Marie Claire Italia February 2010.

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This has to be my favourite editorial so far this year. The lighting is just amazing, and those sunbursts and bubbles make me want to fly to a European Summer and walk down the street in pretty things all day. But then again, I want to do that all the time :)

Photographer: Taki Bibelas, Model: Marlena Szoka. I haven't been able to find out who styled, but if anyone can, I'd love to know! I can't get enough of each shot's 'The' piece, surrounded by complementary ones. And now I shall list them because I love them so much (shots 1-5 respectively):

PRADA High-waisted Cropped Culottes - Alberta Ferretti Grosgrain Net Apron-Coat - Moschino Sunflower Print Minidress - Chanel Silk Petal Blouse - Fendi High-waisted Silk Twill Shorts

That's what I gathered from my limited Italian (zero) anyway - they may not be the actual product names, but that's how my combination of French and English and Mandarin (oh so useful in translation of Italian :D) churned it out to be!

Hope everyone's weekend has been awesome! What did you all get up to??

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." ~ Mark Twain

Vintage Cropped and beaten denim Blazer - Lucky13 One Shouldered Lace Cutout dress - My favourite Lace-up Boots of all time :)

Man, I love daylight saving - at 6pm it's still bright as midday. Keeps me motivated :)

I'm currently waiting for my brother to stop taking longer than I do to get ready for a family friend's birthday dinner, so I thought I'd put together a quick post - thus, pardon the weird quality of the pictures.

I found this vintage blazer (which is apparently really thinly woven white denim) a few months ago with the intention of taking it apart in some undecided way, because the shoulder pads were insanely 80s and made me look like Frankenstein. I ended up just taking out the shoulder pads and leaving it - it looks oversized, but in a softer sort of way?

Anyway. I was meant to wear it with a black bodycon skirt which went walkabout, so I ended up wearing my beloved General Pants Co. dress - I think the lace sleeve looks a bit odd (good odd) with the jacket sleeves pushed up :)

Have an excellent party evening all! :p

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Bisous bisous.

Stylish little Parisian bunnies :) Fifi Lapin's work is such a fun look at every possible designer.

Sometimes, admittedly, I wish I were a paper bunny so Ms Lapin could draw me pretty things straight off Spring 2010 RTW :)

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Darling, it's better.

After seeing the blue version of this on the cover of Pages Magazine a while ago (I believe so, anyway - correct me if I'm wrong), I've been so tempted to take scissors and thread and snip the elbows out of a blazer... or maybe buy the actual Dion Lee masterpiece (I can't get over the switchability between boyfriend and cropped).

Anyone seen something similar elsewhere?

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Zuhair Murad Haute Couture SS10.

Look! Big HD runway images! :)

I couldn't think of a post-title more awesome than the name itself.

I think Murad takes the cake for beading - it blows my mind. Also: third image - pockets in couture gowns is quite possibly the greatest idea of all time. Not that I run around in couture gowns - if everyone else jumped on that bandwagon, I'm sure many formal (prom) goers would appreciate it. Muchly.

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Boyfriend's a Cinch.

Vintage Black stripe-weave blazer - One Teaspoon Lace trim Cami - Lee Cheeky Denim High-waisted short - H&M Wide Brown belt - Flea-marketed Green stone ring - Zoe Wittner Cut-out Wedge Boots

Happy Friday afternoon, all!

It was a bit overcast this afternoon, and I had a function to go to in the place of my good friend Sam, who was a genius and double booked himself :), so I thought I'd give the boyfriend blazer a go, with my beloved Lee shorts to fight humidity and Alexander Wang braid (ish). Then I felt boring, so I belted it all and grabbed my favourite ring of the moment. I wish I'd had the magazine clutch I've been raving about to go with all this... so perfect :(

Also: to kick off the weekend, have we all noticed that I got annoyed with the clutteredness of my blog set up and did a bit of stretching? So that solves me having to snip all my runway posts.

In hindsight, that probably wasn't quite as exciting as the start of the sentence made it out to be. And P.S. apologies for the painfully puntastic post title.

Anyway - have an excellent Friday night!

*love*

xx

She found love in a mailbox on the corner.

Viktor Vauthier's work is so real and edgy. Who's with me?

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I believe more in scissors than I do in the pencil.

To start with, nobody scream that I've gone and snip-snippety-snipped HD runway photographs, because I'm trying something new so you guys get the high quality of the image without having messy images everywhere, making my runway posts a million years long :) and also I think it looks kinda cool... though you'll all be the judge of that - go ahead, tear me to shreds!

Moving right along.

I am going to have to say that Elie Saab is the most consistently beautiful designer I have ever come across. And who is his set designer? The water reflection on the dresses was amazing! I especially love the nude lace and chiffon in, essentially, the four different shape-cuts in the show. May I also add that the hair was amazing and I wish I could braid my hair like that?

All hail Valentino's stylists and make-up artists - I love the coloured ninja band (well that's what I'm going to call it anyway). "Garden of Eden Cyberworld" is what the collection was meant to come across as, and I think it was done pretty well. Hopping on that chiffon bandwagon too - I think this confirms my thoughts of a chiffon wrap skirt for this coming Winter - I can see it in my head and I know it was on the Spring 2010 RTW or Fall 2009 RTW runway, but I can't remember by who :( help me out? P.S. those leggings are amazing :O

Jean Paul Gaultier did a little scenic tour of Mexico - with a mariachi band! I have to say, I did prefer the jungle end of the collection - those prints were incredible! Though that cage sombrero with cage shoulders was pretty impressive.

And finally, Maison Martin Margiela: such intriguing creations! I'm loving all this asymmetry this year - makes me feel like tipping my head to one side to balance it all out. I am admittedly in the strangest mood :)

Tell me what you think about all this snipping business!

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For want of Jumble.

From left to right: TOPSHOP Floral Jersey Blazer - TOPSHOP Tapered Ruched Trousers - Halleh 18-karat Gold Double Turquoise Ring - Alexander Wang Lattice Pullover - Yves Saint Laurent Arty Large Agate Earrings - Bottega Veneta Sterling Silver Intrecciato Ring - Marc by Marc Jacobs Magazine Leather Clutch - Acne Angular Leather Boots - TOPSHOP Alexus Platform Chelsea Boot

Just some I've-got-my-eyes-set-ons. Except for the blazer: If TOPSHOP would kindly give me the print that I could fashion into anything I'd like, then I'm happy OR if they kindly gave me that blazer cut in black... I am also happy. The tapered pants, I have been thinking about - making, not buying. I recently got handed a few old suit sets that my father no longer wanted, so I'm considering turning the pants into high-waisted tapered trousers. And the shoulders of the jackets need altering so I don't look like Frankenstein.

Most importantly: new fascination with magazine clutches! Basically an oversized clutch that isn't all floppy and dead, and will pretty much fit about 2 Vogues... maybe 3. Like a laptop case, but cooler.

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"Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on."

Some of Tommy Ton's coverage outside the Spring Couture shows in Paris.

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Givenchy Spring Couture 2010.

Givenchy's details, dare I say it, were as good as Chanel's if not better. The layers, colours, cuts and fabrics - amazing. I love this season's look at gradients - shall have to invest in some :)

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P.S. Blogger was messing with the quality of my images :) So I pulled one of my sideways tricks again.

"... an electronic flash in my head at five o'clock one morning."

Chanel, Chanel - perhaps Karl's first ever collection with no navy or black. Romanticism, space age, and intense amount of hand-worked optical illusion on the tiniest scale - take, for example, the ruffled skirts and dresses that took a significant chunk of the show: the edges of each tier were frayed just slightly, then hand-tinted in such a way that it looked almost like fur. Similarly, lots of playing with textures went on - molten, frothy, liquid... and embroidery that looked like shattered glass. Snaps to stylists too - all the jewellery somehow worked itself into the clothing, so it was hard to tell if it was accessoire or embellishment. And would you look at those collars!

One thing. Make that two. The whole time, I kept thinking of Zac Posen's 'naughty Minnie' hair from Fall 2008. Two: is it just me, a trick of light (quite possible) or nothing at all, or did Mr Karl pull a softer metallic Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2009? I'm talking tights here. Not just tights. The tights I'm still hunting for 10 months on. *sigh*

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