Miu Miu fw10: oh how it grew on me

When I first saw this collection I may have died a little on the inside; the bright colours, thick, stiff fabrics, kitten heels and bright eyeliner made me cringe, but after seeing the campaign images on TFS last night, somehow changed my view (most probably the styling, Joe McKenna did a great job). The girls compliment each other so well(even dispite my dislike for Lindsey), in most group campaigns theres usually always one girl that stands out a little more than the others. The kitten heels only made one appearance too. Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott did such a good job!

I think I’ve found my next pair of white glasses!

The accompanying video is adorable too.

Picture credits TFS and miumiu.com

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Winter Favourites

Every once in a while I like to peer into storage and see if there’s anything I would throw out or bring back into my daily repertoire. I rediscovered my black fleece cape, purple jacket, cork heeled patent slingbacks, mustard dress and leaf print skirt. All of which I wore heaps during last winter (especially the mustard dress, I may only have a few posts of it but wow, I wore it nearly every second day!) I decided to bring them all back, mixed them up with some new accessories and designs.

Cape: My own design

Singlet: Kmart (key hole and black ruffle added on my me)

Pants: Bardot

Jellies: Online

Cuff and earrings: Ebay

Wool jacket: Granada

Dress: My own design

Tights: Wolford

Shoes: Louboutins

Bag: Mulberry

Bracelete: Ebay

Top: Cotton On

Jacket: Online

Leaf print skirt: My own design

Tights: Wolford

Cork slingbacks: Zoe Wittner

Bag: Alexander Wang

Necklace: Swarovski x Vivanina

Cuff: Ebay

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LBD

More than a year ago I made a dress very similar to this about a year ago in green but never wore it because it didn’t fit very well and the green was rather unflattering and had been meaning to make another one, but it was low on my to do list and didn’t see it until a week ago (oops). So I altered the pattern (less darts, higher neckline, lower back, straight skirt instead of flared skirt), added a bow and used a fabric with more stretch. Et voila!

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PS. The lining is polka dot

PPS. Sorry for my little unannounced hiatus. I actually have a lot to post but not enough time!

July I want list

Balmain Velvet dress. It makes me tingle a little on the inside.

Slane & Slane leaf ring

Chloe blouse

Miu Miu bag

Michael Kors watch

Lee Angel earrings

Matthew Williamson embelished jacket

Vanessa Bruno doily lace jacket

Lanvin chain pumps

Valentino lace pumps

What are you dying to get this month?

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Rouched skirt, boxy jacket.

The good thing about knowing how to sew and design is the ability to whip something up when you have one of those ‘full wardrobe and nothing to wear’ moments. My blogging and designing mojo’s been a bit low lately, so forgive me for the lack of posts during the past week. It wasn’t until the beginning of last week when I needed something to wear that I started this jacket and skirt ensemble and once I started, nothing could stop it, all I could think about was how to do this hem or how to finish that seam to make it fit better et cetera et cetera!  This is the first jacket I made and it in fact is actually a mock up! But since it turned out quite nice I thought why not?

This is a skirt I’ve always wanted to make but never got around to because I thought the combination of the fabrics and rouching wouldn’t be very flattering, but after a few different tweeks and help from my lovely VET teacher I was(gladly) proven wrong!

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2 new designs!

I’ve been a very busy bee lately! Sewing, designing, doing homework, and attempting to have a social life I’ve had no time to do any outfit photos! So I’m making it up by posting my new designs, I was going to wait until there were more…

Jersey bow back dress.

Chiffon dress with draped shoulders.

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Go red for women

Friday the 11th was red day! Red to help raise awearness of women and heart disease. Ahh yes, I did plan my red collection around this. I needed to get it all down so I had a nice array of garments to chose from!

Cape: My own design

Skirt: My own design

Tights: Ambra

Shoes: Shabanina (I actually ended up wearing my Bonbons instead because I lost the insoles and theses are really uncomfortable without insoles)

Bag: Mum’s

Headband: My own design

Leopard bracelet: Ebay

I also finished this dress during the week. It’s black cotton jersey and lace with a slightly padded shoulder.

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My red collection

4 Weeks and taaadaaaa! Finally it’s done! So here are the sketch again, everything’s pretty much the same except for the bow on the cape and the peplum.

These first ones are made out of cotton sateen:

Side pleat pencil skirt with rosettes

 

Circle skirt with black binding

Square neck, pleated dress

Gathered skirt with bow

The following are made from wool

Side peplum skirt

Pleated cape with bow

And here’s an out take that I want to include!

Depending on the feedback I think I might even make some more and sell some of these!

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