FREDI GOT PAPPED

My little "minga' side kick rocks just about everything she puts on her back...

CHECK- fredis shoes......BA-NANAS!

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ciao bella

RUN AN ERIN

I was extreamly busy last week attending RAFW.... Apart from running from show to show and blogging for FF, I basically spent the week drinking whites, reds and champers from 11am to 11pm... SIIIGGGGHHHH...

IT'S A HARD LIFE..

So in having a week of partying and socialising, I now have the flu, a major cheek pimple, a perminant headache and a billion 'ERINS' to run... and no time to fix any of it.

While I am on the topic of ERINS.... I am totally obsessing over ERIN WASSON lately... She is a MAJOR american model and occasional stylist/designer...

EW has impecable street style... in a dirty, rocker, hippy sort of 'hasn't had a bath in a month' kinda way....

Erin Wasson is currently working amwith California clothing brand, RVCA, which will be a 3 year deal. The first line debuted in spring 2009. The last range confirmed that Erin Watson is a model by trade, not a fashion designer. The clothing is inspired by and based off of her personal style.

If you can't run your erins.... RUN with ERIN.

I DIE!

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ciao bella

LOFT IN SOHO

IT TAKES TWO TO LET-GO

In Fashion we live in a world of constant progress and change. Stand still for a second and you’ll be left behind... but as hard as we try to move forward, as tempting as it is to never look back. The past always comes back to bite us on our size 0 bottoms.

Fashion is constantly reinventing itself.. that means we have to keep reinventing our selves too. Without adapting to change you can find yourself moving backwards instead of forwards...

So, I was thinking... that if you try and forget the past you are doomed to repeat it... Sometimes the past is something you can’t let go of.  We will never understand why...people in your past can be as addictive as a drug, as deadly as poison...but bringing people back from the dead will only haunt your present....

So we create new versions of ourselves. New looks, new hair, new clothes and a new us, but in going 'undercover'  we just need to be sure that the new us is an improvement over the last... and if so, the last us is to be put in the past for good.

The world can change in an instant... there is no time for looking back anymore.

And just like a 'tango'... it takes two to 'let-go'.

x

ciao bella

'I DIE FOR YOUR BALAYAGE FREDI'

KJ

KIRRILY JOHNSTON

We all love it when designers take a turn in the opposite direction and suprise us with a collection that is out of designer charecter, but for KJ... she knows her style inside out and she is sticking to it... I would not ask for it any other way.

KJ has never been one to mess around, when she says 'jungle' she's talking tribal, ethnic accessories, wrapped and plaited headpieces, unfinished and aged-leather cropped jackets and wraps, a consistent Aztec print with the designer’s signature draped aesthetic. 

The collection was loose, organic and unpretentious – with a mix of basic block colours and all stripey tanks, long sleeveless capes and oversized tassle neckpieces.

KIRRILY JOHNSTON has created a world where the earth has fought back against modernity, where there is finally balance between nature and technology.

I will have 2 of everthing... Thanks

x

ciao bella

JUST LIKE DESSERT

DION LEE

For young designers, living up to the highest of expectations can be a total nightmare. For a designer genius like Dion Lee, anything is possible...

The architectural tailoring was softened this year with curved edges and paintery-styled butterfly prints.

After surving 3 days of the Fashion Week - no food, all drink diet, by the morning of day 4 I was about ready to eat anything in sight. When the gelato-coloured dresses with fine pleating and draped over cut-outs came out my mouth began to water profusely.

His colour palette of lilac (a favourite this week) and pale blue felt fresh and summery – his pieces have become slightly more commercial and wearable without losing their conceptual status.

DL has a level of sophistication that is truly rare to find in the Australian Industry. Once again, he has put every other designer this week to rest.

Yummy.

x

ciao bella