For the Siren inside you!

Fashion Insight

The lovely Fashion Insight has now added us to their wonderful website, thanks so much as your newsletters keep us with up to date with all the latest fashion info!

Customer Spot light: Holly Mcsweeney wearing the Silver Etchant Necklace

Describe your style in a few words:

I can't describe my style in a few words from fear of categorizing myself - Its so easy to become trapped into a fashion stereotype and I hate that! I like to try a bit of everything and play around with what I think suits me. You are more likely to find me in a charity shop than you are TopShop, purely because I don't want to wear the same t-shirt and jeans as everyone else! Up until quite recently I refused to wear dresses and skirts... but I've dropped that stigma now and it feels fabulous to go girly one day and boyish the next.

What do you love?

I love people, poetry, hilarity and coffee. Oh... and Documentary! My favourite thing to do is sit in a coffee shop, it's honestly where I feel most inspired! I like watching people! It gives me ideas for things to write and make. As strange as it sounds, sitting silently in my own little world when all about me is hustle and bustle gives me a warm glow of inspiration, I love that. I also love stand up poetry and comedy and good british humor, laughing at my own jokes, laughing at myself laughing at my own jokes and totally rocking out in my car to a song I love when I know other drivers are watching. Ha. That totally cracks me up!


Music of the moment:

I am totally in love with Kate Nash... (And did so before foundations thank you very much.) Purely because she is more poet than singer. I am trying to learn some of her songs on my guitar! I also love Regina Spektor, Spank Rock and Dizzee Rascal. I actually do love everything as cliche as that sounds... except for bands that are mad at their Dads. Ha. I'm a huge fan of acoustic versions of otherwise totally non-acoustic songs. The Fray - Heartless is Gorgeous! I love it!


What do you do?

I am a graduate from Bournemouth university where I studied Television Production and specialised as an Editor, I worked on numerous dramas and documentaries, my most recent piece of work being a documentary presented directed and edited by me called "A Trifle Messy". It is about a fetish called sploshing - and I get sploshed at the end! At the moment though... in the height of this job stealing recession, I am working in a bar to save money to hopefully move to London in the New Year where I can be in the thick of the television industry. My dream is to make documentaries.... OR to produce a cooking programme filthier than Nigella! In the mean time though I am working on a few small creative projects as well as writing a bit of my own poetry!

Link to my documentary

Helping out our friends

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Urban Spark featured on Hippyhippy Chic blog!

Kat at Hippy Hippy Chic Blog kindly featured us on her lovely blog! Go have a peek at it to see some preview pictures of our press pack contents as well as checking out which 'jules' pieces she loves!

Thanks Kat! X

Our first debut...radio chit chat live on Express FM

Myself and Nikki Bruce whipped off to Express Fm studios in Portsmouth for a cheeky interview with Darren Gamblem. Things from the get go didnt run so smooth. Ended up in the wrong building in the wrong part of town. Ditsy designers we are. Radio talkers we are not. We discussed all things Urban Spark, from influences, and the design process to where we'd be in 5 years time. All in all it was a bit of a giggle (though judging from the above pictures of our expressions, you'd think me and Nikki were looking for the nearest exits!) Might have to learn how to speak though before we try that again...

A thank you goes go out to the Express Fm team that we met, especially to Lara who has been a gem to us at Urban Spark! Big love

Nikki S
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