London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week is here!!

We spent our three years at university based next door to one of LFW's most beautiful venues, Somerset House. We watched as fashionistas descended around our campus and always longed to attend LFW.

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Image: Vogue UK

But this weekend we finally took part and attended not one, but two catwalk shows!!

Show 1: London Ethnic

First up was London Ethinic, which was hosted at the lovely Kensington Roof Gardens venue.

Before the catwalk there was time to network with up and coming London based fashion brands. Our favourite was Panezai with their printed silk scarves. Check these out...

Goody bagged up and filled up on one, two, three (or four!!) too many Krispy Kreme's we settled in to watch the show.

Afterwards we explored the glorious gardens

Even found some deck chairs....in London....why not....?

We spent the after-party networking, meeting some lovely people, making new contacts with designers, bloggers, stylists and fashion buyers opening some new doors up for Attollo.

Show 2: Bohemian Fashion

This show took place at a rather alternative venue, The Ponetefract Castle pub besides Bond Street tube station.

We fell in love with this company's ethos: all women are beautiful, all shapes, sizes and ethnicities should be celebrated.

The models reflected this ethos and it was a treat to see how the designs flattered all body shapes.

We took particular attention to the designs which looked amazing with big boobs! Jumpsuits and playsuits galore as well as some awesome two-pieces gave us new ideas for our autumn wardrobes.

All in all, we had a fabulous weekend. Thank you London Fashion Week.

Doing our breast to help beat cancer

This weekend we are attempting to run Breast Cancer's 'Pretty Muddy' run in Finsbury Park.

Since we began Attollo, raising awareness and money to help fight Breast Cancer has always been at the top of our agenda. Boobs are our business and we want to do everything we can to support and help those women who are facing possibly the worst days of their lives while they experience the horrendous disease.

We are incredibly passionate about doing our bit to help save women in the future having to battle this horrible disease.

Last night, at Cosmopolitan's FashFest Lingerie Show, we were very lucky to meet the founder of Coppafeel, Kris Hallegna. Her story is absolutely inspirational and reminded us truly what why supporting charities such as these are so important.

What we didn't know when we met her was that her breast cancer, which was discovered five years ago when she was 23, is terminal. Her message last night was, "Love your boobs" and "make your bra save your life". 

Kris with her twin sister Maren Hallenga. 

So, to kick start our support for this wonderful cause we are running/walking/crawling the very feeble distance of 5KM. The fun side is that it's just one rather long, mighty, muddy obstacle course.

Please help us raise as much as we can. Our fundraising page can be found here.

Our goal is to raise £150 - this money could pay for:

15 glass slides to examine 500 tumour samples

or

One Cancer Chat nurse to learn more about the latest advances in treatment.

or

It'll contribute halfway towards a thermostat controlled water bath for accurate results.





Once Kris told us her cancer was terminal, her inspiring response was, "I'm not planning on going anywhere. I've still got a lot of living to do".

On saturday, we will be running for and on behalf of the ladies out there like Kris. So please support us so we can team together, beat this horrible disease and save the wonderful, inspirational people in our lives.

That's a wrap

On Thursday afternoon we swapped our usual Starbucks setting for the windy banks of the Thames alongside the o2 arena, overlooking the beautiful Canary Wharf.

As part of an application for an upcoming competition we had to shoot a 60 second video about Attollo.




We met up with Elly and her boyfriend, Will who very kindly put their afternoon aside to film us giggle and babble our way through filming.

In fairness the next door building site (and peeping, spying builders), in addition to overhead planes did not help.

So we filled those little gaps with selfie's. Many failed attempts it turns out! 

"Oh crap, can you see my spot!??"

"No babe, it's fine"

After an hour, we finally nailed the 'not-so-difficult'- 60 second script. 

It's a wrap! We can't wait to see the final cut!

One nude doesn’t fit all

We read a very welcome article on the Mail Online recently. One lingerie brand has realised that when it comes to nude, one colour doesn't fit all.

A nude bra is a wardrobe staple. For sheer, strapless and bright coloured tops, there’s nothing better.  For anyone with a medium to dark skin tone, we've all had those days where beige is too light and just won't do and black doesn't cut it. It's a real nightmare if you want to wear a sheer top! 

Finally, in terms of colour, the day is here- nude bras for all!! Nubian Skin's beautiful bra range comes in darker nude shades and also with lace or moulded options, between sizes 30B- 36E.  We only wish they came in our sizes so we could test them out and review! This is a definite step in the right direction.

What we adore about Nubian Skin is that it is challenging perceptions- when people hear that Attollo is for DD+, the response is, "oh, so it's a plus size brand?". No, its not. At 28FF and 30GG, we are small girls with big boobs. It seems to be huge misconception that you have to be bigger to have a big boobs.  Before Nubian Skin launched, there was a big misconception about nude bras needing to be beige. 

We love this brand for the fact that they are pushing the boundaries and solving a real problem by highlighting the fact that bras need to do more than just support your boobs.  After all, good underwear is the foundation for every outfit.

Well done NS, we're already fans!

Santander Prize Giving

Two months after our Santander Entrepreneurship Universities competition journey, we were invited back to receive a mammoth, completely over-sized, not going to be accepted by the cashiers, cheque.

We were very pleased to receive the money- lots of people need apayin'

After the presentation, we took Santander to our uni playing ground; to be filmed in the place where Attollo started, so they could document our story up until now.

We talked about how we met... (Still teenagers during Freshers week 2011!)

(Same event but a year later!)

...And about working with your best friend...

There were giggles about people's reactions when they find out about our DD+ brand...

And of course our Santander journey thus far...

A little richer, we finished the day ready to spend our new pennies; designer first, then the engineer. Bras are coming!

Birthday Celebrations

The past year has been a juggling act between our double lives; undergraduate students & Attollo.

Like many of us, we need 25 hours, 8 days a week to get everything done. Celebrating and taking time to pause and reflect hasn't really occurred.

We are changing this!

It started with Thailand, then with our mini Santander celebration and now birthdays. Alice's birthday!! 22 here we come....(the official soundtrack for the day)

We started the day with a not so boring, and in fact very lively bank meeting. Even got birthday drinks and freebies on the house in celebration! 

Meeting done. Cake time.

We ventured around Borough market devouring a couple of rather naughty brownies from Konditor and Cook. 

The ran came down on us so we took shelter under Neal's Yard's umbrellas. 

After a quick phone meeting with our mentor, and brief birthday chitter chatter, we went to Bea's of Bloomsbury to devour these bad boys..

Cake quickly got the better of us and we slipped into a cake coma....

A few hours later we climbed up the beautiful Shard....

...to be joined by Elly...

...and Adelice...

Check out the view...

We definitely got quite merry courtesy of their amazing bar, wine prices and barman..... (a glass of wine for £4.50!)

Midnight came and (via some late night chicken nuggets) we raced to make our last tubes home. An amazing and wonderful day.