All grown up...and still a princess.

Photo source: D&G look from FW 2012. show

"Always wear your invisible crown!"

Not that my work wee wasn't super exhausting, but then I finally get everything done by ten o'clock Friday night and start typing up one of my blog post, being my usual ADD (attention deficit) self, two minutes later I end up reading an article on Mashable saying that only 9% of people actually get to work in a profession which they dreamed about when they were little. 

Ugh...thanks Mashable,'real inspiring', just what I needed on Friday night. 

A minute later, my hyper, at times slightly ghetto self said - "No,no, can't do!" I'll find a way to become a princess, meaning to wear a crown, daily, again (I did it as a child and then they made me take it off when I started going to school) without getting myself fired or ending up in mental institution. 

So I said to myself...tone it down just a bit Katarina, maybe I shouldn't go for full blown Miss America tiara cause then I have to do that elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist wave whenever I see someone I know and in the P&G office in Hungary that might look just a tad unnatural. 

Second best option for me was to consult Vogue. See, Vogue is like fashionistas google, it knows everything! So I did. My compromise solution is to start wearing this lovely, trendy and OH so chic head accessory just like they showed it on runway this season! 

Photo: Rodarte FW 2012.

Photo: D&G FW 2012.

Photo: Chanel preFall 2012.

Photo: Oscar de la Renta FW 2012.

Photo: Oscar de la Renta FW 2012.

Come on, admit it! What did you wanted to become when you were little lovelies? 

Did you give up on your dream already?

"You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling!"

Eames (Tom Hardy, Inception)

Voguepedia.

I am sure most of you who follow fashion know about this amazing tool, but if you don’t, I highly recommend checking it out! 

Style.com combined all of the key points and personas currently in fashion industry, identifying the best of the best who appeared in Vogue into one online encyclopedia called Voguepedia. This tool is nicely searchable with clean design. It contains a number of key categories: beauty, brands, designers, editors, models, personalities, photographers and turning points.

It seems like this tool is still work in progress and focused on US Vogue and US market mainly as many important people are not even mentioned for example, there is no Anna Wintour, nor Anna Dello Russo and Carine Roitfeld in editors category. There is no mention of fashion bloggers in turning points or personalities categories etc. but I am sure all will be added eventually.

My favorite sections so far are:

- Photographers

- Eco fashion

- Brands - McQueen 

Photo source: Photograph by Steven Meisel.Published in Vogue, May 2011.

I would also love to see the photo galleries of best or most memorable editorials and some business info on history of Vogue overall.

Although, when it comes to books I am totally old school, I have and continue to buy more and more fashion books on my travels and here in Croatia. I have to admit that continuous changes and extremely fast pace of fashion industry makes most print editions overdue just weeks and months from purchase, so in such a fast paced environment I highly support online editions which are not only eco friendly and better organized, but you can also view them via many different gadgets virtually as well as store and access info from it when you need it on your iPad, iPhone etc.

What do you think of Voguepedia?