Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may...

Right now I'm craving wedges and blazers... So I thought I'd make a nice little Polyvore set including some of the things I would buy if I was rich. :)

WWS Wedge booties, Proenza Schouler blazer, Topshop vest, DKNY skinny jeans, Chanel clutch, Lavin necklace, Chanel Trapeze nail polish


Oh and this coat from the On Aura Tout Vu Spring 2010 Haute Couture collection! :D
That is all :)

dany atrache: "the theme is tattoos"

Instead of going to bed, naturally, I sat up tonight watching Midnite Haute on FashionTV. A lot of the Spring couture shows seem to be repetitive, with themes running so strongly through collections that some pieces look almost the same as the ones before (George Chakra, sadly, being one of them; his collection was really disappointing…*)

One of the collections that struck me as original and very beautiful was Dany Atrache's. There was a lot of frill, lace, and sequins, which to me are always a big yes's anyway, and of course the pastels and nude colours with black... But there were some splashes of colour, delicate blues, pinks and greens brought vibrancy to the mostly cream, gold and silver theme, which really seemed to pull the pieces together and make the collection as a whole really beautiful. I loved the use of sheer paneling amidst the tattoo inspired designs, which somehow managed to remain demure.



I really love this jumpsuit, with the ravishing ruffled sleeves and sheer body.


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The intricate detailing on some of the dresses was just amazing; it's hard to imagine handcrafting such fine work... Just thinking about all the tiny stitches for each little sequin is exhausting.

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* Saying that, I would treasure any piece of couture forever if I had one; being in the poorhouse like I am – one cannot afford to be picky :(

you think you're peter pan, michael, but you're not

I don't know if it's because I'm a completely hopeless romantic, but I found Elie Saab's ethereal Spring Couture 2010 runway devastatingly beautiful. I love the delicate designs, the fairy-princess sway of the enormous skirts of half the dresses, the pastel colours, and Karlie Kloss.

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I love the way it seems almost as though a watercolour artist was set loose on the precious fabrics, and the way you can almost hear the swish of the dresses brushing against skin as the models walk, even as the moments are frozen by camera. I love the glistening runway, reflecting the light like water and rippling in the same fashion, as though to immortalise the models and cast them in a holy glow.

I know style.com think it's "a bit too fantasy-prom" but the extravagance of it all makes me feel all excitable, like when I was a little girl oggling over immensely flowery Laura Ashley dresses; I just want to feel the fabric slip through my fingers and wear it even in the most inappropriate weather until I move onto the next coveted clothing item.

all that glitters is not gold.

Karl Lagerfield does silver for Chanel Couture Spring 2010! And I am in love!!!

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It's like romanticism meets robots who wear chiffon and shimmery silver tights. They somehow counter the space-age harshness of the chunky silver boots and square-shouldered tailoring with soft folds of satin, and the gowns seem to just float around the models, draping luxuriously over their shoulders. I want it all!

a few of my favourite things.

Now that I'm free from English coursework for say... a week? until I have to start my next piece, I thought I'd invest some real time into looking at the Pre-Fall 2010 Collections that I haven't had much time to stare at wistfully yet.

One day, when I am rich and powerful, I will own some amazing pieces hot off the catwalk and God will see that it is good.

A few of my favourite pieces from pre-fall so far:

L-R: Proenza Schouler, Valentino, Giambattista Valli, Nina Ricci, Nina Ricci, Burberry Prorsum

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I really love the Burberry Prorsum Belt, they've used it in most of the collection images and it just seems to bring all the outfits together nicely. I also really love the Proenza Schouler shorts and boots, for the same reason. I love loads of other pieces but at the moment these are the ones standing out to me. I also really love like all of the Balenciaga tights (yay two-toned!)

and...

I want a paperclip head like on the Giles runway :D

how do you like my ufo?

Seriously too tired to even function.

Here's a nice little anecdote from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol (duh) for you:

"People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn't have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it."

SKILLS

Apparently in my last post I wrote like Chuck Palahniuk. Win!

... That is all :)

Cravings.

My money spending is unstoppable recently, it's getting pretty bad... I drew out my last tenner yesterday so that I have some money on me if I need to catch the bus or something but I don't plan on using it otherwise, since I won't have any more until the very end of January.

I think it's all this cold weather, ice and snow. It's depressing and I am seeking solace in the Sales racks. In the past week (week!) I've purchased an oversized white tshirt with dark navy stripes and a puffy silver shiny skirt from River Island; I'm always going in there to make eyes at all the pretty clothes but I've never actually bought anything from there before because it's usually out of my price range (sad). I've bought a lace print jersey dress from asos.com, which I am in love with, the rose coloured Topshop tights pictured in one of my previous posts, a fitted black blazer and a dark beetroot-red silk tunic/dress from the New Look sales. I also bought Michael Bublé's Call Me Irresponsible album, and Jason Mraz's We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things album (finally, after listening to it on a loop for months on Spotify), and Paris Je T'aime... and I ordered The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Dans Paris from play.com ... Oh! and 4 new pairs of shoes...


I sound like a shopaholic.
I probably am a shopaholic.
The first stage of getting over a problem is admitting you have one.

I am no longer going to spend money. At least for the time being, since I have none. Haha!
I do really love the new stuff that I've bought, so I'll probably post some pictures soon of me wearing some of it :) Maybe.

I know this post is becoming horrifyingly long but I'm in a chatty mood and since this is for my own pleasure and no one will ever read it (except, of course, you, my beloved imaginary reader) I'm going to write as much as I feel like.

Today, Bee and I watched the end of Series 5 of Gilmore Girls and the first 3 episodes of the sixth series (which is so far, depressing and infuriating) and I must have been in a hungry mood because everything they ate on the show seemed delicious to me, and made me crave donuts, and I texted my mum 5 times in around 2 hours, and all the texts concerned food, 3 of which included pleas for her to buy donuts. So I got home for tea and ate pizza and donuts and I seriously don't think I've ever been this full in my life (except for the other day when Bee and I ate Rolo ice cream with Baileys, or the time we ate an entire 12" pizza and 2 portions of cheesy chips between us before Photography, or... well, you get the point) but I feel incredibly satisfied. We watched Paranormal Activity too and my mum and aunty actually screamed, it was hilarious! Today was a good day.

I really want chocolate milkshake...

So far, so good?

Even with my Biology and Chemistry end-of-module exams coming up (Tuesday and Thursday of this week, eek!) I've really found no motivation whatsoever to revise. Instead, I've been at Bee's house, watching Gilmore Girls, eating incredible amounts of chocolate and other goodies and drinking Bailey's with ice.

The snow has still been falling with a vengeance in the North of England and is supposed to continue through to the end of next week, so you can imagine how disagreeable it has become to leave the house... I've had my bouts of playfulness, culminating in perhaps an hour in the snow before my extremities and I deeply regret it and return indoors to thaw, and it's getting a little depressing, if I'm honest. All I ever feel like doing is curling up in bed/on the sofa with my duvet, watching films or reading (and that is in fact all I've been doing). In the winter all I can think about it wearing thick, oversized jumpers, with thick tights, drinking cup after cup of hot tea. I don't want to deal with make up, or my hair... Especially when they're both ruined mere moments after stepping out of the door.

I suppose what I'm rambling about and trying to say is that I am so over Winter now. Roll on Spring!

tights.

2 posts in 1 day?! This is craziness! Insanity! How did this happen?!
Well... I was reading Garance Doré's blog and she hates tights. I lovelovelove Garance and she is seriously one of the most amusing creatures ever but I feel the need to sing the praises of one of my wardrobe staples.

I love tights. I wear them most days, regardless of the weather (I am possibly one of the most inappropriate person when it comes to dressing for the weather: it snows, I wear tights and a jumper dress; it's 30c? I sport jeans.) I own pairs in a huge variety of colours, I own patterned ones, knitted design ones (like the adorable Calvin Klein pair my mum got me from TK Maxx as a surprise), and still I want more.
I ordered 2 pairs from topshop.com the other day in cherry and mustard but, devastatingly, they were out of stock. One of my new favourite things is to wear dark coloured tights (purple or french navy preferably) under fishnets. I stole the idea from the mannequins in the Next window displays and it actually makes your legs feel warmer, weirdly enough.

I just wanted to stick up for them a little bit, because even if sometimes they slip down, or get laddered from wear and tear (or the tiniest snag from your dog jumping up) they are the best thing a girl could have most of the time, and if you love them, they love you back. They make me brave enough to wear shorts or mini dresses that I would not otherwise wear (I only wear leggings if I really have to, and they look bad with shorts anyway)... and I love them, so there. :)

I'll stop ranting now. Garance did remind me of something else, though, and that's that I didn't make any New Year's Resolutions :( So here goes;

01 continue to eat less and exercise more
02 write more
03 make time for my friends and family
04 finish gilmore girls
05 watch as many french arthouse films as possible
06 learn french

;)

i miss writing

I wish I had more time on my hands. Even though I spend most of my time doing nothing, it feels like the hours move by too quickly and that I never actually get around to doing the things that I planned on doing in the first place.

I have exams for Biology and Chemistry like next week, and so far I've done very minimal revision. However, this revision is my excuse for not writing anything fictional, or posting on here (something that could possibly be beneficial to me if only I could do it regularly enough), or taking photos... Anything that I enjoy, basically.

Kaitlyn, my amazing American friend, and I have however been doing some more writing, finally! , together. Our collaberation (nicknamed 'the awesome' because we're just that egotistical ;) ) is currently around 26000 words long and is probably my proudest achievement to date, but even that has been thrown to the sidelines on so many occasions because I just have no motivation to write anything, ever. In fact, I have no motivation what-so-ever.

I suppose we all have our creative blocks, and mine is just an extremely long one. Hopefully I'll get back into the flow of things after my exams are over...


On another note...

Our Photography homework for next week is to find a style of portrait you would like to take of yourself, so that a partner can recreate it using you as the model. Bee, my closest friend, and I were playing in the studio with lighting in darkness and I took this portrait of her...

I quite like it :) ... I'll post the results of next week's photoshoot here and hopefully they'll be as good, if not better, given that we'll have more time to prepare and they won't be just products of boredom and play like this. I'm hoping to get Baby Harry (my little brother) into the studio soon too, so that should be good fun and result in cuteness overload, with his little chubby cheeks and stormy blue eyes.

Enough rambling...

Bye x