Headscarves

Edie Sedgwick.

There is a trend occuring, when headscarving, to put on excessive make up as well, for an all round look-at-me look. This can ruin the whole point of making the scarf look like it's just magically fallen on our head and tied itself up for the just-got-out-of-bed look. But there is a reason behind this, as when you cover your hair, you are hiding a huge part of what defines you, and so you feel the need to make up for it. You end up with a fresh new face, where suddenly you feel bare and vulnerable, so you make-up-accessorize like mad. If you are opting for an Hermes/Audrey Hepburn look, you can exude sophisticatedness in seconds with red lips. If you are opting for a hippy/at-one-with-the-earth look, you can look serene and natural with excessive beads and bracelets. If you just want to look ultra cool, you just go neon mad, as designer Danielle Scutt did in spring 2009 Ready-to-Wear collection:

The 60s

I was talking to my 67 year old wise man/friend of the memories he must have, having lived through the 60s. He quickly took the opportunity to point out how the 60s was not all flowers peace and love, and there was only a few people enjoying that lifestyle, he certainly wasn't. I thought it was extremely amusing how to heart he felt on the subject. It's funny how sometimes one thing can represent so much from a moment in time and yet it can also completely misrepresent it. The 60s was a time of change and breaking away from the like mother like daughter attitude to dressing, rather then a loving for anything colorful.

Grace Coddington in Nina Ricci, 1965. Not yet a mini. She is now the really eccentric fun Red Head woman we see in The September Issue.

The history behind miniskirts can be dated back to post war feminist movements, which allowed hemlines to be pushed up to just below the knee for practicality. And then something beautiful happened. With the Likes of Mary Quant and Andre Courrege, the miniskirt was born...

Twiggy, 1965.

Andre Courreges renovated how we perceive clothes, putting more emphasis on the idea of conceptualizing clothes as art pieces rather then looking at clothes as an attire. The new lengths to which mankind had reached, was paralleled in his sci-fi esque clothes ware, which still kept its high-end Parisian chicness.

 Pierre Cardin was well into the notion of space-show fashion.

                                                             The Bubble dress, 1954.

The seriousness of the models  catwalking on a rooftop, makes the whole scene very amusing.

Mary Quant, mixed a revolutionary fashion ideology with a new sense of practicality and affordability. This was no longer high-end but rather a movement, establishing a difference between fashion of young free-spirited open minded woman.

Leather Leather Leather

Balmain A/W 09-10 Coventry A/W 09-10

                                                                   YSL A/W 09-10

                                                                         RTW 2011

Everyone loves a bit of leather. I think Hermes were in the right track for this look, what with the riding attire, leather whip in hand.

 

 

EVIL TWIN

Brand Evil Twin is a very fun label, channeling the punk rock look with bright colours. This leapord print is seen on jesse J's new video "money", which is pretty catchy and also a bit of fun, and my flatmate Charlotte.  The new line is more american cowboy, keeping the fun edge.

Double crochet

Emilio Pucci Spring RTW 2011

Salvatore Ferragamo

My aunt passed me a beautiful Sisley crochet dress. Problem was it was way too big for me, and although i was thinking of taking it in, crochet is quite a thick and material which looks heavy if not worn properly. Luckily, Ahmed, this saint of a man, tailors clothes in the heart of Harlesden, London. The decision was made to just cut the dress in half, one funky looking top, aka a la girl smoking, and one funky looking high waisted skirt. Perfect. Its all a little transparent though but that is not a problem though is it?

RED HAIR

It seems as though like everything else, even the colour of your hair goes through fads. Highlights, lowlights? Tints? And now Red is Big. I think pulling off red hair can be hard at times but if you do it well, its really quite striking. Given that there is a much higher awareness of skin cancer, fake tan and blond highlights have disappeared and given way to this all year round look.

 

MAD MEN

Again, Grace coddington is to mention here, with her deep ginger look which makes her even more mysterious.


As well as Sonia Rykiel, who took the idea even further and pushed us to think twice about our everlasting love hate relationship with the frenzy that is our hair:

and last but not least, the dame of all dames, VIVI

 

Of course Vivi opted for a Bright Orange, rather then even trying to bother with the natural look. And she has a point, if you are going to fake it, might as well go bright, 

Ou Na Na Na Na Na

The stokholm look

Recently went to Stokholm, a short weekend trip to get away form the buzz of Edinburgh (ha). Anyway, the girls are more than cool, they ooze freshness, very trendy and very assertive. There is a lot of leather, and blends of leathers with a very sleek hair look, as seen in Chloe S/S, also in their latest advert.