DJ Matthew Owchar of the Expendable Youth. Party host on Sunday nights at Venue, (formerly known as Plaza Club on Granville).
July, 2009
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Jul 09
Man Style
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Jul 09
B’s Birthday
At Monika’s Boyfriend’s Birthday at Lola’s on Broadway. My first time there, as you can probably tell, seeing as I am quite over dressed for the occasion. Apparently the dress code was “rugby thug chic”, meaning any sport t-shirt, with really any pair of shorts, and any pair of shoes ranging from sneakers to flip flops, unfortunately I didn’t get that memo. Which is a shame as I do “rugby thug chic” so well. I have to say, Branden’s party of people was dressed very nicely. Wasn’t it Coco Chanel who said it’s always better to be overly dressed up rather than dressed boringly? Or something like that…
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Jul 09
Bourbon Style – Thursday July 9
I made my necklace ten minutes before we left, I felt the little black dress was lacking. It’s a vintage scarf woven into a heavy silver chain, (from Dressew, I’ll be going back for the $1.97 white lace gloves!!).
L to R: Jon Campbell, me, (a.k.a StyleStruck, or just “Style” to some), Mon, JP Valdes
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Jul 09
Boyfriend’s Best friend’s Girlfriend’s Birthday.
Here are Tommy and I at Hayley’s birthday at Ocean Club in West Van. It’s too bad you can’t see my shoes, they’re these amazing blue suede high, high heels with lots of cut outs and strappy bits. Tommy wearing all black, with accessory in hand, (not me, the 3 oz jar of mojito).
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Jul 09
Leggings are Not Pants.
This is my first fashion complaint here.
I follow “SeptemberIssue” on Twitter, who tweets all about The September Issue, the film about the making of Vogue’s September issue, (coming out in Sept!). Anyways, SeptemberIssue posted “what would you ask Anna Wintour?” I replied that I’d like to know what her greatest fashion pet peeve is, and that got me thinking, what’s MY greatest fashion pet peeve. I didn’t even have to think about it though, because I know what I hate: LEGGINGS.
Sure they look great on some people, but I still don’t like them. Maybe with uggs and a big T on a cozy type of day, but other wise, I just want to shred them all. Especially when worn with a fancy dress, or tunic, or worse, a top, as evening wear! Noooo! Leggings are Not pants! (If you know me, and wear leggings, I promise not to hate in person against your leggings. I’ll just think it, because that’s what friends are for).
And yes, these are real-life pictures.
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Jul 09
Things To Do:
1-Sephora Grand Opening at Pacific Centre TODAY!!
2-Valentino – The Last Emperor Movie out TONIGHT!
3-Buy fresh flowers, specifically the gorgeous pink peonies $10/3 bunches (Burrard/Dunsmuir)
4-Go to Irish Heather for $12 dinner/beer promo at their long table in Gastown.
5-Vancouver’s Largest Waterfight @ Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park 1pm TOMORROW!
6-Bike ride around Stanley Park, wow what a view.
7-Watch the Marc Jacobs Documentary, (I did over youtube.com), it’s very fascinating and really interesting.
Okay, I’m off to walk around the park with Tommy now, maybe I can get him to walk the other direction towards Sephora….think he’d notice? haha
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Jul 09
Out and About on a Thursday
Top pic: The Cross Home Boutique
Second to top: flowers at Chintz & Company
Yesterday I was on a mission to get a birthday present for one of Tommy’s, (boyfriend), best friend’s girlfriend’s birthday. I headed straight to The Cross, a gorgeous home store in Yaletown, on Richards. That store is incredible, there are reasonable prices and the staff is super nice, and the styling of the store is just incredible! If you need any inspiration for decorating, I say head there. I can’t say what I bought until post-birthday party of course. But I did find some beautiful gifts, (and they gift-wrapped them gorgeously), and so boyfriend was very happy with me. So he took me for a Purdy’s ice cream.
Then I met up with twin sister, (Monika), for lunch while she was on her break from Holts. A fellow employee of hers from the men’s department ate next to us and left us some very valuable relationship advice:
“If you ask your guy to do something for you, and he doesn’t want to do it, you tell him ‘I’m worth it!’ “- Mark from Menswear. I think Mark may be a tad biased since he’s a Dad to two girls. Cute though.
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Jul 09
Z!NK Magazine Featuring WV’s Kate Bock
Browsing the magazine section at London Drugs and who do I spot?! West Vancouver’s own Kate Bock on the cover of Z!NK magazine! (I graduated from WVSS with Kate, hence being so excited to see her face on the cover) Z!INK is a fabulous Canadian mag that does incredible and very well-styled, (in my opinion), fashion spreads. And not just two or three like the typical magazine, but more like 8 or 9, so there’s something for everyone. Kate’s spread featured swimwear, and she looked gorgeous. The pictures featured were my favourite, very glamorous.
The last picture I had to include because the model is wearing my Miu Miu sparkly pumps!! I feel very fabulous right now.
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Jul 09
Main St Windows!
The other day I ventured over to Main St. to check out the window displays of Front and Company. This store always has the most amazing windows, a few months ago there were these stacks of old, pretty tea cups surrounding the mannequins! So creative. The owner of the store is also an artist, which explains the amazing concepts she comes up with for the displays. I adore the mannequin with the brown/olive coloured dress with the feathers. (Sorry about the reflections in the windows, it was a sunny day, what’s a girl to do?)
Then I walked on down Main St. and came across this cute little store selling stationery called “The Regional Assembly of Text”. Their windows were done up with vintage type-writers with pretty ribbons as the ribbon paper. Much better and prettier than the average window, I would say.
