TREND

This Spring brings us a really fun and flirty trend to sport. Gone is the season of friendly warm shades of nothing. Colour blocking has definitely been around before, this time making more of an explosion than ever. Lets face it, we don't all wear BRIGHT BOLD COLOUR BLOCKING outfits all year round.

 

Don’t be shy.  Any color can look amazing, if you pull it off properly. Personally the more colours, the more hideous you will look, like a beam of sunlight, everyone will be putting on their shades. Simple is the key. You don't have to overdo the whole colour thing, go nude on the bottom and dress it up with a bright neon top and belt.

Roksanda Ilincic silk-gazar jacket, Jil Sander colour-block leather wedge sandals, Joseph ange cotton cropped pants, Jil Sander two tone leather belt.

Jil Sander cotton-blend short sleeved shirt, Paul Smith yellow burnished leather belt, Jil Sander slim cotton-blend trousers, Richard James contrast cotton socks, Christian Louboutin louis studded hi-top sneakers in white.

Clockwise from top: Jil Sander market leather bag, Comme Des Garcons fluorescent leather wallet, stylists own bangles, Jil Sander two-tone leather brogues, Nixon time teller watch, Christopher Kane two-tone leather platform sandals.

Accessories the hell out of this trend. Girls: bright chunky bangles, two-tone heels. Guys: belts, watches, socks, all in bright block colour. Say goodbye to the drab and bring out that inner burst of WOW. After all, what is Spring without a bang of cheerful bright colors??

SPRING GLAMB

READ OF THE MONTH

         'The' Lady has done it yet again. This time exploding on the cover of VMagazine Asian Issue!

Love or hate, Gaga has created something that many 'artists' haven't been able to do in quite some time, and she definitely deserves a round-of-applause for getting to where she is now! It's hard to think that her first overly generated pop hit, Just Dance, started a roller-coaster ride of number one hits, to overly impracticable and outrageous fashion, to a collaboration with Polaroid.

 

"The most outrageous and talked-about performer of today is also turning out to be the smartest and most unflinchingly honest. Lady Gaga’s new album proves that being number one doesn’t mean your dance music can’t be deeply and stirringly personal.."

Many people rant about how she's a total loony and gallivanting for attention left right and center, ultimately she has to be the smartest 'loony' to date for creating such a world-wide 'craze'. Gaga this Gaga that, it's everywhere, and  lets face it, she's here to stay!

SPRING GLAMB

THE Meat and Livestock Australia 2010 spring lamb marketing campaign kicked off in September last year!! Yes I am aware it was a while ago now, but I just had to share this with you. My friend and I were lucky enough to take part in this amazing television commercial experience. Check out all the photos and links below.  

“Fashion and lamb are a perfect fit as they are both associated with spring – the fashion theme helps showcase lamb’s ownership of the season,” said Glen Feist, general manager of marketing at MLA.

The latest lamb campaign is the third in the 'We love our Lamb' 2010 marketing program, and follows the usual light-hearted, satirical style of lamb advertising, intending to reinforce lamb’s ownership of the season.
MLA promotes lamb in spring because it is the time of year when lamb supply is at its peak - approximately 8.8 million lambs are expected to be sold nationally between July and October," MLA's Glen Feist said.

"This year’s spring campaign features a new television commercial; it’s a parody of fashion advertising, and since lamb and fashion are both associated with spring it is a perfect fit," he said.
The new commercial was screened in capital cities for four weeks...

http://www.bandt.com.au/articles/1E/0C06C11E.asp?print=true 

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/08/31/227825_business-news.html

ITEM OF THE WEEK

This is a temporary-goodbye to my beloved Dior Homme, and hello to the beautiful scent of Blackcurrant Leaves and Bulgarian Rose. L'Ombre dans l'Eau is my latest purchase and smells like nothing I have ever smelt before in my life. The Diptyque L’Ombre Dans L’Eau Eau de Toilette Spray is a tad feminine for my liking, but every spray just gets better and better. 

http://www.diptyqueparis.com/

DOUBLE DENIM

I know what you're thinking, "it's been done before", what hasn't.? The double denim trend is here and it can be pulled of if you have the right denim & attitude.

Denim has been recorded to date back to the 18th Century. There are so many different types of denim out there, that if you wear the wrong type, things could be catastrophic. I personally find that matching double denim looks better wearing a darker denim jean dressed with an oversized-low-cut-t-shirt and lighter washed denim jacket, or vice versa.

The D&G Spring/Summer 2010 menswear collection has shown us guys that double denim doesn't have to be so cringe-worthy.