blood red nails

I love a good manicure (honestly who does not?). Getting the nails done is probably the most relaxing and affordable thing ever. The girl at the the nailsplace asked to me pick a color and I resisted all the hot/in trend shades like the neon pinks, moustards and greens and blues and went for a classic red red red. Recently I've watched a Youtube video about all the red shades there are. Isn't it interesting that the human eyeball is able to identify ten thousands of colors if not more? However I cannot tell what kinda red this OPI lacquer is. Is it a little pinkish? I've no idea. I'll just call it blood red (I know, I know, true blood is of a darker red).

By the way, to everyone who reads Chinese or does not, the book underneath is the "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami, an author loved by a dear friend, who happens to be the one that sent me this postcard.

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pleather pleated

crochete top found in a small shop, a random pleather skirt,

Jeffrey Campbell shoes, vintage CD bag, Michael Kors watch

Photo credits: JJ

If someone still hasn't got the (p)leather trend this season, he/she must be a great, giant fashion outcast. It's seen everywhere, literally: on the streets, in the stores, everywhere! The whole trend started -as I'd believe- on the Fall/Winter 2012 runways, where not only the fashion houses that are known to bring out spectacular all-leather-looks like Givenchy, Mugler and Rick Owens (yeah those dark and sensual ones), but also less tougher brands like Alberta Ferretti and Fendi were carrying clothes fully made of leather.

While I was typing the above sentence that is way too long to sound correct in English language, I was verbally pronouncing the word "leather" a couple of times. And by a couple of times, I'm indicating 10 times+, which led to inarticulateness. Ah leather, how I love you, but can't easily pull you off!

Below my take on the leather hype this fall, a pleated pleather skirt with some leather ankle boots that have huge hidden platforms, a little tacky, but comfortable to walk in and very very fun!

As you can probably tell, by the time I was photographed in this outfit, the grass was still green. Now it's of a yellowish mid-fall color, not the prettiest shade but hey, the golden leaves are coming! Kinda sad the weekend slowy comes to an end, but like all weekends, they come again in a few days. Have a hard working week people!

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wild patterns

Now to be very honest, I am not one of the wildest girl my friends would know. Yet it is interesting, even to me, to see how I put together daring outfits. Like this one. It basicly screams: LEOPAAAARRDDDD!

Mix and match is an essential factor to look chic thesedays where fashion trends spread so freaking quickly. Like everyone is "on trend" in some kind of ways, everyone owns some "in"-pieces. Highstreet brands like zara react so fast to designer runways and upcoming trends that everyone on the streets end up looking trendy, again in some kind of ways.

In order to be chic, but different, there needs to be more mix-and-matches going on. Here I paired a vintage leopard blazer with a paisley-shirt. At the bottom part, the pattern-mixing party continues to a bright-colored floral print skirt that accentuates the waist. As for the rest I sticked to black accessories with a bold golden touch on them.

vintage blazer, mango shirt, H&M skirt (all of them old)

Versace X H&M purse, zara shoes 

Photo credits: JJ

When it comes to accessories, I have this black X gold pattern (pun here!) that I've recently noticed! I tend to choose gold above any other metal color, which has definitely something to do with my yellow-undertoned skin, I believe. It's not that I don't like silver. Silver is such a cool (cool and cool) tone that sometimes looks quite pale on me.

The temperatures are falling quickly in november. Afterall it's autumn, the say-good-bye to bare legs season. No actually, even autumn slowly comes to an end, the colder days are still ahead of us.

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maison martin margiela with h&m

It's MMM with H&M, baby!

One of the most anticipated designer collaborations that H&M was ever able to achieve. Like ever! No intention of comparing MMM with any other designer collabs before, but Margiela has already done it right from the start. The annoucement was kept low-key and the collection-launch video anti-mainstream. Very annonymous, but has reached not only the anti-mainstream audience.

At first, I didn't understand why Margiela, a fashion brand that has been keeping its highly unique sartorial approaches, was collaborating with H&M, a highstreet clothing company of mass production. Well, yes, the famous Versace worked together with H&M, too, but we know that Versace needed some publicity and a more modern brand image. I was just wondering if Margiela needed the attention of the mainstream? But seeing the lookbooks (both Woman and Man) filled with the unmistakable Margiela elements like subversive tailoring and material-use, I'm again thrilled to be able to get my hands on some MMM pieces that I can actually afford.

I am in love with the idea of bringing iconic (I'm aware of the over-usage of this freakin' word!) Maison Martin Margiela looks back, by adding some new touch and tags of the year the look was released. Brilliant! You know, this is really absolutely brilliant for younger fashion lovers to be able to purchase something that first came out when they were 10! Or something about 11. Because honestly, when I was 10, I had neither an idea what Maison Martin Margiela was, nor how to pronounce these three words correctly.

Here are my favorite looks from the lookbook, a bit from the advertising campaign and some items that I crave for.

 

 

 

   

The collection is available on 15th Nov. in selected H&M store world wide, let's see if the crowd would build a queue again. Probably not, because not everyone is a fan of avantgarde fashion and the baggy style. Especially not the not so fashion-forward Viennese people.

I keep my fingers crossed that I'll be able to snatch a pair of the "invisible" plexiglass wedge pumps. Three colors to choose from (as seen above): matt-nude, glossy-red and glossy-black. Shall I go all-daring or rather stick to the classic color palette? When it comes to Margiela, I can hardly make up my mind! Long wait soon be over, glad that MMM is just around the corner.


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