A pair in hand, I was on my way to the dressing room when a friend pointed out a series of fitted Ts. To my extreme pleasure, one of the first racks I hit had gorgeous high waist pants on clearance in my size. Thus, we entered Mango, a chic three-story establishment in the midst of a deep sale. If you are doing the math, we now have a mere 15 minutes for the rest of Gran Via shopping.Īfter quickly debating splitting the time between Stratavarious, Topshop and other Spanish boutiques, we decided it would be just as well to spend the whopping 15 minutes in one store enjoying the clothes rather than running into stores with too little time to actually purchase anything. Next in line was a ten-minute choco-cognac-ice-cream break before spending another half hour perusing the market between GV and Puerta del Sol. Five minutes in Zara were spent scanning racks, briefly considering a 100-euro pair of gladiators, and leaving with two bottles of perfume. Half an hour in Bershka resulted in a light jacket and three t-shirts. All things considered, it was a highly successful hour of frenzied shopping. Seeing as Gran Via is a long, major road with loads of shops, and also that June is sale-month in Spain, it turned into a group of frazzled American tourists frantically grabbing clothes, dashing into dressing rooms, and running to the next store.
#COLOR ME SHOCKED ALBUM FREE#
On the last day of my trip to Spain, I spent the hour-and-a-half of free time to shop on Gran Via with some girlfriends. She exhibits lovely style with a kitsch flair. She can accesorize like mad. Readers, everything I’ve ever said about style is shown in these fabulous outfits. I wanted to highlight The Uniform Project not only for its mission, but to rave on her style as well! I clicked through the archives and hardly even realized I was looking at the same dress seven different times, et nauseum, because of her flair for accessorizing and being creative with her layering. Obviously, wearing the same simple shift every day for a year could become inconceivably boring, so she has also turned this into a style-challenge of sorts. (Read more about the project here.) What I love, though, is how it showcases her creativity. The blogger’s project is that she has chosen to wear seven identical plain black dresses for a year, in order to raise money for school children in India. While perusing through the internet this morning I found a blog that embodies absolutely everything I love about fashion. It’s real, it is the women with creative minds, keen eyes, and great design. Fashion is super, but fashion is my favorite. The twin sister of Fashion is the fashions that surround us, down here and far removed from fashion-fantasy-land, “fashion” with a lower-case f. We all know and love “high” Fashion: couture designers, dazzling shows, beautiful eastern-European waifs, and the glossy magazines that serve as the portal of access for us regular off-the-peg wearing women. To me, “fashion” is a split-personality, a two-in-one of sorts. Photo from this write-up from British Vogue.
Let us watch the world of fashion to see how this plays out. My prediction is that these will be one fashion’s more memorable articles, yet one of the most notoriously underworn.
I see how these fit into his design aesthetic, and I even understand them a wee bit more in the context of the collection. His creativity keeps me on my toes, that’s for sure. “Yes, I think these would add a nice touch to my office wear, don’t you?”Īlexander, while not quite my favorite designer, is definitely on my designer-radar. If you’ve seen Lady Gaga’s video for Bad Romance, you know it is even possible to dance in the weird things. Please, I’d love your feedback too- what do you think?Īmazingly, it is humanly possible to walk in them.
Pointe shoes, armadillo, spacey, like a mule in stillettos….I mean, they are sort of cute, in the same way the ugly baby puppy is endearing, but…*shudder*. I am still in a state of visual shock, and am trying to figure them out in my mind. Released at Alexander McQueen SS 2010 RTW, the shoes are a whopping foot tall and dubbed armadillo heels for the python fabrics resembling the Texan animal’s shell. However, assuming you are either new to fashion or have not been introduced to these high-heeled atrocities yet, let me fill you in. To the blogsphere, new though these are they certainly aren’t news– a good number of the blogs in my GoogleReader have weighed in on them in the last few days. I don’t care how groundbreaking, innovative, or futuristic they are, nor does the fact that Lady Gaga and Daphne Guinness have already stepped out in theirs since they hit the runway.
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