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watching the wedding of prince william to kate, and anticipating prince albert of monaco’s to olympic swimmer charlene wittstock, reignited my interest to all things royal. i used to follow the very public lives of royal families as much as a schoolgirl could in the pre-internet era of magazine and newspaper clippings. i am by no means a monarchist (neither am i opposed to the form of government), but i harbor this unfettered fascination for modern day fairy tales as only royalty can realize. i suppose this is one of my guilty pleasures, my little indulgence, the keeping track of people born to a rich history of crowns and sceptres. or at least married into it, whatever.
so i am consequentially inspired to write about the styles of my favorite royal ladies. starting of course with the one whose fashion sense i admire the most, and possibly the closest i have to a girl crush, the current queen consort of jordan, rania al abdullah.
warning: this is a photo-overloaded entry. i am so in love with her style, i couldn’t suffer through selecting only a few of her best outfits. i gave up choosing after the third edit.
it’s red, it’s slick, it’s transparent and it looks like your mackintosh.
like the jil sander market bag, this trench from burberry’s “april showers” capsule collection makes me happy.
dolce & gabbana runway photos from coco’s tea party.
man, how much i used to love stars. it was a minor obsession. i say minor because i wouldn’t die for them, but obsession nonetheless because i spent good money to acquire them and a lot of effort to stick small luminous stars all over my room’s ceiling and all four walls. they were all over me in the form of jewelries, clothes, downloaded logos (remember those pixelated things in the 90′s?), school supplies and tons of doodles that seem to ooze out of every page of every subject notebook.
i’m still very fascinated by stars, though i don’t have the natural inclination to doodle them as often anymore. but i could just imagine how my old self would have burst into spontaneous broadway song at the sight of dolce & gabbana’s a/w 2011 collection.
doesn’t it just bother you that some people call this hat fedora, while others call it trilby? ok, maybe it doesn’t bother you, but wouldn’t you just like to know once and for all whether it’s a fedora or a trilby? no particular reason aside from adding to your stock of trivial knowledge.
described as anti-”it girl”, new zealand-based label karen walker gives us high street casual with inspirations so diverse, the style can’t be boxed into any particular category. but aside from the clothes you’ve just got to get your hands on, do check out the kooky sunglasses and jewelries that are guaranteed to create statements without making you look as if you were trying too hard.
jumping on the celebrity-cum-designer bandwagon is none other than the queen of pop. or should we say the offspring of the queen of pop. according to the mother, it was 13-year-old lola who designed the pieces for the junior line they recently launched.
it seems the most common fashion deprivation complaint in the philippines has something to do with layering clothes. that is, the impracticality of it. with the climate, there is no sense in piling on coats and jackets and scarves unless you want to suddenly drop unconscious with heatstroke and dehydration in the middle of the street.
i myself am one of those who complain quietly about it, but i’m glad that this past year or two, ladies in the tropics are able to make up for the lack of clothing aggregation with a hollywood trend we can follow to our hearts’ desire: layering necklaces.
je ne sais quoi, literally “i don’t know what”. it refers to that abstract quality in a person that makes her attractive or makes her stand out from a crowd. it’s that elusive “it” factor, that certain “something” we often refer to when we know one looks distinctively stylish yet we can’t come up with words to describe why it is such.
in simpler and local terms: may dating. how many times have you encountered a lady who looks so beautifully individual in her manner of dressing and demeanor that you turn your head to look at her in awe but can’t find the adjectives to describe why you like her look? that’s may dating. that’s je ne sais quoi.
and this is where the fun begins. french fashion retailer promod challenged bloggers to come up with five different looks that embody that intangible quality better known as je ne sais quoi. for this rare stylista-for-a-day opportunity, jill of kikay exchange was gracious enough to invite me as her partner.
you know if you buy your leather goods from high-end stores where items cost an arm and a leg that you have got the genuine article.
hey, i have nothing against faux leather, i use the material an awful lot, but i sure want to know how to tell one from the other so i don’t get highway robbed in bargain situations. and i sure love tiangges.
from gadis kooky.
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