Chanel To Aisle 5, Please

This is totally how I look like in Lidl as well.

Kristen Stewart by Michael Thompson for Elle US, September 2014

Couture Parfait - Chanel Haute Couture Spring 2014

I have been called delusional for thinking Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel has the same feel season after season but, honestly, sometimes all I see are shapes and tweeds that were done and redone way too many times. When I started going through the images of Chanel's most recent couture show, I felt I had seen that oversize tweed jacket and tweed crop top before. However, not wanting to give up on Chanel, because it is Chanel after all, I carried on and what I discovered was a bit more than more of the same. It was the future and 80's faded pastels and my Rollerblade Barbie (fanny pack included) all in one show (sigh!). Top that if you can, couturiers!

 Chanel - Haute Couture Spring 2014

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Straight From The Shoulder

"If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life!" This was a foreign concept to me until I decided to put fears aside and enroll in a fashion styling course last September. The course in the LA College of Creative Arts was created by Irish fashion personality Darren Kennedy and my wonderful tutors are freelance stylist and journalist/blogger Claire Weightman and fashion editor for Stellar and Kiss, Corina Gaffey. In the course we cover everything from editorial to personal styling, fashion PR to fashion photography and my personal favourite, fashion journalism. Last week we were given an assignment that I'd love to share with you. We were to look at the fashion shows for Spring 2014 and choose a trend we picked up from the shows. Then we had to write a small text about that trend and give some tips about how to wear it. It was easy enough to choose the trend and choose images, but it was painfully difficult to write the smallest text. It was kinda like giving birth, you know you have to do it, you know you'll be proud of what you get out of it, but it still hurts like hell. I was in labor for hours, which seems ridiculous by the size of the text, but once you learn from the pros what makes a successful fashion page, the pressure is on. This is what I came up with.

Straight From The Shoulder

Forget about breasts and stomachs. This spring is all about lifting the weight off your shoulders.

Taking up where Prada and Miu Miu left off last season, fashion houses like Chanel and Balmain are taking the focus up to our naked shoulders.

Chanel rtw Spring 2014 and Balmain rtw Spring 2014

But how much you want to bare is completely up to you.

For rubbing shoulders with your girlfriends on a night out the daring Balmain look would be the way to go, but to get that tap in the back from your boss a faux off-the-shoulder, as seen in David Koma and J.Crew, would be ideal.

The bold Balmain look, rtw Spring 2014 and the more conservative David Koma and J.Crew, rtw Spring 2014

So whether you go conservative or care free, just grab your strapless bra and let your shoulders do the talking.

From left: Dior, Ralph Lauren, Prabal Gurung and Jeremy Laing, rtw Spring 2014

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Winter Romance - Chanel Pre-Fall 2013

Chanel

The perfect collection to spend winter in romantic and historic Dublin (I think I'm warming up to this place).

A colecção perfeita para passar o Inverno na romântica e histórica Dublin (acho que começo a apreciar mais esta cidade).

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Versailles In Dublin

The other day we went out to dinner at a great vegetarian restaurant called Cornucopia, just next to luxury department store Brown Thomas, the home of brands such as Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Chanel.

And while he was at the ATM I decided to take a few pics at the Chanel window that is in total rococo mood with the resort 2013 collection. I really loved it and thought you would too. Hope you did.

No outro dia fomos jantar a um restaurante vegetariano fantástico, o Cornucopia, que é logo ali ao lado do armazém de luxo Brown Thomas, que inclui lojas da Louis Vuitton, Hermès e Chanel.

E enquanto ele estava no multibanco, resolvi tirar algumas fotos à montra da Chanel, que está em modo rococo com a colecção resort de 2013. 

Gostei tanto que achei que devia partilhar estas fotos convosco. Espero que tenham gostado. 

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Setting Trends Since 1986 - Chanel Couture F/W 212-13

Chanel Couture Fall/Winter 2012-13

I didn't think this Chanel collection was specially genius, but it was super cute and it reminded me of my look when I was about 10 or 11. I used to wear a lot of tweed mini-skirts in soft greys and light pinks and paired them the exact same silver tights. I remember I was the only one of my friends to wear such a thing and they probably thought I was weird, but I always loved experimenting with fashion and wearing different things.

Now the question remains, was I foreseeing the future or am I such a icon that Karl got inspired by me?

Não achei esta colecção da Chanel particularmente genial, mas achei-a super fofa e lembrou-me bastante de uns looks que eu usava quando tinha uns 10, 11 anos. Costumava usar imensas mini-saias de tweed em cinza e rosa clarinho com estes mesmos collants prateados. Lembro-me de ser a única das minhas amigas a usar tal coisa e talvez elas achassem que eu era meio estranha, mas sempre gostei de experimentar coisas novas e de usar coisas diferentes.

Agora a questão permanece, será que eu estava já a prever esta tendência ou será que sou um ícone tão grande que o Karl se inspirou em mim?

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