Wodstock Revival

Coachella baybay! Its here finally, the fashion week of music! The festival became the epitome of style showcase and music is only a secondary perk (try looking for blogs that talk strictly about the bands that played and you'll understand where I'm coming from).
Unfortunately yours truly wasn't able to make it all the way to Cali lands and cover it in person (and rock my cute little toosh out) but as usual I have my faves, dos and don'ts to share. I think Coachela is one of the few events in which my eyes are not on the stars, but at the crowd. People like me and you shine waaaay brighter - rockers, hippies, mods, come what may, it is there and it is true. Don't get me wrong, I am dying to know what kind of shenanigans LiLo got herself into this time, but for that I'll tune into TMZ later on, for now, I'll focus on the fashion. Street style on steroids here we go....

70s + beige + mod hippie

Bold prints

style squared
My future husband (or someone that hopefully looks a lot like him)

So dearest, this is what we observed from Coachella goers: 70s is in, nudes, beiges and the hippie vibe is the new black, look like you just came out of an Urban Outfitters catalogue and get your prints working and you are all set for the summer. Oh, and look hot while doing it, really hot.

New loves for the upcomming summer

ALMOST, I can sense summer vacations, I can feel them to my last strand of hair, must....survive...five...more...days....
Yes people, its here, its almost here! Hopefully that will mean I will be able to post more (at least I see it as hopefully).
I had a bit of time to keep reading my daily blogs and magazines the last couple of week and in the new Gisele *sigh* Vogue issue stumbled upon a designer that I hadn't paid attention to before: Prabal Gurung. He is interesting, he fresh, he is modern and he is consistent. He is definitely one to look out for. His latest fall '10 collection, inspired on hell's angels was so coherent with his theme and so perfectly tailored that it captured my attention, even though I'm not a big fan of mostly dark/black/gray/white (his palette of choice) collections. All I can say is "my compliments to the chef" and I hope he doesn't disappoint me in the future and guarantees his spot among my must-see designers.

On a completly different yet somewhat related noted (is that even possible?), when I saw this fresh flowery Rebecca Taylor dress, my world stopped. THE CORSET FIT LADIES! Simply stunning, not something you see everyday, perfectly cut. Bells rang, birds sang, the whole cheesy scenario, I had to have it. The down side: 400 bucks. The up side (for my pocket that is): sold out except for size 12... In case you are lucky enough and 12 is just your size, you can get it here (is they still have it). As for the rest of us, I'll leave the image of my long gone love for all of us to appreciate..

goodbye dear dress, it was nice while the illusion lasted...

Feel the joy people, feel the joy! Hell week is almost over! Almost done with my pile of assignments which gives me 5 minutes to breath and 2 minutes to post!

No time for photo shoots or to look through my usual supply of information to bring you the latest buzz. Therefore, I decided to try something new - Food porn!

Yes, you read it right. I was introduced to the concept by a fellow 24/7 dieter of mine, basically its the best pictures of the most delicious looking food possible. Its enough to fulfill the deepest desires of every food junkie.

My version of the guilty pleasure is composed by my (no modesty here) fantastic chocolate chip cookies. I have posted these pictures before and not once have I not received "ooooh" and "aaaah"s in response, followed by "you have to bake them for me!". Unfortunately I only have the recipe for them in portugese but I will translate the recipe fr those as soon as I have a little bit more free time. While you can't actually bake them and release your inner glutton, enjoy the pics and take a look at Chocolate Chipped (food porn for chocolate lovers).

Babies, crystals and eggs!

Back! I swear this was as ASAP as I could make it! Hell week is kicking true-relligion monogramed toosh right now. I hate being a University student, it always get in the way of everything else. Aaaaanyhow... lets talk business.
No time for shoots this week for reasons aforementioned; however, some interesting random facts.
Gisele Bundchen went to BraZil to show her genetically blessed baby to her family, but not to the rest of us..

Swarowski launched a line inspired by Alice in wonderland and apparently so did everyone else (even Avril Lavigne did). I liked the movie but, honestly, merchandising is just pushing it a little overboard.

Today is chocolate day! yay! I read this at farmrio.com/adoro and thought it was worth sharing! Do you know what this means? PIG OUT! Unfortunatly my fellow frozen Canadians (and the not so frozen Americans) have not yet found the glories of chocolate Easter eggs, like the ones we have in Brazil. I feel sorry for the little kids from the north that never experienced the joy of unwrapping a huuuuuuuuge egg entirely made of delicious milk chocolate, like their favorite bars, only a gazilion times bigger -- and better! (I'm trying to find a picture to post here but my internet is being ridiculous right now... )

I'll go back to my slow painful death (my assignments that is) now! On the bright side, its almost over and then its summer baybay! hell yeah...

Life is great again!

Spring is back full power! Apparently whoever spring god is heard my desperate claims!
Just in time to go out for another shoot, still on the pixie fairy flowery feel. I can't help it, this time of the year awakes my corny girly side, sorry. The outfit of choice this time was a zara skirt and shirt (both together cost me 30 bucks, very reasonable), Melissa flats, farm vest and AE belt.

Speaking of corny, I am in LOVE! Yes, deep, passionate L-O-V-E with Guy Laroche. I don't know why I haven't gone through his collections before but they are amazing. Actually, maybe it was because he isn't covered by style.com (or at least I couldn't find him). He uses forms so unpredictably and yet his garments are remarkably flattering, which in my opinion is a very hard feat to achieve. I find that designers usually sacrifice one for the other, but no Laroche. I'm enchanted.

I leave you with some pictures to admire. I'll come back later, as soon as I snap out of my spring, lovely, oblivion (Ok, this may take way too long, considering it just began. I'll come back ASAP).

OK, so apparently I claimed my victory too soon. Its cold and its icky weather again! Way to go Canada. However, leave it to me and my too favorite photographers (yes Steph and Jess that's you guys!) to turn an abominable day into the somewhat warm-ish spring shoot above. I gave it a little spruce to lean towards a 60s vibe.

On another note, McQueen's last collection is out (actually, it has been out for a couple of days, I apologize for my delay) and its gorgeous. Precious actually. Not the extravagant out-of-this-world McQueen; but a poised, refined and extremely chic runway, with the impeccable tailoring we have learned to expect. I posted some of the pictures below (if you want to see all of the pictures check out style.com)

Back as promised.

Just watched Alice in wonderland. One thing to say - BEE-EW-TIFUL. I have to give big thumbs up to Disney that nailed it yet again. I didn't remember the story being so good from the cartoon, the whole thing is so interpretable (don't worry but I won't get into much details, I shall leave that for my next semiotics paper). Costumes and set were amazing as well, I was enchanted with the colors. The movie just had a magic vibe of Marie Antoinette on LSD but it made sense somehow. If nothing so far excited you, Johny Depp as the Mad Hater should - Hilarious and with a hint of Galliano. Anne Hathaway was a liiiitle too prozac-y, but also interesting.

Ironically, Alice is fits precisely into what I said earlier. The pastel tones of the real world characters contrasted with the colourful and kind of somber tones of the ones from wonderland are exactly what I would suggest for spring.

For inspirational enlightenment I bring you Mr.Laggerfiel, Wang and Hercovitch. Oh, and Alice of course! (I appologize for the lame-o collage, I'm trying to use photovisi.com but its not as flexible as I wish it would be)