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Winter fashion

2007-01-18T23:23:00.000+11:00

what is fashion going to be for winter this year????? this is a big question on my brain at the moment becasue as you know I'm going to Japan to go skiing, I have started to think what am I going to be packing further more what is going to be in fashion...

so these are my pradictions for winter this year and more...

ankel boots
smoks
shorts
leggings
mini skirts and dresses
opaqs
nice cut jeans
the trench as it is a classic peice of fashion

these are just some of the things that i think will be in fashion this winter, and i hope they are becuase i love all these peices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JAPAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-01-18T23:10:00.000+11:00

for me winter is coming much quicker than other people because I'm leaving for japan on Monday which i am very excited about, it is one of my favorite countries that i have been. It has the nicest people, great food, fantastic shopping, one of the best cities in the world in my own opinion, and the best powder snow every!!!!!!!!!!!!! As I am leaving I have started to think about what I need to pack and how I will be flying by myself which I am very scared of because my whole family is already there and I have to travel from the airport 6 hours down to shiga kogen where we are staying. I'm so very excited because I picked up my ski's today which are really pretty and my little babies.

what is the normal jean size???????????

2007-01-15T00:40:00.000+11:00

what has become the norm for jean sizes now, as i was reading on a 'Vogue Forums' they were discussing how come of the voguettes can not find jean sizes over a size 12 in main stream shops such as "General Pants" and "Glue". Which I find really interesting, because you would think with the wast lines of people around the world and the average size of an Australian women being a size 12 then they would stock more size 12 to cater for these peoples. One Voguette went on to say...

"that bigger girls just don't seem to wear jeans"

which i thought was totally wrong because i know many girls and women who are over the size 12 who do wear jeans because i don't think that you can get around life not wearing jeans because they are such a staple piece of clothing that one has in her or his wardrobe.

I just find it really strange how big jeans companies such as "Nudie" etc, do not cater for the so called bigger girls. Another Voguette then went on to say that companies have done market research to show that most of the market likes to buy jeans that are around the size 8-10 which is that most companies order from them.

This idea of most people being a size 8 or 10 makes me think about Anna Nicole Smith who was once a model for "Guess Jeans", she who was known for being a size 14. who was one of the "larger" models for "Guess Jeans" .

I would just like to leave you with this idea, what do you think is the perfect size and why aren't there more size 12+ jeans????

acts of kindness

2006-12-26T00:33:00.000+11:00

seeing it is Christmas time and i have no written a blog, in a very long time i thought i would talk about a random acts ok kindness from complete strangers. the first event that happened to me was when i was out one night and, had dropped $50 out of my bag because my bag is too small to put a wallet in it so i just put my money and cards in it and hope for the best. well back on the story i dropped the money out and a person behind me picked it up and taped me on the shoulder and gave it back to me which i thought was one of the nicest things ever in this day and age.

the second time this sort of thing happened to was when i was out on Melbourne cup, as we all know that Melbourne cup is a very drunken time for all. i was using my friends phone quickly because mine was out of battery , and i changed Sim cards with just placing the other Sim card on top of the phone. anyway they had to change from the restaurant to the bar because it was getting late, they just stood up and droped the Sim card out, anyway freaking out as you would about losing a Sim card, someone had picked it up off the ground and put it in there phone and called a number on it and this same person that they had called was in the same bar as me and we got the Sim card back. which i think is one of the nicest things every it beats getting $50 back, because my numbers are worth so much more than $50.

i know that you all may be thinking by now that this blog that i am writing isn't about fashion but i thought seeing that it is all Christmas, that i would write about acts of kinds that have happened to me. to allow people to understand that it is also about looking back at the time of the year and the good things that have happened!!!!!!!

katie holme's wedding dress

2006-11-19T21:09:00.000+11:00

well as you all know that katie holmes and tom cruse got married earlier this week; and i would have thought with Giorgio Armani ammarini designing your dress that you would have something really spectacular, but all i've got to say is that i thought that it was horriable and look like somthing that was really old fasion. I was imganing that he would be designing something that is more modern, as armini is a high fashion designers so i just imagined somehting different. I acctually think that is looks quiet like a 'grandma' dress, maybe that is the look that Tom Cruse and Katie Holmes were going for, to make her look a little older, becuase of the age gap between the two.

fashion crimes....

2006-11-17T17:37:00.000+11:00

I was sitting in class today thinking about the worest fashion crimes that I may have commited or that other people have commited over time. But then I started to think what is really fashion crime, because something that may be a fashion crime maybe a sense of style and fashion to the other person. For example when you see someone who is wearing to differnet types of patterns together or too many colours or colour. But I think in the end of the day it is all up to personal style and what you believe to be in fashion.

From personal experience I have been walking down the street to uni and have people laught and point at me because of my fashion and on the same day i have people say that I look really funky and cute. So I believe that fashioni is up to you and you think fashion is.

Lily Allen for Chanel

2006-11-12T13:32:00.000+11:00

According to the Sun in the UK, Lily Allen is going to be the new face for chanel, there has been a lot of controversity of this over the last couple of days due to people believing she is not the what chanel is about. However I think that it will be a fresh change for chanel, as they are trying to change there image of there company from what maybe seen as an 'old lady' company.

Ideas of this was first seen want Karl Lagerfeld, invited and flew Lily Allen to the Paris Chanel Coutre show. Lagerfeld is the chief design for Chanel, he feel in love with her down to earth style and laid back attitudes to fashion. Lilt Allen burst into the Queen of Chav with her trainers on and big gold hoop earrings on. I think that this will be a fresh change for Chanel, as it is different from the normal faces in which they normally have. The faces in which Chanel has already had are Nicole Kidman and Kate Moss just to name a few.

skiny supermodel ban...

2006-11-10T14:07:00.000+11:00

In the recent shows in spain shows supermodels were not allowed to walk due to them being to skiny. This has been the seen in some of the worlds top 10 supermodels, this is due to them being seen as underweight therefore there height to weight ratio, was not correct according to the ABC News US, that it was due to a model dieing in a recent fashion show in South America. For the models to be able to walk in the fashion shows they had to have a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 18, which is seen as the healthy weight for a model to be walking in the show. I think that this ban on supermodels being to skinny is a good thing for the fashion industry, due to the fact that is shows young girls that it is not getting the body image that you have to be skinny.

This skinny ban has not been carried through all the fashion shows of recent Paris' show because they believe that underweight models should not be banded. This is due to the Paris show corridnator think that it is nto going to solve the health issue in young girls becoming anoeerixic. They believe the only way to stop young girls being obessed with the idea of being super skinny or anoerixic.

There has been some controversity seen over Australian super Model Gemma Ward who is current the 2nd ranked catwalk model in the world. As she did not turn up to the Milian show, people are speculating the reason why she did not turn up is because she is was scared that she would not be allowed to walk due to the new standards.

the future of clothing... microchip dress

2006-10-26T22:12:00.000+10:00

As I was doing my daily reading on the Vogue Forums and the SMH (Sydney Morning Herald) I foiund this intersiting thread and news article aboout this mechanical dress designed by Hussein Chalayan. The dress is made out of microchips and PVC panneling, which allow the dress to change and alter themselves so that you can have a dress that changes itself, when you go to a party and you see someone else who is wearing the same dress as you, you will be able to alter it so that you will be wearing something different.

I think that the only problem that I would have with the dress is that, if it malfunctioned on you and it started to undress itself or start to change when you didn't want it to change. And what would happened if it didn't want to come off and then you would be stuck with this dress on you becuase of the microchips malfunctioning. According to the SMH who described the dress as something that was out of the 1960's films.

Chalayan's futuristic offerings nevertheless seemed imbued with many of the same
1960s sci-fi influences seen in many of this season's collections, as in his
grey and silver shift dress and a series of colour-contoured and tulle-overlaid
rag dresses.

In my opion this would not always work as it may start to malfunction, and then you would have major problem if your dess starts to come up on you are start to undress.

beyond the eye...

2006-10-26T17:45:00.000+10:00

when i was surfing the net today looking at different fashion websites and bloggs, and found this new false eyelashes that were actually feathers which i found were so interesting.
As they were inspired by miu miu and Roberto Cavalli, they are a limited addition by a company called shu uemura. I think that it is something different that will be around for halloween, if they where sold in australia i would deffenatly buy them.

I found them really artistic, and would just be great to buy them and keep them for that off chance that you might be able to wear them sometime for the right occassion.

The Races

2006-10-22T21:42:00.000+10:00

As I went to the races yesterday, I found that a lot of the girls and guys were not dress for the races, or what I thought you where meant to wear to the races. A lot of the girls where wearing short dress and sandals, that is what really bothered me it was just the weather was so crappy and cold and windy; so if you were wearing a short dress it would blow up in the wind. As I know from my own experience, because I was wearing a knee length dress and a coat and I was still cold. Well that is just my own experience and I still cold, but oh well that is just what I think you should wear.

just for your knowledge

2006-10-20T16:16:00.000+10:00

lauren smells, and she is also known as monkey brains, chicken, old man and shrimp head