// More everyday wear

Posted on | February 18, 2010 | 6 Comments

The snow levels are still very high and temperatures low. I feel that my outfits are mostly like this… …some thickish pants (there are not actually too many of those), one pair of my flat winter shoes, some wool and scarves in the upper part. Nothing too creative.

Familiar stuff, A.F. Vandevorst shrug, American Apparel circle scarf (oh how I love the draping of this), DIY mitts, 2or+ viscose tunic, really old Stefanel dress underneath (this had actually two layers, I have probably ditched the nasty polyester slip), Lee Norma jeans and my old post apocalyptic boots for lazy ass winter nomad-warrior look. The second hand lamb vest has given extra mileage for my old, old Filippa-K coat — I prefer this monochromatic look when I’m wearing it over outerwear.

Posted on | February 18, 2010 | 6 Comments

// The blizzard

Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 8 Comments

Very few magazine editorials are so strong that they really haunt in my mind and influence the way I put stuff together. But I happen to remember one Vogue shoot with extremely severe black and white images, very austere clothing and heavy layering. I think that the editorial was titled “Storm” but I’m bit unsure about that. Tried to some sloppy image searching with no success… …bad thing that “storm” happens to be model agency, too.

Anyway, since I aquired some long hems while ago, I have been trying to recreate those silhouettes by memory… …here I’m wearing Acne dress, H&M silk chiffon tunic (would love it to be slightly less opaque for the stripes really show through), A.F. Vandevorst shrug, old rubber band boots, Filippa-K coat and Zara mongolian lamb vest. This one I found from charity shop this fall and it looks totally unworn. Probably someone had overestimated her tolerance for super fluffy animal hair. The Vandevorst shrug transforms easily to giant scarf when outside — and because I can actually put my head through hand hole it really stays on place… …just come on storm, try to get me!

Posted on | January 29, 2010 | 8 Comments

// Space rags

Posted on | January 5, 2010 | 9 Comments

This is the type of outfit post I thought I will not be posting. I’m really not wearing it. However comfortable these bargain Topshop sale shoes are, I’m simply not able to walk on ice with heels. And they would definitely need socks if I could.

The pair was a total slip off from my shopping plan for London. I knew that my Castañer wedges were on their way and I can’t really say that I’m in desperate need for shoes. But I kind of fell for them, the sculptural heel design is pretty awesome and the foiled leather build with slightly alienesque design is just the right way tacky to really allure me. Plus the shoe is surprisingly comfortable, well balanced and the cage’y structure dense enough to not to dig into my skin. I have to confess that I often fall for pieces that are sort of leftovers. There were huge amount of these left in blue, green (kind of loved that, hard times to decide) and magenta, in all sizes. There were two other designs with this heel, too, an awesome thigh high boot — which I just could not justify to purchase, and a great, detailed ankle boot (see it on Queen Michelle, if you haven’t already). It might be the color — or the fact that these remind me very vaguely of the awesome McQueen Atlantis-collection — but this was the pair I walked out with.

Pewter colored foiled leggings from Vero Moda have not been too much in use, but suddenly they found a neat pair from the All Saints T-shirt dress in almost same shade. Under the dress is an old mesh dress/tunic, might be from American Apparel. I have mixed feelings towards it. To be fair it is not that bad on, but I hate the plasticky feeling when I pull this on, and the brittling sound of static. On the other hand it is a great underlayer. I draped my old A.F. Vandevorst giant shrug over the dress, this time I used another sleeve opening as a neck opening, so the symmetry was broken just a bit. A bit more drape over that, American Apparel circle scarf in delicate burnout fabric — I really like this piece but I believe I haven’t photographed it here yet. And Pilgrim crystal bracelet.

The result is quite monochromatic but not totally colorless and very subtly chameleon-like — the mauve tinge on dress and leggings is accentuated on some light. It is also a typical example of one thing I tend to do… If I have two shiny items, I like to have them close to each other… …in the same way the draped items are on top of each other. My outfits are usually not built around that many items and repeating a distinct item in very separate places creates easily a scattered, uncomposed effect. Or at least I think so. But this rule of thumb is not valid all the time…

Well, I sure will wear this later on the spring! Quite good for my sci-fi mood… …or space-hobo, whatever…

Posted on | January 5, 2010 | 9 Comments

// Taking the DIY slashed one out

Posted on | October 2, 2009 | 6 Comments

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I have been hesitating taking my DIY slashed T-shirt dress — aka poor girls Wang — out as a star of it’s own. I don’t do sexy dressing; and there is sex written all over the figure skimming nearly transparent American Apparel jersey. Slashing does not actually help. But one aim of this blog is to push myself out of my comfort zone, so I tried my best to tone the little devil down to wearable level with other tricks than using it as an underlayer.

I layered the dress over black American Apparel tube dress (this is one of the simplest and most useful garments I have) and H&M Divided Exclusive mesh leggings. My loved A.F. Vandevorst giant shrug camouflages the body contours quite nicely and adds volume. Huge disc necklace is from Pilgrim (I have heaps of disc jewelry, they kind of represent me an idea of an adornment, a detail with no details). I was not in the mood to add any black to this outfit anymore, so I let the Topshop wedges with wooden soles and bone white laquered leather offset the ensemble.

Excuse my dorky poses, I’m still very uncomfortable in front of the camera. But the visual feedback is very useful tool for wardrobe remixer, so I’m not giving up.

Posted on | October 2, 2009 | 6 Comments

// Starship trooper?

Posted on | October 1, 2009 | 3 Comments

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I’m layering some soft simple and old stuff with the H&M PVC panel pants to tone them down a bit — Diesel tank with pale star print, dirty pink Zara cardigan, giant A.F. Vandevorst shrug, Docs… …in spite of all that softness this starts to look like a weird futuristic uniform to me. Or some sort of space pirate costume. Oh dear, should I start to grow up and take things (like dressing up) seriously…

Posted on | October 1, 2009 | 3 Comments

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