style is everywhere in the streets

Hello lovers, 'inspiration' time! Let's have a look on some street style. I love this world, different styles everywhere in the streets. I think that the whole magic lies on the fact that through your style, you express yourselves. Be creative! Use your imagination + taste in fashion. Show who you are, wear what pictures your inner world, your inner beliefs, your inner soul and your character. This is style. We all know the famous quote of Chanel: "Fashion fades. Style remains", so be stylish not fashionable. When you have style, everyone remembers you. When you are fashionable, some people at sometime will forget you because what is in fashion will soon be unfashionable. 

There is a very thin line between the two, but what matters is to have style, rather than wearing the latest fashionable trend. Your style defines who you are and your lifestyle generally. Instead, the habit of following fashion as it is offered to you, defines your naivety and the lack of a personality. Watch fashion shows, read magazines, be updated with street styles, fashion blogs and trends. All these can be your source of inspiration, so you can be able to use your imagination and create something unique, special, different and something which would be made by you. Be real and express yourselves freely, without hesitation. Some may talk about you. because they'll probably admire you, some don't care anyway and some may be inspired by you! 

Peace. x

A

In Milan we are!

Hello lovers!! Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, are you ready to travel to Milan??? Try to picture the town and its world during those stylish days when the designers' fashion shows for Fall 2013/2014 ready-to-wear collections took place. Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Fendi and Versace are some of the fashion shows I will focus on! Enjoy your trip!

Versace

Fendi

Gucci

Dolce & Gabbana

So what do you think? Class or Trash? Love it or Hate it? And we're not over yet. Here are some of the main characters who were presented in Milan's fashion show. The style was in the streets, as usual. Have a quick look on some photos of Milan's street style during those fab days. So fab, so good!!!!!

Peace. x

A

Spring is nature's way of saying 'Let's party'

Salut mes amours, here's a new post concerning Spring 2013 ready-to-wear collections. There are six days left until winter is officially gone. We must be ready to welcome spring 2013 with bright colours, happy moods and stylish outfits. Robin Williams has said the quote "Spring is nature's way of saying 'Let's party'", and he is so right. Once spring arrives everything is bright, colourful, sun is shining, clean blue sky..colours everywhere; thus as human beings - participants in nature's party - we must be dressed appropriately with colours. So, before going shopping have a look to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Ready, Set, Go.. 

Dean and Dan Caten (DSQUARED2) focused on the biker hats, the pearls and gold chains and the super-leggy silhouette. The runway was loaded with bankable merchandise of the kind that Dsquared² specializes in: shrunken leather jackets, even shrunken-er denim shorts with cheeky lace insets, an LBD with corset detailing, cropped schoolboy blazers, and a leopard-print party dress topped by bondage straps with hearts in place of O rings. All in all, a fun, sexy ride.

DSQUARED2

If Nicolas Ghesquière didn't invent the heritage brand reinvention, has certainly mastered the art. The cut—the way Ghesquière merged things that were quite graphic with movement. He set the provocative tone with the first model's midriff-baring molded bra and high-waisted pants. And from there, he came out swinging, slitting long black skirts almost to the hipbone and edging them with deep ruffles, the undersides of which were white. The ruffles nearly pulsed as the models strutted down the narrow aisles, in sharp contrast to the crisp cropped cape tops and T-shirts. Asymmetric, almost togalike skirts, so abbreviated they required shorts underneath, pushed the leggy theme further, and even Ghesquière's sensible pantsuits (more office-appropriate than anything in last season's office collection, ironically) were paired with those daring bra tops. "It's the most sensual collection I've ever done," Nicolas Ghesquière stated for the Balenciaga Spring 2013 rtw collection.

Balenciaga

Olivier Rousteing dug into the Latin theme, calling out Cuba as an inspiration backstage and using its black-and-white tile floors and wicker chairs as reference points. They rematerialized on his Balmain runway as graphic harlequin prints in the spirit of Gianni Versace and as dresses painstakingly created from basket-woven raffia. Rousteing's other touchstone: the early-nineties heyday of Linda Evangelista and her fellow glamazons, working major shoulders and men's trousers with high waists for photographers like Peter Lindbergh and Steven Meisel.

Balmain

Everything about bees was an endlessly rewarding inspiration for Sarah Burton's new Alexander McQueen collection. Forget the obvious—she has, after all, proved herself the McQueen Bee with a spectacular string of buzzy fashion coups. Instead, think about a honey-based color palette, plus the patterning possibilities of comb, plus the frisson of the bee sting, plus the salient fact that Burton is an expectant mother.

Alexander McQueen

In this fashion show we distinguish the progressively more elaborate iterations of the classic trench—from purest white through ruched pink and ombréd fuchsia to coppery lace and feathers—should earn the coat an Oscar for versatility. The finale featured trenches of many colors, "so intense," said the designer, "you could wring them out." Bailey claimed he wanted to communicate "a very British glamour." For him, that appeared to reach its apex sometime in the 1940s. Here, there were tap shorts, peplums, wedge heels, slinky pencil skirts with kick pleats—and those capes and corsets, of course. That says something about where Burberry, whose history is so rooted in the practical, is headed—toward escapism.

Burberry Prorsum

In this show, Phoebe Philo presented the Céline woman who is stylish and elegant in a dishabille way. We see black, slightly oversize, trousers slightly half mast, not too perfect. And then there were the shoes: black fur-lined sandals in a Birkenstock vein, and that fur looked like mink with the models' glossy red toenails nestled in it. The shoes were key to this collection: furry, witty, unhinged. In a mostly black and white offering, they disrupted any notion of sobriety. Predominantly flat—yet with some also rather remarkable fur-covered stilettos—they were fuzzy flashes of color, fun, and oddness.

Céline

The silhouette was dominated by an A-line or a bolero. Lagerfeld loved the skirt dress—pulled up in a bustier style—as opposed to the shirtdress. Karl claimed his three-dimensional cutouts in chiffon dresses were designed to introduce airiness to volume. "Normally they don't go together," Lagerfeld offered. Maybe it was that desire for lightness—in what has been an often dark season—that also saw him shelve the braid, the buttons, and the chains in favor of a liberal scattering of pearls. At that show Karl said that "energy is the most important thing in life, the rest comes later."

Chanel

What's an Emilio Pucci collection without any print? Peter Dundas filtered his style signatures through the lens of Vietnam. The designer, who was not shy about using the occasional military reference as well as traditional Asian motifs, showed bomber jackets (some embroidered with the house logo), sheer veiling, tattoo embroideries, and one unmissable cargo jacket-cum-kimono with lavish stitch work inside and out. And in fact the collection wasn't completely devoid of archival prints, even if they weren't the focus. This time, he layered a woodblock motif over the vintage find to make it modern, and used it for a bomber and matching pajama pants, as well as for a long evening dress with lace inset above the bust and a sexy cutout below it.

Emilio Pucci

The designer mentioned the perspective of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel as a reference point for the way that dresses were multiple lengths—or shorts had pannierlike pockets— so that your eye was drawn into them. Same effect with the black and colored borders that "framed" the clothes. The idea was apparently three-dimensionality. Alos note that there was something more sculptural than painterly about the silhouettes. And if all of that sounds a bit much for a fashion show on a Saturday morning in Milan, you should also know that the clothes in this particular Fendi show were a lot of fun. The leather coat with the upside-down F for Fendi was the cleverest piece of Russian Constructivist branding we'll see all season; and the bags and shoes should keep kids entertained for hours. One pair, for instance, arrives with a set of uppers that will allow you to compose your footwear at will, Lego-like. And by hand, of course.

Fendi

Gucci

This Gucci show set a late-sixties/early-seventies vibe and a feel-good mood that Frida Giannini called "aristographic." "I love to play with color for Spring," Giannini said backstage, and play she did. In addition to that bright pink, there was cobalt, citrus yellow, coral, and turquoise, each one as vibrant as the next and worn head-to-quite-literally-toe with sunglasses, bags, and shoes matched to outfits. It wasn't subtle, but subtlety, at least in terms of palette, wasn't the designer's game this season. Plastic necklaces and earrings were designed to look, as she put it, "like fake Liz Taylor." Silhouette was a big story. Tunic and trouser combinations have been getting major play lately, and Giannini is positioning herself as a serious proponent for Spring. She believes in ruffles—tracing the single sleeve of a column dress, arcing around the shoulders and down the back of another, adding major drama to an otherwise quite minimal V-neck gown. Cutouts also played a starring role, upping the provocation factor and giving these polished clothes a modern update. Giannini looked east for the collection's prints but not in any obvious way. A karung motif was stamped on a crisp Japanese paper fabric and the floral was inspired by Japanese wallpaper.

Gucci

Marc Jacobs made a fab show. The mod, sixties-ish shapes, the eye-grabbing checks, all those miles of legs gliding around on sharp little heels. The girls walked out in pairs—models of efficiency! The show's starting point was the columns arranged in a grid whose three different heights suggested the show's three lengths—mini, midi, and maxi. The floral embroideries were stitched in mini-squares, and the house's iconic Speedy bag got cubed, too. The checks gave this collection a graphic immediacy not unlike that of Jacobs' signature line in New York, where stripes ruled. A flash of flat tummy between bandeau top and maxi skirt and hipbones jutting out from a cropped jacket and a lean pencil skirt ensured that the collection didn't feel cold, despite its comparative lack of emotion. The sunshine yellow worked its optimistic magic, too.

Louis Vuitton

Rodriguez dug into color for Spring: a blood orange sheath was bisected down the front and across the waist in brick; a teal and moss green crepe dress came with laminated-wood paillette embroidery; and one of those muscle tees was embellished with dense swirls of brick, marigold, and black beads. And then there was the sex. Rodriguez spliced shirts all the way down to the navel, and cropped the underpinning below the bust to reveal several provocative inches of midriff. He placed an arrowhead-shaped cutout at the solar plexus of an otherwise demure ivory silk sleeveless shift.

Narciso Rodriguez

"Dream is forbidden, nostalgia is forbidden, to be too sweet is not good. Everything we used to feel historically, now you can't enjoy. The clothes are the expression of this impossible dream." Miuccia Prada stated backstage talking about sentiment and feeling. She opened with a short black dress in stiff satin, a panel print of two flowers stitched to the torso. There were only a handful of looks that followed that didn't have some sort of florals blooming on them: A white fur coat (for Spring!) was inset with Andy Warhol's Pop art daisies in red (adding to the sixties feeling was the collection's whiff of Courrèges). A black satin coat, meanwhile, was embroidered with papery origami blossoms. Still, the clothes had a spareness that worked like a balm after seasons of endless prints. The collection moved from dark to light. By the end, Prada was manipulating, folding, and wrapping duchesse satin in palest pink and green to evoke the ritual of kimono dressing. Prada explained that the Japanese element came late in the design process. "I wanted it to be tough and serious," she said. "All the folding was a consequence." Duchesse satin tough? Again there was that duality. There was poetry to these clothes, but walking the runway in either towering Harajuku girl platforms or leather judo socks bound with patent leather bows—flats in both cases, Prada pointed out—the models exuded power too. Leave it to Miuccia to tweak nostalgia into something that felt modern and new.

Prada

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez presented Sleeveless dresses collaged from squares of exotic skins and leather; oversize, slouching-forward coats in perforated leather bonded to jersey that was laser-cut, then crocheted back together; and Gerhard Richter-inspired jacquards cut into a boxy cropped jacket and an A-line skirt. The most energetic pieces came toward the end: photoprints are a dime a dozen on the runways, but McCollough and Hernandez found a new way to work them. By cutting them on the bias into strips, then stitching them diagonally across the torso, found images like crowd scenes and kids in a pool looked almost abstract. Pushing their experiments even further, some of those dresses were embroidered with flat colored studs on the bodice and silver grommets at the hem.

Proenza Schouler

Peace. x

A

must-have basics

Salut lovers, I guess it is very difficult for somebody to find the perfect outfit and be awesome every single day. Nevertheless, there are some must-have basics that every closet should have, so we can look professional but stylish. Once we have these essentials in our wardrobe, it is much more easier to create a total fab look, as the beginning is the half of the whole. Begin creating your look with one of the following must-have basics, and you'll see that you are already ready to get out and conquer the world. Here we go:

The little black dress (LBD): The most important piece in your closet. Find a little black dress that suits your shape best and don't hesitate to spend some money on it, because you won't regret it. LBD is timeless, very chic and goes everywhere at any time. Karl Lagerfeld stated that "One is never over- or under-dressed with a little black dress." - totally correct!

A blazer: Always fashionable trend, classic and indeed very sexy - don't underestimate it. Choose the one which fits you well and has the right length for your body size.

A classic trench coat: I assume all fashionistas love the famous timeless Burberry trench coat. Well, a trench coat is really elegant and it is best in black, beige or navy.

Faux-fur: Put on a faux-fur gilet or coat and you will be effortless fabulous and warm, as well. Fur is so chic, so classic and stylish. You cannot go wrong with faux-fur. Even if you wear it with ur PJs, u'll still be fab.

Denim: Must-have!!! Who can live without jeans? Oh, jeans jeans jeans, I could talk about jeans per hours. We can wear jeans everywhere, except the lawyers or the accountants in their office. Despite that circumstance, jeans go everywhere at anytime. We can wear jeans from the morning until the night. The most flexible piece of somebody's wardrobe. We all look great in jeans, as long as we match them with something good, because jeans can really make our figure look its best when they fit perfectly. 

Statement jewellery: You can wear a statement necklace with a more minimalist outfit. It is guaranteed that a simple and nice outfit with a statement jewellery is always a fab outfit. Don't forget that the details make the difference. By adding a statement jewellery in a simple outfit, you automatically create a simple, special and at the same time rich and stylish outfit. 

Heels: Marilyn Monroe was definitely right when she said that all women owe a lot to the one who invented high heels. Give a woman Loubis, Zanotti, Choo, Manolo, Olympia, Fendi, Dior, Chanel shoes and she will show you how powerful she is so as to conquer the world. Personally, if I had a Carrie Bradshaw closet (see Sex and the City 2), I would be the happiest person in the world. I don't ask much, just heels.

Leathers: one of the sexier pieces that must be in our closets. Always timeless and necessary during Winter time. Leather shorts, shkirts, blazer, bags, shoes, trousers, dresses. We all must have something in leather. I remember myself in a young age when I was digging out clothes from my mum's wardrobe..She had so many leather pieces since her school years. It's awesome how leather pieces never lose their worth and value in fashion industry. I just love them!

A pencil skirt: A pencil skirt is necessary to create a smart and at the same time sexy look. Either you are at work, or out for drinks, or at a restaurant, a pencil skirt can make you look sexy, smart, fabulous and stunning. But, be careful to choose a pencil skirt that fits your body shape and emphasize your curves. 

A white blouse and/or shirt: All time classic and basic in a closet. You can wear it almost with everything for any occasion as long as you mix it and match it right.

Some of us may think that these are not the only must-have basics in one's closet. I totally understand it, because this is my opinion as well. There are soooooo many pieces that are must-have, but this always depends on the taste of each one of us. For example, in my case, I want everything in my closet. Every little piece is a must-have for me as I am emotionally connected to it. I know I may look greedy but I am never satisfied, all the time I want to renew my wardrobe with new things that become must-have in the end. But, I just talked about the standards, timeless, classic, essentials pieces that all, without any doubt, must have in their closets.

p.s. Try not to be a fashion don't, but a fashion do. Fashion police is everywhere.

Stay tuned for more upcoming posts!

Peace. x

A