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These vintage posters would soo nice framed and scattered throughout your home. I just find them adorable and nostalgic. Visit AllPosters.com to view and purchase many more.

Nijinsky, in the Ballet “Scheherazade” by Rimski-Korsakov, 1912

The culture-changing Charleston

Josephine Baker in her infamous banana skirt

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One of my absolute favourite things to do every season is to scout out the latest eye shadow palettes. They are almost always drool worthy, making me want a piece of everything, even though I already have more make-up than I need.
This season the consensus for eye shadow seems to be bronze and blue hues. This look above from Sephora is the epitome of these two shades.
Smashbox calls it Desert Chic, with these Heat Wave (left) and Oasis (right) palettes.
Stila (left) just calls it their limited edition summer palette, while Lancome (right) calls it the Brazilian colors.
Shu Uemura has something similar with their Fleur de Rose (left) and Fleur de Source (right) palettes from their 25th Boutique Birthday Make-up Collection. I tried out the look for the Fleur de Rose palette, and besides bronze they also seem to favor a tinge of pink/red. The colors go on really strongly. The pink/red doesn’t exactly make me look like somebody punched me (I asked), but let’s just say that pink/red, dark purple and bronze (the suggested combo) is not exactly the most flattering colors for my fair skin tone. I think this Fleur de Rose palette has potential though, if you use only one or two colors at a time.
Other brands favouring the metallic bronze trend are Bobbi Brown and Laura Mercier. Bobbi Brown also has a pink tinge, with their Bronzed Pink Look using the Bronze Pink metallic shade above (left). Laura Mercier has these really cute eye color pots (right) for their Gold Digger collection (they come up with all sorts of names for bronze….), that has an eye shadow shade AND a complimenting shade of their loose powder. I tried it and combined together, they go on extremely strongly. This is not for the faint heart. As much as I liked the double decker combo, it was definitely not my style.

To be honest, none of these bronze and blue palettes are really my style. Perhaps with the exception of the Fleur de Rose, none of the colors in these palettes seem to go together really well. Maybe it is just me, but despite the “look” shown above from Sephora, I just cannot imagine what I would do with these colors. It is a sad day indeed when this season’s eye make-up palettes fail to excite me.

Image Source: Sephora , Shu Uemura , Bobbi Brown and Laura Mercier

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♥ Flowing, drapey jumpsuits
♥ Cognac colored platforms
♥ Black blazer
♥ Feather combs
♥ Black pencil skirt
♥ White jeans
♥ Bows for neck, wrist and hair
♥ Fringe anything
♥ Pretty caftans
♥ Tiaras

These are the items I still need in order for my wardrobe to be complete, I will look for some while I’m on vacation.

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While I was looking for more to blog for about the Resort 09 collections, I’ve suddenly come to realise that with so many collections a year, the whole ‘flipping through style.com’ thing really isn’t as fun or exciting as before now. While the clothes are still pretty, I just can’t get through all the looks for the very long Resort collections, like Chanel, Dior and DvF. And honestly, none of the collections completely grabbed my attention -that is until I saw Stella McCartney’s collection.

Admittedly, I was surprised I liked it so much since I usually feel so-and-so about her designs, but there’s just something I really liked about this collection. Maybe because her presentation was so refreshing -it wasn’t on a typical runway, and it was set outdoors without the usual overdone glam and setup. Everything looked so natural. You can really imagine through the park and in the city in these clothes. They have just the right touch of put-together casualness and stylishness.

The double-breasted jacket with skinny pants combo is nothing new but it looks young and super sleek here. And I’m usually not a fan of jumpsuits but it looks oddly cool and glamorous and again, sleek.

These two dresses are so cute and look so easy to wear. I like how the designs are special enough to make the person to look different but not too out-there. Plus the colours are so sharp.

One of the key elements to the effortless casual and sleek look: neutral colours. Ok, so most of us out here can’t actually fit into those tight Capri or carry off those loose, tight-at-the-ankles pants, but they look so cool on the models. And I love the androgynous of the tops.

Imagine walking in the city in these outfits next summer (or if you can replicate them, this summer) -uber-stylishness! I’ve got to figure out a way to imitate the outfit on the right -it’s such an amazing combination of girliness -the loose, bow tie blouse -and androgynous -the long blazer.

What did you think of the Stella McCartney collection? Which Resort collection was your favourite?

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Even though the Resort collections are becoming more and more important, they don’t seem to have the directional importance that greatly infleunce trends. But the clothes are usually also a lot more practical and relateable. So this year I actually looked through most of the collection on style.com and picked out my favourite outfits:

3.1 Phillip Lim

As usual, his collection is very loveable. Most of the clothes look so young, modern and perfect for people who have the parties to go to (and the money to spend.)

These day dresses are so cute. I love the colour combinations -of the jacket with the navy dress and of the light green dress with the dark green belt. I’m really loving the long jacket with mini dress combination at the moment.

Phillip Lim’s cocktail dresses never disappoint. They look so customer-friendly and imagine if you had loads of events to attend about town, then the dresses look like they’ll be suitable for so many dresses.

Nina Ricci

Everything is so delicate and so etheral looking (-maybe it’s just the models,) with a bit of edge.

Lanvin

The Lanvin collection was great to ooh and ahh over as usual, but there’s a bit too much of eveningwear and expensive dresses to truly imagine them being worn by myself in real life. I love the loose-fitting, silk, white jacket with those large pockets (on the right.) It’s so casual yet cool and luxurious at the same time.

There were a lot of sharp colours, as expected from Lanvin, although it seems to be the general trend for next year too, especially yellow and orange.

OK, this post is obviously not so much of a fashion analysis post and more of a ooh-this-is-so-pretty post. These clothes somehow look so much cooler and more modern than this season’s floral dresses.

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Love this one… The girl’s easy on the eyes and the hair’s kinda cool (no offense Agyness)

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