For lack of recent fashion week moments, I reminisce and appreciate styling the wearable art fashion house ERRE makes – this time, an evening gown to elevate even your daytime streetstyle, or just High Tea…
Tag: Fashion Week
Decadent Threads: The Gift of the Bow
I’m talking self-styling, fashion commentary, event looks, my favourite proudly South African fashion house ERRE, and the flourish of a fantastic fashion find…
Check out some great travel style snaps if you don’t feel like reading too…
Travel Essentials: White Sneakers & PUMA Styling for Comfort
Sneakers are a travel favourite for many, and the reasons why a white pair can be beneficial, are plenty!
Find out which PUMA takkies I favour for travel comfort, style, hygiene, and going the distance…
Crimson at Fashion Week: Minding the AW20 Zeitgeist
Riding the AW 2020 Fashion Week zeitgeist, wherein splashes of crimson on a bed of minimalism, are back on the street-style menu!
Peep how I’m bringing more Paris back into my wardrobes soul – ft. PUMA and more…
Outfit of the Day: Winter Sunshine
Reviving Summer with this Canary Yellow Ootd, snapped on a cold day, at France’s opulent Palace of Versailles.
Look of the Day features: ERRE, Coast & Koi, Swiitch Beauty and more…
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day Four Outfit of the Day
Find out how well a mix of Street Art, Resortwear & High Fashion work as a street style OOTD, at AFI Cape Town Fashion Week.
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day Three Outfit of the Day
One of South Africa’s finest and most celebrated milliners, Crystal Birch, and her impeccably crafted crowns of revelry, offered up the opportunity to not take myself, Fashion Week, or fashion, too seriously this season.
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day Two Outfit of the Day
Today’s outfit of the day, is continuing my slow-burn into the penultimate #IAMAFRICA Cape Town Fashion Week runway nights.
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day One Outfit of the Day
Day 1 involved AFI ‘Masterclass’ Talks in a creative space, removed from the cities Central Business District – Salt River. With the location in mind, I kept my Day 1 look comfortable and simple.
Travel Paris: Eiffel to Arc Outfit of the Day
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.” – Coco Chanel Sometime between finding my head during Paris fashion week, and learning to briefly live in a different language, Eiffel in love with the tower. It is an incredible feat of human engineering – a phallic monument attesting to great power. We visit this…
Paris Foodie Escapades: Chez Ribe Review
Tired of pushing through crowds around the Eiffel, or walking through the burning heat?
Chez Ribe is a convenient stop-over near the Invalides, where you can stay within your daily budget, with a value-for-money seated lunch somewhere cool, clean and interesting.
Travel Paris: Versailles Outfit of the Day
Once home to the famed Marie Antoinette, the Palace of Versailles was a gilded cage for the final (Austrian) Queen of France, before s%#* hit the proverbial French Revolution fan. Christened as a symbol of ‘absolute monarchy’, the Chateau went through a riveting period of the entire French kingdom being ruled from its hallowed halls…
Paris Foodie Escapades: Le Bistro Marbeuf Review
I may not have had a full meal here, but the dessert at Le Bistro Marbeuf, bears all the exemplary marks of an establishment unyielding in delivering foodie nirvana.
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day Four Outfit of the Day
What do you do in-between shows, and hoping for more tickets to them? I don’t known about you, but I sight-see like you wouldn’t believe. *P.S: I am the only real sight to see here I headed out the door, making sure to look cute just in case a show ticket should happen upon me….
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day Three Outfit of the Day
I revel in drama. I am a situational extrovert – which means, for the most part, I am an introvert who is able to manifest a sliver of social skills & graces, when necessary. One polarizing personality trait that stands in defiance of this fact, is that when I am aware I look good, I…
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day Two Outfit of the Day
Designs from the incomparable Erre fashion house, are beauty in motion. I never feel anything but sublime in their exquisite creations – each one vocalizing a deep and abiding adoration of the female form. For Day 2 of Paris Fashion Week, I relinquished minimalist sophistication, for bold modernity. Planning my outfits mostly amounts to throwing…
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day One Outfit of the Day
Yesterday, I had a harrowing experience that nearly decimated my #FrenchKlaas trip before I kicked off Paris Fashion Week at all. I was shaking and crying, freaking out about the potential idea of having no money while I’m still at the start of my trip. Luckily, everything worked out just in time for my first invite-only Fatima Lopes showcase. I had…
Outfit of the Day: Winter Song
This look is literally from an event I attended a while ago, but I’d be remiss in my duties as a fashion blogger, not to post something this Saturday. So here’s an Outfit of the Day for you. It’s cold in Cape Town, and so I got my Adrienne Landau fur out for the day….
Outfit of the Day: Earth Tone
I figured, my clothing is useless if I don’t re-wear my favorite items so here we go with regular Ollie look, and some exceptional pieces.
Outfit of the Day: Duchess of High Tea
Today, I’m a woman of few words. I’m feeling haute. I’m feeling luxe. I’m feeling spirited…and a little austere. This was my outfit for high tea. There’s not much to my look this week. I’m wearing: a suede coat from Zara, a muted floral bodysuit from Mr. Price, makeup(Liquid Matte plum lipstick, foundation & powder,…
Outfit of the Day: Burnished Gold
I told you once that should you ever reside in Cape Town long enough, the wine culture would get you. My palate has officially graduated(wine palate acquired), and I’m shoulder-deep in exploring vineyard vines at Vergenoegd Low Wine Estate. Check out this here look of the day, I managed to capture during the ‘Golden Hour’…nothing…
AFI Cape Town Fashion Week 2018: Sedate Progress
Sedate | sɪˈdeɪt| , [adj] “calm, dignified, and unhurried” In Africa Fashion International‘s rebranding of Cape Town Fashion Week, they seem to have adopted their Executive Chairpersons sedate airs of pure unflappability, amid a major paradigm shift. Mercedes-Benz has long since been synonymous with Fashion Weeks across the world. As the landscape of Fashion, Pop Culture,…
Outfit of the Day: Lady of the Manor
Today, I’m a woman of few words. I’m keeping it simple with my feelings. I’m feeling luxurious. I’m feeling rich. I’m feeling Relaxed. Let’s live a little, capture the magic & drink aplenty. I enjoy every location I go to. The glamorous and expansive Thyme & Tide villa is no different. I reveled in the…
Outfit of the Day: Urban Impressionism
Sometimes one picture says it all. Sometimes one look, is all it takes. I really wanted to do androgynous for this years South African Menswear Week, but that fell at the wayside when I got my hands on the New York Mets colored, ‘Breakdancing Cities’ Sneaker, by Puma South Africa. In my head, I just got inspired…