Wicked & Whimsy

Who's been lazy these days? I have to admit, it was me. I was planning to write note about Wicked & Whimsy event since past Monday but...well...week passed and here we are. It's Sunday and I said to myself- no excuses. Now or never!

Those who are interested in kawaii/Harajuku subcultures, especially lolita, do know, that every year, Tea Party Club is making big convention + tea party in city of London. It's always fantastic, full of attractions and is great occasion to meet old and new friends. Two years ago it was Revelry, later Regalia and this time the 'fancy name' was Wicked & Whimsy. It was 9th TPC aniversary, celebrated with such great guests as Nunu/Haenulli and designers of Enchantic Enchantily & Baroque brand, from Korea. There were also many indie/european brands present; Lady Sloth, Shinku Rose and many others. Plenty of great vendors, made me cry a little bit, cuz I haven't got almost any monies in my wallet, hahaha.

I attended only first day of the W&W, which means I skipped Tea Party on Sunday. I just couldn't go, since I had to return home for Monday morning and Edinburgh is bit far from London, so it takes a while to get there. Still, I enjoyed Saturday so much! Me and my friend; Menoa, had early entry ticket, so we were able to enter venue at 10:30. I was charmed with Institute of Directors. Amazing place. Kaha & Keczup, which represented Lady Sloth, had to arrive there two hours earlier, so were already based in one of few vendors rooms.
At 11:30 W&W was open to everybody with general admission tickets. Soon after there was welcome speech and the real fun began. Quiz + Q&A. At 13:00 Vendor Fashion Show started. Between 13:30 and 14:30 there was break for lunch. Next- Brand Guests Fashion Show. I think I fell in love even more with Enchantic Enchantily designs. At 15:30 was Storytime by Haenuli, which I have unfortunatelly missed cuz I was taking pictures and just socializing, hahaha. 16:30 Fashion Fix, where Mica and Kyra were trying to guess how much costs your outfit. This one was very funny! After there was only Raffle and group picture and 18:00 was the end.

I was very tired, kinda hungry but sad that  W&W is already finished for me. I mean, I was loaded with all the positive emotions/energy but sad I will have to wait another year for such phenomenal event. And I already know I will do EVERYTHING to be a part of 10th TCP aniversary cuz the guest will be no one else than ANGELIC PRETTY! <3 MWAHAHAH!

Now, as I have in custom, I serve you....PICTURES! Aaaaaand a short clip! Enjoy!

Let me show You my coord first. 

JSK, beret, bolero by Lady Sloth

Shoes: Bodyline

Bag: Angelic Pretty

Pendant, earings, keychain: ViviArt

Rest is offbrand.

This picture was taken by Rossi Ivanova

Rest of pictures are made by me.

Vendors, vendors~~

Keczup and Kaha, representing Lady Sloth.

 aaaand beautifully dressed lady between the stalls, that allowed me to take a picture of her <3 In one of my favourite Haenuli dresses too!

 Now, I haven't took many pics on fashion show but as I said- I made video. Check it out, it's under pics :) 

 One of the photographers and one of organizers- Pippa Marshall.

 More pretty people in pretty dresses.

 One of newest Haenuli dresses, stight from catwalk *_* Lovely!

 Ayumi from Syrup, Fumiko from Enchantic Enchantily and Mana Kim- designer of Baroque brand.

 Nunu/Haenuli with her lovely mom in traditional hanbok

 Menoa and EE team :)

 I was also able to meet Tania, who made comics about me. She's such a cute person in real life! 

Aaaaaand the clip.

Hyper Japan Christmass Market

Wow, this note was supposed to be published max up to two weeks after the event. I kinda...forgot about it? Sorry! But that way you get more interesting stuff at the begining of 2016 than just another lolita meetup summary XP

Now, as you may or may not know from previous notes, I was once on Hyper Japan. Only for one day and in summer time (freakin HOT July!). Now I decided to check out winter edition aka 'Christmass Market'. Reasons were simple- to have fun, to see friends (thank You for everything, dear Agnes and Kate), other lolitas and...see Minori Mon in real life! Yes, she was one of the HJ guests *//////* So yeah! I am not gonna bore  you with the details of my trip. Nothing out of usual type traveling, to be honest. I'll just start with arriving on con place.

Hyper Japan CM took place at London's Tobaco Dock for the first time I think. The area was easly accesible with Tube (took me about 20 minutes to get there from city centre).
When I crossed the main gate (I bought a 3 day pass which cost me 40 pounds), I got surprised. Cuz I was expecting a large hall, a closed building and instead I got an open space divided onto weakly seperated sections. Here You can see the plan of building:

Part of upper level

 Centre of bottom level early in morning.

Here in middle of day (quite crowded)

Gamers area

It wouldn't be that bad if it wasn't quite cold and raining from time to time. Good thing that I wore quite warm and cozy clothing (even while being in lolita).
After the first shock, caused by that (IMO) bizzare place, I decided I will take a look around. There was plenty of great shops, where every person could find something interesting. There were booths with japanese food and sweets:

Bubble Tea stall. I got a Matcha Milk Tea with Tapioca, but it wasn't that good as one I've been drinking in Japan :/ 

Stalls with anime and manga gadgets/ cosplays of all kinds:

Ears/ horns anyone? 

Dollies (more of small exhibition, than actual shop)

 Customized footwear

 Awesome lampions (I'd take some to home if I only had enough cash. these were fairly expensive)

And ofcourse clothing shops (lolita/ kawaii)

Look at these plushies! Most of them were bags/ bagpacks.

Amazing Tofu Cute/ Dreamy Bows stall:

Cute lady serving the sweets

And cute guy ^_^

Shoe heaven.

I even made a small purchase there- my black tea party shoes :D

While walking around I saw many, many amazing people *_* 

Cosplayers

(this trio was actually from Gdańsk! Cheers!)

Lolitas (and Brolitas)

Here with Minori Mon. 

Everyone looked amazing and unique :)

As you can asume, my main attraction was taking huge amount of pictures (as always). But it dosn't mean there was nothing else to do. Just the oposite! Let's take for example this small show- the girls (not sure if all of them were girls, tho XD) were playing various melodies on traditional japanese instruments. Quite entertaining.

And did I mention concerts? Like, y'know, full fledged concerts on a bigger scene? :) 

There were so many to choose from. Fans of Visual Kei got to see for example a Wing Works:

And fans of crazy Lady Beard could see him in Lady Baby. I enjoyed this one soooooo much, even tho one of members (the older girl: Rie Kaneko) was absent, they still gave pretty cool show.

For those who prefer rather quiet entertaiment- there was quite a few panels:

(Talk-show with members of  Studio IG. 

I was sitting quite far from scene, thus bad pic of a projection)

and workshops (keep in mind them some of them required an extra ticket). 

In other words- there was so many things that kept people busy, that some didn't know what to choose from. Busiest day was ofcourse Saturday (as it always is). Whole place was super crowded, so it was very hard to move around.
Sunday was rather quiet day. Not that many many people around too. When I checked HJ's timetable, there were still many attractions but I had to rush for my flight back to Cracow.

The whole trip was very enterteining. I am very happy I went to London for HJCM- it was something new. There were things I liked and things I disliked. IMO the organisers tried their best, but they still have to work hard to make this event better, as it had it's faults.

That's all for today. Hope You enjoyed this note! Cheers!