From the monthly archives: July 2009
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
My first year out of high school was spent at Kwantlen, doing my first year of their Design and Technology degree program. Sadly, after that first year I realized that it just wasn’t for me, but I did get the opportunity to create a lot of my own designs, turn them into patterns and then out together the actual garment. And so I have these clothes lying around that I’ve made, and some of them aren’t exactly my style, so I did a little fixing, using my favourite vintage cut offs as a bit of a length-determiner.
For this particular garment I created, (high waisted denim trousers), we had to also make a mock version, and so I did my mock in leopard print, (why the heck not, right?). At the time they were very outlandish, but I’m soo glad I chose leopard because now they’re hot high waisted shorts! I also chopped the denim pair, and wore them out that day!
Except for that I got a little scissor happy and cut them too short so you can see my bum, but I came up with a very exciting way to fix this: a ruffle at the back. I know, sounds odd, but just trust me, it’ll look great and I’ll post a picture when they’re finished.
I could not be happier that 90s style fashion is back! Crop tops, high waisted shorts, ragged denim, it all makes me very happy! Here I am at Venue for a DJ concert last night
My outfit:
headband from Holts
denim vest brand unknown
vintage rose crop top
vintage leather shorts
Nine West gladiator wedges
vintage white/black leather croc print purse
white bangle from Macy’s
My 4th of July outfit. Taking your own picture is far too difficult, but I really liked my red bow and wanted to show it! Happy 4th!
No idea where my scarf is from (used in hair) but it’s got that LV leopard print goin on, which I love
vintage white leather boustier
high waisted blue denim Talula short shorts
Yesterday I’m sitting at home trying to figure out just what to do with the mountain of magazines in my apartment when my phone rang, my sister needed advice: To buy or pass on the $500 Stella McCartney Pre-Fall leopard cashmere sweater? ($500 after her 50% off Holts discount)
Monika is planning a trip to Sweden in August, with ticket already purchased, so she’s been saving like a mad woman, which is why this was such a dilemma. She told me everyone else she had already asked had said it would be ridiculous to spend such a big amount when a trip is around the corner, and that she was calling me because she knew I’d tell her to go for it. Hahaha.
After discussing the pros and cons of buying the sweater vs. not buying it, we came to a conclusion: She’d be utterly gutted come fall and no leopard sweater to wear.
You’re welcome MonBon. Another happy fashionista. (I’m so borrowing this).
Last night Boyfriend took me to the Cannery at the Port of Vancouver for a lovely date-night dinner. It was by far the most beautiful restaurant I have ever been to, it’s shabby chic with white linen table cloths and pieces of drift wood on the walls.
What to wear to date-night dinner? I chose:
Talula Babaton scoop neck black tank
H&M black leather high waisted skirt, (while it looked fabulous, I have now learned that leather is not what you want to wear when going out for a big dinner. Something with an elastic waistband would have been more appropriate, as I may or may not have had to undo the back zipper an inch… that darn bread and lobster butter was just too good!)
Sequin Miu Miu pumps
Franchi black leather purse
cream Pashmina
Sorry the pic of my look is such bad quality, I had flash issues, this whole needing a new camera thing was just brought to another level…
Ever since I saw the 60 minutes interview with Anna Wintour, and read Front Row, I have been dying to get a better look into what it’s like to be her. I would say she is one of the most influential people of our time, considering that she is the most powerful women of the 300 billion dollar global fashion industry. Her words dictate success and failure, and she is a force to be reckoned with. You can imagine how EXCITED I was to see that there is a film coming out about her!! It’s called The September Issue – Anna Wintour and the Making of Vogue, by R.J. Cutler.
And obviously it’ll be out sometime in September, fingers crossed it comes out in Vancouver, otherwise I’ll be trekking it, (in high heels of course), to the USA to see it.
Just like with the Sex and the City movie, I’m very interested to see what the stylistas will be wearing to such a film!
Which are my favourites? I don’t play favourites, that wouldn’t be fair. Each pair is perfect with a different outfit.
Every time I walk down Robson St, over to Blockbuster, I check out this gorgeous shower curtain in the window of a linen store. And every time I think to myself, I don’t need that, I can make do with my white Walmart shower curtain, even though I hate my Walmart shower curtain, since I’m trying to save up. So anyways yesterday Boyfriend and I walked past this store and I mentioned how I looove it, but maybe it’s a little bit too much, so I don’t buy it. So Boyfriend goes into the store and buys it! And here it is in my bathroom, isn’t it the most beautiful shower curtain??
One day it may be a new rain coat…. okay just kidding, but I can dream.
So I’ve realized lately I can’t shut up about everything fashion related, (this is probably because Boyfriend tells me this, nicely, of course). There’s just sooo much going on, like my most recent editorial obsession with Lily Donaldson, shot by Terry Richardson in the July issue of VOGUE. (I would have posted this earlier I’m sure had I owned this issue earlier. I was trying very hard to say no to myself when the urge came to buy more magazines as Boyfriend and I are planning on an NYC trip later this summer, but then he went and bought it, such a nice man.
I know I neeeed to get a better camera, NYC first, camera second. (Top picture: you can see my high school sweat pants with the red lettering, I promise I ONLY wear these at home).
I have plans to spray paint cork boards hot hot highlighter pink and put them on my wall, (about 4 of them) and display all my favourite magazine art there. I’ll post a picture when I get around to actually doing this.
