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Never start no static I just get it off my chest, never had to battle with no bulletproof vest. 10/28/2009
Today, one of my more enthusiastic holiday celebrator friends informed me that Christmas was just around the corner. At first I giggled, we haven’t had Thanksgiving or even Halloween yet. But as she described the joy of new fleece pajamas, gusty winds, frosted car windows, and the fresh scent of Christmas cookies I lapsed into a holiday state. And the moment she mentioned what she was thinking about getting for her mom, I thought of the perfect idea; a Christian Louboutin champagne flute.  The story is that Louboutin felt the need to hark back to the days when “Le Rituel” was preformed. “Le Rituel” was an event where French male aristocrats displayed their love and compassion for a woman by drinking from the heel on her foot. The joke is that now men are so unreliable and immature that you have to get your girlfriends to drink to you. But of course your girlfriends get to drink in style, in a 5.5 inch red soled Slovenian crystallized pump. So what do you think girls, remarkable or ridiculous? Recently, I have been getting plenty of emails from readers inquiring about what “trend items” they should invest in. As a general rule I don’t suggest investing in “trend items” because they are quite literally “trend items” that will fade and go out of style quickly. However, you asked and I am willing to gush over ten trends that will loosen your wallet. Enjoy!  The Print Dress: From Alexander McQueen and Rodarte to Mary Katrantzoua and Christopher Kane, every designer has been featuring an eccentric print. If you need to spark up your dreary winter wardrobe or to add a spice to a repeat outfit, this is your remedy. Also dresses are multi-functional because you can wear them as a shirt, as a top over pants, or as well a dress. Imagination is your only limitation darlings!  Military Influences: One would think girly-girl fashionistas and the military have nothing in common, but you’re wrong. Michael Jackson (I understand he isn’t exactly a girl but…) proved that anything can be fashion and popularized the military jacket. I have already fulfilled purchasing this trend at Forever21 myself. The military jacket is available at low-end stores like Forever21 and at high-high-end store brand stores like Balmain.  Leather Hot Pants/Shorts: Alexander Wang and Chloe are big advocates of this trend and have a right to be. You can just slip on a pair next to your dainty blouses and transform yourself into the next Erin Wasson. While others may give you what they think are knowing stares as you walk down the street, don’t be afraid to try this trend. The semi-limited amount of fashionistas in the street will recognize your inner style and give you a smile. By wearing a pair you are promoting dressing well – think about it if we all made an effort to promote style then no sad little girls would be leftover wearing Crocs in this world.  The Ice skate: Before you read on I must say that many of you will be highly skeptical of this shoe. But with all it-shoes it, it’s slightly androgynous and certainly out of the ordinary. The silver metal bottom and the five inch heel make it a must have. It retails from Acne for about $600, if that isn’t exactly in your price range I hear Jeffrey Campbell is making a respectable version for $150ish.  Faux Fur Vest: The latest style is faux fur which is both eco friendly and fashionable. In fact I just got one myself yesterday and am very excited to wear it with a variety of clothing mediums. That one purchase has made me 100% more bohemian hipster, and I think it could do the same for you!  Under-wear as Outer-wear: One of my most personal favorite new trends initiated by John Galliano’s couture collection for Dior. I just got a light pink corset yesterday; however, my loving father isn’t too excited about my teenage soul wearing it. But you, my fabulous reader can pull out your lacy, silky, and shiny under things to incorporate to your everyday wardrobe. Well that’s all for now darlings, thanks for visiting and commenting as always! Getting Better 10/23/2009
After having a rather full and interesting day running around with post it notes on my forehead informing the world that I’m fabulous, I found myself in my friend’s dad’s car. His father inquired about the state of the blog, I started to blush and nearly role my eyes – my father has been telling nearly everyone I have a blog and its getting embarrassing. The reason I started this blog was to have free expression, but now all my dads’ friends and family are reading my every thoughts. I understand he is doing this because he is proud of me, but now I can’t go on about the anguish and sorrows of my teenage life in great extent. My friend’s dad suggested I slowly push the limit on what I can write until my parents feel the need to stop me. I smiled, that’s not how it works in my family. Then he suggested I write whatever I feel like as long as I’m passionate about it, and then they would understand. This seemed like a good idea, but then it dawned on me that I’m not passionate about anything.   Except maybe The Beatles. The most commercially and critically successful band of all time, wow do I sound superficial. But I can’t help it, instead of searching for my passion I’ll let it come to me. Meanwhile I’ll stick with my boys. They are funny, insightful, charming, and the most handsome men in the history of the world. I don’t think I can explain their aura properly, anytime they would walk into a room or strike a pose people instantly fall in love. They lure you in and there is no backing out of it and you want to know everything about them.   And you could say I do know everything about them. Since the sixth grade spring break I have made it my mission too find out all the facts, decipher all the songs, and read between the rumors. My calendar is marked up with their birthdays, important days, and John’s and George’s death day. Infact my calendar is even a Beatles calendar. My walls are covered in their smiling faces, their stoned faces, and their thoughtful faces. I have a mini library worth of Beatles picture books, Beatle biographies, and Beatle magazines. My closet has a section of just Beatles apparel, bags, and pins. My desk is littered in Beatle postcards. Stacks of Beatle/Wings/Lennon/Harrison/McCartney records fill our living room and all their songs occupy my iPod. Half the quotes I know (and that’s a lot) are derived from their brilliance. They opened my mind up to fashion, music, and ideals of the Sixties and anytime before the 2000's. I owe everything to them. And I owe this little qoute to them " I've got to admit it's getting better, a little better all the time, it can't get no worse, I have to admit it's getting better, it's getting better." Hope it is for you too! If the blogging community has taught me anything it’s that fashion is art. And that art can be fashion, and there is fashion about art. If that last sentence wasn’t too confusing, I’m sure you would enjoy seeing and reading this post about my all time personal favorite fashion artist; Danny Roberts.    It’s safe to say Danny is a natural, he draws loads of pictures and posts them each day on his blog Igor + Andre. He draws everything related to fashion - from daunting models, inspiring bloggers, to popular celebrities. His work has been featured in many magazines including Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, Vogue, and Oxygen. Also reproductions of his pictures can be purchased online at his blogstore. Or you could buy tee shirts with his artwork from Harajuku Lovers. Needless to say, he is brilliant and certainly someone worthy of your visit to his site. And if you like his work you will also like Garance Dore’s another fashion artist, so do check them out! Dollars in their eyes, diamonds in their smiles, one day I too will be beautiful like a god. 10/19/2009
Sorry for not posting quite as often as I should these last few weeks, I have been extraordinarily busy and at this rate will continue to be for a while. For an example just this weekend a family friend, about my age, stayed the weekend – which was smashing. She was also a major fan of fashion and the Beatles, so that kept us really busy. Anyways she is one of the few people who have seen my room fully finished after our remodel, her thoughts on it was that it is very white yet colourful.  And it her description is fairly accurate, all the furniture and the walls in my room are white, but I have one wall that is covered fully by a massive collage (I have a bit too much time on my hands) and colourful music and movie posters are displayed on my other walls. My style is minimalist and classic, I even have a chandelier!  Due to the fact I designed my room myself, I am very proud of it. And I was thinking it would be wonderful if I could take some pictures of it, however, I don’t want too show too many pictures of where I live because of the frightening amount of stalkers on the internet…so instead I am showing you Dree Hemmingway’s room which is very similar. Not too brag but mine may be just a tad more hipster; then again Dree Hemmingway is just plain more hipster than I am in general.  For those of you who have been living in fashion oblivion or are not literature-lly inclined, Dree Hemmingway is first and foremost a model, a muse, and the great-grand daughter of Ernest Hemmingway. Dree is with Elite Model Management and has worked for Abercrombie & Fitch, DNKY, Givenchy, Alexander Wang, Riccardo Tisci, and Halston to name a few. You could call her the Erin Wasson of our time but a little bit sweeter and more refined. Now go forth my fashionable readers - look her up, soak up her style, and thicken your inspiration folders, I would love to hear what you think of Dree! Finding Nirvana 10/16/2009
 I was sitting in my Social Studies watching the endless rain hit the school room window and tugging at my uniform sweater to cover my frozen hands, just wishing that I had a scarf and gloves. My classmates continued to murmur on about the dance happening tonight – which oddly enough I wasn’t all too interested in, wearing mini skirts and tee shirts at night in 45 degree weather isn’t exactly my forte. All I was interested in wearing was a blanket or two, long gauzy skirts, and thick Santa Fe sweaters, but I knew no one ever wears that. Then I thought again people actually did wear that – in the 90’s.  And that reminded me of a lush spread featuring these clothing items I longed for, from Teen Vogue, that arrived not but two days ago. Once I got home, I ran up the stairs nearly slipping in the process, to where my sacred barely opened magazine lay. Moments later I found the spread; and here it is.  Isn’t there something crazily gorgeous and simplistic about these photos? And my goodness how that light shines in the previous photo makes the models look almost godly. Now I am on a hunt to find the Navaho sweaters my mum brought back years ago from Santa Fe (that she now thinks are ghastly) similar looking to this Stella McCartney sweater, some plaid that manages not to look pre-teen cheesy (especially not in pink or any other revolting plaid colour), and a pair of black Doc Martens (that I have been begging my parents to let me get a pair for ages). However, you will have to wish me luck with my mum, when she heard me listening to Nirvana she nearly had a heart attack. As it is customary, I will now also wish you luck in finding your fashion Nirvana. Have a nice evening hearing the rain on the roofs!  Yesterday was the unofficial holiday Columbus Day. Unofficial meaning the government deemed it inappropriate to name a holiday after someone who led the slew of foreigners to come slaughter thousands of Native Americans. But I find this ironic because Columbus himself didn’t actually slaughter thousands of Indians, it was the government who did – and now in the words of Lucy from Across the Universe “and how do we repay them? We ship them off to the shittiest bits of real estate.” Indeed.  But now you must be thinking, how does that lovely bit of anti-government information relate to today’s post and fashion. Well, it’s the historical background, because due to this unofficial holiday Lewa (my most A-M-A-Z-I-N-G photographer friend) and I had a half day and we went to Freemont to vintage shop. And no we were really not skiving off class like some shop keepers were curious enough to ask. We probably were a strange sight though, Lewa on one hand sniveling away (the poor dear has a nasty cold) snapping pictures of semi-intellectual and peculiar things still in our uniform, and me on the other hand me excitedly pointing out shops in Freemont to Lewa (it was the first time she ever really experienced Freemont) and a whole lot more dressed up than Lewa and the other suedo-bohemian onlookers were.  Anyways let me help you experience Freemont from wherever you are through Lewa’s photos. Firstly some people consider Freemont as rather a place where the slightly sketchy artsy alternative people hang out, and do slightly artsy things (like these animal pictures from "The Coolest Art Gallery in the Known Universe" ahem).  Also Freemont is known for its notoriously large Lenin statue, the now rather unpopular Communist has been. However, in Freemont they think of him fondly...if you look closely, right behind Lenin is a little yummy gelato cafe that serves Lenny scoops and such.  After Lewa and I got our fill of Communist gelato, we headed down to one of the truly coolest places in the known universe; Freemont Vintage Mall. Which is covered in paintings of the talented, famous, and brilliant legends, I struck a pose with them.   We tried on various faux fur coats (I’m on the lookout for one) and looked at relics from times past. I did find one coat very similar to Rumi’s but it was a little too oversized and too expensive. But I didn’t come away empty handed, I bought various Barbie trading cards some dating back to the 1960’s and a mini stand up James Dean. Hope you enjoyed the mini tour, I have a fever and headache, so I think I'm going to go hibranate in my bed now. As always thanks for reading! Alix, of The Cherry Blossom Girl blog, took these glamorous photos from the Sonia Rykiel show. In her post she mentioned bloggers have been getting plenty of attention these last few seasons as well as the best seats in the house. And that is true, for an example Rumi of Fashion Toast has been seen at everywhere from Herve Leger to Alexander McQueen’s show. Even the young Stylish Wanderer is being invited to all the legendary designer shows, I must admit I’m a bit jealous. But Anna Wintour’s advice is "you can't just assume that since you can become popular fashion wise on the internet or on a reality TV show that you can do well in the real fashion world." This means to me, that all the ego boosting you wonderful commenters do for me must not go to my head. Everyone and their mother wants to work for a high fashion magazine, but not everyone can make the cut. So, I will just have to work harder than rest till I make it.    Talking about getting advice from Anna Wintour, TeenVogue has issued a handbook on how to make a spot for yourself in the fashion industry. Of the sneak peak I have seen so far, it’s brilliant, full of glossy images and interviews from some of the most prestigious faces in fashion. Some people are: Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, and Jourdan Dunn. Can't wait to get my copy!    Anyways, I’ll stop talking about my fashion ambitions and talk more about the actual fashion. Doesn’t this show look extraordinary? The glitter, lingerie influences, colourful pieces, and the models joyous expressions just sew the whole thing together. I am ashamed that I have never really considered Sonia Rykiel as one of the top ten designers, but I definitely think so now.    There’s tons of energy and pronounced attitude in this clothing, it makes me feel like I just want to get up to dance and run around in oversized heels listening to Rick James while nibbling on pink cotton candy. That sounds like a wildly appealing thing to do! Maybe I can see if I can arrange such a happening…but I must go now, it’s my mums birthday (as well as John Lennon and his son Sean Lennon’s birthday coincidently). Have glamorous weekend! Let’s take a moment to recognize Irving Penn, the legendary photographer, who died this morning at the grand age of 92.   It is funny to think that a man, who started out just as an intern at Bazaar, turned out to be one of the most well known photographers in the fashion industry. After, getting his big break in 1943 as an assistant to the art director at Vogue, he started to sketch covers. And eventually got to photograph the covers he drew himself, this lead him to a career of over 150 covers of Vogue, including the first colour cover.   He photographed everyone from Lauren Hutton, to his wife supermodel Lisa Fonssagrives, to a teenage Kate Moss. And what is so extraordinary about his photographs is that you can see the models expression and pose clearly, yet it seems as if some invisible shield protects the glamorous model from us - average generally non-painstakingly beautiful people - from entering that world of glamour. Also his work was never contrived, never overdone, and never meant to be so shallow it looked deep. They were pure images of style, made just to promote pure style - no strings attached. So, thank you Irving Penn for perserving what bloggers, photographers, models, and designers alike seek; style. GIVEAWAY: Ladies Watch 10/05/2009
Darlings, I have been having a most wonderful day, initially I wasn't going to go to school because of a throbbing headache, but against my skiving off alter-ego's nature I went. And it was a fun; school got out an hour early, we had no homework, it was pleasantly sunny, we did curl ups and push ups in P.E. instead of the dreaded timed mile run, and in science we got to watch metal totally disppear in suspicious acids. Yes, I am amused and happy easily. And since people say good fortune and happiness should be passed along...I have some to pass, I am hosting another giveaway for all of you!  You may win this lovely gold watch, all you have to do to enter is leave your name, email, and in your comment tell me which men watche your boyfriend would like to wear, such as the 2er00003b. I must say the gold is simple and absolutely stunning, there just is something about watches - they show your importance, style, and status. Within our favorite glossy mags there are endless advertisements of watches, just asking us to buy their sophistication. But lucky you, there is no need for you to buy one you could have the chance to receive one for free once you enter. Hopefully you win or at least have a chance to glance at the another gorgeous women automatic watch! P.S. I REALLY like the Kinks right now, I just can't get enough of them :) | Author:Musings of a teenager wannabe journalist. One of those people who goes to a party and everyones like were we suppose to dress up? I have visions that one day everyone will work hard, play hard, be nice to people, and make the world a more beautiful place with fashion. Welcome to my blog and come walk through the world in my heels.  Daily Reads:A Decadent Thing  Vintage Posts:
October 2009  Photos:Photoshoot photos are all taken by the A-M-A-Z-I-N-G ever lovely Lewa. And pictures taken by Lewa or I belong to the blog; please ask permission for use. Otherwise, all other pictures I don't own and are taken from the internet.  |
