Today we had such an inspirational research day for work! We met up at Waterloo station at 8:15am and boarded a train to Winchester which is an hour or so out of London. We headed to Winchester College of Art which has an incredible library filled with every design and fashion book / magazine you can think of and we were fortunate enough to have access to old archives of fashion design patterns dating back to the 1920’s! It was so nice to be back in a studying environment for the day – I realised that it has been 3 years since I left my studies behind and when your studying day in and out you forget to appreciate aspects of uni life like having access to libraries like this!
We went out for some lunch and found a cute cafe with delicious jacket potatoes so we tucked into one of them followed by some hot drinks! On the way to lunch we came across a car park that was named after me (haha) and also a traditional sweet shop which of course I immediately jumped in to try the free fudge samples (you wouldn't expect anything else from me huh!!)
After lunch we went to a shop called The Hambledon which is now one of my favourite shops ever! It was filled with beautiful interior / craft books, really unique and traditional children's toys, high end beauty / toiletry products, a gorgeous range of clothes (I really wanted this beautiful Orla Kiely coat but at £400 I gently put it back....) and a really stunning Christmas section so yeah it's really the kind of shop that I would dream of running myself one day...
Winchester in itself was a really quaint town and I would recommend stopping off to check it out should you ever cross its path!
We went out for some lunch and found a cute cafe with delicious jacket potatoes so we tucked into one of them followed by some hot drinks! On the way to lunch we came across a car park that was named after me (haha) and also a traditional sweet shop which of course I immediately jumped in to try the free fudge samples (you wouldn't expect anything else from me huh!!)
After lunch we went to a shop called The Hambledon which is now one of my favourite shops ever! It was filled with beautiful interior / craft books, really unique and traditional children's toys, high end beauty / toiletry products, a gorgeous range of clothes (I really wanted this beautiful Orla Kiely coat but at £400 I gently put it back....) and a really stunning Christmas section so yeah it's really the kind of shop that I would dream of running myself one day...
Winchester in itself was a really quaint town and I would recommend stopping off to check it out should you ever cross its path!
