Fashion Ramble

Hola Chica.

It's that time of year where we look to Spring and Summer because, let's face it, the Winter and snow has gone on for far too long and we're freezing our legging clad buts off for the sake of fashion. We're looking for new and innovative fashions that are going to give us that hope and inspiration to work through this Winter to see the beautiful, HOT, sunlight at the end of the tunnel. (Here's hoping).

Believe me. We are ALL freezing in this photo... Not quite snowy, but definitely a sub-zero chill/wind factor!!

Well, seeing as I am stranded at home, unable to venture out my front door due to the obscene amounts of snow that we have had to deal with this past week, instead of revising (exams???) I have been trawling through the latest magazines, taking note of the latest trends and forcing myself to believe that summer is just around the corner - give or take a few months.

So as I was faced with the February 2010 edition of Elle I removed my gloves and donned my specs in the hope of better things to come.

I love the new Chanel ad campaigns; Zorro meets a less-than-virtuous milkmaid.

However, I'm not quite feeling the new adverts for Gucci's Spring/Summer 2010,
or indeed Dolce and Gabbana's collection...







It reminded me far too much of last year's Guess ad campaign...

Which in turn I thought I recognised from cocoperez.com...

Nevertheless, finally having a look through something that did not include any sort of poetry or Victorian literature I was more relieved than ever to have a glossy magazine between my fingertips!

As we start a new decade I wonder whether we are going to rehash previous trends, (the '80's are still going strong) or start something new (Alexander McQueen's Armadillo heels)? I'm looking forward to a season where we take our own initiative and are proud inventors of our own trend, and hopefully NOT the Snuggie!

The main designers that manage to catch my untrained eye are the collections by none other than the biggest names in fashion; Chanel, Dior and Versace. They manage to epitomize elegance with a style that our modern world sometimes lacks through forgetfulness. Having said that, Proenza Schouler's daring tie-dye range of fun, wearable, summer surfer chic will be a constant beacon of ideas and inspiration for my own summer wardrobe. Ralph Lauren had a  return of denim, dungarees and 'dustbowl America', whereas Celine had a realist take on a durable monochrome and neutral pallet. In all, I think that this Spring/Summer (if it ever arrives) will be a nod of the head to 2010, a new decade, a new direction and a new sense of hope for the future.

Ciao Bellas Xx

Rambling Birthday

This is just a wee short notice about a 21st Birthday today!!!

As I am ALWAYS broke and have no way of express my love and happiness for a certain lady in my life I thought I would show my love through a wonderful miniblog.

To you dear Kimbers I wish a fantastic 21st birthday and we will celebrate IN STYLE once we are reunited up North. Until then, this is all for you...

I close my eyes and think of you

And Cupsy holding hands.

Add capybara to the mix

And dream of far off lands.

Where curly boys and Jellihags

Reside together and

Making an almost even six,

Are still quite incomplete.

We need a slug and wait, a straw

For diet coke no less, 

And cheese (for some) even bacon

Make the world so much more.
 

Still a pink dressing gown needed, 

An accent like no other,

(Oh no). Throw a horse in the mix

And finally we have a birthday wish.

Very spur of the moment poem which I know makes no sense. But it really was the best I could think of!!

Love to all of you and of course Happy Birthday.

Ciao Bellas Xx

New Year Ramble

Ahh, the first ramble of 2010... Happy New Year!!!

Cannot believe I'm in the second decade of my life now... Where has the time gone? It does not feel that I have been in the UK for 10 years... Though as I try and remember the years passed, actually a lot has happened, and considering there are a lot of days (like yesterday/today) where I tend to sit in my room watching and rewatching Gossip Girl or reading or even a little bit of work (!), it isn't surprising that we are unaware of where the time goes.

I know that new year is supposed to signify a new you. Or at least that's what all the magazines say.

Be thin, this year!

Get the man you want, this year!

Be rich, this year!

Get the satisfaction you deserve, this year!

Be self-empowered, this year!

It's no wonder that we put all this pressure on ourselves in January to be this all new person, better than we ever were before. We all make resolutions, but how many of us actually manage to keep them past the first week? We are human. We are prone to failure and give in all to easily to temptation. I don't think that's something that we ourselves are ever going to be able to change, unless we somehow learn to become something that we are not.

My only new years resolution, is to try and be kinder and more positive. Of course in the back of my head I know that whatever I mentally prepare myself for, I cannot help the inevitable irritation that some people just cannot control. Nor can I control my own anger, counting to 100 more likely to help than counting to 10!

My parents thought I should try give up swearing, which I shall try, at least in front of them.

My friends from home thought that I should try and be less like me, or rather just try to tone down my personality. Not sure whether I will give this one ago, because I like being loud and boisterous.

Up North I'm not quite sure what my friends there would want my resolution to be, probably something along the lines of write more emo poetry/draw with your own blood, all for their amusement of course. But there too, no can do (that's all the rhyming you're going to get from me).

Resolutions are all very well, but there is far too much pressure on the beginning of a new year to be the perfect person. By February we have all resorted back to our old selves and are swearing, stopped going to the gym, kept the pounds we gained over Christmas and are as grouchy as ever. I think that if we lost this notion of a 'new you' over the new year and just took it within ourselves to change when it is right for us then we would all get a lot further on in our resolutions. Or at least there would be less pressure to be perfect from January onwards...

I know I'm not perfect (ish) but there isn't much about me that I want to change. Is that so wrong?

It seems fitting to end this ramble with a quote from Gossip Girl...

You know you love me

xoxo

Ciao Bellas Xx