Forest (G) Trousers

"Stupid is as Stupid does"

-Forest Gump-

I really got a thing for Palazzo pants in the summer.

My previous outfitted section is not what I normally wear. I'm not some AnnaDellaRusso-meets-Pippi-Longstocking on skates or otherwise. I just like to wear simple basics such as silk blouses with a toned-down bottom for work.

Trousers: Topshop (soldout. similar here, & here), Purse: Topshop (2010), blouse: Equipment Capri in Dusty Coral, Bangles: COS & House of Harlow: Shoes: COS

Another one: added a teal-suede jacket for when the weather gets chillier:

Teal Suede jacket from Essentiel, rest: same as before

That look is slightly more tomboy.

I kind of named them my Forest Gump palazzos. I really covet that whole story of that a good but stupid man gets so intensely lucky all the time without realising or trying. He just wants to be with his beloved Jenny. I think it's somewhat inspired by Kozinsky's Being There.

As for the print, I like that it reminds me of the Dries Van Noten SS 2012 Tote:

But I already bought the trousers before I knew it was quite similar to DvN's bag.

Online Culti-snack: Superior May 12 Magazine

Konstatin Siegel @ Superior May 12

I'm going to share today's culti-snack with you. Superior is an online magazine that seems to cover everything PopCult, from Fashionesque editorials to interior design, art, comics etc.

I'm looking forward to their June issue, which will be titled 'Strong Women'.  Until then you can read the May issue and previous issues over here
http://issuu.com/superiormagazine/docs/superior-magazine-online-may-2012/31

hair-plans

I kind of realise after some 'therapeutic' ventures into cooking-shops & interiordesign shops that I am not quite ready to become one of the prototypes of the Dutch 30-something woman.

So I just admit that I love to be one of the many, but I will never be...Let's underline that with hair: the symbol of showing what kind of 'tribe' you are in


Option 1:

bleach

So, am I becoming a (dip-dye) blonde?

Nope.

I couldn't  be a convincing blonde yet (perhaps after 40 when I really crave for the last bit of male attention)...I think it was überblonde Cameron Diaz who once admitted that she could lure in more intelligent men being a brunette (link). Fact is, that she's a blonde for a while means that perfers the dumber ones over intelligent men, or she gets more work as an atrice as the bubbly blonde one?

Option 2:
So....UNNATURAL COLOUR (which puzzles me because golden blonde is just as unnatural if it's out of a box)

La Riche Directions in Lilac: as natural as flower colours!

Here's the happy hippy again. And that coloured dip-dye is getting it's hype on so I want to do that before every fashionista in Holland does....My mum would probably dissaprove and would say that highlights suit me better: but I think it's too easy to go for the prettiest option all the time. After all, I don't have that many wrinkles yet so now it's the time to go wild about colour.

I will do just a layer or some ends in my hair that can be hidden into a chignon when having a more conservative business meeting.  Not everybody would probably dig the naturallness of vivid colours into hair, right?

Dedicated to Alice...

This 'shoot' is not with Mr. Cameraman-on-a-stick yet, which probably is the reason I do not flirt enough nor look totally relaxed. Anyhow, the story is not about flirting either...

"Alice is standing on the bench in nature, letting her hair flow in the wind"

wearing: Zara babypink pleather biker jacket (2009), Topshop skirt, Kurt Geiger shoes (Chloe 2007 lookalikes), Uniqo Top, Venetian Mask from Mooi& Belle, tights: Balstern, Cuff: COS

"But she wants to stay anonymous after her mask goes of" 

"Which brings me to the title: Who the * is Alice?"

The shoes & tights are the thing I am most wild about. The shoes are the look-a-likes from the Chloë 2007 shoe collection I have been highly coveting. That story will be continued soon..

I like the skirt, but realise that a pleaded skirt is not doing any favours for girls with hips: I'm always the curvy hips girl with a trained sixpack! (My hips are beyond training, though) I think it will work better on skinny girls who like to give the illusion of having curves. Still, I adore the digital print and the fact I got this one in the ÜberTopshop of all Topshops on Oxford street.

Oh, my real name isn't Alice, and I love to show my face all the time because as myself I am a real confident person...eh, used to be?

Beautiful Stranger

I'm often more enchanted by the feline than the canine, but this brown eyed boy had the kind of stare that made me fall in love almost instantly.

Must be that heart-shaped nose too...and the way he works the monochrome looks.

(I spotted him in the train from The Hague to Utrecht: he has an owner (a really sophisticated girl) so I guess his flirting was a bit on the side...ssstttt, don't tell)

Hi Camera!

I have been trying to make photos from my outfits with my new tripod lately. Well, besides the fact that there is no cameraman or -woman out  the flirting might get slightly automatic.

I also understand taking good pictures takes some work to position the thing rightly, to get the right light and to pull the right faces, bodylanguage and flirt with the camera at the same time.

But I once read or heard a tip from a model who had to give her flirt or introperspective mood or any other mood the photographer asks for because it's needed in some photos. She said you have to pretent that the photographer is really hot even when he isn't... Well, seemingly I have no photographer I thought I am going to do the following:

He's one of the few male models in the H&M catalogus for swimwear and actually quite cheap seeing his trunks,  I mean the price of the trunks. I think H&M is not the place for high fashion models or sometimes high fashion models on their way out go for the H&M catologue because they probably get LOTS of cash being the face of the catologue etc etc.

But he's still quite hot, and I don't buy Vogue men so I couldn't tear any guy out of one of those issues. I actually should buy a Vogue Men once but I'm not so much into the so-called metrosexual men, eh...because when it looks slightly gay it's probably close to it. Or at least my past-dating fiasco turned out that most metrosexuals I tried to date were on the way to becoming decloseted (ok, that was only one but one too many!)

I just pretent mr. Camera-man in the H&M swimming trunks is both straight and interested in me, and will flirt with him in the future...hahaha.

Carven Printemps Été 12

If any collection had the most potential to speak to my print-fanatic zeitgeist, it has been Carven.

I couldn't believe my luck  when I heard the mywardrobe was having a sale, which made me do the creditcard-thingy again.

The French designer had been quite on my fashion radar since seeing the Spring/Summer Collection. (The print of the top is featured in a dress on the 13th model on the runway video)

My only gripe is that it is slightly flawed:

Ok, I could live with that: I totally adore the print and the fact that I finally have a bodycon fitted top. Mywardrobe still has the €60 when spending a minimum of €180 off until thursday midnight with code EURO60 (the code will probably pop off when you visit the site.

I think I took the last of this print, but they still have other Carven's, such as that fab Mountainscene print and others (link)