Leather & Leighton
I love, love, LOVE this look on Leighton Meester. Leather paired with soft, floaty, feminine fabrics is a favourite look of mine and she just does it so well.
Hoy cumple años Lea Michele
Hoy 29 de agosto la actriz que da vida a la peculiar y divertida Rachel Berry en la serie musical "Glee", por la que ha recibido una nominación a los Globos de Oro y al prestigioso Emmy, el equivalente a los Oscars en la televisión, celebra su veinticinco cumpleaños. Desde nuestro blog queremos desearle un muy feliz cumpleaños y muchísima suerte con la tercera temporada de "Glee", a punto de estrenarse en EEUU.
¡¡Felicidades Lea!!
Promo de la nueva temporada de Glee
Ya tenemos aquí la primera promo de la esperadísima tercera temporada de la comedia musical Glee.
Os la dejo para que ya empecéis a sacar vuestras conclusiones de lo que nos traerá la nueva temporada, además de que el tema que se escucha de fondo puede ser una de las canciones de algún capítulo. Juzgad vosotros mismos.
just black&white
image | 1. thakoon dress | 2. ella moss skirt | 3. maje blouse | 4. madewell pants | 5. butter london nail polish | 6. babaton for aritzia blouse | 7. ysl sunglasses | 8. alice + olivia dress
All That Glitters
image | 1. deborah lippmann nail polish | 2. vince top | 3. betsey johnson clutch | 4. lulu*s shorts | 5. steve madden shoes | 6. laura mercier eye shadow | 7. j.crew blazer | 8. anthropologie bracelet | 9. tinley road bracelet | 10. anya hindmarch clutch | 11. haute hippie skirt
fall's a-comin
vince blouse, sanctuary vest, asos pants, tory burch handbag, vera wang lavender shoes, baublebar necklaces and rings
Kate Moss....
Dipped Hem
Oh, just one of those outfit posts that I always threaten to do..
Skinny Jeans - Topshop | Dipped Hem Tunic - Zara | Assorted Jewellery | Boots - Kurt Geiger
My friends will tell you that I lahurrrrrrrrve eBay. I'm obsessed. My phone constantly has notifications to tell me an item is ending soon. I once filled my 'watch' list. That's 250 items. I might have a problem. I digress, below is the BEST bargain i've ever found on eBay. A vintage Givenchy silk & wool scarf all for the princely sum of €8 including postage. Totes barg loike. I love it. It's HUGE and soft and warm. Expect to see a lot of it. Or not.
Skinny Jeans - Topshop | Dipped Hem Tunic - Zara | Assorted Jewellery | Boots - Kurt Geiger
My friends will tell you that I lahurrrrrrrrve eBay. I'm obsessed. My phone constantly has notifications to tell me an item is ending soon. I once filled my 'watch' list. That's 250 items. I might have a problem. I digress, below is the BEST bargain i've ever found on eBay. A vintage Givenchy silk & wool scarf all for the princely sum of €8 including postage. Totes barg loike. I love it. It's HUGE and soft and warm. Expect to see a lot of it. Or not.
The Fashion Movement @ Jervis
First off, let me apologise for the potential to alienate any non-irish readers. There's a lot of exciting fash-related things going on in Dublin right now, and, well...that doesn't happen often! But there's definitely a little bit of interesting reading in this post if you like your jeans and, let's face it, who doesn't love jeans?!
Brendan Courtney, Ireland's own Gok Wan, last week launched The Fashion Movement at Jervis Shopping Centre in Dublin. Every Saturday & Sunday from 20th August right through to 10th September there will be live catwalks and mannequins along with the Jenius Jeans Style Station - a FREE jeans fitting service.
What's not to love?
Brendan will be at the shopping centre every weekend giving mini-makeovers and offering advice. Such a great opportunity to ask those burning questions you've been dying to get off your chests.
Below are Brendan's five tips for choosing the perfect jeans - take note!
1. Start with a little stretch; try finding denim with a little give
2. Avoid bootcut; use a wide leg to balance the hip
3. Try a skinny jean! They make every leg look slimmer. You'll be amazed. Start with a jegging to break you in and remember, it's all about what you wear on top
4. Back pocket size: big on small bum, small on a big bum
5. The perfect indigo colour is always the best place to start and is much easier to smarten up
Interested? Of course you are! Here's the information from the press release. Go forth and find your perfect jeans!
The Fashion Movement@ Jervis Shopping Centre will run for four fashion filled weeks. Each Saturday there will be four fashion shows throughout the day showcasing the hottest trends from all of Jervis Shopping Centre’s fashion stores including Forever 21, New Look, Topshop, Bershka and Stradivarius. These will take place at 12pm, 1:30pm, 3:00pm and 4:30pm, and will feature a special fashionably fun kids performance each week from the young trend setters from a number of schools in the local community.
For more information see www.jervis.ie.
Brendan Courtney, Ireland's own Gok Wan, last week launched The Fashion Movement at Jervis Shopping Centre in Dublin. Every Saturday & Sunday from 20th August right through to 10th September there will be live catwalks and mannequins along with the Jenius Jeans Style Station - a FREE jeans fitting service.
What's not to love?
Brendan will be at the shopping centre every weekend giving mini-makeovers and offering advice. Such a great opportunity to ask those burning questions you've been dying to get off your chests.
Below are Brendan's five tips for choosing the perfect jeans - take note!
1. Start with a little stretch; try finding denim with a little give
2. Avoid bootcut; use a wide leg to balance the hip
3. Try a skinny jean! They make every leg look slimmer. You'll be amazed. Start with a jegging to break you in and remember, it's all about what you wear on top
4. Back pocket size: big on small bum, small on a big bum
5. The perfect indigo colour is always the best place to start and is much easier to smarten up
Interested? Of course you are! Here's the information from the press release. Go forth and find your perfect jeans!
The Fashion Movement@ Jervis Shopping Centre will run for four fashion filled weeks. Each Saturday there will be four fashion shows throughout the day showcasing the hottest trends from all of Jervis Shopping Centre’s fashion stores including Forever 21, New Look, Topshop, Bershka and Stradivarius. These will take place at 12pm, 1:30pm, 3:00pm and 4:30pm, and will feature a special fashionably fun kids performance each week from the young trend setters from a number of schools in the local community.
For more information see www.jervis.ie.
Isabel Marant AW/11 ......
Isabel Marant's AW/11 collection this year is beautiful, especially those amazing boots with fringes throughout! So sexy and gorgeous!
Love the soft grey colours mixed with blue white and black , her pieces are wearable and very feminine. But most of all I find the fringy boots so cool! very sort of late '80s Texas meets West style. I want the fringy boots in my collection of shoes for this year......:)
What do you think?
¡Felicidades Mark Salling!
Hoy 17 de agosto, cumple años el guapísimo actor de "Glee", la comedia musical que arrasa en medio mundo, Mark Salling. El actor y cantante que da vida a Noah Puckerman o lo que es lo mismo, "Puck", cumple hoy 28 años. Desde aquí le deseamos un muy feliz día y muchísima suerte en su prometedora carrera y con su disco, ya en el mercado "Pipe Dreams". Además de mucha suerte con la recién estrenada película "Glee The 3D Concert Movie" en EEUU.Bill Gibb - A Welcome Discovery
We all have friends of our parents that have done something we admire, something a little bit cool, something which sets them apart from our parents other friends. For me, it is that one of my mother's dear friends worked in Fashion PR during the 60's and 70's (I might have to double check the decades, I hope I haven't just insulted her!). She worked for Cartier amongst others and as a Fashion PR girl it was her duty to always look impeccable.
Fast forward to the noughties and you'll see her gifting me a heavy, knitted, silver and grey cardigan. At the time I must only have been about 19 and, whilst fashion conscious, I certainly didn't have the love for well made pieces as I do now. It was all about whatever was IN fashion at the time, competing with my friends.
Thankfully my mother kept the cardigan and recently dug it out for me. And boy, am I glad she kept it.
Upon further enquiries to my mother's friend I was informed that the cardigan was by Bill Gibb. A name that was unfamiliar to me. She told me some stories and remembered him with fondness.
Born in Scotland in 1943 he studied at St Martin's School of Art and The Royal College of Art in London. Upon graduating he worked for prestigious London fashion house, Baccarat as a designer, but left 3 years later. He was a partner in the Alice Paul clothing boutique in London and later opened his own named shop in London where he sold wonderfully designed pieces, elaborately influenced by the Far East and tribal uniform.
It is said that he was inventive and bold in his use of textures and fabrics, often mixing the 2 in ways that weren't all too conventional at the time. A point that my mother's friend made was that the cardigan she had given to me was all in one piece, with no seams. The idea behind this was that it would fall perfectly upon a woman's figure. He understood the female body and shape and form were forefront in his designs.
Bill Gibb design commissioned by Twiggy for the LA premier of The Boyfriend in 1971
Crowned Vogue Designer of the Year in 1970, his shop was opened in the mid 70's and he graduated from using rich wools and Liberty prints to designing with leather and furs. A quick jaunt online found a Bill Gibb mink fur stole reaching well into the thousands.
Liquidity struck Bill's business in the late 70's, but the mid 80's saw him re-emerge with a runway show in collaboration with knitwear designer Kaffe Fasset. The show only proved what people from Twiggy to John Galliano already knew about Bill, that he was a master of decorative, baroque fashion with the ability to take influences from the hippy fashion at Woodstock to tribal customary uniforms in the far east.
Bill passed away at the age of 45 in 1988, leaving behind an army of admirers. He was described by Twiggy as her 'knight in shining armour' and according to John Galliano he was the essence of British design.
Bianca Jagger in a Bill Gibb kaftan
Since his death there have been numerous exhibitions dedicated to Bill, including in the Louvre in Paris, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
There are many books also written about Bill Gibb and I, for one, will be striving to find out more about him.
Here are a few (sketchy) pictures of the cardigan given to me. Camera excuses once again!! I can't wait for an event for which to wear this. It's so special that I think i'd wear it with black skinny jeans and a black vest and let the cardigan do all the talking. The balloon sleeves mean it's perfect for winter & summer alike. Breezy.
Fast forward to the noughties and you'll see her gifting me a heavy, knitted, silver and grey cardigan. At the time I must only have been about 19 and, whilst fashion conscious, I certainly didn't have the love for well made pieces as I do now. It was all about whatever was IN fashion at the time, competing with my friends.
Thankfully my mother kept the cardigan and recently dug it out for me. And boy, am I glad she kept it.
Upon further enquiries to my mother's friend I was informed that the cardigan was by Bill Gibb. A name that was unfamiliar to me. She told me some stories and remembered him with fondness.
Born in Scotland in 1943 he studied at St Martin's School of Art and The Royal College of Art in London. Upon graduating he worked for prestigious London fashion house, Baccarat as a designer, but left 3 years later. He was a partner in the Alice Paul clothing boutique in London and later opened his own named shop in London where he sold wonderfully designed pieces, elaborately influenced by the Far East and tribal uniform.
It is said that he was inventive and bold in his use of textures and fabrics, often mixing the 2 in ways that weren't all too conventional at the time. A point that my mother's friend made was that the cardigan she had given to me was all in one piece, with no seams. The idea behind this was that it would fall perfectly upon a woman's figure. He understood the female body and shape and form were forefront in his designs.
Bill Gibb design commissioned by Twiggy for the LA premier of The Boyfriend in 1971
Crowned Vogue Designer of the Year in 1970, his shop was opened in the mid 70's and he graduated from using rich wools and Liberty prints to designing with leather and furs. A quick jaunt online found a Bill Gibb mink fur stole reaching well into the thousands.
Liquidity struck Bill's business in the late 70's, but the mid 80's saw him re-emerge with a runway show in collaboration with knitwear designer Kaffe Fasset. The show only proved what people from Twiggy to John Galliano already knew about Bill, that he was a master of decorative, baroque fashion with the ability to take influences from the hippy fashion at Woodstock to tribal customary uniforms in the far east.
Bill passed away at the age of 45 in 1988, leaving behind an army of admirers. He was described by Twiggy as her 'knight in shining armour' and according to John Galliano he was the essence of British design.
Bianca Jagger in a Bill Gibb kaftan
Since his death there have been numerous exhibitions dedicated to Bill, including in the Louvre in Paris, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
There are many books also written about Bill Gibb and I, for one, will be striving to find out more about him.
Here are a few (sketchy) pictures of the cardigan given to me. Camera excuses once again!! I can't wait for an event for which to wear this. It's so special that I think i'd wear it with black skinny jeans and a black vest and let the cardigan do all the talking. The balloon sleeves mean it's perfect for winter & summer alike. Breezy.
Friday Favourites
img via cecetoppings
Miss Drifted Snow White - 5 Things I Regret Buying (such an honest read)
And finally, in case you're not on twitter or haven't seen Grazia's Fashion Editor At Large Melanie Rickey's campaign to bring the McQueen Savage Beauty Exhibition back home to London, PEEP HERE. Sign the petition. DO IT NOW.
Your Newest Obsession: Kreayshawn
You'll be hearing A LOT from this girl over the next while.
Covering I-D Magazine via Fashion Copious
Covering I-D Magazine via Fashion Copious
OI ZOI OI HANOI
It's been a terribly long time since I've posted anything! I've been so busy working on my online store that it's not funny. I did however go to Hanoi for a short break over the long weekend. Oh my god, Ha Noi! It reminded me so much of some rural parts of southern China, but with a small city feel. One of those places that have few shopping malls but just standalone shops selling local handicrafts and just streets & streets devoted to selling things like silk clothing, religious items, hardware, kitchen utensils. It's also one of those places that you could randomly discover the best banh mi sandwich or cute little boutique or divey bar in a back alley! Amazing! This is the kind of place I love to live in! I have a feeling that I'll be back soon!...<3
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
