i think it was some time in 2008 when i decided that wide-leg pants are my staple outfit. now i have five pairs of them in denim, two pairs in black, one pair in khaki and one pair in cream. as you can see, i try my best to show some commitment to styles i like.
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i have a thing for classic shoe designs. brogues. d’orsays. loafers. my favorite are mary janes (write up here).
therefore, it should go without saying that my favorite pieces in this season’s new york fashion week (so far) are the mary jane heels at marc jacobs. if i had those in my cabinet, i would stare lecherously at them until they sue me for harassment.
but wait. does this not look familiar to you?
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.
victoria beckham
there might be some long sleeve nazis out there who scoff at this dress deeming it inappropriate for a wedding, but this to me is the best dress during an event deluded with overcoats and pompous hats. i believe also the best maternity look i’ve seen on any red carpet: the sleek ponytail, the minimal jewelry, david beckham….. it’s all so polished. and the superhuman powers required to walk in eight-inch heels with a bun in the oven. it’s incredible!
everybody says it’s the younger middleton, pippa, the maid of honor, who did so in her slinky sarah burton for alexander mcqueen. while kate’s dress was definitely beautiful, it didn’t take my breath away. but pippa’s did with the lace trimming that peeped above the gentle cowl-neck and the cap sleeves, when we saw the silk-covered buttons slithering down her back and, well, the now famous backside on which they ended, how the dress contoured in all the right places, i knew right away that this is one of the most beautiful bridesmaid dresses i’ve ever seen.
we filipinos are very familiar with the phrase “coca-cola body” and how in the 70′s and 80′s it was a rather hip compliment, if not sometimes tacky and all too fresh, for shapely female physiques. little did we know then that the real coca-cola body, that is, the contoured bottle that has quite become an icon itself, would be clothed by some of the most illustrious names in fashion.
this year, it’s karl lagerfeld (once again). we know how he lost 90 pounds on a strict diet of stewed veggies and diet coke (which he says he drinks in a crystal goblet. wouldn’t be surprised if this is indeed true). or how he is often photographed with diet coke in his hand. we also know how this has become a hydration staple for many models. the drink now probably occupies its own food group in the fashion world.
models coco rocha, jeneil williams, heidi mount for karl lagerfeld’s limited edition diet coke designer bottles
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.
that doesn’t make sense, i know. i’m that befuddled as to how people can’t seem to believe pia toscano was eliminated this week.
alrighty, it’s idol time for me today…
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.
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