Kurt Geiger Autumn/Winter 2012 Round Up

Hello all,

There is something to be said for being able to buy an entire outfit in one place, but there is a kind of spoil-yourself, indulgent feel to a shoe shop or boutique. If you’ve ever spent time in the shoe rooms at Brown Thomas, or Saks 5th Avenue, or the Shoe Lounge at  Harrods London you’ll know what I mean.

Like a kid in a sweet shop there are so many treats to look at and you want to try everything.

I also get a bit of a kick being surrounded by hundreds of shoes and those big chairs for trying on. Kurt Geiger is one such brand, and its A/W’12 collection has a wealth of choice.

Still got a massive crush on slipper shoes, they’re calling them Slippettos at Kurt Geiger.

Stiletto heeled lace, suede and Dalmation-print Chelsea boots

Red / black suede, lace-cut lace-up peep toes shoe boots

Classic black suede boots with straps

Yellow, lace no-heel heels… Madness

Flats:

All manner of biker boots:

Golf-shoe inspired creepers

Favourites:

Pointy flats, Slippettos and Tortoiseshell stilettos

Yours,

Whisty Xx

PS: I do think however they’re missing a trick with sales assistants in shoe departments and boutiques. I think there should be more male assistants. When spending upwards of €200 on a pair of shoes, what woman wouldn’t want a Cinderella / Price Charming moment to convince her to buy?

New Look A/W’12 Round Up

Hello lovely readers!

Just because I never say it enough, thank you for hanging out here and reading my ramblings and commenting / liking my posts and photos. I’ve been blogging for over 3 years now and I still get a massive buzz when I get blog feedback, plus it’s so nice to know that so many of you are still here with me! Xxx

Anyway, I’m posting a few images from the New Look A/W’12 preview. It’s set to be one of its most directional collections with strong, statements pieces in neutral colours. I really like pieces/collections like this, they’re just so easy to add into your wardrobe.

Faux Leather and Fur, with lace.

Collars and a couple of key pieces…Faux Leather and Navy Blue Wool Biker Jacket

Tweeds, knits and leather

Embellished Shorts, Digital Prints and Jaquard Pieces

Perfect White Cotton & Gold Studs Collar

Beaded & Studded Collars

Textures…

Shoes, Shoes Shoes…

Silver Rose-Print Jacquard Boots

Brown Suede & Leopard Print Hi Top Wedges = The 2012 Must Have?

Jubilee Year Celebratory Crown Stud Slipper Shoes

Black Lace Boots

High Heel Herring Bone Tweed Brogues

Two Tone Tartan Slipper Shoes and Skull Studs Heels

Fierce, Gold Trimmed Black & Red Suede Lace Up Wedges

If you need me I’ll be in New Look…

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post: Mods, Rockers & Mermaid Trousers #2

Continued….

Or are you Rockers?

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post: Mods, Rockers & Mermaid Trousers #1

Ahoy there!

Brighton, the spiritual home of the Mod.

Being a Mod at heart,with a penchant for biker-style leather, there was only one option for what I’d wear for a day trip to Brighton last weekend. I’d have to go with two outfits. A Fred Perry jumper and a Topshop leather biker jacket.

Trouser-wise, that was a no-brainer; a pair of royal blue, shiny, sparkly skin-tight leggings – which were, to my delight, renamed mermaid trousers by a fabulously camp fellow outside an ‘adult store’. I’ll go with that, mermaid trousers, at the  seaside  is too perfect.

Are you Mods…

To Be Continued tomorrow…

This Month’s Metro Herald Style Column

Hello,

In case you missed it, here’s this month’s Metro Herald style column.

Metro Life is taking style advice from the people who really know their stuff, with a rotating panel of bloggers giving their top style tips. This week style connoisseur Whisty of whisty.wordpress.com returns

“ONE of the most interesting things about fashion blogging is getting to see clothing collections before they’re released into stores. Shops like Oasis, Penneys / Primark and River Island get in touch twice a year and invite bloggers, fashion editors and stylists to view their collections for the coming season.

If you’ve ever watched The Devil Wears Prada, you will know the cerulean speech – when magazine boss Miranda Priestly tells assistant Andy exactly how it was that she came to wear a blue sweater that day. The gist of it being, that although Andy thinks she has made a sartorial choice that separates her from her fashion mag colleagues, as Miranda explains, she is in fact, very much a part of the fashion chain, albeit the weakest link.

Another point about the speech is how trends filter down from designers to the high street and so on. Collections are shown at international fashion weeks about six months in advance of the season. From there you can see how trends, styles and colours have all been translated from the designer collections to the high street a month or two later.

For example, one trend that was big on the catwalks for SS2012 was the peplum; a kind of mini frill attached to a top or a skirt that sits on the hips. Designers like Alexander McQueen, Givenchy, Nina Ricci and Jason Wu all did versions of the peplum.

By the time the high street collections were launched, just about  every shop had a version in their collections.

Clockwise from top left; AWear, Dorothy Perkins, ASOS, Topshop

Yours,

Whisty Xx

Inspired by Post – Be Blonde

Hey all,

So after the summer ’12 inspired fashion post on Wednesday, I reckon it’s time I looked at summer hair. I want to go blonder, not screen-siren structured blonde. I mean more California blonde, that perfect clean, surf-y, fresh kind of blonde.  Hair that hasn’t seen a curling iron or straightners, (or at least doesn’t look like it has), hair that is blonde from root to tip, naturally sun-bleached or otherwise, as long as it is blonde, not ombre blonde.

Simple, brilliant, stunning blonde.

Model Blonde: Abbey Lee Kershaw

Rock Blonde: Anita Pallenberg

Editorial Blonde: Anja Rubik (for Vogue)

Beach Blonde (via weheartit)

Shameless Blonde (weheartit)

Classic Blonde: Brigitte Bartdot

Controversial Blonde: Courtney Love (for Elle Mag)

Blonde Fringe: Blondie in a Hoodie at CBGB’s

Smirnoff in a can blonde!

Mod Blonde

Windy Blonde: hair blowing in the wind (weheartit)

Ever noticed how beautiful blonde hair looks in black and white photography?

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post – Cobalt and Teal

Hi All,

S/S’12 and all those great new trends and colours we’re yet to wear! I wear black and navy blue so often that I long for bright colour pops when spring comes around.

Trend-wise I love the Tropicana prints at Stella McCartney, Salvatore Ferragamo and Dior. Tropical prints featuring palm trees, parrots, surfers and even mermaids (Versace) have .

Colour-wise, I love the  shades of rich blues and greens; I presume that when Spring / Summer colours are presented each year very often they’re pale pastel shades so as not to alarm us? Pretty but also pretty plain. I prefer the bold strong colours that filter through as the season progresses.

And boy am I getting ready to wear them.

Now I’m of the nearest Tiki bar for a piña colada, while I wait for some tropical sunshine.

Dress & Bag, ORVintage

Shoes, Zara

Yours, 

Whisty Xx

Alice Delall & Chanel Boy Bags

Hello!

Happy friday, I do love a 4 day week…

To take me into the weekend, I’m channelling the latest Chanel ads featuring Alice Delall. (The only person who really still gets away with having her head shaved at the temple) I love the way the shaved part of her head is decorated on the second image along with that large black bow in her ponytail.

In admiring the style of Alice Delall and her taste in music, I think she’s a perfect fit for the paired-down chic of the Chanel Boy Bag collection.

One thing about this ad campaign, snapped by Karl Lagerfeld, is that with possible exception of the loose knit white skirt, (image 4) you could pretty much see Alice Delall wearing all of this stuff. Unlike the cute, Tiara-wearing Lily Allen in the Coco Coccoon ad campaign, the look of these ads; the baroque-style luxurious (hotel?) room, the perfect make-up and pretty hair styling, the heels, are all juxtaposed perfectly with Delall’s bad-ass personal style. 

The Bags…

Yours, 

Whisty Xx

We Need More Art in Fashion Editorial

Hello,

I hope you all had a fab Easter, I was at a bloomin’ great wedding, held at a beautiful country house hotel near the sea. It was great and I’m exhausted. I got to spend the next day recovering at the beach, eating ice cream and playing pirate tennis.

Anyway, I just saw this beautiful spread from Vanity Fair Italia. It’s decorated with illustrations by Giorgia Ricci, an Italian artist. The spread was from earlier in the year and I had only discovered the images last week and I wanted to share with any of you who hadn’t seen them either.

I wish more editorial spreads could be illustrated like this; at a time when magazines are using street style inspired features and / or images, I want to see fashion editorials use images that create a fantastical, unattainable edge. Something that separates fashion from what we see everyday.

 

Images via ThePhotographyLink.com

Here’s a very similar image from Giorgia Ricci‘s Homepage that wasn’t included in the Magazine.

 Image via GiorgiaRicci.com

Yours,

Whisty Xx

New Monthly Blogger Style Column – Metro Herald

Hello!

Just in case you didn’t hear, the first of my monthly columns in the Metro Herald was published yesterday, I’ve added a few images.

 I wrote about whether or not I should be revisiting a trend that I remember (though never bought into) from the 90′s.

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They say you should never go back to a trend if you remember it the first time round. I remember the 1990s. I remember Britpop and Grunge, even though I was too young to go to a Nirvana concert. I also remember buying Vogue for the first time during the 90s. I spent hours poring over the pages graced with the glamorous images of supermodels like Cindy, Naomi, Linda, et al.

With Gianni at the helm, the one fashion brand that was synonymous with ’90s glamour was Versace, specifically its baroque prints. you know the ones, the bold, gold, over-the-top designs with ropes, chains and ornate picture frames, swirled around brash animal print and polka dots.

When the  H&M X Versace collection came out at the end of last year, it reignited my love for the baroque print. So I was delighted to discover that these brash prints are back in a massive way for spring/summer 2012; and it isn’t just Versace doing them this time either. Everyone from D&G to River Island to Primark / Penneys is in on the trend. From skirts to shoes, jackets to jumpsuits, the high street has embraced the trend wholeheartedly, even giving their designs names like ‘Donatella’ or ‘scarf-print’.

Had my school-girl wallet been able to afford the ’90s Versace version of baroque prints, then maybe I wouldn’t be embracing the trend this time around. But having already indulged in a Versace style leather belt – think that dress of Liz hurley fame, all Medusa heads and gold chain details (versions seen here on Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell) –

I think I’m ready to go all out for the prints. I’ll start from the feet up and go with these red and baroque-print wedges from Penneys / Primark then, I’m gonna with River Island’s Alessandro blouse. I think I’ll wear it with neon-pink jeans, or if I’m really going for the ’90s look, cycling shorts and a bum-bag… NOT!!

Clockwise from left, Main photograph, Primark / Penneys; Shirt, River Island; Sweater, Topshop; Trousers, Motel Rocks; Belt, River Island; Wedges Penneys / Primark

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How Japanese Vogue have translated the trend for this season. Vogue Japan February ’12 issue.

Have a fabulous Easter, I’m off for a packet of Mini Eggs and 2 Cream Eggs for a euro!

Yours,

Whisty Xx