World Fashion 2011

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Shout Out To Us Weekly!

Check out this amazing spread in the upcoming issue of US Weekly. Looks like this took a lot of work and is very appealing to the eyes. Props!

Photo Credit: US Weekly, June 16, 2008

- Erin Dustin

Boat Shoes: Good & Bad

($45, Converse, Karmaloop)

So cute, so cheap!

($70, 80%20, Karmaloop)

So... never gonna happen.

+ More Fashionbinge boat shoe love here and a little here.

Opposites Attract (I Mean, Look At Their Shirts)

Blake Lively and Penn Badgley hit the streets of NYC again to do a little shopping and moseying. (How come I never see them around?!) Also along for the day was Blake's cutie of a dog Penny. Although I can't get my Monday fix of Gossip Girl, these two lovebirds are keeping the chemistry alive for the summer. Thanks guys!

- Erin Dustin

Modern Shoes Hit Of This Season.

This season designers' imagination has no limits. Modellers decorated their shoes and open-toe sandals in such a way that they became independent piece of attire. Fashionable footwear is very elaborate.

Today nobody is amazed to see high heels or platforms. But you can shock your boyfriend wearing sandals with such strange shape of heels. For example, you can put on Alberta Ferretti to a picnic, Missoni – to work, wearing Emilio Pucci you can dance the whole night in a night club.

Christian Lacroix, Jil Sander and Yves Saint Laurent decorate heels in such a strange way! Celebrities have already made their choice. For example Victoria Beckham and Nicky Hilton were seen wearing that kind of shoes.

Miu Miu and Prada will match any kind of your attire.

Chloe and Stella McCartney are really gorgeous footwear. Without comments.

Dsquared and Nina Ricci with strange heels. But the strangest shoes created Marc Jacobs. Just the most fashionable women can have the courage to go outsite wearing such sandals.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

A Fashion Confession

I want zippered leggings:

But I sure as shittin' ain't paying 99 bucks for 'em! WTF, world?

When Should One Abandon Teen Magazines?

Continuing from my ramblings on my teen magazine years (see yesterday's post), today I wonder whether it is time that I abandon them.

I'm not a teenager anymore -I'm in my last year of college now. For the past few years, I've been feeling that I was too old for Teen Vogue. The girls featured inside the magazines, whether they are the 'normal' girls or the celebrities, are starting to seem really young, some around 13 to 16 years old. I'm really starting to feel the generation gap! The articles about the 'issues of the month' are still relevant sometimes, but they're short and don't provide much info most of the time. Plus they tend to relate the 'issue' to celebrities and not talk much about the actual issue. Also, for reasons I have yet to figure out, I don't like the styling of the editorials as much as before. For example, there was an editorial this year in which all the outfits just looked like adaptations of the Balenciaga FW07 outfits. I mean, I know Balenciaga is leading the trends this year, but couldn't the editorial have more variety apart from skinny jeans with blazers and a scarf?

But even with all this, I still buy Teen Vogue. Why? Because while I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm still at school so it means that I still dress really casually. Plus unless the reader was seriously mature and city slick, most teenagers probably don't dress the way people are dressed inside Teen Vogue until the reader is in college, (where she'll be exposed to more people and style.)

Before anyone suggests Nylon, the style inside Nylon is starting to feel a bit too young and hip for me too. I know Nylon is meant to be for readers from mid-teens to their twenties but still. I mean, I can't imagine that after graduation, I'll have much chance to wear such cool casual outfits. Sigh, but I do love their melanchony, nerdy-chic looking fashion editorials.

So when do you think one should stop/ did you stop buying teen magazines?