Armor On: Street Fashion

Image by Prutha Raithatha

This guy blew me away with his eye and finger armor. What a cool, fun and original way to accessorize I say. And his attire with the shirt, bow tie and jacket on harem pants were perfect constrained whimsy backdrop for these accessories. Innovate away people!! It makes me love you..... XO

Maggie Norris: Street Fashion

Coat/ Sweater/ Romper: Designed by herself ; Hat: Scotland, Tartan wool, Boots: Prada; Necklace/ Belt: Santa Fe; Purse: Louis Vuitton

Its sort of hard for me to explain to you why this is an interesting post for both S and I. Lets talk about the photography first. If you notice, in all the pictures S has one connecting theme. That theme is a window of light [square in shape] somewhere on Maggie.  It is a physical blocking of light and shade, which we only hear of in the abstract by artists and never know what it actually looks like. Well now you can see it.  And to think that she found this source of light in the space we were in just by chance and worked around it to capture it in different positions is incredible.

Fashion wise this is an important post cause as you have seen in last week’s post on Christina Viera and you will see a few more in the coming weeks, I am sort of bumping into incredible women of a generation ahead of me that are total fashion rock stars. And they are sincerely inspiring me. Maggie Norris is a couture designer whose work is impeccable and so luxurious that if I ever saw one of her pieces in person I may be scared to touch it. She was a designer with Ralph Lauren for many years after which she started her own label called Maggie Norris Couture worn by many celebrities for red carpet events.

And to think that after such accomplishments she was totally down to earth and super excited to add me to her facebook teaches you to stay humble in life, no matter what. I will never forget that. And I hope we all don’t. 

Hysteric Glamour: Street Fashion

Thats me standing next to her finishing up my conversation. see what i mean about paparazzi?..lol

Purse: Hysteric Glamour ; Jacket: Charles Anastase ; Pants/ Shoes and Shoulder brace: Commes Des Garcons ; Hat: House of Flora ; Glasses: French Vintage

You know how most people don’t like to grow older? I think it starts at the age of 25. After 25 you start feeling like you need to hold on to the past, as those were the best days of your life. I know a lot of my girl friends that stress and obsess over turning 30. But thankfully and luckily for me, I still feel like a four and half year old kid who cannot wait to grow up!! Ask my nephew how old he is and he will always answer as “4 yrs and 8 months” or “I’m almost 5”, waiting to become older as soon as possible.

But there is a reason why getting older doesn’t bother me. Its because of amazing women like Christina Viera. I want to be like her so bad and when I get “bigger” [cause “older” doesn’t sound like the right word here] and the faster the better, I will be her!! I can’t wait for that to happen.

How brilliant and fun is her outfit. And imagine if only her outfit is soo much fun, how much fun would her personality or art or work be? I truly have been waiting and waiting to share her pictures with you guys. I love her entire outfit so much that I have been looking for the pieces she’s wearing for myself…[but I can’t afford any of it right now… damn the freaking profession of underpaid architecture! Really!]. I am also posting all the pictures I have of her cause I love each one of them. No editing. She was so adorable and gave us so much of her time.  After I was done soaking in all her coolness I realized that a lot of other people that started taking pictures of her too. Total paparazzi style …copycats I say!! I saw her first!!!  Hehe… j/k ..

 I could not stop hopping around like a bunny the whole day after we spotted her. I still am super excited about having found her. Le sigh!

Christina Viera is an artist and painter working at an art gallery. Her designs for hats and jewelry are also sold at Patricia.  I have been dreaming about what her closet looks like and all the goodies in it!! You can thank me later for having found her for you ;-) [modesty? Whatttt? ….lol] 

Perfection: Street Fashion

Dress: 1950’s Vintage; Purse: Vintage bought on eBay; Shoes: Louis Vuitton ; Sweater: Vivienne Westwood. 

So for my sake, all of you, take just a few moments to experience the first picture here. I won’t say more. But do tell me what you think. 

So now that you’ve established that S is a genius and when it comes to spotting incredibly fashionable people we’ve had really good luck so far, I have another thought in my head. Not that I don’t like current fashion as we wear it right now, but I often wonder why I am always gravitated towards the classics. I mean every decade before, I would say, 1980’s was different [fashion wise]. Each had its own style and almost its own era. From 1980’s onwards I feel like everything has just been a mismatch and blur of generic trends and returning trends. IMHO we don’t have a strong style type that truly belongs to our decade, namely 2000-2010. Or should I wait till 2040 to look back and maybe it will be more evident then? Not sure.

Maki is a Fashion consultant and designer clad in 1950’s vintage. Taking the whole look from head to toe in that direction. The hairstyle, the pearl hair pin, the purse, the makeup, everything!! Its so exciting for me to meet such people. I loveeeee it!! 

Red Robin Hood

Hat: Gold Grace ; Jeans: Opening Ceremony ; Sweater: H&M 

Opening ceremony and Comme Des garcons are sort of my very favorite places to shop lately cause apparently everyone I stop on the streets and love something they are wearing, its from there. Only glitch is that both these places are a tiny bit out of my budget. Hoping that gets fixed soonish with my big win of the Mega Millions…. This is my time!! I can feel it!!!

Impeccable wide leg jeans from Opening Ceremony, paired with a very utilitarian H&M sweater. Now that’s what I call mixing up things. I am sure the cost difference between both these pieces is just a zero...Lol… the jeans defi remind me of the 1970’s hippie era and I love the well fitting simple silhouette with the sharp hat. For a lawyer I think Colleen is quite fashion forward.