Nineties are retro enough to be cool...

...Or so says twentysevennames.  LOVED their collection, although as it was pointed out to me seemed very similar to previous ones.  Not to worry though, there's nothing wrong with a stable aesthetic so long as it is as good as that which twentysevennames nails season after season. 

Main attraction for me- the soundtrack!  Ohmygawd sewwwwwgooood.  Love that they're playful enough to branch outside the usual music choice of fashion shows (i.e. bland instrumentals) and  play sh*t that people like.  Waahoo.  Wish i could have actually been at the show :( (oh the shame of using emoticons... HIDEOUS).  Aside from the music, loved the American college preppy vibe coming from the baseball jacket (also featuring in KW's current season- Salzburg jumpers) and the tea-length backless velvet spotty dress.

Saw Anjali at the garage sale today and contemplated stalking her and professing my love/obsession/idolisation... a friend wisely advised me against looking like a psychopath so i restrained myself... but people, i came seriously close... seriously. Eeeee!  Also, props to J.Hog- manning her stall herself and nice as pie.  Lovely to see!



This my jayum.

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Music to my ears

I like how this is noisy and carefree and choice and makes me wanna dance in my socks and undies while jumping on my bed.  Super cool.  NZ music is getting infinitely more gratifying.



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Yeah I know her... just a lil bit (she's amazing p.s)

Gorgeous model Esther backstage waiting to go on.  Best thing about that lace- it appears this stunning mossy grey in some lights and this deeply muddy khaki in others. 

Celine Rita launched her first ever collection at New Zealand Fashion Week on Tuesday and I for one, have to commend her on putting together a thoroughly innovative and flirty collection- one that will no doubt be consuming my future income come winter next year.

Taking inspiration from the indelible fashion icon that is Edie Sedgwick, Celine spun her own ubiquitous cutesy around her muse who she had imagined lived into the 1970's, sobered up and become an intrepid traveller- exploring all that the world had to offer.   Never taking her inspiration too literally or following trends too adamantly, she has produced a range that is both wearable and sophisticated as well as being, like Miss Sedgwick herself, a little off-beat (captured well in the name of the collection 'Dance to your own tune'). With psychedelic pops of an acid yellow-green and a kaleidoscopic pink, and the exquisite use of multiple textures (think, velvets, suedes and soft wools) Celine Rita, as always, offered something a little different to what we might have been expecting.

Yasmin in the long maxi, stunning floatiness on the runway and with the hat- eeek!

What was most exciting to see was Celine's experimentation with shape- poncho tops, long floaty maxi dresses and high waisted, wide leg, trousers that looked particularly spectacular on model Frankie Everard, who proved to be a Farrah Fawcett doppelganger with the gorgeous felt hats that were also a feature of the collection. 

Frankie looking stunning.

For a young designer, it can be difficult to navigate the line at which you remain true to your established aesthetic and yet also push your creative boundaries further, particularly when considering your client base.  Celine Rita seems to have negotiated this cusp perfectly, as it has done with every season to date.  Celine continues to prove that her design aesthetic is one in continuing flux, evocative of her personal vibrance and youth; as such it continues to develop, but still has its heart in the fun loving, quirky, imperfect, girl-next-door -just like always.

Corinna in the super cute (and classically Celine Rita) Blazer and lace skirt

Laura looking amazingly relieved after strutting her stuff- the fabric on this frock is velvet, I seriously could cuddle into it if I wanted to (ok, secretly I did, but only when Celine wasn't looking)

New Talent winner, Claire from Christchurch.  Two words: Hair Envy.  Two more: Extended Sigh.  (puts down ice-cream wistfully) 

With each collection becoming deliberately more fantastic and technically experimental it would be unwise to suggest that she had reached her pinnacle just yet.

One fashion week down, many more to come...

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All pictures taken from designerdirection.wordpress.com and frockwriter.posterous.com

Hipsters are it

"it makes being judgemental of people who aren't as cool as you even easier"

Leaving on a jet plane

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (me: circa 8 weeks time)

Sewwwwwwwww good.

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NYC i would sell my soul to see thee

NYC.  Cool beyond words.  A bestie is over there currently and has surmised the city (in a way that i could not possibly beat) as "a satorialists wet dream".  Wet dream indeed, just scanned the fashion week photo's.  GOOD GOD.  I think if this is the case, i finally understand why some boys don't like fashion that much... 



Bridges are Boss

Webb Bridge, Melbourne.  Not entirely aesthtically pleasing but pretty cool

Nescio Bridge in Amsterdam- enviromentally sustainable and everything. 

Internal structure of chinese footbridge- sthuper kewl

Pedestrian Bridge in ZhuJiaJiao China.  BOSS

Lessons in Spanish and self responsibility

OK guys, sorry I concede i have been ubiquitously (yeah big word BAM) useless at updating ze old blog.  In my defence I believe there have been some mildly good reasons for my laziness-

Uno- I got my wisdom teeth out (technically this was only last Friday so this can only account for the lack of posting the weekend just gone.  Horrible experience, would not recommend it to anyone.  Will be starting an anally retentive dental hygiene campaign once my wounded gummies heal up (disclaimer: this is not meant to imply that i am in anyway lacking in dental hygiene... I am not, I just mean I will be upping the ante against the horror that is plaque!)

Dos- I really really want to do a review of Celine Rita's summer line 'Madeline' but I am waiting for the right moment where I'm actually able to write and do the girl some justice... I have writers block of a sort i guess, not that the line isn't inspiring (because it totally is), more just because I myself am uninspired in just general life terms...

Three- (unsure what the Spanish for three is... wait i know, it is TRES? Yes. No?  I dunno, someone smart sort that out for me) I entered this fashion blogging competition, which I lost (yeah super sad, in therapy, trying to come to terms with life, parents have removed sharp objects from my immediate reach etc etc you know how it is...), anyhoooo before I lost the thing I was vigorously campaigning, borderline harassing individuals to vote for me which took up significant amounts of my very busy life.  My last word on this: slutty photo's don't make you a winner do they? (shame :p- note emoticon is indicating raspberry-like tongue poking as opposed to the cute poking out tongue that 12 year old girls use when they write to Justin Beiber)

Quatro- (woop!  Clearly brain has not entirely gone to mush... I can remember what four is!  Though, this has me concerned- do I have early onset dementia?  Maybe I'm not watching enough Dora to keep up to date with my Spanish) I just haven't been moved by life of recent, no-ones done anything particularly offensive or annoying to cause me to launch into my usual diatribe of hatred and cynicism.  Maybe I'm becoming nice?  Scary thought

At the risk of launching into false promises about what I will or won't do re. the blog updates I actually will try and post some stuff on a more regular basis.  In fact I'm going to go on a wee rampage just now because I have actually found some sweet sweet stuff of recent that has triggered my re-entry into the virtual world!

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