Lustlist: Virgos Lounge

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I came across the brand, Virgos Lounge, on ASOS recently and completely fell in love.

Do I really need to explain why? Beautifully embellished pieces at incredibly affordable prices? Stunning 30's style gowns?

 

I snapped up one of their gorgeous crop tops in the sale, and the quality is wonderful.

 

But now I want more! These pieces are definitely on my shopping list!

Sadly some of their items already seem to be sold out in my size, but I can't wait to see what other designs they will be bringing out.

 

Jasmine

 

Nene

 

Nicola

 

 

Tasha Shorts

 

Ziggy Velvet Leggings

 

What's your favourite piece from Virgos Lounge?

 

This Month In Pictures

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What I've been up to during the past month, via my instagram @swiczeniuk!

 

Top Left - On the 6th October we celebrated The Burning Beat's first birthday with another little event at Concrete, Shoreditch. It was a nice night, but I was just so exhausted after a full week of work, then djing friday, saturday and sunday!

Top Right - My hair and makeup for The Burning Beat

Bottom Left - We had some wonderful acts performing for us, including Miss Miranda (pictured), Bettsie Bon Bon, John Drain and Tom Baker.

Bottom Right - Mark and I before heading out to Soho House on the friday night!

 

Top Left - Possibly the only time I'll wear florals.... wearing a Whistle & Wolf dress with a Karolina Laskowska harness.

Top Right - We went along to the Apartment 58 (where we are hosting a new club, The Katzenjammer Club) launch party to do a short set, which was fun. I wore my new Black Milk bodysuit!

Bottom Left - My hair seems to be behaving a lot more lately, and curling when I ask it to :D

Bottom Right - My lovely boyfriend, Mark, took me out to see the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show, it was so good!

 

Top Left - Yay, new lingerie! Regardless of the fact that I'm running out of space to store it all, I love these new Kiss Me Deadly sets. 

Top Right - This dress (from ASOS) makes me feel like I'm in Bioshock!

Bottom Left - A little snap from my Marlene Dietrich self portrait shoot. I had to draw the eyebrows on super high...

Bottom Right - I treated myself to a beautiful hardback copy of the His Dark Materials trilogy. I remember reading these probably a year or two after they came out, when I was 11 or 12, and re-reading the books now is just as wonderful. I've already finished Northern Lights! If only the film hadn't been so terrible...

The Katzenjammer Club: 19th October

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 As you may know, I'm one half of dapper DJ Duo The Roustabouts, and for the past year we've been hosting our very own cabaret night The Burning Beat!

With the success of The Burning Beat, we decided to work on a completely different type of cabaret, inspired by the enigmatic otherworldly zeitgeist of icons like David Bowie & Klaus Nomi.


 

The Katzenjammer Club

NEW YORK BLOCK PARTY MEETS LONDON AVANT-GARDE. A vibrant, exciting new fusion of Music, Fashion & Theatrics. A passionate celebration that mixes mesmerising avant-garde performances from international artists with fashion forward aesthetics & unforgettable music where timeless idols meet the vanguard.

We will be launching on the 19th October at Apartment 58, a new creative hub based in the heart of London underneath the iconic Centre Point directly next to Tottenham Court Road.

We have an amazing line up for the launch party, including:

 

-THE GOREY CABINET-

A New Collaboration from Mr. Pustra & The Ungewinster

+ Outstanding Individual Acts

INCLUDING THE RETURN OF KLAUS NOMI


-FLORIAN BROOKS-

A Dapper Gentleman Juggler all the way from Belgium

Showcasing Incredible Dexterity 


-MARY BETH MOROSSA-

The Mistress Of The Macabre Presents A Murder Of Crows 


-HOSTED BY DUSTY LIMITS- 

The Dark Prince of Cabaret

WINNER, BEST HOST/COMPERE - LONDON CABARET AWARDS 2012 & 2013


-FASHION SHOW FROM AM STATIK LATEX-

 

Reduced price early bird tickets are selling fast! Don't forget to join our facebook event.

 

River Island New Arrival Wishlist

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It was around about this time last year (actually a little before, as I ended up looking at all the previews) that I started getting excited and shouting about AW12 collections, which mainly involved gold and red and baroque. Luckily, that's leaked into this year's Autum/Winter collections and, well, I can never get enough baroque. Bitches love baroque. 

Amoralle

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 Earlier this month, I caved in, for the second time, to Amoralle's 70% off sale.

I've previously mentioned how much I adore Amoralle's loungewear/lingerie, and the socks/leggings that I DO have from them are beautiful.

However. I have to say it. I'm completely put off by how long both of my orders took to ship.

I really try not to complain about customer service etc, and I'm imagining that Amoralle has a fairly small team, but I feel that 18 days JUST for the items to ship is ridiculous. The first time I ordered from them, back in May, it took 13 days. 

This time I did recieve a copy&paste email 4 days before the items finally shipped, saying they would be delayed a little longer because of the high volume of sales.

As I said before, I hate complaining, mainly because I'm not just an uninformed consumer, I know how difficult it is. I pack, ship and deal with customer service emails as part of my day job. With just myself dealing with the orders, I think I've only ever been a few days delayed (EVEN during a sale period), and even then I send out personal emails to the customers who are waiting. If the wait is outstanding (over 5 days), we would offer a free gift. 

The issue I have is that Amoralle are supposed to be a luxury brand, and that means that the entire shopping experience should be luxury, which includes the shipping. One may argue that during a 70% off sale, customers cannot expect such a luxury experience, but surely this is the ideal time to draw future customers in. If I hadn't have had such a delay on both of my orders, I would still be considering saving up for one of the bodysuits.

Oh well! I bought the striped socks (they are actually a dark brown and white) above and these sheer leggings with long bows. As I said before, the products themselves are beautiful quality! I wore them with my Irregular Choice boots.

 

EDIT

Amoralle kindly got in touch with me to apologise and explained that they had some technical difficulties when dealing with orders :)