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.


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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
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