Welcome to the new La Petite Anglaise

Looking back through the LPA archives, it must seem like I’m very excited an awful lot of the time. Truth be told, I am very excited a lot of the time. The past couple of years have been a crazy, unexpected, sometimes stressful and always wonderful series of adventures that have ultimately only come about because you, my lovely readers, choose to follow La Petite Anglaise. Your loyalty, comments, occasional complaints (which FYI are much appreciated too) and all round enthusiasm for the things I myself am so, borderline worryingly enthusiastic about constantly inspires and energises me as well as enabling me to do what I love the most and begin to live out the fashion fantasy I sad in my teenage bedroom dreaming about. I know that sounds uncharacteristically cheesy but it’s the reason why I am extra excited – yep, even more than usual – to share the brand, new site with you…

Dress by REDValentino c/o and shoes by Sophia Webster

As you can see, we’ve gone almost back to the drawing board to create what I hope is a slicker, chicer, easier to navigate site without losing the signature LPA aesthetic. Hence the large amount of pink still involved. While fashion is and always will be my first love and prime focus, over the next few weeks, months and with a bit of luck years I’ll be branching out to include more beauty, lifestyle, travel and opinion posts. Hopefully the neat new categories which, as an organisation freak I had an inordinate amount of fun arranging, will make whatever floats your boat quick and easy to peruse. Of course there will still be fash a’ plenty with some seriously cool outfits, editorials, collaborations and projects planned for the coming season and beyond. Having finally graduated from Central Saint Martins (no more endless thesis related whinging you’ll be happy to hear!) I’ll finally be able to really devote myself to La Petite Anglaise and put my heart and soul into creating the most interesting, beautiful and original content I possibly can for you guys to enjoy.

Tomorrow I’m off to New York, the first leg of a full month’s fashion week travels which will see me briefly back in London before jetting off to Milan and Paris. During the next four weeks I’ll be bringing you shows, shoots, parties and projects from all over the world so don’t forget to follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for constant updates. For now, please do feel free to give the new LPA an explore and tell me what you think. Any feedback, good or bad, is very welcome and if there’s more of something you’d particularly like to see on the site then don’t hold back!

Huge thanks to Our Collective for creating such a beautiful site and Storm Models for all their help.

Love Ella. X

Images by Holly McGlynn