I’m off to dress up for tonight’s Halloween Bash, will post many pictures tomorrow!

I hope everyone has a wonderful night, I’d love to know what your costume is!

Xo StyleStruck

The Outfit for today’s shoot: LV scarf, (from Sears, this is the only thing I think I have ever bought from Sears, at least in the past decade!), Wilfred Blazer, White Sirens Jeans, Elie Tahari Black Patent Pumps. (Un-touched picture)

Today I felt like playing around with the picture settings to see what kind of effects I could come up with… Each pic has a little tweak, (by tweak I do not mean photoshop. I do not believe in photoshop, however I may change my mind if I one day find myself on the cover of an international magazine. I reserve the rights to be hypocritical on this issue). : ) In the moment while I was feeling inspired and throwing scarves around  like mad in the fashion room, (there’s now one on pretty much every surface-and they look quite pretty on the lampshades all lit up and what not), I didn’t think to put on a tank. But since when do fashion-y pictures need to have anything to do with being realistic?

After months and months of waiting to see The September Issue, I must be honest and say that it wasn’t all I had dreamed it would be. And with all their promotion, I really had high hopes. I felt the film was a little heavy on the melancholy Grace Coddington, “Woe is me, Anna killed another spread” bits, I might go as far as to say that I wanted to see more Anna drama. She’s the character I am so fascinated by, as brilliant as Grace is. For me the highlight was seeing all of the clothes lining the hall ways of the Vogue office, the feathers and bedazzlement….and the feathers….soo gorgeous! I don’t want to say too much in case you haven’t seen it yet. 

(A little movie info: it came out Friday evening at Tinsel Town and is playing there for 2 matinees and 2 evening times, I think, something like 1-ish, 3-ish, 7-ish and then just after 9. I’m betting the tinseltown site will be more helpful.)

And what is a fashion flick without some heels? These cream patent leather double-strap heels are by Marc by Marc Jacobs.

Excuse me while I hide from the paparazzi

Striking a pose for the paparazzi (a.k.a. Tommy)

Last night Tommy and I cracked a lovely bottle of red as we got ready to go out to Chill Wintston, it made for a very funny evening. I seem to remember being compared to some sort of winged mascot, something about a cute chicken… (it was the fat bomber jacket-my “show-stopper”) Teasing is what boyfriends are for. Besides, I know he secretly adores it when I wear my silly but fabulous pieces. Anyways, so we went down to Chill Winston in Gastown and met up with a group of friends. I made a very nice connection with a lovely lady named Brittany Wong, the Marketing and PR Director of StyleCanvas, an online fashion magazine. I love how when you go out, you never know who you might meet. Brittany and I bonded over talk of Christian Louboutin, New York City and of course, everything fashion. It just got me more excited for the upcoming NYC trip!! I can barely handle my excitement!

Me and Brittany, of StyleCanvas

Because this is a fashion blog, I will include what I wore:

Vintage fur bomber jacket from Deluxe Junk in Gastown, Cynthia Rowley rhinestone blouse, H&M leather skirt, Stuart Weitzman heels and Zara sequin purse.

I’m not quite sure what Brittany was wearing, but I do know that she had on the most fabulous Christian Louboutin leather booties. Gooorrrgeous!

I mentioned in my last post that one of my errands was to get my Chanel pumps re-paired. The last time I brought them to the Chanel store they were so helpful and fixed my shoes in a week, free of charge. This time, the lady quoted over $100 for someone to draw with a silver pen on the bits of leather where the silver coating had rubbed off. So I picked my shoes up, went to Staples, bought a $3.14 set of silver sharpie markers and got to work. And I must say that I did a good job, they look like new!

Before

After

Woke up the other morning with a huge list of things to do:

Re-pair Chanel shoes

Visit _______ store (I can’t tell because it has to do with Tommy’s birthday present, and if I told, he would read it and the surprise would be gone). 

Laundry, (my favourite)

Clean house

blah blah blah, the list goes on. Sadly not all of my to-do’s are as glamorous as the first. One day.

I thought, if I have to do all this running around, I may as well look cute while doing it. On went the red Zara coat, (that I save for special occasions), a black satin Cynthia Rowley blouse, K by Karl Lagerfeld Jeans and nude patent leather Prada mary-janes, (which I also save for only very special occasions. Actually, I think I’ve worn them a total of maybe 3 times since I got them over a year ago). And then the black leather Cole Haan bag that my Mum convinced me was necessary about 2 years ago at Holt Renfrew. Thinking back, maybe she wanted me to buy it so she could borrow it, which she can, anytime, just call me, Mum

This production of an outfit was worth it in the end, I met Tommy for tea and he was also dressed up with a suit and a fancy elephant tie from Hermes, (when the suit and elephant tie come out, it means he had a big meeting), so we suited each other quite well.

Quickly running out of the house to get a mani down at Chi Chi on West Pender. I threw on an oversized charcoal sweater, white jeans and Coach wedges, and was then pleasantly surprised by how it all looked so I snapped a pic. And then added a leather clutch for some glamour.