Pride 2022
The month of June is now known as Pride Month. It’s great to see a full month is dedicated to celebrating Pride and the festivities even stretch over into July and August with many cities showcasing their Pride in the warmer months. London celebrates 1st to the 2nd of July, Manchester 26th until 29th July, Newcastle 22nd until 24th July, Glasgow 24th July and Leeds and Brighton even stretching into August with Brighton 5th until 7th and Leeds 7th August. It’s great to see such an effort going into this celebration and even the most mundane companies help speeding the love such as GO Northeast Buses decking entire buses in a Pride flag wrap on the outside and colourful seats inside. One of the stand out Pride offerings this year was the Apple Watch Pride strap and free face. Fair enough the strap was priced pretty high at £40………, but as Apple Watch straps go that’s PRETTY reasonable. This year’s Pride Edition ‘Sport Loop strap’ showcases a colour gradient flag with the word “pride” woven directly into the band. The brand proudly supports its long-running support for LGBTQ+ advocacy organisations, which works to bring about a positive change, from Encircle, an organisation that provides life-affirming programs and services for the LGBTQ+ community and their families, to The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organisation for LGBTQ+ young people. Another company that always show their support is Disney. This year, at Disney Parks they offer a BB droid called BB-PROUD that was coloured in Pride flag colours. When I seen this droid on one of the MAAAAANY Disneyland vlogs I subscribe to I never thought it would as an easy one to get hold of. I tend to frequent this site and check the new lines and noticed that the ShopDisney website were selling this droid for a meer £12.99……….. so I quickly snapped one up before they sold out! Vans, Allsaints, Boy London, Victoria Beckham, Adidas, New Balance also offered Pride products which was amazing to see. The next collaboration deserves a drum roll…………… the Chersace one! The two icons, Cher and Versace both champions of the LGBTQ+ community, united as CHERSACE. They produced a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt that’s features a printed signature of both Donatella Versace and Cher with a rainbow coloured Medusa and logo print. A portion of all proceeds will go to Gender Spectrum, which is a charity chosen by Cher and Donatella Versace for the work they do in supporting the LGBTQ+ community, particularly youths and their families.
Visor - Moschino
Earrings - Shein
Necklace - eBay
T-Shirt - Moschino
Bag - Moschino
Belt - Moschino
Jeans - New Look
Sunglasses - Moschino
Earrings - Shein
Necklace - Fendi
Jumper - Jeremy Scott
T-Shirt - Primark
Bag - Moschino
Shorts - ASOS
Belt - Moschino
Bracelet - Links of London
Sunglasses - Moschino
Earrings - Shein
Necklaces - Shaun Lean/Etsy/Argos
T-shirt - M&M World London
Bag - Moschino
Bracelet - Links of London
Belt - Gucci
Jeans - Reclaimed Vintage, ASOS
Sunglasses - Versace
Earrings - ASOS
Necklace - ASOS
T-Shirt - Moschino
Belt - Moschino
Shorts - H&M
Bracelets - ASOS/ Marc Jacobs
Watch - Apple
Hat - eBay
Earrings - ASOS
Necklace - eBay
T-Shirt - Moschino
Bag - Moschino
Bracelet - Links of London
Jeans - Zara
Earrings - Shein
Necklaces - Shaun Leane/Moschino
T-Shirt - Bobby Abley
Trousers - ASOS
Belt - Zara
Rings - Topman/Topshop/ASOS/New Look
Bag - Van Cartier