Wandering Fashion Plantation

Fall was amazing so far and it was such a great idea to do a little spontaneous photo session the other day. Since it’s not that foggy as one would expect in late September, all the layers, cardigans, thick stockings are patiently waiting in the wardrobe. But still, trousers get longer, sandals give place to shoes (espadrilles are my big favorite right now) and a light pullover or a scarf would keep you warm in the chilly mornings. And then there are those happy, sunny, funny afternoons, when there’s no better thing in the world but a walk barefoot in the park.

Vilmos Varga! Thank you so much for the wonderful photos!!:* Thank you TML!

Inspiration. Innovation. A style algorythm

The last couple of weeks I’ve spent with deliberately refusing to visit any of my bookmarked fashion favorites. I guess I needed to clear and shake up things a little bit in order to get going and create new ideas, dreams of new looks. I find so many blogs / sites day by day, see so many little details leading to a blurry imagery that is colorful and creative enough to deal with, and still, so overwhelmingly detailed that it makes you a little confused. Well, Winston Churchill said that “All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words.” So I guess this is how we should take fashion- keep things simple and apply only a tiny bit of extremity to it.

Nowadays, for example, I enjoy watching promotional fashion videos of a brand (like the recently mentioned Free People), while there you get not only the dress in its plainness, but a very pleasant impression. I believe that when a dress is placed in the corresponding environment, its impact is somehow magnified.

Some online boutiques applied this idea to their promotional campaigns by creating look books for each season/ several look books for one season. One of my favorites is Ruche. I love their vintage-modern concept, detailed, yet simple designs. Look at the Ruche website and you’re going to find look books, beautiful photos and a blog, a collection of everything that inspires the creators of Ruche.

Looking forward to their fall/winter collection.

Photos: www.shopruche.com

...with a touch that takes your breath away >)

...or beautiful ideas for an upcoming photosession (?!). These photos make me think of a season I cannot really define anymore. The whole mood is so gloomy, yet playful and trashy, elegant and loose at the same time. Somehow I'm looking for this ambivalence in every picture, in every accessory or piece of clothing that I'm trying to combine with clothes of other style or mood or an idea that I accidentally get in a certain, suddenly inspirational moment (that sometimes has little to do with fashion). Does my overall mood influences the way I'm thinking about style or is it the other way around? Well, it's a new year with new (and hopefully pleasant) experiences that will certainly give birth to a new wave in the Inspiration. Perspiration. -al world of Miss Katjes.

Thank you, Sally Jane Vintage for the idea and other photos from this beautiful session can be found under the title of Babes in the Woods.

Get your Dunakavics together

I've seen some interesting color combinations on stockholmstreetstyle again. Bleeeh, I'm just sitting here not knowing what else to write. Anyways, let's see the photos instead. Which one's the odd one out? :))

X says 'I love you' to Y in a brainstorm, or some crazy Hungarian music

Crazy rhythms and lyrics, it might not really make a sense, but still, it is very cleverly written and it's so elevating, like a new wave bombshell exploding and dissolving in my (and maybe others) microcosm. It reminds me feelings that were lost long time ago, relationships and old friends and frozen food and loneliness ('went down the subway to dream about friends') and suddennes and crazy, life-like moments at the same time. The band is called Kistehén (LittleCow) and the two songs are Vágjál hátba (Spank my Back)-the official video and the live version...I tend to like the live version more these days...and the other one is We want to do everything in the darkness. Enjoy :)))

Oh, dang!

Some photos I really like these days...like fall afternoons with yellow and red leaves and sunshine. Haha, I'm so cliche again :)

Photos from StockholmStreetstyle, last one is especially for Timi.

Colours of Fall

I accidentally came across upon Steven Alan's Fall 2010 lookbook. I love the plain colours and the little vintage-vibe of these outfits. This is what I love about autumn- you just have more and more ways to play with fabrics, colours and patterns. These photos really convinced me to purchase a few new items for the next season.
View Steven Allen's Lookbook Women's Fall 2010 here.

Good old sounds

Nice, nice tunes, great memories...Aww the good old drum and bass.!!..and I think like High Contrast better and better now.

Redemption

I made myself a few days to get far far away from work to sleep, to read, to be alone for a while...this day I spent mostly in bed, but I decided to focus on reorganizing my closet for the following fall-winter period...which is not my favourite one. Anyway, I made a little research on various streetstyle blogs and found some good ideas... at least this much until a new photo session...

I really really love these ankle boots and the way these girls wear them. I definitely want one of these!

photos: fashion.elle.com

Dive, vine, time

Falling fall by Misskatjes featuring black scarves

50s style stories of love, jealosy, betrayal....

....And other little weaknesses of the human soul. While I kind of adore everything that has something to do with the 40s-50s, I feel like I have to say something about three movies I saw recently. Married Life (2007) is something I saw accidentally on a lazy Saturday morning. It's a 1940-set story, so the first thing that I liked about it was Rachel McAdams' great (too blondie, though) hairstyle and outfits. The story itself is really catchy: husband meets a young, beautiful girl, plots to leave the wife...but as the story unfolds, he realizes that she, the wife would be devastated by the pain. (On the other hand she has a secret lover as well). You can sense a slight comic note when the husband finally decides to kill his wife in order to safe her from shame, pain, whatever..."I don't want to hurt you" shit... it's kind of funny and painful at the same time...well, you can understand it in a way, but come on! The other good thing about this movie is that you would expect a dramatic ending, but then (and not at the end) you get the answer: one cannot build happiness upon the unhappiness of someone else. Babumm. There you go. I like that the story unfolds in a 1940-manner and the answer is put in such a simple way (Like: I love you, but I'm not in love with you anymore, I can't see you suffer, so I'll kill you). It's either black or white. And still...the director can surprise you with an even more simple ending as that. It's a pity that we don't have that anymore. You just constantly receive confusing signals from the outside world and you can't decide how you should answer that. This is a helluva fckd up world (sorryz for the bad language).The other movie I saw upon this subject is based on a Somerset Maugham novel, it is The Painted Veil (2006). Here you can see more interesting clothes of the era. Though a bit boring, it's a beautiful story of love fulfilled too late. Again..jealousy, betrayal, revenge...but all along with that you can actually gain something. Something good. It is like you have to put up with all that sh*t in order to learn how open up for another person...and not to hurt...be hurt. And the clothes are adorable :)

And then it was The Cat's Meow (2001) with the beautiful Kirsten Dunst (yeah, yeah, I'm still such a huge Marie Antoinette fan because of her...and of Sofia Coppola, of course). This is a movie presenting the Hollywood stars of the 1920s. I didn't really like the story itself, but Kirsten's acting made it okay. It's jealousy for the third time. Along with the ragtime and the elegant dresses of the era. It was good to see it, though.

So, here's the thing: somebody always pisses you off, because life's ironic, let me call it faith, if you want, but because of the selfishness of the other person you don't have to feel bad about yourself and you don't have to do silly things to hurt that person. I don't really care anymore.

Pics: from here and there

Csináld magad!

A nagymamám nagyon szeret mindenféle kis csipkecsodát, sapkát, pulóvert, meleg kesztyűt készíteni, sok sok éven ez volt a mestersége, így gyakran előfordult az, hogy születésnapokra, névnapokra egy-egy ilyen darabbal lepett meg és persze mindig elmondta: tedd el, kisunokám, gyűjtsd a csipkéket, ez lesz majd a hozományod:) Ha jól tudom, most is épp nagy csipkéken dolgozik, egyet egyet készít mind a négy unokájának.


Gyerekkoromban nem tudtam értékelni a hozománynak való csipkét, persze a gesztus mindig jól esett, de nemrég előkerült a több, mint húsz darabos kollekció és kettőt azonnal ki is tettem a kedvenc vázáim alá.
A kilencvenes évek elején divatosnak számított a horgolt csipkegallér, legalábbis a családunk nőtagjai előszeretettel díszítették vele a csinosnak nem mondható pulóvereket, bár emlékeim szerint a végeredmény sem volt mindig sokkal szemetgyönyörködtetőbb. Egyébként a csipkegallér nagy múlttal rendelkezik, a XVII. századi férfidivatban találhatjuk meg első nyomait, persze később a hölgyeknél is teret hódított. Keressünk rá bátran a Victorian style clothes kifejezésre vagy nézegessünk vintage ruhákkal foglalkozó blogokat (pl. liebemarlene.com), itt a "vintidzs" megszállott rajongói, akár be is szerezhetnek néhány valóban egyedi ruhadarabot.


No, de visszatérve a horgolt csipkegallérhoz, a hozományos ládikóban a terítők, kis és nagy csipkék mellett találtam néhány szép gallért is, gondolat gondolatot követett és máris megszületett az ötlet, hogy mi lenne, ha egy régi és kidobásra szánt felsőmet "felújítanám" egy ilyen gallérral. Fekete-fehér viktoriánus hangulat a javából, nem is kellett hozzá más, csak a régi, megunt, de meg használható felső, tű, cérna és persze a gallér. A végeredményt a képeken láthatjátok. Sajnos még nem volt alkalmam arra, hogy felvegyem, ugyanis gondjaim támadtak a felső szabásával kapcsolatban, de a gallér-rész szerintem tökéletes (csak, mert a gallérok szépek:)
(Neked volt vállon ülő csipkegallérod?)


(Photos: Peti.)