Tagged: Honest Scrap!

Rules
1.You must brag about it
2.You must include the name of the blogger who bestowed the award on you and link back to the blogger
3.You must choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends (lol).
4.Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.
5.List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on!


1. I got a FREAKIN AWARD YIPPIE!!! Is that enough bragging :D THANKS for the award--I will like to thank my mom, my one and only...lmao just kidding!!! NEXT--->

2. Tagged by the lovely Ovay West--PS: FedEx those you fab heels please ;)

3. Tagging:
Elle Woods
Chi-Chi
The Critic In Me
Mahalo Fashion
All Anonymous visitors
Everyone who comments on this post :)

4. HONEST THINGS (lol)
(i) I always shop for my shoes online because size 10 shoes are always gone from the stores. I wish I have size 6/7 feet because they always have them in stock during sales.

(ii) I am always dancing to no music while getting ready in the morning--crazy! I Know. lol

(iii) I have this love relationship with Lysol spray; I spray down almost everything & anything possible that people touch when they visit.

(iv) The longest road trip for me was driving from Minnesota to Indiana; gosh! did I hate it. I hate driving more than 3-4 hours in the name of road trip, but I don't mind long flights--I guess I love flying than driving :-/

(v)I have a thing for rosary necklaces; they have become my constant jewelry. **Does anybody know where I could get more online apart from Aldo males?"**

(vi)I am really a very shy person, but a lot hyper around people that I have known

(vii)I can't stand dirty bathrooms; I hardly visit people or spend a night at someones house whose bathroom is filthy.

(viii)I can easily make friends and I can easily let go of those who are around for the wrong reasons.

(ix)I once went to boarding school and I HATED it.

(x)I really want to get back to my short short hair and I have been thinking of getting a modernized mohawk lol!

PS: sorry for the long wait, being sick came with laziness. I will upload my overdue pictures next.

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Continuing the theme of yesterday's post about how influential style bloggers are; I've picked two of my favourites: fashion toast and karla's closet and compared them to American fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar, Elle and Vogue.

Which ones did you pick as the most inspiring?

For me, nine times out of 10, the style blogs win. Don't get me wrong; the magazine photos are beautiful but they aren't nearly as exciting and fresh as the bloggers.

Independent bloggers are free to be their most creative and experimental. Even if something looks totally wrong, it's still cool to look at. Usually they are spot-on with their clothing and accessory choices because they aren't slaves to trends and seasons. They don't wear couture or designer clothes; they wear vintage and finds from Top Shop, Forever 21 and the flea market. Their styling makes us sartorially-challenged folk see how we can dress fashionably without spending a fortune on clothes.

When I look at Rumi's (fashion toast) latest outfit adventures, I go "ah! So I can pair that navy military blazer with jean shorts, tights and high boots and it will actually work on me!" I don't get relevations like that when I'm looking at the pages of Vogue.
When I look at fashion magazines I see beautiful photographs that I love looking at but they don't inspire me or help me dress better.

Fashion bloggers make me see that I shouldn't be afraid to experiment with clothing and accessories. They give me hope!

(Pictures from karla's closet, fashion toast and the fashion spot)

Now here are some magazine photos I can enjoy

From April's French Vogue.

Don't care for the clothes but the photos make me giggle. Maybe it has something to do with my dislike of babies.
Are you offended by it? Sure it's tongue-in-cheek but Carine Roitfeld loves poking fun at taboos. Remember the PETA editorial? At the time I found that spread offensive, but I've grown to appreciate it. Only in France can magazines get away with photos like this. In the States they would be all "the horror!"
I find it funny and refreshing.






More: French Vogue and Ambivalent Modern Motherhood


(Pics: Jezebel)

LONDON - covent garden & soho, 03/31/09

Fashion magazines: next on the endangered list?

For the past few months I have practically stopped buying fashion magazines (save for a flurry of mad magazine spending a week ago) and have taken little interest in my subscriptions to Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elle.
At first I thought it was because I was getting bored with fashion but I realized that that wasn't true because I was (and am) obsessively reading fashion blogs and keeping up-to-date on the latest shows, news and trends online.

I've been thinking a lot about why I don't seem to care about fashion magazines anymore. But the answer is obvious: the internet, stupid!

I wrote about the monotony of (American) fashion mags a while ago; specifically how Vogue was getting boring and stale. After writing that post a few months ago I still find it true that the magazine is uninspiring and dull. I was hoping that in this doom and gloom environment, Vogue would be putting out something more creative and exciting. Now all I do is flip through the pages and yawn.

International magazines fair a bit better; their photographs inspire me and frankly it's the editorials that make me buy them, not the articles. Yet still; I haven't been obsessively collecting every international issue of Vogue, Elle and Harper's every month the way I used to.

It seems that they have run out of ideas; every month it's the same. The pages look the same, the colours are the same, the models' poses are the same; the pages are the same format. I swear sometimes that Elle and Harper's Bazaar are the exact same magazine.
And I'm sick of the non-fashionable celebrities on the cover.

To borrow the diagram from blogger Style Amor, you can see how these two mags look so much alike, EVERY MONTH.

And Vogue covers. Don't get me started on those. They might as well be using the same celebrity on every cover because they put them in the same dresses and poses wearing the same facial expression.

However I do realize all the work and creativity it takes to make these magazines and I really respect the editors, photographers and everyone else involved in making the magazines happen. There are many talented people who are putting them together.
But I feel that they have fallen a bit behind the times and I think that it's not just the people who are to blame. I feel that magazines themselves are behind the times.

Why wait for a monthly magazine to tell me what the next trends are when I can go to any one of the amazing style blogs out there like fashion toast, karla's closet, Garance Doré or The Sartorialist? They can predict and style the trends better than Condé Nast. They are the ones who are inspirational, who come up with never-before-seen ideas. I get my inspiration now from these bloggers because they can do whatever they want and don't have the restrictions or the carefully planned editorial that fashion magazines do.
Instead of waiting for a magazine to show me the best of the F/W 09 collections, I can see them as soon as the shows are over when the photos and videos are uploaded on the blogs and style sites. I can see the bags, shoes, jewelry and clothes right after they've hit the runway so I can decide right then whether I want to buy them.

Fashion magazines need to keep up with the blogs and other style sites or else they will lose touch with their readers who are increasingly turning to the internet to get their fashion advice.

So, dear readers: Who do you look to for sartorial advice and news? Magazines or style blogs and sites?

REYKJAVIK - nordic fashion biennale, bonus

REYKJAVIK - nordic fashion biennale, 03/28-29/09