Flashlights

This fall brings on catwalks dashing textures, velvet, embroideries, fur, massive accesories, croc skin, and metallic leather. All incrusted with expensive crystals and bold sequins. It's all about Luxury, sitting in the front row. Or maybe it's just an attempt to revive authenticity. Designers forgot about ordinary materials and bet on the things that last in time, things that are valued generation after another. And maybe in a recession time we all need to hang on to something relevant through its value.
My season's picks:
Alexander Wang's fringed dress and witch-hat. The dress for its versatility and punkish look and the hat for its remarkable shape - it really reminds me of the wicked witch from The Wizzard of Oz.
BCBG Max Azria's luscious leggins. Slippery and decadent.
Balmain kept it's last season flavor and pleased my heart with crystal incrusted party dresses. So flashy you won't need shoes.
Givenchy's embroided dress and feathered sandals. The embroided dress because it's a mix between a rock&roll design and the long lasting ornamental needlework. The sandals because they can put on a burlesque show on their own.
Westwood's drapped dress. Just because it covers the body in a fluid cocoon and follows it's shape.
Stella McCartney see-through dress. because it's the epitome of distinctive elegance. And because it's dangerously sexy.


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On acid

(Levi's, Balmain, Corina Vladescu, Topshop, J Brand, Topshop).

The 80s brought acid washed jeans, high waist goodies, enormous shoulders and daring make-up. Also, neon colors, big hair do's, women power and Michael Jackson.
I'd choose the acid washed jeans. They hit the catwalk at Balmain's spring collection 2009 and the streets also.
I'd wear a pair of skinny acid washed with a white shirt and laced sandals at a small, chic terrace with a giant muffin on my plate. Another option would be sporting them with a loose cardigan and a statement t-shirt, at a friend's house watching The Breakfest Club. And I wouldn't forget my comfy Chuck's.
All i need to do is bleach my skinny pink jeans; wouldn't wear them otherwise.
I like being on acid!

"She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I'd stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry"

Sweet child o'mine, Guns N'Roses


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