Plus London Two #1 – Anna Scholz

Tags: Accessorize, Anna Scholz, fat fashion, fatshion, H&M, New Look Inspire, OOTD, Plus London Two, plus size, Primark, red lippy, Simply Be, thrifting

Sorry for not blogging in ages. I’m currently on sickness leave from work, cos the muscles on my right shoulder and neck are absolutely killing me. I’ve never had any muscle problems that lasted this long, somehow I think that the cold weather is making it worse. So yeah, I’m on leave from using a mouse, and I have tried taking a holiday from too much typing as well, but today I damn will blog! Cos I want to! ;)

Last Saturday was the day of Plus London Two. I was really excited to participate and to see all the ladies behind their lovely blogs. I decided to wear two different outfits on the day (like so many other girls too – we do love our clothes, haha), and this is what I wore to our visit to Anna Scholz.

Jumper: 3X, H&M  Belt: thrifted (similar)  Skirt: 20, Primark (similar)  Leggings: 16/18, Primark  Booties: 6, Simply Be (similar)

Scarf: Accessorize (similar) Coat: 22, New Look Inspire (similar, similar)  Bag: thrifted (similar, but cooler)

I took an interesting bus route (3 buses) to Anna’s showroom, but it went quicker than I thought. I was the first one there and met Cliff outside. He asked if I’m there for the blogger event, I said yes and he kindly invited me in even though I was really early. I got in and immediately he introduced me to Anna. I was a bit starstruck and must have seemed really shy, and I felt horrible that I when shook her hand my hand was absolutely FREEZING COLD (sorry, Anna). I chatted a bit with her and then she led me to her showroom and I was in front of this sight:

Racks full of the most beautiful colours and patterns I have ever seen in plus size clothing. I said to Anna that they are absolutely gorgeous, and she just urged me to have a closer look and feel them and try them on if I wanted. I was in the middle of going through the racks when the next bloggers arrived, it was Mhairi of Lilybobombs Lovely Lumps and Caroline of CurvyWordy who both were really lovely and stunning girls!

I found my absolute dream dress not long after that, and I kept going back to it about 9826509256 times during that afternoon. Seriously, look at it:

Circle Georgette Shift Dress from the Anna Scholz White Label collection

Ah! I LOVE IT! (And when I do own this dress – and one day I will – I know not to wear a red bra)

More of a close up of the beautiful circle hem. (Thank you Sally for taking these pics.)

My second favourite was this Georgette Tailoring Corset Dress from Anna Scholz Black Label collection

Sadly they didn’t have this dress on stock yet, so the only size we could try on was 18. As you can see, it’s WAY too small for me, but you can also see that if it was right size, it would be gorgeous! (Thank you Lauren for helping me to squeeze into this dress and taking the pic.) Click this link to the beautiful Katha’s post of the day to see how stunning this dress is when it’s right size.

Anna showing her fave pieces of S/S12 and answering questions of roomful of bloggers.

During a Q&A with Anna we learned how she gets inspired by everything around her, she wears her own designs (like plans to take her amazing palm tree-print dresses with her to her holiday in Miami), and likes to get things right on her designs (good example is buying a real snake skin, scanning it, and then using it for the print of her purple snakeskin dresses). She uses a size 18 fitting model who comes to the studio often to make sure that the cut of clothes is absolutely right. Anna would also love to have a show on London Fashion Week, I guess that is what ALL of us hope, and hopefully someday this will happen. No one would deserve it more than Anna, who has been designing clothes since she was 13.

Anna and her team really treated us well, I loved my time in there. Liz was helping us to get right sizes to try on, Cliff was giving us drinks, sandwiches and perfect cupcakes from The Hummingbird Bakery (my kryptonite) and Anna herself was happily chatting to all of us and answering questions and telling her opinions. They also seemed to have a really great team spirit at the company, such lovely and friendly people! So I want to give them the biggest thank you ever, we really had an amazing time, and I could sense that they day was fun for Anna too! Thank you again team Anna Scholz for having us!