Make Me Beautiful

What if two ladies will walk into a bar or a restaurant. One’s dressed in black,white, navy, or gray and in lean, clean and understated fashion. The other’s dressed in in layers, textures, embellishments, prints and clashing colors. How can each claim to be the best-dressed lady in the room? Because in matters of fashion, there will always be champions of simplicity (minimalists) and champions of excess (maximalists).

Before the debate begins, let me present to you the suggestion of Net-a-Porter site about this matter. Amidst the push and pull of maximalism and minimalism, we can try both and feel the power look. I guess we can call it maximin or minimax look.

Here’s some images from the site…the different styles of minimalists and maximalists. You can visit the site to shop for the following looks.

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Gisele Bundchen was declared as the world’s sexiest businesswoman in the September issue of Arena magazine . The September edition contains exclusive photoshoot with Brazilian model resulting to 12 pages of amazing photos. It also includes what Gisele means to most stellar names in fashion industry such as John Galliano, Mario Testino and Dolce & Gabbana. It looks like leaving Victoria’s Secret hasn’t hurt her career.

View more of the photos here .

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Gisele Bundchen was declared as the world’s sexiest businesswoman in the September issue of Arena magazine . The September edition contains exclusive photoshoot with Brazilian model resulting to 12 pages of amazing photos. It also includes what Gisele means to most stellar names in fashion industry such as John Galliano, Mario Testino and Dolce & Gabbana. It looks like leaving Victoria’s Secret hasn’t hurt her career.

View more of the photos here .

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Last year, Gucci handpicked Drew Barrymore for their first ever Hollywood celebrity-featured campaign. This year, another Hollywood actress was chosen as the new face of Gucci Jewelry and she’s no other than Claire Danes.

However, the new ads were not totally new. It had the same settings with Drew Barrymore’s ads and the only difference is it’s now Claire Danes with jewelry on the naked skin. Some say it’s deja vu. Some say the idea was easy. But I will say, it’s the profit that counts. Just like what Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini said last year: “Drew brought wonderful energy and excitement to this project, perhaps they are hoping to have that spark again this year.

Who’s ads are better?

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Last year, Gucci handpicked Drew Barrymore for their first ever Hollywood celebrity-featured campaign. This year, another Hollywood actress was chosen as the new face of Gucci Jewelry and she’s no other than Claire Danes.

However, the new ads were not totally new. It had the same settings with Drew Barrymore’s ads and the only difference is it’s now Claire Danes with jewelry on the naked skin. Some say it’s deja vu. Some say the idea was easy. But I will say, it’s the profit that counts. Just like what Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini said last year: “Drew brought wonderful energy and excitement to this project, perhaps they are hoping to have that spark again this year.

Who’s ads are better?

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I love Christopher Bailey. He revamped the Burberry checks and made them cool again and he’s just looks like such a cutie! But even that didn’t stop me from being disappointed in his latest collection. It was a depressing show.
The models with their long trench coats and floppy hats almost look like those creepy nudists on the streets. The dreary colors didn’t help (I thought it was supposed to be a spring/summer collection?). I could see some bits and pieces of the effortlessly chic look here and there, with the long cardigans and skinny pants (left), but the rest kind of just blended together into a muddy haze. The designs were not bad, but it was just not very interesting or inspiring. It was like there were 52 versions of the same look. Oh wait, that’s not quite true. One model stuck out in particular- in addition to being drenched upon, she looked like she took an extra role in the mud…. and accidentally got dead leaves and branches stuck on her coat (right).
Oh and check out the shoes. It appears that not only do we now have peep-toe oxford shoes, but we will have peep-toe-sling-back oxford shoes very soon too! More on how I feel about these later…….As for the color of these shoes, it is absolutely ugh, but I suppose then you wouldn’t have to worry about getting it dirty from rolling in the mud!

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I love Christopher Bailey. He revamped the Burberry checks and made them cool again and he’s just looks like such a cutie! But even that didn’t stop me from being disappointed in his latest collection. It was a depressing show.
The models with their long trench coats and floppy hats almost look like those creepy nudists on the streets. The dreary colors didn’t help (I thought it was supposed to be a spring/summer collection?). I could see some bits and pieces of the effortlessly chic look here and there, with the long cardigans and skinny pants (left), but the rest kind of just blended together into a muddy haze. The designs were not bad, but it was just not very interesting or inspiring. It was like there were 52 versions of the same look. Oh wait, that’s not quite true. One model stuck out in particular- in addition to being drenched upon, she looked like she took an extra role in the mud…. and accidentally got dead leaves and branches stuck on her coat (right).
Oh and check out the shoes. It appears that not only do we now have peep-toe oxford shoes, but we will have peep-toe-sling-back oxford shoes very soon too! More on how I feel about these later…….As for the color of these shoes, it is absolutely ugh, but I suppose then you wouldn’t have to worry about getting it dirty from rolling in the mud!

Image Source: Style.com

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OK, honestly I wasn’t interested in the Emmy’s this year (because there is simply so many more interesting news right now, like the financial news and the China milk scandal.) But the one thing that I did want to know about the Emmy’s was that Tina Fey, Alec Baldman and 30 Rock won four ‘big’ awards -so yay for them!

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OK, honestly I wasn’t interested in the Emmy’s this year (because there is simply so many more interesting news right now, like the financial news and the China milk scandal.) But the one thing that I did want to know about the Emmy’s was that Tina Fey, Alec Baldman and 30 Rock won four ‘big’ awards -so yay for them!

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