Fashion targets breast cancer.

Wrapped in silk cloth bearing the Breast Cancer Target logo, bold beauties Kylie Minogue, Sienna Miller and Claudia Schiffer have lent their faces (and bodies) toward the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer 2010 campaign.

Several UK brands have gotten involved as well; including Topshop, Whistles, River Island, Warehouse, Marks & Spencer, Coast, and others; by creating designs in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. These items carry a 30% donation to the cause, which makes doing charity work just that little bit easier for us.

Since Fashion Targets Breast Cancer was launched in 1996, it has raised over £10.5 million for Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s groundbreaking research, campaigning and education work.

Info via the Telegraph.co.uk

Eyes Disguise.

How cute is this necklace!

 

http://www.lazyoaf.co.uk

Channeling Brenda Walsh.

This Wednesday at Barasti in Dubai, VANILLA ICE will be having a free outdoor concert. W.T.F.

It's pretty much awesome, I mean, totally rad!
A bunch of us might go and dress up in 90s style but I've been having trouble gathering items from my wardrobe that have a 90s feel. It's not exactly a decade well known for it's amazing fashion. It never had the same 'coolness' as the 60s, 70s, 80s - it's like things just got really grungey and somewhat daggy in the nineties.

I did manage to find this editorial via Who What Wear that draws inspiration from BH90210.

90s ideas: baggy denim, floral headbands, sneakers, and maybe knotting a t-shirt around itself to make a midriff top... Ok, so this could work!

Who was your favourite Beverly Hills character? Mine was always Brenda. And from the boys it was David. There was something about him being the school dj that I found so cool.

A Single Man.

I'd like to see this film.

I'm sure there's definitely an emphasis on 1960s clothing and from what I've seen in the trailer, it looks great.
But what else could you expect from Tom Ford?

Hermione's magic.

Emma Watson in a floral-embroidered leather and lace and dress from Christopher Kane’s A/W 2010 collection. What do you think of the dress?
The dress is pretty hot but reminds me of the 90s a bit with the embroidered leather.

And this is Emma in Christopher Kane last year when she appeared on Letterman.
I now see where Reiss got their inspiration from for some of their pieces last year!

Seems that hot-off-the-runway looks are perfect for this girl.

Another Surography.

Miss Crystalline aka Sidney Bailey has a unique eye for detail. She's firmly got the following titles under her belt: creative photographer, gorgeous model, inspiring visual artist and talented (budding) fashion designer; and not to mention her day job as a visual merchandiser for Dior Couture in Sydney. How does she do it all? I have no idea. Vibrant, yet mysterious, she's a wonderfully off-beat, little-understood phenomenon.

I'm a huge admirer of her work and always look forward to seeing her post new photos on the facebook profile of her Sydney-based project Another Surography. Together with her brother J, they provide photographic services, styling and branding/marketing consultations.

Anyone that knows CC, know for sure there are big things in store for her. Her obvious dedication and passion to her art will pave her way to success.

Some examples of Another Surography portraits.

So happy that CC is on blogspot keeping us up-to-date with latest fashion trends, or just sharing with us the things that inspire her.

Follow her through: http://ilegallcargo.blogspot.com/

CC and J, as photographed by each other.

God was definitely generous when it came to giving this family good looks and talent ;)

Learn more about Another Surography and CC's other projects via the following links

Facebook Fan page: Another Surography

Homepage: Sushi Roar

Plastic fantastic.

CBT's Closet is trendy, fun, & unique handmade & custom jewelry & accessories.

I sometimes order custom-made name necklaces for friends birthdays from them because you can pick the material colours, fonts and sizes.
And it's pretty cheap! Loving this girl and her resin goodness - http://www.cbtscloset.com/

 Some of the necklaces I own, including:
Lily Allen lyrics, Hello Kitty, fluoro knuckle-dusters, and custom made laser cut 'fancy' and 'dollbaby'.

I forgot to mention - I got my braces off (only one month and a week after getting them on!) so it feels great!

But I've been home for the last two days because I got an eye infection... so I'm dressed up all in pink to match my eyes at the moment. :P And avoiding eye contact with the camera... It's pretty gross.
So far this has been a real boring weekend!

A painted street fashion blog project.

Szabó Klára Petra has painted 100 watercolour pictures over the last two years and has posted them on her blog.

I first found out about her project when I visited the Viltin Gallery (Budapest) stand at Art Dubai. One wall was covered in her paintings, which are a collection of 'mood-grasping' portraits of people she finds interesting and exciting.

You can visit her blog, on our very own blogspot: http://artstyleblog.blogspot.com/
More information about the artist at http://szaboklarapetra.blogspot.com/

(PS - I really want to post up more of the photos we took while at Art Dubai Expo the other week, but I'm still waiting for my friend to upload the photos... *hint hint* MABEL - yahla habibthi!

Samantha Harris.

Six years ago, a 13 year old girl named Samantha Harris entered the Australia-wide model search for Girlfriend magazine but lost out to the ever lovely Abbey Lee Kershaw.

Samantha is now a step closer to international model success. Having participated in London Fashion Week last month, she's been able to get her name and her face out there - showing potential to join the global ranks of other models who started off the same way she did, such as Miranda Kerr and Abbey Lee.

The Aboriginal/Danish beauty will be Vogue Australia's April covergirl. Shot by Nicole Bentley and decked out in Miu Miu. She's got such a gorgeous face. And those shoes, oh those glorious shoes...

Melbourne in the 1930s.

Speaking of the races, that reminds me of a purse that I bought the last time I was in Melbourne just earlier this year in January. I was on my favourite shopping strip, Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, browsing the vintage shop Hunter & Gatherer when I came across this small purse.

Inside was a ticket to the Flemington Race Course for the 3rd of November 1936.
You can only just imagine how excited that made me. My friend at the time (and several others I've told the story to) told me that it's more likely that the store staff just put the ticket in, that it doesn't necessarily mean the purse was used by a lady back in the 1930s. I don't listen to them though.
I'd rather believe that in 1936, the purse was filled with a powder brush, some pennies and mirror, clutched tightly by a well dressed lady in a bonnet with a small feather, hopping off the tram with her friends, excited to see her first horse race...
Or something like that:-)

So I scoured the interweb for photos of the people of Melbourne in the 1930s.
I saw bonnets and sequins and intricately detailed pieces. Fashion was a lot more complicated back then. 

I really admire the effort that women would have had to go through.

 Info and credits to these photos below:

Don Nicol - National Library of Australia

Miss Bridget O'Brien - Picture Queensland ~ State Library of Queensland : digital image collection

Mrs. Marcus (Marjorie) Barlow - State Library of Victoria

Cyril Ritchard with two unidentified female performers - National Library of Australia

Rosemin Melbourne.

This weekend, the city of Dubai is preparing itself for the World Cup horse race. I'm not attending this year - but if I was going, I would definitely be wearing a dress from Rosemin. This Melbourne-based fashion designer stocks items so wonderfully, ultra feminine.

Below are some pieces from their 2009 S/S collection. 

Check out their website, linked above, and read the statement of this brand whose "designs are statements of confidence, history worn in photos of happy memories and art waiting to be hung and fitted to the right person." Sounds pretty cool huh? It IS! The store stocks seriously unique dresses, perfect for any special occasion.

If anyone in Melbourne complains about not having anything to wear during the Spring Racing Carnival, they obviously haven't visited a Rosemin boutique yet. Now, if only they stocked over here in Dubai...

Shoulder poppin'.

I had steered clear of shoulder-emphasizing dresses til now, mostly because I think you need a small waist (aka b&w model above) to pull it off, and also because I haven't done as much shopping this year as I have in last years. I'm growing up, saving pennies;) 

I do love the Balmain mini dresses that have 'inspired' countless numbers of high-street brands to provide us the same style. I found my special inspired dress in London at a little vintage boutique called Appletree on Portobello Road, Notting Hill. It was about 32GBP and as soon as I saw it on the racks I knew I must have it. It's super short and I need a belt to cinch in the waist, for the reason above, but also because it's a bit of a straight cut, a little loose.

Photo of the shop window courtesy of this site.

Chloe in wonderland.

Chloe Sevigny plays an incredibly styled Alice in this Wonderland themed spread for April 2010 Harpers Bazaar Russia. 

Thanks to Mariyah for the pictures!

Bad.

I like looking through 'worst dressed' lists and picking out outfits that I don't think are that bad...
That might say something about me and my poor taste, but whatever.

1. Fergie - Ok so maybe the dress would be more suitable for someone half her age... I still think it's cute: interesting design and cute shoes too.

2. Audrina - The fake tan and hair colour aren't that great but I think the shoes and dress pop great together. Is it clashing too much?

3. Leighton - Maybe she got chucked onto the 'bad' pile because the dress itself  is a bit hypnotic? I love her shoes - she's cute as a button!

1. Hmmm... Anna Paquin looks very classy in this, no? She should lose the 'duckface' though.

2. Rachel McAdams may have looked like she wore this dress the wrong way around, but I like it. It hugs in all the right places.

3. Ok so I agree that the dress Diane Kruger is wearing here cuts in at her chest a bit weird but I still think the lace and odd shoulders provide a fresh update to the little black dress.

4. There's a bit too much happening at the bottom of Toni Collette's dress. But the top half is just beautiful. It reminds me of the movie Jeepers Creepers in a way. It was a hella scary film until halfway through, when it just got ridiculous. But even though the ending was stupid, I still remember the first half of the film being good. It's a bit like this dress. I'm trying not to let the bottom half ruin the whole thing - the top half of the dress is lovely.

5. No idea who this is, but I love her 80s look. Maybe not suitable for the red carpet actually, which is why it was probably thrown into the 'worst dressed' list too... but it's fun, maybe for a night out.

Little V.

If I looked like this every time I stepped outside the house, I'd be a very happy girl.

These are a couple of my favourite red carpet looks of Vanessa Hudgens.

Short and flowy - sexy but still age appropriate.

My most favourite is second from the top right - that 'rockmelon' coloured gown is gorgeous, perfect with her tan.
And her hair is always so lovely. I wonder what shampoo she uses...
(Rockmelon wtf, I'm having a mental blank on what you'd call that colour)

Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2010.

I read in the Khaleej Times today that Melbourne Fashion Week has kicked off for 2010 and it made me feel a bit homesick! Just hearing about this huge event back home from a local newspaper made me sad! Melbourne is the fashion capital of Australia (I'm not just saying that because I'm from there, honest!), truly a city just bursting with creativity and individuality.

I love the contrast of florals with edgy jackets/shoes on the catwalk. Also, the tribal pieces in the Tina Kaliva collection are just stellar.

What do you think of the outfits above? These are some of my favourites from what I've seen so far.

PS - you can click on the pictures to enlarge!

Brunch carnage.

A typical Friday brunch in Dubai.

All you can eat, all you can drink, which, accompanied by the scorching desert heat, often leads to the bubbly go straight to your head. You stumble out of the restaurant at about 5pm, go home for a little siesta and wake up at 8pm (thinking it's actually 11pm) with a massive hangover you're left to cradle until morning.

Luckily, most hotels offer a non-alcoholic option, which is the one I go for. 
I don't do brunches often, but in the last year I've been to Pergola's at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel twice.
They have a beautiful large terrace outside, which is perfect in the weather we're having at the moment; and a massive food selection with every type of salad you could imagine, live grill stations, roast beef, Indian food, Italian food, Arabic food... I could go on and I didn't even mention the desserts yet.

Even if I don't drink at a brunch, I still feel completely knackered just by being out in the sun all day and eating EVERYTHING in sight.
Afterward, it's always nice to slip into a long and deep food coma.

February Amica.

Fashion shoot by Bill Georgoussis for Italian fashion magazine Amica.

Model: Mina Cvetkovic

Tiger.

I don't wear sneakers, but if I did, I'd only wear Onitsuka Tiger.

This month in Australia, a new collection called Sybil is released, paying homage to old school 1970s basketball shoes, as you can see below.

I love the blue polka dot ones with the pink laces.
If I were a boy that liked polka dots (or a girl that wore sneakers) I'd definitely pick that pair!

Onitsuka Tiger Australia

Art Dubai 2010.

 (c) Art Dubai

Looking forward to the public opening night of Art Dubai 2010 tonight!

Big thanks to traffic and discoballbreaker for the opportunity. 

Now who says Dubai doesn't have culture?? :-) Look at this - a whole week dedicated to art.
And this follows on from the Emirates International Literature Festival held last week.

Will return back with photos and stories soon.