Relax, Take It Easy

Sometimes it's just about knowing how to complement your pieces.

Amanda Sun, first year Law

Old Building Cerulean

Intensity

Stephanie Oula, General Course

The Fashion Society Committee of 2010/11! Well, Partly.

President, Emma Roberts

Vice-President, Amanda Sun

Treasurer, Sri Narayanamohan

Media Editor, Chu Ting Ng

Event Officer, Stephanie Oula

Event Officer, Daisy Jing

Marketing Director, Amy Green

Marketing Director, Kaylie Sim

Marketing Director, Jamie Liu

Marketing Director, Sherelle Davids

So we're still missing shots for:

Secretary, Sally Zhu

External Communications Officer, Alexandra Prentiss

Event Officer, Deeya Burman

Event Officer, Jenny Maguire

Event Officer, Milla Piirto

Event Officer, Yan Giet

Event Officer, Evaleen Brinton

But they'll be coming up soon!

Austrian Red

Kilien, postgraduate International Political Economics

Black + Black

Mehreen Siddiqui, second year Law

Woodland Obsession

Chu Ting Ng, second year Law

Evening Chill

Lucy Smith, first year Anthropology

Blue Fall

"I don't really like fall - it marks the end of my favourite season and the onset of the cold! Ultimately, especially in London, it means two months of uncertain dressing where you take a jacket off, put it back on, take it off.. rare cool sunny days are definitely a saving grace though."

Tala Fahoum, second year Accounting and Finance

Introducing Qualified

Welcome to the LSESU Fashion Society's official blog, Qualified! This is where the fashion-famished of LSE congregate and discuss all things fashion and fashion-related, no holds barred.

Besides the usual photo-posts that most fashion blogs carry, Qualified aims to pull opinions on any fashion topic, awesome or unsavoury, from the university population. We're spoilt for choice in today's burgeoning fashion scene, and as with all things creative there are bound to be issues with taste and standards.

Given that we're all in LSE, we definitely all have a brain on us. So why keep quiet when we know that not everything lauded is definitely good? Forget industry pressure. Forget "trends" or what Vogue/Harper's Bazaar/Elle calls "hot", generalising is pitifully facile. Why should we take what other fashion blogs and giants like Wintour say? Nothing guarantees that their taste is always great.

Here at Qualified, we want you to put your views forward. We want commentary and ideas that are not only justified, but also well thought through. We want flippance. We want humour and honest criticism. We don't want pure bitchery though, because angst gets old (and boring, but don't tell the emo kids). We want to share admiration. We want inspiration, as we all plod along with the more mundane aspects of uni life. We want eloquence and open minds. Most of all, we want real opinions from a fashion audience we're so very tangibly part of.

Whether to celebrate a revolutionary line this season or strip away ridiculously blind band-wagon cooing, Qualified wants your input. If you're interested in contributing, start by contacting the Fashion Society's Media Editor, Chu (yours truly) at c.t.ng1@lse.ac.uk with your name, year, course and pitch. We welcome articles, pictures, quotes, videos.. just about anything, really. Gotta love the Internet.

As a major publicity platform for the Fashion Society, details for events will be posted up here as well. Qualified will eventually entertain publicity or advertising requests. Again, please contact me at the above address for further details.

We hope you'll enjoy the blog, there's lots more to come (ideally with your help). Here's to a diverse, inspired and unpretentious 2010/11!

xoxo

Chu

LSESU Fashion Society Media Editor

Florentine Summer: Gardens, Palaces and Ferragamo

We're all bundling up now, but here's some sun to help us along.

Palazzo Pitti (Pitti Palace)

I Giardini di Boboli (The Boboli Gardens)

Museo della Calzatura Salvatore Ferragamo (Salvatore Ferragamo Museum)