Back action...painting

While the Acne website is processing my order for this skirt

and this top

– two lovely garments with a lot of back action, I’m still trying to figure out where to find the perfect raw material to create these shoes.

I guess the clever girl snapped by Stockholm street style (my secret style bible – I don’t check weather forecast before I go outside, I check this blog!) used cork platform shoes which you might most likely find in any granny’s closet, but the platforms seem nicely rounded, the sling-back has an unusual ankle strap and there’s a cute metal buckle. So either Swedish grannies, whose shoes later end up in Stadsmissionen, have taste for ‘refined’ wrongness, or these seemingly DIY platform flats are of a deviant source.

La Cambre show 2008

One wouldn’t call it spectacular, neither well staged, but it’s a certain DIY quality of La Cambre shows that makes the low-profile Brussels style stand out from the rest. And as I more or less know what to expect from Antwerp defile this weekend, I did not have any idea of what to expect from La Cambre. The show, entitled ‘Honeymoon’, was a staged contrast between cold city landscapes on the background screens and flower-decorated hairdos of models who walked the stage in zigzagging motions. Surprisingly, I found all the clothes were very colourful and there was not a single collection which would explore a gloomy palette and focus on tailoring. On the contrary – bright, floral, geometrical, knitted, exaggerated shoulder-line, numerous zips, futuristic, patch-work, coloured plexi, clumsy shoes and thin strings of pearls are the terms that come up when I try to describe the overall mood of the show, and not just individual collections. Somehow the boundaries between the individuals got slightly blurred this year.
Yet the two particular names have stuck by. And of course, who wouldn’t love the beautiful gradient coloured shell by Léa Peckre, or noble red pleats by Zoé Vermeire.

Technically speaking

Here’s a little note on the technical side of this blog: first of all, I added categories to the menu and tagged almost all the old posts – from now on it will be easier to navigate through the babble and find the posts that interest you in a blink of an eye! The titles of the categories might appear slightly fruity, but eventually they will make some sense and shape into mini-blogs with well narrowed-down thematic. So happy clicking to each and every.
Secondly, one hour long fight with the HTML template did not result in anything positive. Initially proud of my own improvised knowledge of HTML which allowed me to over-write the original template, I confess that I still did not figure out what hides the ‘Comments’ link under each post. So I must reveal the secret of leaving comments on this blog: if you click on the title of the post and navigate away from the main page to the post page, there you can leave comments, since the bloody link is sitting there very happily all painted pink and not wanting to appear on the main page!
And last but not least, if the font is too small, please, complain. I’m still doubting to change from % to pt…
And to sweeten up this machine-language post, here’s the monkey head.



dress Henrik Vibskov, leggins American Apparel, flats COS

Plain tasteless day…I’m looking for a dead rat to put in someone’s post box, may be she will move out then…