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December 26, 2011

Christmas Day (#5)

Wow, so much food in two days, impressive. Spent some quality time with the loved ones, ate, drank, exchanged presents – the usual. Cooked dinner on christmas eve for the first time though and was proud of what I served to my family (here’s the recipe for the main course). Still have to make up my mind about NYE.. Hope everyone is having a good time!

Btw, this is what I wore today. A black dress with lace sleeves that I found in a box at home (I love when that happens), Zara blazer, old H&M earrings, awesome black glitter nail polish from catrice, American Apparel velvet leggings and my glittery shoes from 3suisses. As you can see, I cut my hair, I haven’t had this length since primary school or so but I like it.

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December 24, 2011

Happy Holidays!

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December 23, 2011

watch.. Givenchy roars

The making of their Fall/Winter 2011 ad campaign by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot.

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December 18, 2011

Bimba y Lola

The spanish brand with the leaping dog was always one of my favorite places to shop when in Portugal. Since I’m planning to return to Lisbon soon, I wanted to check out what they had and noticed they had an online store. I knew about their gorgeous accessories but I didn’t know they made super smart and beautiful ready-to-wear fashion (check out the coats!).

This is their christmas lookbook:

Crazy furs and envelope clutches, yay!

If this made your mouth water, go here.

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December 15, 2011

festive outfit

I’m not usually one to dress up for christmas, but if I did, I’d choose something like this:

The outfit is inspired by this editorial for Flare January 2012.

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December 13, 2011

Impressions from the Dillon concert

Last week I went to the Dillon concert. It was brilliant. She sang and played the keyboard while this tall guy worked two mac books and sound machines I know nothing about. Her voice reminds me of Lykke Li, soft and vulnerable. She’s from Brazil but calls Cologne her home, writing her own songs and playing the piano. Now her debut album “The Silence Kills” came out, featuring this Track:

Here are some impressions from the concert.

And this is what I was wearing by the way (thanks for the photo, Jo). American Apparel velvet leggings and boots from Zara.

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December 12, 2011

a whole new level

..for H&M!

Not very long ago I was part of the people who don’t buy things from H&M, claiming that things looked cheap or whenever they had something nice, everyone would be wearing it within a week.

At least since the conscious collection came out last summer, I’ve absolutely changed my mind about the swedish retail giant.

The spring 2012 collection proves H&M is more than just clothing-IKEA.

I find the asian influences very intriguing and the color palette is beautiful. My favorite piece is the white biker vest – and all the accessories and shoes!

Watch the runway video and let me know what you think.

http://vimeo.com/33535951

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December 11, 2011

to the future

I used to try to imagine what people would wear in the future. I pictured long capes, huge shoulder pads, tall boots, visors and rubber leggings (I guess I thought the 80s would still be wearable in the future).

I found this editorial Dani by Chris Nicholls for Flare (January 2012) and I thought to myself: We must be in the future.

Sure my prediction was not very accurate. But here we have a dress covered in giant sequins that look like fish scales paired with a hairy necklace, an all-over metallic look with super chunky wedges, a checkered fake fur jacket and a sequined dress with silicone applications and finally glittery shoes with a crazy pattern leggings combined with a furry skirt and a python jacket.

Brilliant styling!

If this is the future, I’m in.

Images via Tobacco & Leather

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December 10, 2011

La Donna D’oro

Fashion editorial I found on the Ben Trovato blog. There’s more here.

Photography – Jesse Koska
Styling – Aria Cavaliere
Makeup – Emily Bartholomew
Model – Rachel Ruff

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December 9, 2011

listen to.. Lana del Rey

I’ve never listened to anything like it and now I can’t stop.

Lana del Rey – Who is she?! For one totally gorgeous but I feel like she came out of nowhere. Apparently her EP got into the top 5 of the US iTunes album charts after only a couple of hours. You can download her EP “Video Games” on iTunes, there’s lots of other fantastic stuff on Youtube (like this one), go check it out.

 

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