Make It Work

So you get to see what I wear to work. What a mess! Haha!

 These are Grey Ant Status Sunglasses. Yeah, just the wayfarer shaped blew up to times 10. Love them even though they're soooo 2008. Haha!

These shoes are from Milanos in SM Department store. They look like those double buckled shoes I loved from Ferragamo and Louis Vuitton. I kept wanting for them ever since I saw them on GQ (Yes, I read GQ. Just the men's style section. Haha!)

Anyways, what I wore:
Black Blazer with White Lining on the Collar - Markus
White Shirt - Gap
Pants - Penshoppe
Shoes - Milanos
Sunglasses - Grey Ant Status

Hype my look my loves!

Hype my look on Lookbook my darlings!

You can fan me, too!

Hype my other looks as well while you're at it! 

Give me all your luvin'

Much love

xoxo

★M-ness★! ;) 

STYLISH KIDS! #jealous

Yes! I just used a hashtag! That's how desperate I am for a trend! JOKE! Haha!

But seriously, I've been looking at stylish kids pictures all around the net. (Please don't judge me or jump to conclusions, I'm no pedo! Haha!) But seriously, I love it when kids discover at an early age about fashion. Something that didn't happen to me so more than half my life, I guess I wasn't stylish. So now, gush about these cute photos!

SWAGGGG!

 Cute! And wow, she already has an Hermes bag??? WERK!

 HIHI! Too cute! Lil Chanel??

 Arrrggghhh! I wanna pinch him!

Mastering the selfie at such a young age!

You may have noticed that there is this one boy I keep featuring. His name is Alonso Mateo! Just Google him to swoon on more of his fashionable looks! I wish he was my kid or I'll adopt and give him the nicest clothes to the point of my bankruptcy! Haha!

In honor of Coachella

I don't know if I'll ever attend Coachella. The fact that it's in USA and I'm in the Philippines. But maybe I'll fit right in there. My music taste is all over the place. I can go dance, pop, rock, alternative and I'm loving indie. Not that I'm going hipster, I don't care if people discovered it first. Music is all about sharing. Haha!


Anyway, for "casual Friday" which I turn to "Fashion Fridays," I was inspired by Coachella. Here it is. :)

 Be a holy fool with this necklace from Mental. ;)

 Tied a bandana wrist band. Simple way of adding edge to your already rocker vibe. Hehe!

Oxygen Tee, F&H Distressed Jeans, Dean and Trent Jacket, Jeremy Scott x Swatch, Jack Purcell RED sneakers, Mental necklace, Les Biches x Prada Sunglasses

Hype my look on Lookbook my darlings!

You can fan me, too!

Hype my other looks as well while you're at it! 

Give me all your luvin'

Much love

xoxo

★M-ness★! ;) 

 

 

Beyonce's Cuban Trip Sunglasses

Beyonce in Dita Sunglasses
Beyonce in Norma Kamali Sunglasses

So during their fifth year anniversary, Jay-Z and Beyonce decided to visit Cuba to negative responses. Apparently, Americans can't go to Cuba for tourism. So there. BUT STILL, SHE WORE TWO SUNGLASSES THAT ARE ON MY SUNGLASSES WISHLIST! GOD I WISH I WAS RICH!

Anyways, here she is in Norma Kamali Square Cat Eye Sunglasses in Tokyo Tortoise

 ARRRGGGHHH! I love it! Looks super chic on her! Can't knock her despite that hair....

And then Beyonce changed clothes the next day and that includes sunglasses. Here she is in the Dita Magnifique sunglasses.

I love the color she chose. It's the perfect oversized wayfarer/cat eye hybrid sunglasses for me

RATINGS:

Norma Kamali - 4 out of 5

Dita Magnifique - 4 out of 5

GO BEYONCE GO! :D

SUPER APRIL!

hi! How are you? Me? I'm fine. haha!

Anyways, so sorry I haven't been blogging for a while. So many things to do and sometimes this blogging thing is last in my list. I'm just squeezing this in. Anyways, I want to share this version of "Amazing Grace" I found. It's very haunting yet calming and relaxing. It's been on full repeat in my iPod. And guess where I heard this? DETECTIVE CONAN MOVIE! haha!

Anyways, here ya goes! You're welcome! :)

Saint Laurent Paris Fall 2013

Alright, of all the Fall 2013 fashion shows, this got the most polarized reactions. Just look at the photos at style.com and you'll see why.

Let's look at my favorite critique of the clothes, from Hedi Slimane's favorite gal, Cathy Horyn. LOL.

" One of the first things the new designer, Hedi Slimane, did was to remove “Yves” from the label, thereby severing a symbolic connection to the founder, and everything he stood for, like good taste and feminine power.

Many people said the clothes looked like stuff sold at Topshop or a thrift store, while others defended Mr. Slimane’s approach and identified pieces, like a pink fur chubby, that relate back to Yves’s designs of the late ’60s and early ’70s, when he got ideas — say, for a pea coat — from the street. It’s doubtful that customers will make that connection, but such comments serve to validate what Mr. Slimane has done.

And the controversy is good for Saint Laurent. But mainly it was clear to me how strong the name is. In terms of design, the clothes held considerably less value than a box of Saint Laurent labels. Without the label attached to them, Mr. Slimane’s grunge dresses wouldn’t attract interest — because they’re not special. But a box of labels is worth a million.

Hermès stands in sharp contrast to the Saint Laurent show and its lazy values."

Ouch! That hurt!

 Meanwhile, let's look at a blogger, Man Repeller's Leandra Medine's review of the Saint Laurent show.

 "Twitter reactions (based on the Saint Laurent hash tag and not on the caliber of person posting) to Hedi Slimane’s second women’s ready-to-wear collection for Saint Laurent included the following:
“What the hell is Hedi Slimane thinking?”
“Oh my dear Lord. Is this Saint Laurent, or an average girls high street wardrobe? I want to cry.”
“What the hell happened to YSL? I’ve seen people on skid row dressed better.”
“We did not need a Rachel Zoe x Marc Jacobs grunge resort collection.”
“Saint Laurent show, a huge joke on the fashion industry?”
“Women’s Wear Daily reports that Saint Laurent is relocating their Paris studios. Hopefully they don’t tell Hedi where they’re going.”
I feel badly for Slimane. He’s had his ass handed to him by effectively everyone–even his fans. For all the editorial reviews that have tried to gather whatever beauty and raison d’etre is evident in his collection, camps of protestors have shown up in virtual armies at the comment feeds to refute the findings. Any comment of praise has been met with a biting, “but,” and no matter how literate, intellectual, articulate and authentic the positive reviews could have been, it just doesn’t seem to matter.
It’s true that Slimane may be taking a liberal breadth of creative license in his work for Saint Laurent, but if the re-branding and subsequent dropping of the household ‘Yves’ in Saint Laurent last season was an indication of anything, it was that Slimane’s vision would likely differ phenomenally from that of the late Yves’. So, yes, Slimane is certainly not to Saint Laurent what Raf Simons has proven to Christian Dior. But his creative departure from what’s expected at YSL can just as easily be viewed as a continuation of great House tradition.
In Alicia Drake’s book, The Beautiful Fall, a wonderful portrayal mirroring the careers of Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent in 1970s, Saint Laurent is credited as having popularized ready-to-wear in 1966 as a means to “democratize fashion.” Lest we forget, Yves Saint Laurent invented Le Smoking–a novel nod to androgynous dressing that maintained the antiquated spirit of feminine elegance.
Isn’t this precisely what Slimane is trying to do? Appeal to a different, perhaps larger, audience? The democratization of fashion at YSL in 1966 is not so different from the shift we’re seeing at Saint Laurent now. The underlying problem here, I believe, is that it seems like we’re way past the point of democratization. (Especially, when referring to a fashion house with such an extensive aura of highbrow radiating around it).
The concept of ready-to-wear has migrated far away from the original meaning of fashion-friendly “ready-to-wear,” and if the future of ready-to-wear remains — for lack of a better term — ready to wear, should it be ready to wear now?
One of the most beautiful things in fashion is that element of personal exploration. What is more refreshing than hating a collection at first runway glance (case in point: Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent, season one) and finding yourself having grown to love it over the interim before the clothes hit sales floors? That’s an astute testament to evolving personal style, personal point of view, personal perception. Ultimately, Slimane’s spring suiting, suede and those ineffable leather jackets are the clearest indication that you can’t fake good fabric and that you can’t fake authentic artistry.
And you know what? In spite of my having loved the Fall collection (which, I did, and would effectively besiege the previous paragraph’s sentiment), I wholly applaud the aspect of realism and Slimane’s apparent hunger to modernize the brand.
Here’s the thing of it, though, I’m not Saint Laurent’s chic, overwhelmingly wealthy, French customer; I’m a groupie on the sidelines. So, what do I make of that? Does that chic, French customer even actually exist anymore? Have people expressed violent disinterest in the collection because it doesn’t appear to cater to that customer? Are we afraid that this disheveled girl is the new prototypical woman? And is that a sad, difficult conclusion to draw? Yes, maybe we’re in denial.
Clearly, I’m confused. Please, impart your wisdom."

I have to say I'm with Cathy Horyn on this one. Yes, Leandra, people are not Saint Laurent chic, but shouldn't it be that if you're paying $3,000 for something it should be worth the money? You should sell a fantasy now. It's the fact that the high street is selling clothes that are even almost similar to high fashion that high fashion should now sell a dream. Alright, let's go to the grunge theme. How come Dries van Noten (Spring 2013) and Givenchy made almost very punk rock clothes look so divine and chic?  I'm sure Hedi can do this too.

I don't know, what's your opinion guys? :)

No Updates?

Sorry guys, I haven't been updating lately. I've been very busy at work. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten this yet! haha!
Anyways, Fall 2013 has arrived. And it's finished. Haven't even updated much about the Fashion shows.

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