Lady leopard.

In some of the previous posts I have wrote about animal print or shape inspired fashion pieces and accessories like the fabulous catty sunglasses and optical frames on top of this post I wrote one about animal world inspired couture editorials and styling.

For this post I was inspired by my favorite of animal prints: leopard print. Leopard print has remained trendy for numerous seasons now transferring from runway to streets and back and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.  My favorite leopard print pieces which I own are silk scarf, cashmere sweater, ballet flats and silk shirt. I am also looking to get an envelope clutch, not all to be worn at once naturally. :)

 For me these pieces are a great stand out piece when I am putting together casual business styling and I love to wear leopard print with neutrals like black, white and beige with red lipstick as another pop of color.

How do you wear your animal print darlings? 

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

Robert A. Heinlein

Pure love.

You know how they say love is pure?

The way I see it, it is the only gift you keep giving without ever expecting anything in return, and the giving you give is rewarding enough, it’s unselfish, pure.

Everything else is just liking or infatuation.

Some might say it is hard to differentiate the two, but it’s not, not at all, because boy…I tell ya….Love, Love can get pretty crazy. Because people can get quite pissed off, disappointed and defensive when their vision of love is threatened, just like with Santa when we are kids…but Love, Love is real – unlike Santa or Easter bunny.

You never know what to expect, it gives you ultimate high and takes you to the all time lows, and this is precisely so because there is no calculating risks, bargaining or negotiating, it’s just BAM! You jump! And then for a while it’s like – SWOOSH! – Fabulous paradise islands with just you two, and then later – it’s like a protective bubble of safety net and support, and then even later it’s more like – trying not to break the bubble and not let anyone else in.

There is no to much thinking involved really, no risk assessment, no logic, no fear…that’s why it is so magical, special and rare these days. But don’t be mistaken, it doesn’t just live on its own. It doesn’t just feed of itself, it needs to be nurtured, never taken for granted, communicated and acted upon every day, and it shouldn’t become a boring routine but a lifestyle, preciously protected, held not to hard but not to lose either – just like holding a butterfly.

Can it last forever? I don’t know, nobody came back from forever to tell the story, but why not try?J

This way at least there is no coulda, woulda, shoulda….

Have you been recently hurt? You say trying again to give your all is stupid? 

I say its brave.

Just JUMP lovelies! 

"Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief."

Augmented reality in fashion

I am very much into technology (Apple person - I couldn't live without my iPhone) and into fashion so this would than make me fashionable geek :) I am totally into augmented reality online shopping and recently displayed 4D show by Ralph Lauren which he did simultaniously from New York and London (you can see the Ralph's 4D video on the video tab in the right sidebar of my blog.


See bellow a super cool spread I found via Colectiva.


Enjoy lovelies! 

 Ok, now close your mouth! :) I got something even more stunning for you! I know halloween are over, but...there you go! Booooo! 

via today and tomorrow & touchpuppet

 all by Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader

Be a woman. Woman.

Lately I was thinking about modern women bounderies. How free we really are to do whatever we want versus how it used to be before. Granted, there is still a lot to fix in terms of significant differences in pay man vs. women as well as the choices we are still forced to make sometimes - having family or successful career.


But if we want to be completely honest, many of the boundaries are set by women for women.
  Are we so spoiled with choices that now we cannot make one? Are we trying to act so strong that we don't allow ourselves to relax and be gentle and sensitive, and let somebody else to take charge and do something for us?


Here is a magnificant lace & florals fairytale to remind us its ok to relax & enjoy being a women at its fullest. :)

Source: Vogue Australia, October 2010

Nicole Bentley/Codie Young/Rosemary Smith

"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
~Charlot te Whitton~

Abused mommy

Hello lovelies! Long time no blog, or better say long time no live :) However, I am back now...couple of business trips got out of hand with the volcano cloud and all. 


         Many years back now, back in the war time in Croatia when I was really, really little I used to cut out the editorials  while waiting for my mum at hairdressers or while she wasn't looking out of her magazines at home and I would glue them in my little notebook, I still have some of these  notebooks. Glued editorial on the left side and my drawing on the right side. 


My notebooks with editorials cut outs helped me get my mind of the every day life and every time I would hide in the corner behind the curtain or under the blanket these cutouts would take me to a whole new world of different kinds of pretty.


   Working in fashion industry for a couple of years back I have developed an understanding of the complexity and cost of making one of those compelling, story telling, provocative editorials.          
      Back in New York (before the economic crises) this kind of costs were needed, accepted and managed on a daily basics. Every assistant had their own assistant or an fashion intern to torture with their wanna be diva demands. 
    But frankly, I do believe it is easier to be creative and to conceptualize your ideas when you have a cushiony budget and a fleet of people supporting you, some paid and talented and some just wanting to be a part of the fashion world buzz.

With this post I would like to introduce work of a team of people running a fashion portal www.moda.hr in Croatia. This team of people is creative, positive and visionary regardless of the fact that their budgets for creating the editorial are lower that the food and taxi fair taken to one of the NYC editorial shoots. 


www.moda.hr team has created a sort of an online reality show or better say a casting call, inviting all of the creative fashion junkies to apply and from selected few editors have gathered a creative team to create an editorial.


The one that intrigued me the most is the one bellow. The topic of the editorial was a twisted world where children become the abusers of their mother. This is happening in mental institution where kids are becoming the abusers and overpowering their mother to become her mirror image later. Enjoy! 

Please find the rest of the editorial photos and information about the fabulous team who worked on this editorial here. I am really looking forward to see more of their work! :)


Xoxo,


            Kat

Life is the row material. We are the artists. Be creative!