, which was fun as usual. So we just ended up messing backstage and running back and forth to the stage to check out the guys. funsies. Can anyone tell me how they would best photograph DJs? It's so different than usual live music photography because most of the time the light is so blah. and there is so much smoke. and they just kinda stand there.. and its extremely hard not to make it look like the boringest photo ever. dot com.