portfolio project coming up

Today is day that I accidentally stumbled upon my good old blog. Funny how time flies and I almost forgot about the fact that a blog of mine even existed. The content I posted two years ago seem so out of fashion right now, literally, but the layout still looks appealing to me. Why did I give this up in the first place?

I don't like announcing things. It just feels good to write, excuse me, type again. I've been drawing, I've been studying for university and I've been trying to grow up a bit. Did I succeed at all these? No. I mostly failed at growing up, but the rest is good. In my absence I had a bit of depression, I gained some weight, I grew my hair out very very long and I almost dropped out of university. But also in my absence, I healed myself from the psychological disease, I did yoga and I am planning to get my hair cut really short. Maybe even so short that I can donate the leftover hair to people with cancer.

Most importantly, I've decided to pursue my dream. Currently, I am doing a portfolio for a design course and I couldn't be happier. Life starts the moment you realize what you really want is reachable and totally doable. So I am searching for people with outfits that inspire me and will put together outfits that I personally like to wear most. So much motivation in this moment I haven't had for a long time!


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grunge isn't dead, yet

So I see that Hedi Slimane got bashed hard lately? Right now I am wearing a cheap black goat leather jacket and typing some words to his defense. Yves Saint Laurent was undoubtedly one of the greatest fashion designers of all time and the house of ysl is a legacy to be protected. But how does that interfere with Hedi Slimane's designs? Have any of you looked close enough?

"Yves Saint Laurent was obsessed with the youth and so is Hedi Slimane.", a comment I read on Style.com that I feel the strong need to agree with. YSL is not THE fashion house representing the core value of French elegance, it has rather been Dior and Chanel and ________ (please insert any other brand that comes to your mind at the current moment). Yves was an uncommon designer, a ground-breaking one, a provocative one. He made a dress straight from a painting, he decided women can wear a tuxedo, even his perfume screams perversity: OPIUM! Now that's what I call scandalous.

Yes, you might find a decent over-sized flannel shirt even at Hennes&Mauritz, but it is the true rebellious fashion spirit that you can only find at Hedi Slimane's designs. What is the real difference between high fashion and fast fashion? Nowadays the differences are getting smaller aren't they? When Zara is continuously pushing its studio lines with wannabe-clean cuts and Saint Laurent Paris is doing the aforementioned flannel shirt, you'll start fearing something. What you should know is that not only do the fabric quality matter, but also the inspiration behind the fashion. A shirt that was made with a youthful spirit and a shirt that tries to imitate the spirit are two not so identical shirts. Bear in mind that fashion is about showcasing personality and practicality and should reflect our current world in some kind of way. Hedi Slimane's fw2013 collection for SLP had all the points fulfilled. 

At the end of the day, "high" fashion really doesn't only stand for crazy chiffon Christmas trees we've seen at Alexander McQueen's under Sarah Burton's reign, the word "high" rather stands for the effort, the inspirational thoughts, the emotions, the time a designer puts in his designs and at SLP I felt the Hedi's input.

Seriously though, here are the looks that I love:

(all images above from the internet)

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ss 2013 ad campaigns round-up

I thought it'd be entertaining if I do a 'love or loathe' on the ad campaigns of the big fashion houses that are out now. Since I didn't quite like the idea of every big brand doing pre-fall collections, I didn't even catch up with all the collections that are out there. The reason for that is simple, pre-fall lookbooks are oftentimes way too commercial or too out of context. Pre-fall collections are superluous in my eyes basicly because their main goal is to fill the gap between the spring summer season and the actual fall season. I remember louis vuitton's last pre-fall collection, which was cute, pretty and wearable but had nothing to do with lv's regular rtw customers: the grannies (remember lv fall 2012?). But it was cute, this I have to admit. 

Moving on to the main subject of this post, the advertising campaigns of ss 2013! Here are the ones that I love:

Miu Miu

Balenciaga

Prada

Saint Laurent Paris

Ready to spread some critics? These campaigns are the ones that I loathe:

Burberry

Burberry being on top of my loathe list has its reasons. Firstly, I didn't get the cheeky young boy laughing crazily at serious-looking, provocatively-showcasing-bare-thighs models situation. Secondly, the fact the british brand only uses british people in its ads makes the campaigns way too predictable and old-fashioned, in a negative sense. Thirdly, I still don't quite get Romeo Beckham's role in the ad campaign, despite the fact that his parents are uk's most famous celebrities.d

Kenzo

Kenzo,seriously? This human X-pose was refreshing last time. Now it only makes people wonder how often this will recur. And by the way, kenzo was more elegant once up a time!

What are your favorites and least favorites this season? Let me know.


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horrifying trench coat

My mom has just accepted a horrendous metall buttons-embellished trench coat in black polyester, which makes me ask God why my dearest ones often make terrible terrible sartorial choices.

By asking myself this, I've also realised that maybe her not-so-fashion-forward thinking influenced me to somehow get interested in fashion at an early age. Every girl knows what I am talking about here: in our adolescence, there always comes a phase where our rebellious nature defeats our obedient side, which means we simply do not want to dress to please our moms anymore. I started young experimenting with darker colors because, well, my mother hated black and grey on me. In addition to that, there was a time when I only wore skin-tight clothes, because my mom did not approve it, which again made me very happy about tight shirts and jeans. Truth is, I don't even like skinny clothing that much, but the thought of being completely different than one's own mother was too tempting and too good.

What I'm trying to say here is that mothers and even grandmothers (the people we grew up with) do not only play an important role in our lives, but also influence the way we dress. Of course, there are loads of influential factors out there that shaped our styles, but opinions from mom has always weighed very much.

But let's go back to the weirdly tailored silver buttoned trench coat, which makes me wanna take a photo and put it on this blog to let the fashionable audience judge its ugliness. Yet, I decided not to do so at the last minute. I did come up with another more creative idea to draw the trenchcoat, which turned out to be an exhausting experience that took a bit too long...

All in all, my mom owns way too many unwearable/unbearable pieces in her closet and I just have to get over it. I understand that there are people, surprisingly but also female people who are really not interested in fashion. At all. And that's okay! God bless them.

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