4 Standouts of 2012

I'm gonna be entirely unoriginal on this front and sum up some favourite moments of 2012:

1. Blogger Community

I sort of grew as a blogger: Quite unexpectedly. I gotten feed and comments on my blog and my outfit posts. My way of approaching fashionblogging in an original (read: weirder) way actually struck better than if I would have gone standard. And why would I go standard? After all: It's my Art.

Anyway, I'm among other (blogger)women these days and even though commenting on the really succesful bloggers who get more than a 100 comments per post, I still like to see their lives are going well, and how they dress accordingly to it! And the ones that are just as talented and have fewer comments are a brilliant read/outfit-check as well.

2. TRAVEL

My name is still MlleWanderlust, although I wanna change it into MsWanderlust, less French and more age-including than mademoiselle (they basically hesitate between calling me Mademoiselle (miss) or Madame (misses) so I might leave that one out). But still Wanderlust because I love to travel...

My greatest travel discovery has been France (read/see pictures here). I'm not talking about Paris. Paris isn't France and I wanted to explore the real France a bit better: and I did. So cute knowing that whole Holland goes to France for years and I have skipped it for so long. It has been quite fun to visit some parts of it, but I consider it a difficult country too with habits that sometimes gotten lost in translation.

3. Company: Freja

I had been looking for an adoption cat since summer '12 and found him this autumn: LOVE at first sight! He grew from a docile cat into a really active, jumpy, affective and sometimes teasing fuzzball, and I love him the more of it.

4. Somewhat excessive Consumerism:

GOSH, I remember last year's post saying I'd discovered all designers and intended to spend less? NO WAY...too much cash flew out to Givenchy, Chloe, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Hermes.

I am not going to promise to spend less, because I might do the opposite again when I make such a promise. Just going to try to tone down and get lovingly with Topshop and the likes again. After all, I like the brands but I found out they are not the best thing ever. E.g. I sold my Givenchy Antigona after not loving it enough, which was the best anti-consumerist thing I did in 2012!

 Ps: What were your 4 highlights of 2012?

recap 2011

I have to be honest that 2011 wasn't a good year.

Still, to keep it positive, I've learned a lot...

First, my very first: TRAVEL...I was able to travel a lot. To me, almost mandatory because I really didn't like to be in Holland.
One of my better moments in Brazil: being able to go to Rio de Janeiro.

Ideally, it would be the place to celebrate NYE tonight, but I have to do with Holland for a while

Secondly, getting even more fashion-savvy

You notice the words 'even more', which I placed down intentionally. I already knew my fashion from years of reading Vogue's etc and watching the fashion scene.

This year I encountered the fashionblogger-pack.
Weirdly, I noticed I found them to be, in general, too conventional.

They reminded me of the highschool-pack...some of the Alpha-bloggers decide what is ít (mentioning Chiara, Bryanboy, etc) and the rest simply do a bit of copycatting in a slightly different manner. Everything devoid is considered non-fash (for example, my icon Jacqueline got a lot of flack being dressed too sexy, something she mentioned in a video).

Which made me think, I thought fashion is about originality and inventiveness.

Still, I can find this element in fashion, only not so much with the fashionbloggers...quite a contradition.

But my favourite fashionmoment was London Fashion Week...Known as the least conventional Fashion Week, I was glued to the continuous video-streams from LFW.

One of my favourites...Mulberry...conventional and unconventional at the same time...

and the hair? Loved it...I even had bleached green dipdye for a while, but got sick of them (how dry my hair got with that stupid blonde bleach)

About fashion, I noticed to get more fashion-savvy by venturing on newer brands...for example, I noticed I don't like fashionblogger's fave Acne that much. Neither does Thakoon or Alexander Wang do it for me.

On the other hand, Current/Elliot (designed by women for women, ofcourse) is a recent favourite. Similarly I'm drawn and like the things I got from Miu Miu, Equipment, and I already had Chloë since 2007 so I know I liked that one too. Funnily, I am mostly drawn by brands that are designed by women for women, because they know how to handle a bit of curves as they have them themselves too.

So, not the best of years, but it was good to find out what I like and what I absolutely do not like :)