It's Almost Spring!...kinda

balenciaga roberto cavalli
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Florals!
The season usually reserved for floral prints is abundant with, well, floral prints. But they riddled the runway in unexpected ways. Nicolas Ghesquière designed an amazing collection for Balenciaga this season. The clothes fit almost like armor on the models and it contrasted beautifully with the soft feminine prints on the clothes. Roberto Cavalli opted for a bolder asymmetrical look with this beautiful flowing dresses in his spring/summer collection. New and interesting ways to portray flowers and innocence--that's what's coming up for this spring.

I'm Falllllin!

Fall is my favourite season cus i get to layer and wear light jackets and wear shoes and jeans and three piece suits (i wish) and of course fashion weeks in september!!!!...here are my 5 essentials de l'automne:

1. My SKINNY JEANS!!!: High waisted and otherwise... just like a few years ago i was scared to wear skinny jeans now i'm never going back to flared pants (who knows) even the high-waisted 70's look.. but to each her own. These are my favourite right now:

2. My vintage pumps: I'm all for the 80's resurge right now especially in the shoe department so I'm spending my hard-earned money on cool and colourful pumps for fall. These are the newest addition to mon wardrobe (if i had money the 2nd pic would be miiiine Christian Louboutin slingback platforms that I saw in a store):

3. Arm accesories: Everyone needs a good purse and I have a notorious reputation for having horrible handbags. I hope to remedy this situation with this vintage Lanvin purse from the 70s (and for those of u with Moooolah.. check this classic yet totally modern purse from the king of handbags Marc Jacobs):

4. Sunglasses!: I'm a wayfarer chick so i'm getting all different colours including these vintage aqua-coloured ones:

5. and last but not least--THE JACKETS!!!: I'm into crazy jackets this fall in combination with simple skinny jeans and perhaps some heels. If I were a little more compensated and sophisticated i'd wear this tailored jacket Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere but since i'm crazy and relatively poor these r my new favourite things... i'm still lacking a leather motorcycle jacket :( :

It's a Grand World

pop mag; agyness deyn and katie grand

So recently i've been hearing a lot about this woman Katie Grand who's a stylist and founder of the venerable Pop Magazine which is published twice yearly (tres exclusif). The UK magazine has had icons such as Madonna and Kate Moss (well she's an icon to me) on the cover. She's a powerhouse in the fashion world and according to the London Evening Standard "What Katie does and Katie says is as influential as it gets." Katie has also styled for some of the biggest names in the industry:

...exactly. Now she's the creative director for Mulberry and she's planning on taking the label in a more "fashion-oriented direction." Lovely. She has more vintage designer clothes than you can imagine (Comme des garçons, Alaïa, Chanel, Balenciaga, etc.)
She also used to date Giles Deacon (whom she is still close friends with) at Central St. Martins and is friends with Luella Bartley. The first cover of Pop Magazine was her friends Luella, Stella Mcartney, Phoebe Philo, and Liberty Ross posing as pole dancers... that's power.
http://www.myspace.com/popsuperglossy
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f71/katie-grand-stylist-25398.html
http://www.hintmag.com/hinterview/katiegrand/katiegrand1.php

Charlotte Gainciaga

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clever title.. eh?
Charlotte Gainsbourg loves Balenciaga and I love her and Nicolas Ghesquière so this is a natural threesome i think...
she was on the best-dressed list in Vanity Fair and she was wearing almost all Balenciaga and now she has an editorial shoot in the new Elle (which also happens to have an ungodly amount of pages) mixing her paris style with his pieces
tres tres chic
i'm sorely overdue for a leather biker jacket...goddammit .. oh yeah it's summer... well i have time
also you all should buy her album 5:55 that came out a few years ago... it was produced by Air and it's quite haunting
she's so beautiful and parisienne!!!!