The Orient visits Africa: Marie Claire South Africa December 2011

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Awww the spirit of the Orient. It has a way of touching you, capturing you and drawing you into it's richness of color and design. I've been touched. And what I get out of it is perfect magic! Enjoy!

Pleats Please!

As I scanned my closet for inspiration, I couldn't help but gawk over the blue insanely pleated skirt that hung in my closet. It is something about pleats that says wear me. Wear me for style, sophistication, romance and timelessness. Yet I still didn't have any real motivation to throw on the vintage pleated skirt until just now. From Barbara's Casasola & Vivienne Mok's soft take on pleats to the bold whimsy pieces of Gaetano Navarra, I found myself saying, "pleats please, pleats please!" as I scanned through the designer's LookBooks. I've got a new hunger to make more pleated garment's mine. Excitedly, pleats will be here for some time to come!

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Well this is just Yummy! Read Article here-->Wonderland Magazine

Spring 2012 Seafoam Spring

Seafoam Green. It is the color I fell in love with searching Japanese magazines for new interior decorating inspiration. I've been yearning to capture a more coastal mood within my home but I have to make a much softer statement. So I thought of using splashes of Seafoam Green, characteristic of the ocean, throughout my home. It's fresh light hue is the perfect shade of color when you want to be neutral. It's a not so obvious statement of neutral than when using the usual beige or white pallets. Seafoam Green is Milan's top trend in color for Spring 2012. Who wouldn't want to dream of Milan as inspiration in decorating? I also can't help but love the thought of being reminded of Mint Chocolate Ice Cream! So I've decided that it is a color I will add to my home. Here are some yummy finds inspired by this color to wear this upcoming Spring.

ACNE Lucille Taff



Anthropologie Geo Mod Shades




ASOS HYSTERIC Glitter Platform High Sandals

Keep Calm & Collage

As I prepared myself to begin writing daily about fashion again, I couldn't help but panic because I've really been "lost in the forest" for about two years now. I've placed all my time and attention into my growing boys and loving husband. I've also began to grow in a different direction in style expression and my mind has been wrapped up in that concept as well. As I frantically make my way over to Style.com, I of course make my first stop checking the latest trends of fall 2011. My eyes drawing instantly to the Collage Studies. And well, I got excited because my entire basis of changing style expression extends from my interest and love in Japan Street Fashion. In particular the Street Fashion without style boundaries.


photo-http://mamy-wonderland.blogspot.com

The unpredictable mix of shapes and colors lends for an excitable adventure scanning the outfit to conceptualize it's existence. Which is why I loved Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons collection for Fall 2011. Just reading the introduction to this Japanese clothing designer struck a note in my heart! I love her passion to experiment! Her half & half RTW collection for Fall 2011 left me bewildered. An experiment of disposing the rules to bring about new shape or form. And the result, in my opinion, was an collection both fanatical as it is wearable. Yet not for the passive hobbyist. The sheer exposure of skin and nipple speaks of her desire to break free from the rules that define modern wear. It is as if we're at an enchanting carnival that test our senses of what we believe we can wear.


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As I delighted in Rei Kawakubo's fantasy, I found my mind drifting back to Wonderland Magazine and one of their most eye popping covers for their November Issue. The cover wonderfully entitled,"Let Me Be Your Fantasy" pulled me into a world of surrealism. A whimsical collage of photographs executed magically by Elena Rendina. Her photographs has a way of pulling you into a child like atmosphere of stark, stiff-like models. The photographs exciting your senses purposely; playing on a brilliant mix of styling.





Wonderland
The Fantasy Issue
Photo by Elena Rendina
Model Charlotte Free Wowed
make-up artist Thomas De Klyvler
photos- elinarendina.com and edelscope.blogspot.com

tumbling along

Please bare with me as I try to restructure myself with the new computer I have. I no longer have all the blogs, magazines and fashion sites I researched from available in Bookmark. It will take a little time before I am able to submit articles daily. Thank you for visiting and please bookmark me or follow me to check back in with me to read my articles.

I am currently exploring the Mori Girl trend. If you are into this fashion trend please visit my tumblr http://thevelveteenfox.tumblr.com to find inspiration in your daily dress up.

Thank you for your interest in my blog!

Girls of The Forest

I guess you could say I've been hiding in the forest for a while...I've been busy building a family but I feel as though I am coming back to myself so I've decided that today will be the day that I continue practicing the art of Fashion writing.

While I have been away I've developed a new love and way of style/living for myself. I've fallen in love with the Japanese Fashion Street Trend Mori Girl.

I love the subtle colors, lace and ruffles. The hobbies and slow driven life has intrigued me. Only when I began to dress as these "Little Girls of the Forest," I realized that something had changed in me.

I began to realize that life should be taken in slowly. Slowing down and enjoying every minute of my life, I've blossomed even more as a woman! And maybe even still as a fashion writer! I am looking forward to writing again and I'm anxious to see where my mind goes when I examine fashion.

Mori Girl is all about slowing down and appreciating the beauty of this world. As oversize clothing and unrestricted silhouettes make way to my closet, slowly, I become much more comfortable in expressing myself through fashion!

There are many sub-trends of the trend itself. There are jean Mori Girls, Swamp Mori Girls, etc. As I explore, I define myself in the trend. Never has fashion influenced more than when I found Mori Girl. I am looking forward to the day when I can actually visit the towns these ladies reside in and interview them, investigating the meaning behind their expression as a Mori Girl.