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It's finally back to Belgium!
30-31 october
Dambruggestraat 48
Antwerp

10:30-19:00

sorry belgians, but italians do it better

This week’s fun was so diverse and exhausting that only now I get a chance to post about it. I also figured that I should be getting a new camera very soon, because my shabby old Sony seems to behave inadequately, so please excuse those blurry colour blobs – they are the pictures, by the way.

The 10 years of Essentiel Antwerp.
For those who are not familiar with Belgian mainstream, Essentiel is one of those crowd-pleaser brands with loads of fur, embellishment and printed silks. I’m afraid I wouldn’t be ever posting about it if not the fashion show that has been organised in honour of 10 years of existence of this fashion house. I was kindly invited to join the fun, arriving a little bit late, trotting just on a side of the catwalk to climb onto the highest row in the audience. So if this brand stands for embellishment – I did not get to see any. But nevertheless it was a lovely show, great casting and quite a few Flemish celebs in the front row.

After the catwalk the next room revealed the men’s collection. I do prefer the sobriety of men’s clothes, and there were very interesting details in the clothes, but getting back to the camera issue, you won’t be able to see them so well.

Further into the Waagnatie depot, and further into the night – the retro dancefloor, the white leather chesterfields, the bar free of charge all night long! The rich middle-aged ladies were swinging their fur stoles in the air, and I was getting comments genre ‘you are the most real person this evening’. Well yes, my leggings are H&M, my dress is from Spullenhulp, I’m wearing a black leather harness and a single sequined glove… and my hair is a mess – sorry kids! Evenings like this really puzzle me, because I see how absorbed I can be in the bloggers’ world, finding tie-dye perfectly acceptable, and being confronted with the length of my dress – seems like nobody has seen a calf-length before in the perfect world of mini dresses which look like the girls have forgotten their skirts at home. But I did enjoy it a lot – who wouldn’t with an accomplice in a leopard-print dress and white wine unlimited.

Class Candy @ k-nal.
It did seem like the entire Brussels was there. I’ve been looking forward to see Glass Candy for so long. Beautiful beautiful beautiful!

we <3 outfit posts

It has been absolute ages since the last outfit post. Though this blog has never meant to become a showcase of the wardrobe treasures – there are ones way better at this – I must admit I do indulge into the outfit photographing activity now and then, I just never find courage to show it to each and every, because most of the time such photos are on a verge of the ridiculous. No, I can’t keep a serious face or gracefully pose in front of the camera with a white wall on the background. Instead I jump around like an imbecile and grimace into the camera lens…and, no, it doesn’t come out right. But I just had to show you these – not that I perfected my outfit posing – none of that! But I just received one gorgeous vintage Comme des Garcons jacket that I bought on ebay – it is a truly unique design piece, so quintessentially CDG – a black tuxedo-inspired tail coat with slits under the sleeves. I’m just thinking to add a little bit of padding for that final push to get the shoulder line completely straight and sharp. And I’m currently lusting over a Vivienne Westwood orb brooch and a huge oversized t-shirt dress in , erm, canary yellow to make some bleaching/dyeing experiments (yes, it’s that precise). No clue where to find the aforementioned two, but I’ll be looking.

jacket vintage Comme des Garcons
t-shirt H&M
trousers Preen for Topshop
belt COS

what's so funny?

t-shirt Wildfox
skirt Anglomania by Vivienne Westwood
shoes Swear

4/20 Luxirare

both images via Luxirare

ebay

The autumn clean is here!
...and there will be more

3/20 Garbage Dress

all via Garbage Dress

2/20 Yvan Rodic

pt. 2 of 20: Yvan Rodic
Can images say as much as all the words and witty blogger-style sentences we are bombarded with these days? Yes – that’s if we’re talking about Yvan’s visual diary blog.

all images via Yvan Rodic

1/20: 00888

I had a read through the 20 best blogs, and I utterly disagree. I mean, how does What Katy Wore challenge your perception of fashion? Or what we haven’t seen yet on redcarpet-fashionawards?? I’m still hoping it’s someone’s sick joke.
Let’s get to the real deal of fashion blogging, shall we? I’ll make my own top 20 where every blog is on the first place, because they are all equally informative, inspirational and innovative. And they don’t mind to push the envelope.


Pt.1 of 20 is 00888 – if moodboards could be blogs, this blog would be the most amazing moodboard of nowadays!

all images via 00888

clogs?

For a second I was wondering whether Swedish Hasbens exist as boots. Well, quick googling shows that they actually do. How strange!

I like the simplistic styling of Creatures of Comfort and Azita online shops, and surprisingly many styles are worn with clogs – not too bad for the hippie shoe!

she was a butcher

...she chased me round the mall.
nothing changes
nothing changes



www.myspace.com/nnobra

bucolic my a**. really!

‘The head scratching effect’ is definitely there, Miss Phelps, only that it is caused by your review of some of the strongest collection that has come out of this season’s fashion week. So let’s contemplate upon what you derogatorily dare to call ‘bucolic’. Well, yes, K. Lagerfeld did go bucolic for Chanel, but face it, every time he brings out a new collection I’m sure it sets Coco’s spirit restless. I don’t believe she’d mutilate the elegance of this iconic fashion house and substitute it with whoreish outfits good enough for x-rated movies only, you know – the kind where they take a story of a Little Red Riding Hood as the scenario.

But anyways, back to the toile de Jouy and medical body stockings galore of Wunderkind’s spring/summer ’10.
When others are wondering around knee-deep in tie-dye, Wolfgang Joop takes onto the classic toile de Jouy prints, blurring them, messing them up, pleating, shredding like there’s no tomorrow.

And if A. F. Vandevorst can work the lace lingerie into the hospital-like bondage, throughout the years calling onto the hospital furniture as one of the biggest inspirations – consider the following image as one step forward towards the customer, providing the next-season’s leg-wear to die for.

The boxy renaissance silhouette with the great focus on the shoulders is softened by the silks and embellished by the graphic check print.

And finally, if Dries made every single high-street brand copy his black&white optical checks to the point of the ridiculous, I would be more than happy to don the following ensemble of the see-through shirt and a block-print trouser, not forgetting the bondage shoes (which resemble the blue/silver heels that Susie wears so often). And by doing so, I will agree to be the walking manifesto of the fact that style.com reviews tend to make no sense at all, purposefully leading us onto the narrow path of Givenchy & Co. worship. I really hope you, kids, look around more, shaping your own opinions and not swallowing what’s being fed to you hook, line and sinker.

coral need

So I’ve been studying the UO website, making mental style notes and shopping lists. Every time I come back to that shop I find exactly the items that I NEED. Believe me when I say so, because how else do you describe a sudden fetish for a pair of bright coral mittens on a string? Need and only need! If any other shop is cool enough to sell a pair of mittens on a string to the adult audience, send me a link, please, but for now I shall dub Urban Outfitters the ‘need shop’, because what other brand cares about a little girl in big Brussels always losing her right mitten.

check one two

That’s how I like to pile up the new stuff – the more it looks like a check/stripe/fringe mess the better. I’m looking for something new and unexpected lately, so indeed the checks and the stripes appear like mushrooms after the autumn rain. The more I’ll keep piling them on, the sooner the ‘unexpected’ factor will fade away of course, but today the little pig of me has celebrated the first check shirt in my wardrobe by splashing the pumpkin soup all over it. How autumn-like!
The morale: don’t attempt the pumpkin soup on the day when you had 3 hours of sleep only.

Portland me!

Last night’s adventures, endless stairs and wacko pop from Portland. Please, someone take me there!