Harrods Christmas Windows Display

Harrods Christmas Windows -  Peter Pan Theme

http://golondon.about.com/od/londonchristmasphotos/ig/Christmas-Lights-2010/Harrods-Peter-Pan-window-1.htm

Went to Harrods the other day, felt I had to write about their beautiful and interesting window displays - this year is the theme of Peter Pan, celebrating 150 years of Peter Pan. Harrods inside, is as always a feast for the eyes and senses, especially the Christmas World, which I must admit I acted as always like a huge kid in, getting ridiculously excited about the wonderful Christmas decorations!

I also found this great shop near Harrods -  it is called Pandora, and sells designer 2nd hand clothes, most of them are in really good condition, especially the handbags, they also have several other similar shops selling  discounted designer goods on the same street as well.

http://www.pandoradressagency.com/index.php

Shadow Catchers....and other London escapades...

Shadow Catchers - The V&A

The Shadow Catchers: Camera-Less Photography, is a truly beautiful exhibition at the V&A, which I managed to see last week when I was in London. It is basically, as the title suggests, photographs and images made without using a camera. As a result the images have a wonderful, ethereal quality to them, and in a world where every photo seems to have been photoshopped the hell out of it, so they look ridiculously saturated and contrasted, it is so refreshing to see images with such subtle, soft qualities about them, and where people with actual skill and talent have made them. For it does seem increasingly like anyone these days can take a substandard photo, and transform it into something amazing using a computer....anyway I digress...panic not..rant over...

I think my absolute favourite artist shown would have to be Floris Neususs, one of his photographs is shown in this blog post. His work is just so interesting to see, so different to anything I have seen before, kind of like really intricate and delicate photographic negatives. The other main artist I liked at the exhibition would probably be Susan Derges.

So anyway, go and see it, I highly recommend it, it is one of the few exhibitions I have seen recently where I haven't been disappointed with it, by thinking that a five year old could have produced half of it....

Also if you do have time, you must, must visit Harrods, which is only up the road, and indulge your inner child by visiting their Christmas section. I realised I probably get a bit too excited about Christmas, when I found myself running through the handbag department, which usually I find to be an almost heaven on earth type place, even if I can probably only afford to buy a keyring at a push...., straight to the escalators and zoomed up to the Christmas area.

They even have Sex and the City Christmas decorations! So exciting! although, even for a die hard fan like myself, a bit much at £10 a bauble....it would be just my luck to have some chubby business man sit on my bag on the tube and break my new purchase, so I decided not to risk it...