HAUTE COUTURE SPRING 2012 FAVOURITES

Hello gorgeous people!

I know the HC runways took place a month ago but February is over soon and spring is coming, so I thought I'd show you my favourite collections.

1.Alexis Mabille
I absolutely loved his creations. Everything is so carefully structured and the clothes breath in femininity. Each of the show's outfits, is monochrome, from all sorts of hues. Very vibrant colours as well on the models' faces according to the huge flower they wore on their heads. Such an inspiration!




2.Chanel
One can never go wrong with Chanel. Even more so, when the whole show's inspired by blue hues. Blue is my favourite colour so this was definitely right up my street. I had a bit of a struggle to narrow it down to just the 6 favourites of mine, as I loved most of the pieces that were presented. I especially love the stretched-out neck, the just above the knee length and the shimmery cellophane on the girls legs.




3.Elie Saab
Elie Saab has been my favourite and most eager to watch designer for quite some time now. If you ever think about anything feminine or ethereal, Elie Saab immediately comes to mind. I have such respect and admiration for him as a designer. His creations always appear to be weightless and magical. I spent such a long time narrowing this down to six but I genuinely loved EVERYTHING from this rainbow of pastel shades! Even the yellow coloured dresses. (And I really don't like yellow)




4.Giambattista Valli
There has never really been a collection of G.Valli that I didn't like. Although he's fairly new to the HC scene, this collection on its own is a masterpiece. Pretty much everything's in black and white except a few drops of pink, red and plum. Everything is well structured and fully adapted into the woman's body. Talk about femininity here!




* Images taken from www.style.com and www.nymag.com
** Banner was done by mysels and edited by my lovely boyfriend.

What do you think?
I hope you girls are having a fantastic weekend!

Miu Miu f/w '11 love.

Hello girlies!
Miu Miu's fall campaign was so pretty and feminine and it was very refreshing to see Hailee Steinfeld modeling for them but, i was left speechless when looking...at the shoes!
To be honest I'm not the one who wears glitter nor vibrant colours on their feet but I just couldn't stop staring at Miu Miu's magical interpretation of the Cinderella pump.
The price tag, as it's always the case with designer shoes, is currently putting me off, at 650$ but nevertheless cannot stop me from adoring them!





Images taken from the Fashion Spot.

Do you girls like these shoes? Would you ever consider to splurge on them? Let me know!

ZARA Evening Collection F/W 2011 Lookbook

Hey everyone!
First of all, it's the 1st of December! I can finally embrace all of the Christmas spirit and start getting 'extremely' excited about Christmas!!!
So, as per usual, I received a newsletter from Zara about their newest collection, the Evening collection, and may I say, I am OBSESSED! They look is quite androgynous, with sharp cuts and it's quite symmetrical this year. Femininity is not absent though.



















***Images were taken from www.zara.com

What do you girls think? Last years evening collection was more of my cup of tea, but this one looks beautiful as well!! My favourites are 1, 6, 8 and 9! What about you?

Inspiration of the moment!

One of my favourite blogs, streetfsn, features daily looks of stylish people walking by the street.
I saved those three pictures as my Autumn/Winter inspiration.

Creams, beiges, camels, nudes, soft warm browns, burned oranges and reds in junky knitted jumpers, 50's lady-like skirts and long coats. Need I say more?

What is your winter inspiration? Favourite winter colours? Let me know :)

Emma Watson, is that a Hit or Miss?

Hello my beautiful readers,
So yesterday it was the Warner Bros. Leavesden Studio Renovation photocall and quite a few Harry Potter peeps turned out including Emma Watson. To be honest i'm making this post to express how appalled i felt when seeing pictures of this look in contrast to what other fashion blogs/and not wrote and generally media's admiration towards Emma for the event. I'm aware that everybody's entitled to their own opinion, but just plain and BLIND admiration is upseting me.

The make up:


I'm going to start stating that i am a big Emma Watson fan and this is a post nowhere near to bash her but to write a review expressing my opinion on her last night's appereance. So first comes make up as this is what i noticed first and i'm going to say that the moment i first saw this, despite being different, i immediately hated it. Thankfully now it has grown on me but there are still a few flaws here and there that make this look a bit 'off'.

Firstly, the eyeshadow/eyeliner combo works great on her as her almond shaped eyes would probably suit any kind of eye make up. The only let down is the mascara. Mind you, i am a big fan of mascara, the biggest if possible, i'm always about making your eyes pop with mascara and define them with loads of it but i absolutely loathe seeing spider lashes. And in this case, i dislike seeing Emma's obviously artificial, spider lower lashes. There's too much mascara going on there. Unnecessary.
Another thing that put me off was her eyebrows. I usually love her full but groomed and well-shaped eyebrows. But what is this? Playing with your brow pencil much? It reminds me of her eyebrows from the CoS era. And my question is, WHY alter her eyebrow shape when it already is lovely? So that's a no.

But the biggest no-no was the lipstick, and not so much about the colour, but the shape? It looks ridiculous how they went overboard with her upper lip line. It looks clownish. The colour itself is ok, if it was applied in a normal way or any way that wouldn't make her look like a clown then it'd look lovely. Besides, anything ending with -berry is on trend this season.

Additionally, with such a gothic look, i'd prefer to give it some life, some colour to her cheeks, it appears to be none.

Furthermore one of my biggest pet peeves, lighter foundation??? Actually, when i first saw pictures i immediately thought of this but now seeing them again and also pictures without flash, i reckon it's the light reflectives or SPF in the foundation. Tell me, how could ANY make up artist apply a light-reflective, SPF, foundation to a celebrity for an event? How?

Overall, on the make up department she did ok, not bad, not good, average.

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The clothes:



Now, what IS that? I have no idea where to start. First, i'm sure you can all sense a '90s feel with the velvety dress by Vionnet. Well i guess the dress itself is alright. I actually kind of like it, never mind the fabric, which i have to say, i HATE velvet. Seeing this on the whole it seems to me like a pile of stuff worn together, to be honest creating the impression that she tried TOO hard to be stylish/edgy that it just resulted in a not so beautiful, mismatched outfit. I'm not saying it's ugly, just mismatched. I like all of the pieces seperately, with my favourites being the ever so gorgeous Erickson Beamon earrings and the Christian Louboutin Ron Ron pumps but they just don't go well together.

On an overview, i could swear that this outfit, minus the completely random plastic or glass blue cuff and that long necklace by the same designer, but rather matched with a similar type bracelet/cuff in BLACK and without any necklace would be a pretty good look for Ms Watson.

Overall, this is not the best look for her, she can do SO much better, she's beautiful with a great body, she needs to embrace her own beauty rather than hide it in piles of make up. I don't often say this for Ms Watson but i'm afraid that this time around the clothes wore her. So that's a Miss for me.

On a side note, i'm not going to comment on her hair, yes the pixie cut's growing on me, it looks cute but I STILL prefer her longer hair, it suits her more.

Both images are courtesy of Sassy!


So I would give this look a C+ and the plus goes to her make up.

What do you guys think of her appereance? Do you like it? Hate it? Don't care? Comment and tell me! I do appreciate it.

Fashion Week s/s 10 favourites: London

I secretly loved all of the collection from London i think they were fantastic and well put together. But of course, few of them stand out to me.

1. Burberry Prorsum
THE highlight of the week. I was lucky enough to watch this online and felt completely in love with it the moment i saw the first outfit. Chris Bailey certainly did a good job. With a palette of beige/nudes and pastels, Burberry remains true to its roots, as a classic world-known British brand.


2.Luella
She never stops to amaze me with her girly, vintage with a modern twist clothes. And i simply loved this collection and i suppose you can guess why.:)

Fashion Week s/s 10 favourites: NY

To be completely honest i was left being very disappointed with the majority of the collections. Except for a few, the collections were nowhere near inspiring to me.
But with the bad goes the good so here are my favourite collection from NYC.

1. Marc by Marc Jacobs
I love this collection. Seriously. The colours, the patterns, the accessories, even the shoes were perfect in this collection. Some may disagree and say Topshop will be very happy about this collection but i would have to say that it's the one and only collection i would actually wear every single outfit from. Thus the bigger collage.:P


2. Dona Karan
She never fails to amaze me. Whatever she designs has a class to it which i actually adore in comparison to other American designers. I especially liked the pastel colours and sometimes bold ones. Full stop.


3. Proenza Schouler
They are said to design sporty and athletic clothes, but for the past two seasons Proenza Schouler are in my top 10 designers:) The rest is obvious:)


(all images were taken from:style.com)

I will do another post regarding fashion week next week after London is finished. I hope they'll be better collections(as the hint from the first few of them is actually breath-taking)than NY.

See you,

Yves Saint Laurent.

LOVE.



~YSL 'Aliama' Ankle Boot, YSL 'Aliama' Pump


credit:Madison

Blondie!!!

Photo to be inspired by:

credit: the fashion spot
Raquel Zimmermann as Blondie in Vogue Paris Sept 2009.

Claudia Schiffer for Vogue Korea Sept. 2009

I love it!!!

Resort Fall 2010

There were a several collections that i really liked, but only four of them hold a place in my heart!

and the winners are:

1) First place goes to Proenza Schouler. I loved her pieced and had a really hard time making the collage as there were so many outfits i liked.




2) This definitely goes to 3.1 Phillip Lim. His clothes are so chic and preppy which i love.



3) Third place goes to DVF. What i love about dvf is that there is no time where you will see a dvf piece of clothing and will not say "this is definitely dvf!!!"


4) Last but not least the fourth place goes to Badgley Mischka. I think you can tell why i put this here. I just love the vividness of the colours it's so girly and party-like!




Thats it for now. Talk to you soon lovies,