12 Oct 2010

That certain sense of style




There's a certain sense of style that some girls are just born with. We can buy as many shoes, read as many fashion magazines and copy the latest trends as much as we like, but that innate sense of style is only gifted to a certain few. I'm talking about those girls who can leave the house without a scrap of makeup, their hair touseled this way and that, wearing a simple check shirt and jeans with one hem rolled up haphazordly and still turn heads.
Celebrity wise, Clemence Posey and Lea Seydoux, and Stevie of Discotheque Confusion fame spring to mind. These are girls who don't need an hour to get ready. A change from day to night usually requires a smear of red lipstick and a pair of lace-up heeled boots pulled on their feet as they leave the house. Nothing that they wear looks too 'put together' and thought about. There's nothing flashy, nothing sparkly, nothing that craves your attention. But that plain cotton shirt, those woolly black tights, the vintage jumpers, the simple skirts, everyday blue jeans, the hair bands casually pulled over the wrists in the place of bracelets .... take another glance at this girl and she'll be the one in the room that you most want to be like.



Photographs: The Cobra Snake, Mina Volimaline, Milagr (flickr)

11 Oct 2010

Colour Combinations






Camel, bright blue, grey, khaki and black

Photographs via Jeanne's blog

Style Inspirations



















Inspiration for October dressing: Thick woolly jumpers, camel coloured coats, messy buns, plaid shirts, heeled lace-up boots, straight-leg jeans with turn-ups, chanel earrings, vintage brogues, red lips, grey jumpers, full eyebrows


Photographs: freja beha, dublin streets, natalie off duty, panache, sarah lauren, via daughter of the soho riots, viktor vauthier, way beyond fabric, lina di moda, le portillon, la min ya net, julia, jak and jil, unknown, unknown, concoction, clemence posey

7 Oct 2010

Paris Fashion Week: Carven

















Without a doubt, this is how I want to dress next Summer. Guillaume Henry presented a collection that was the epitome of quirky French chic. Looking back over his previous two collections (the revival of the label is only very recent), the Peter Pan collar and a chic-yet-playful attitude seem to be a constant theme. Pretty button-up blouses are teamed with tailored shorts and sleek blazers. A dress with the hems trailing down comes in a stunning pattern or a simple baby blue. A black and white shift dress featuring a city scene comes with a removable collar. There's a beautiful beige coat with a pouffy skirt that I would take over a standard trench anyday. And the shoes! The black bows are reminiscent of the Louis Vuitton bunny ear headpieces from 2009. This is a very Parisienne collection, that should be worn with black sheer tights, mussed up hair and minimal makeup - just a smudgen of lip stain.

4 Oct 2010

Grace and Lauren






















Grace and Lauren are two 20-year-old American girls who made a list last December of everything that they wanted to do this year. Their adventures are documented on 35mm film, to be found in an array of places all over the internet.

The friends dress in misfitting long vintage dresses, leather jackets, doc marten boots and wear garlands of flowers round their hair as they travel from forests to beaches to deserts.

I'm hooked.

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