Festival of Christmas!

We are full of that warm fuzzy feeling that keeps us warm at night as it is freeeezing! Festival of Christmas marks the day when we can be all merry and official to the thought of taking few days aside to spend with our loved ones and eat mince pies till explode!!! We are so happy to be taking part in the festival hopefully keeping not to far away from the malt wine tent. We hope to see you there and will be keeping a keen eye of for any bells reindeer and of course the one and only!
Peas and love
Nikki B x

Jule of the weeeeekkkkkk!

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My New Bestfriends Highlights

Rosalind Frances Holmes

Inspired by a contrast between strictness and softness, the masculine and the feminine. Bold solid structure contrasted with soft chiffon fabrics. Quite an androgynous mix and we love it!
This collection looked striking on the catwalk - I sensed an eerieness to the collection, particularly with the antler style constructions in the centre piece of the garments contrasted with billowing fabrics.

Contact: rosalindfrancesholmes@gmail.com for more information!

Hussaindeyn

Vintage and one of pieces

Lellow lucy

Chantell Walters

Fashionistas Night out proudly presented by My new Best friends X

Urban Spark were lucky enough to be invited to showcase our jewellery at 'Fashionistas night out' a really GREAT event with an even better course as all money raised when to Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Kimberley Sanderson who sparkled the whole evening in her little silver sequin number, organised the whole evening at Bloomsbury Hotel, so a big thankks goes to her for lettting us being part of such a lovely evening.!

Me and Jordan, (who runs Individual threads was also invited to showcase) decided to road trip it down to London from Southsea. So much more entertaining is it to travel through London by car than tube, total luxury!. I'm not going to lie, we acted like total tourists taking pictures of the Natural History Museum lit up, waving and yelling at people. It made for an fun filled trip. We arrived at the hotel all hypedd up and were greeeted by Beth looking beautiful stood next to a Ferrari nonetheless.. As soon as we got in we were greeted by Samuel J Hextail the presenter. He's best friends with Paris Hilton apparently.After setting up we received champagne from the pink butlers; a couple cheeky lads who had nothing but a small pink apron to cover their bits and bobs. Didnt know where to look. We were also joined by Hardip who is one our spark models! We decided to have a nosey at the delights from other stalls. Elisha Francis was another jewellery designer there displaying beautiful vintage Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor inspired pieces, her head pieces were lush! (A blog featuring our favourite designers from the show will feature shortly!) Playful Promises showcased their sauccy lingerie, a must for any Spark girl I'd say.!

The show itself didn't disappoint. There was eclectic mix of collections by Lellow Lucy , Hussain Deyn, My most favourite part of the show was Agent Lynch. Now if we had to pick a spark girl this without a doubt would be her. Absolutely stunning and mad as.! Starting off as a present with bow and ribbon she stripped off to a bond girl and fired a shot from her gun at Jordan, lucky man. She then quickly whipped her clothes off to reveal her bikini made of pearls which she then proceeded to lasso across the chandeliers. Me Hardip and Beth were in oar. I want to join up to her classes!

Towards the end of the show, on my way back from my trip to the toilet I bumped into Dappy from N dubz ! Ha made my day. Got a cheeky look and down from the chapppy who was without his usual hat with bobbles. He is quite short without it.

Journey home was the best thanks to Jordan and his recommendations on food. We had a naughty little pitstop at the Bagel King where we grabbed some rice, peas and jerk chicken with loads of lashings of coleslaw. Sat chilling in the car with some Jamaican beats.I pretty much devoured mine in a second and fell asleep.

Unfortunately Nikki B was in bloody Thailand having the time of her and was not able to attend. Ordinary it would not be the end of the world. However Nikki B being the very clever lady she is designed the logo for the mynewbestfriends website. This logo was blown up into a banner and was pretty much on every piece of paper, bag, and booklet going at the show! We were so proud of her!! Cant wait for her return .! X

Here are a few pictures of the evening. Due to the lack of appearance of my camera lead I am being delayed in the uploading of pictures so more shall appear very shortly. Including a short interview with myself.!

Loves Nikki S

OMGee!

Flash On Event

Flash On event in Eldon building yesterday was so much fun saw some really beautiful clothes and jewellery as well as meeting some absolutely wonderful people also, I swore most of the day i was just talking non stop!


Will have some better photos of the show shortly as we where all dressing behind the scenes. Individual Threads and urban spark joint forces to make a T-shirt and Jewellery combo. Helen wearing yellow and silver bear T-shirts popped on our Urchin earrings black and silver they sold straight after, look F**kin cool! Loved the day Loved the show, big credits to Nikki Strange for organising such a big, fun event, hope you raised loads of money for your end of year grad show cant wait to be their in the audience.

Model Helen sporting indie threads T and silver urchin earrings!

Southsea Shananigens

SAVE SOUTHSEA SKATE PARK KILL KONG EVENT!

This weekend was a hectic one, we ventured to Portabello Market once again, this time meeting yummy mummy Candice, so sweet! We had some lovely munch from the Cantonese stall next door, thanks again O for sorting us three out so much with your yummy dumplings! lol!

As Nikki S was unwell this week Nikki B (ME) took the fella along, who was happily fast asleep on a bar behind the stall (not used to getting up at 4 to make train to London), made lots of customers laugh though! We sold lots of gems this week, everything is going charmingly well.
On Sunday Sick Fun Times at the Southsea Skate Park where bands, D-jays and Skating collided together for some dirty pipe action! Was Wicked to catch up also with Dan (formally Johnathan) and Learn about The Free Art Project, we where lucky enough to see Brian place his own Free Art Work right above us!

We Love Music

Yesh guys had wicked day at freshers fair! No photos though was a bit groggy, but see they had sunshine all day today, lucky things. At our local freshers fair one of the stands pelted out some dirrrty tunes! The New Music Society in Portsmouth is having nights every other Thursday and we will be giving out goodies again, as always, as we love you so much! so get your badges! With 445 members I bet we will run out soon! Here is their bestival love flyer I wanted to share!

Jewl of the week!

This evil number will sure to cause a stir in the eye of a curtain some one or at least blind him with a slight light reflection, a great new conversation starter! Use DINOSAURS at check out to receive your 10% off discount!

Enjoy and keep the blinding safe!

REFRESHERS for our FRESHERS!

We are proud to, unofficially announce (secretly from NUS), that we will be around at our local freshers fair to support our students in Portsmouth and Southsea. As we all know they have had a hard year this year with lack of places and loans beign late as always. So as they trot, like we once did (from our roots), we are going to spoil them with sweets! While reminding them also to register with local dentist.

We hope you all enjoy and we will surely get few photos of the young ones to cherish their innocent times before they get unleashed to the dark depths of Portsmouth night life!!!

Peas and love Nikki B

Love Albert Road Day!

Albert Road Day was amazing as ever! Nikki and eye where handing out Lolly's in celebration to Albert Road and Local companies of Southsea! Had such an amazing night as so many others! thanks so much to the organiser that again made it one not to forget hope that the weather keeps up for freshers fair next week! Amazing!

See all the photos on our face book page (Click Link Bellow)

Urban spark at Fash/On event Portsmouth

We at Urban Spark are going to be showcasing our 'jules collection'on the catwalk at a local fashion event to us in Southsea. The event is going to be held on the 8th of October at Portsmouth university, Eldon Building. We shall also be having a stall where you can purchase our jules. I, Nikki S, am helping organise the event so am really looking forward to it as we can meet other Southsea retailers (including Rokii, dead man's glory, deluded, style and the city, beautiful me, individual threads etc) So if our local to Southsea please do come along.
Nikki S
x

Oooo la London fashion week ! S/S 2010

For the past four seasons I've been lucky enough to check out all the action from behind the scenes at LFW, working backstage. It's always pretty wild with broken shoes, smudged makeup, lost shorts, blood on clothing (stupid women) etc etc. Here's some snaps I managed to get at various shows from S/S 10, including Basso and Brooke, Henry Holland, Richard Nicolls, Louise Goldin and Redbull fashion factory. As luck would have it, my camera decided to be a pain the asssss and go all blurry on me. I personally think it makes it all look a little dreamy.

At the Richard Nicolls show I was able to get a cheeky picture of a beautiful Chinese model I was dressing, wearing a bit of Spark jewellery. Think she works the lamina well!

Red bull factory show -graduate show

The Gradute show held by The Redbull fashion factory I thought was the most impressive as with these designers, there are no restrictions, always ambitious. The scale of the dresses blew me away! The models were so elegant and walked beautifully and with grace, it was amazing..especially with the size of heel they were subjected to.

Catwalk Genius write about Urban Spark

Helen at Catwalk Genius has written some lovely things about Urban Spark on their blog.

If you havent been on catwalk genius yet, you really must. Support freshh designers and get some finds that arent on the high street.

Love Albert Rd Day!

This Sunday LOVE ALBERT ROAD DAY, it has come! a whole nover year has whizzed by and the street festival is this Sunday. Me and Nikki are so existed! this year will be working representing spark delights on our roller blades giving out badges sweets and discounts for Urban Spark as we are a local business that love our Southsea scene (roots)!

This year 5 stages on the streets

Albert Rd Singers

Batala

The Pompy Plucker's

The Sound of Steel

Alistair Goodwin

Andrew Foster

Full line up

After Party: DJ Derek!

Cant wait going to be so much fun!

Peas and love, Nikki B