////// The door in my wardrobe*

// Chains & fringes

Posted on | August 10, 2009 | 5 Comments

The style blog brainwashing really works and I’ve developed some sort of need for body jewelry.  So visited recently in H&M in hope for some super discounted chains from clearance sales to break apart and to use as material for a DIY harness piece. To be honest this is really dangerous for me — I have decided to steer clear from high street buys made in a whim. I’m saving for the winter booties and one special purchase. So I left that beautiful body-con cotton satin dress to H&M and left out with pile of silver chain and one pair of discounted tights. (A girl can never have too much legwear in this country.)

I don’t like the idea of a chain or a strap going in between my boobs, so I thought to build something that goes simply around the shoulders. But back to the pile of chains; a weird co-incidence is that it happened to be like this, with no alterations involved:

hmnecklace1

Perfect, actually somewhat exactly what I was about to make. First I thought that I will settle with it as it is… …but on the other hand there will be few thousand exactly similar items around so I decided to adjust it just a little bit.

I added some black fringes to the shoulders, simple but quite effective. Perhaps adding some to the back, too. My chest does not need any extra wiggle…

hmnecklace2

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Posted on | August 10, 2009 | 5 Comments

// Whimsical prints

Posted on | August 5, 2009 | 5 Comments

Christopher Kane’s gorilla print t’s and Maison Martin Margiela’s horse print t’s have been all over so much, that I have become really hungry for t-shirts with whimsical prints.
t-kane t-margiela

Images from Polyvore.

Both print styles remind me a lot of certain kind of new-age t-shirt prints. You know the type, detailed, realistic prints of animals and creatures on regular, unshaped T:s. I guess that this is actually the whole point of these designs.

But if this kind of prints can be made as high fashion I guess that the originals can be mixed to regular wardrobe with interesting results, as well. You lose the irony factor, yes. But there is only minor group of people who can recognize the Kane or Margiela, so the irony factor is for very limited amount of us, anyway. The aestethic juxtapositions can be appreciated by anyone even slightly interested in personal style.

So I browsed a little and found this US brand The Mountain with extensive print selection. Don’t be fooled by the overall new-age-tackiness, there are some real gems in there with just-the-right tackiness factor — how in earth can I put this with my limited language skills, they’re all kind of “bad taste”, but some of the prints share the strange aestethic appeal of designer versions or are just so plain ridiculous that I would love to have them. You can’t get Margiela or Kane cut from there — the shirts are boxy, but at least the material is organic cotton with quite nice subtle tie dye effect. I guess that it would be nice idea to combine one of these prints, extra large size and some simple scissor work to turn the huge boxy t to raw edged racerback t-shirt dress.

t-gorilla t-horse

t-dragont-horse1t-horse2t-summoningt-unicornOh, that all twinkling in this!

t-skullsI guess that brand named Skullbone is somehow related. You can guess the print themes from the name.

Retailers from Europe and US are easy to find by googling with brand names. Their own web shop is  under construction. Images collected from various retailers and The Mountain website.

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Posted on | August 5, 2009 | 5 Comments

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