MARGIELA

I think I've grown an obssesion towards anything high neck let it be turtlenecks or victorian collars or even these bizzare Margiela dresses. I came across these humongous and amazing pieces from their Fall 2008 runway collection as I was googling on hair-in-turtleneck picture references.

FAUX BOB

It's always nice when you return to your 'comfort zone' pieces (that's a mixture of cotton, knits, and leather for me) every once in a while. I am also obsessed with tucking hair ends, and fluffing them up into turtlenecks. I managed to create that faux bob effect in the first picture. All I need is the winter weather now..

PINK BOXES

some wardrobe detox was what I exactly needed for the past months. Thanks to the ALLEY29 BAZAAR happening this weekend at Plaza Indonesia, I finally got the push to actually dig through those dusty corners of my room. for the moment, check out my *slight* updated blog shop here for some of the items up for sale !!

MONOGRAM

When it comes to monograms, I guess that there's nothing more iconic than Louis Vuitton's "LV" logo. I remember that Speedy was the Birkin of the year 2000. So popular that replicas were sold literally on every corner of the globe (like those random street sellers in Paris & Milan who fled when police came)..
I admit that I admired those monograms for a time but when everyone was carrying them, I got tired. I stashed my monogram bags to the back of my closet until recently I felt like taking one of them out for a walk. I added the faux foxtail I purchased off ebay to give the purse a fresh feel..

STUCK IN 50s

polkadots and mid length skirts.. Not the usual cup of tea you see in my blog, but the thing is that I've been sandwhich-ed with old photos from the 50s. and the longer I stare at those pictures, the more I wanted my own longer length a-line skirt. I browse online like I usually do and I'm glad that Vobee had this pretty bright blue version in stock.

OUTRAGEOUS NEON

As mentioned in my old post, I've always been the dark colored nail girl. It's either the no polish, neutral lot, or dark for me and nothing in between. Well that policy changed when I saw opi's blinding mini packs. Turns out they give out the right amount of perk to any summer outfit.

KNIT OVERALLS

one thought in my mind for the week : TRAFFIC WAS HORRID. I'm currently tired and all I want to do right now is to read some books and magazines I've bought (but I can't since I still have my client's photos to edit). And so, I am leaving you with this post for tonight. and if you're wondering, yes this is how the overly curled hair looked after sleeping and countless finger combing I regularly do.

MID JULY

Some (okay..maybe a lot of) sugar rush was exactly what I needed after all the hectic stuff I've gone through! Also finally managed to sneak in a hair appointment. I loved my new blunt-er haircut.. but my favorite guy who usually blows out my hair afterwards wasn't available at the time and the new girl I got didn't quite understand my messy approach to hair styling.. Oh well, at least the too curly curls looked nice the next 2 days...

MYKONOS

Today's post is inspired by an island.. I rarely share how I get my dressing inspirations, but architecture and places are definitely one of them. Lately, I have been hooked on Pinterest. Whenever I go through my waiting moments (ie. traffic, late clients, restaurants, more traffic).. Pinterest is the first thing that comes into my mind.. And thanks to the many pins on the Greek island, Mykonos... I can't help but build an outfit from the inspiration set !

JUMPER

I am so glad that there was a holiday on Wednesday. I needed to catch up on a lot of emails and I just got the right amount of time to create this friday post. I have been wearing a lot of skirts lately. Not only because of the ventilation it gives from the bottom but it seems that my girly cues from my teen days are coming back (in a good way).

KEEP CALM AND ....

Ever since the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, I have been overly swamped with "keep calm and ....." images. One of those many 'keep calm' photos said 'keep calm and eat cake'. Well, I don't know if this applies to you but eating cake (..or eating any kind of good food really) does calms me down.
Last week was the 2nd annual Fimela Dress Up day. As you can probably tell, there were a hell lot of cakes but that's not the main point.. There were also LOTS of clothes, accessories, and shoes from Kate Spade, Hermès, Cotton Ink, MILCAH, Nikicio, Moscino, and.. the list goes on! There wasn't as much fashion bloggers as there was in the last Dress Up Day, but I was happy enough to have made new friends who also share the love of eating..

JEWEL STACKS

When it comes to the "more is more" policy in fashion, stacks of necklaces seem to work much better on me than arm parties do. I haven't really developed my collection of statement necklaces and so, I tend to mix and match with whatever I already own (it's a good way to get more mileage out of your purchases by the way!)

One of the easiest piece to mix and match are my necklaces from Tea Label. They're simple.. pretty enough to hang around one's neck alone.. yet just as stunning when combined with other pieces. I played around with Tea Label's pieces from their new collection "Morning Coffee" and here's what I came up with!

COINS

As a blackberry user, one of the things I have a love/hate relationship is the broadcast message function. Hate because they keep firing up on my conversation list and eventually clogging up the system. Love because I never know when I'll get great messages like this phase below. I thought I'd share it with my readers...

DUO DENIM

Ahoy Friday !! I've been eating so much lately that I keep wearing loose clothes to cover up the little ab bump. This denim top has definitely made itself into my favorite list. I bought it in large to get the extra flow of fabric and the off shoulder thing. Paired it with more denim that I've half DIY-ed. It's 'half' because it had slight rips on it but I keep scorching the fabric with a blade to make the rips bigger :P off for dinner now! have a nice weekend and DONT FORGET TO ENTER THE $100 VOUCHER GIVEAWAY HERE

PUSSYBOWS

Here is why I dislike staying on top of trends: Too much shows, too much collections, too much editorials.. In the end, I am rarely able to remember who certain pieces are by and when they're launched (thank you for saving my brain style.com). For example today, I tried recalling Chloe's fall collection where a lot of pussybow blouses were on the runway. I thought it was 2007 but it was actually 2009.
As I turn to Google for answers like I always do and searched.. turns out most pussybow pieces came from 2011 (not 2012 like I recalled.. memory failure again). Well, it didn't bother me that I'm not the trendy bunch though.. Instead, I came to finding lots of great inspirations for my next attempt in wearing these bow adorned pieces (which I have also included as part of this post!) So yes, I'm done with one of my reasons why I refuse to wear every single trend per season.. I read & see.. I am likely to forget and eventually, I simply wear I like. // photos by Christy

MIRROR MIRROR

tall pointed pump shoes and soil/grass are not good pals.. I had a real hard time trying to balance myself in these photos. Since I hard time balancing, I made sure that the photos were done in the shortest time possible and we did! Took about 5 - 10 minutes to complete ! I've been obsessed with mirror print pieces ever since I saw Stella McCartney's resort collection awhile ago so when I saw this tee at mango, I bought it straight..

PRINTED MATTER

Who would've known that spending hours on Google, tumblr, and pinterest searching prints was heaven?? This new hobby of mine has also caused my sudden addiction of print mixing in my outfits. In fact, the first collage here is a sneak peek of tomorrow's outfit !