Coat – Mum’s Laurel, Leather top – ‘vintage’ Topshop, Black Jeans – MNG, Shoes – Courtesy of Kate Kanzier, Bag – Courtesy of Patrizia Pepe, Nude nail polish – H&M

Thank you Areta for helping me with shots!

A few important notes regarding servers and giraffes:  It looks like, for the past few months, I’ve been putting on some weight on my current hosting account and managed to invade past my bandwidth, CPU and memory usage borders. This just means I’ve been blessed with you all visiting, so thank you, most important of all.

As some may have seen a few days ago, the lords of servers had to resort to shoving me in solitary confinement for crossing the line, (‘Account Suspended’), and now I’ve had to purchase a dedicated server to keep the blog afloat. (The server will cost a hefty $150 a month :( boo). I’ve already mentioned this, I will not have sideline advertisements in my blog for your viewing pleasure, but in some posts you may see this sort of thing except with me on my knees in the background grovelling for sponsors. So I just wanted to ask for a broad mind when at times you see a sponsored post or a campaign that might be slightly annoying. Don’t worry, I still have full reign over content, so none of those giveaways with follow me on twitter, facebook, bloglovin, attic, dark alley, etc etc.

UK winners for the Furla candybag have been updated in the winner post, apologies for the delay!

UK Winners will be announced tonight after the Furla event!

Apologies for looking like I jumped town last night, the server suspended my account without notice for excess CPU and RAM usage. For those who have no idea what this means basically the unicorn pushed the dolphins down the slide and the giraffes drank some Capri-Sun. In other words, it won’t make much sense but you don’t have to worry about a thing. Got it all under control. LIKE A BOSS.

Congratulations to the four winners! (World) they will be further contacted through email. UK winners will be announced at the Furla Event tonight, so if you’re based in London then make your way down to Regent Street at 7pm!

I wish I could’ve given each and every one of you, especially those who left such awesome comments despite the fact that you could’ve bashed asafdafa and clicked submit. Here’s a wet smooch and the hopes that I could give you something in return over time. Thank you sincerely for your interest in this small event, and thank you Massimiliano and the Claudia Wunsch team for organizing all this!

1) T-shirt and bag – Uniqlo, Shoes – New Look; 2) T-shirt – Antoni Alison UT @ Uniqlo, Jeans – Radcliffe Jeans

Classic case of survival of the fittest in love-hate relationship with self. For now I think the score is meek nerd 2: snooty 34,005. The two points scored only recently by the almond-rose donuts and a successful parallel parking session. Of course, only to be shot down immediately by snooty when I realised the space was for the disabled – bam, fifty points.

So this is Uniqlooks for April. Don’t I just keep ending up in strange alleys lately… T-shirts this time. The only styling technique I know that involves T-shirts is doing the Japanese t-shirt fold over and over again until I’m left with something that might be from All Saints. I like a good challenge but this time you win, Uniqlo.

By the way, will happily dance for your vote here! (London region)

Coat – Anywho x Kobra, Sweater – Gmarket, Dress – COS, Shoes – Nine West

I know my way around the neighbourhood, and Guess is not an alley I usually go down. Of course, having the tendency of an alleycat when it comes to blogging, I gave it a good snooping session at the Vogue & Guess Jewellery event in February – a sniff here and a nibble there. Turns out it’s not all just bling + all-American girls + bedazzled enviable chest lumps. This is not me saying hey sparkle-overload, you’re awesome, but they do have the odd great item that shine among the bling. Ironically the ‘treasures’ – the simpler items – were hidden amidst the classic Guess forest. For me the only thing that can sparkle on the chest is when I’m a loser vampire in a badly written book.

Thank you Charlotte for inviting me down; and thank you Abi for the outfit shots!

Passionfruit cocktail + sparkling wine!

Beef Tartar with pickles, mushrooms, onions and capers

Octopus slices with roasted red peppers and olive oil dressing

Roasted Lamb chops with peppers in rosemary sauce

Baked Pike perch, BEST TASTING FISH EVER.

Meringue with Lychee & passionfruit | Watermelon + coconut shots

Rarely do I cross the bridge to the Praga district of east Warsaw – 1) because I basically never leave the house (except for food, evidently) and 2) because the east is considered a slightly dodgy part of town (i.e. chav village). Seeing bulletholes from WWII in buildings is common and growing up, my mother had set a you shall not pass command for that end. Turns out now the neighbourhood has been gentrified so much that it’s now being called ‘Soho’ of Warsaw. But because I’d still thought it was run-down and dangerous, when Ania invited us (Harel, her husband and myself) over to Porto Praga for lunch it was like I’d gotten in the car with a blindfold and handcuffs on. Although, you come up to me in a car and promise food,  hey I’ll tie my hands and shove myself in the trunk. Basically, this place should be a landmark. You melt in the atmosphere, the food melts in your mouth. The chef focuses on emphasizing the natural taste of the ingredients so the tastebuds aren’t punched down with an overwhelming sauce and never recover to taste the actual Pike perch. On hindsight (writing this post) I shouldn’t have taken photos because now I’m angry my stomach does not have a ‘save for later’ function. Such a MS DOS stomach I posses.

Put this place just after your hotel check-in on your to-do list if you’re planning to visit Warsaw.