Fashion & Trends
Camera Obscura // Flower Child
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013I’d Rather Be Wearing // Bermuda Shorts
Friday, April 26th, 2013Spring is here at last and limbs have come out of their winter hibernation.
My legs would like to see the sun and a pair or two of Bermuda short is just what they have in mind.
This season, designers kept things interesting when it came to Bermuda shorts. There is a pair for every girl; striped, printed, slightly oversize, tailored and more.
My legs could do with being in a fun pair right now. I’d oh so rather be wearing Bermuda shorts!
What would you rather be wearing?
More looks I’d rather be wearing.Camera Obscura // Head Wrap Girl
Thursday, April 18th, 2013Once a head wrap girl, always a head wrap girl.
I’ve a soft place in my heart for turbans and scarves that can be tied up in a heart beat.
Follow my head wrap loving adventures on here.
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What Say Thou? // Candy Coats
Sunday, April 14th, 2013Simone Rocha | Iceberg | Giambattista Valli | Sonia Rykiel | Catwalk images via Style.com
Outerwear gets candy colored for fall 2013 and what say thou?
In shades of duck egg blue, sunshine yellow, baby pink etc, coats are wrapping things up in hues of pastel.
Adorable or too tooth achingly sweet for you?
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I’d Rather Be Wearing // Ladylike Leather
Thursday, March 28th, 2013Leather gets ladylike for fall 2013-2014 and I want to be wearing it!
Two great examples of this were seen on the Roksanda Illincic and Jonathan Saunders catwalks respectively. Both managed to successfully take the subversive nature of leather to new sophisticated heights with feminine structure. It is particularly effective in nude tones.
I’d rather be wearing ladylike leather today. You?
What would you rather be wearing?
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What Say Thou? // Fur Skirt Trend
Thursday, March 14th, 2013Spotted at Chloé, striped bright at Fendi, patchworked and maxi at Jean Paul Gaultier, streetwise at Wang, the fur skirt was everywhere for fall 2013.
Given how sensitive the fur debate is, is this trend stylish or just plain senseless?
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Link Line // 53
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013You should check out…
The ever stylish and totally sweet David Yi shares his fabulous New York Fashion Week fall 2013 daily diary with ELLE UK here.
Guest of a Guest takes you into New York Fashion Week parties here.
Fashionista dishes on the best and very worst of Grammy 2013 red carpet fashion here.
Lucky magazine covers the bold fall 2013 lip here.
George Wayne interviews Graydon Carter on the Daily Front Row here.
Into The Gloss talks fake hair and wigs at Betsey Johnson here.
Camera Obscura // A Cab In A New York Minute
Monday, February 11th, 2013So New Yorkers cannot apparently hail a cab in a New York minute but I still cannot stop obsessing about easily they seem to hail them.
Talking New York City and her iconic yellow cabs, the Kate Spade fall 2013 presentation had me at go with the cab and checkerboard trim inspiration.
Taking this shot by one was the best alternative to taking one home with me.
Follow my New York adventures in an instant of when they happen via Instagram here.
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What Say Thou? // Monochrome
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Louis Vuitton | Prada | Proenza Schouler | Marc Jacobs | Catwalk images via Style.com
It is a black and white colored summer ahead and it was on a catwalk near you.
If you looked it was there in a variety of guises; stripes at the likes of Oscar De La Renta and Marc Jacobs (the latter served both the horizontal and vertical stripe while the form had the perfect strapless Park Avenue gown with stripes), at Louis Vuitton it was the Damier Check. Over at Proenza Schouler the duo known for their collaged arts and crafts inspired texture gave an artisan graphic spin on the trend.
This is no new trend by any mile and every few seasons it crops its monochrome head again. Thoughts on black and white?
What say thou?
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Trend Spotter // Garden Party
Friday, January 25th, 2013If there is one trend that has consistently popped up on the Couture spring 2013 runway, it would be all things garden and nature inspired.
At Chanel feathers spilled from messy bedhead hair reminiscent of a bird’s nest. Alexis Mabille’s frothy confections always exude a girlish femininity, with each gown looking like an exuberant bloom. One such piece featured a crowning focal corsage on the right shoulder. At Dior, Raf Simon’s girl looked like a modern day Alice in Wonderland. Her setting was a maze and she was dressed in exquisite peplums and a palette straight out a summery fairytale. A standout embroidered cocoon design was covered with blooms. It was delightful butterflies and birds on tulle under an exquisite piped cape that made for a charming cage like structure.
Birds, butterflies, flowers and feathers, the perfect makings of the perfect garden party.
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