Wear green and stay in peace! xx

Something amazing about mixing all shades of green.
It's never too much. You can't make it bad by mixing different shades, textures and variations of green: emerald, lime, mustard, turquoise... More so, add some naughty red lipstick and make it all work for you.
Easy and fresh.
Besides you won't find that with other colours...just imagine how wrong could yellow go!

Crocheted in my brain...

As my parents were visiting me in London I have decided to pull of a bit of "sweet girl" and dunned my new crocheted blouse from Sheinside store (favoured for their bargain offers).

We were heading off to see Michael Jackson musical "Thriller" which unprecedentedly made me sweat and blush and salivate as the dancers where freezing, locking, popping and shaking only three rows in front of me. My ears went so hot that I thought my Primark earrings were going to melt and the crocheted blouse to disintegrated from the heat I was generating! What astonishingly athletic bodies the dancers had and how agile they looked in sequinned costumes... I fell in love instantaneously...and with the whole troop of a dozen men!

Back to the topic- the "sweet girl" look just doesn't go with me...you can wrap me in a grannan's tablecloth, I still look stung on my ass ....

Here is the shot my fashion designer mum took as we were leaving the flat

And mama always told me
Be careful who you love
Be careful what you do
Because a lie becomes the truth

Billie Jean is not my lover....

...to be foretold the [British] weather?!

“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.” 

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

As I was pondering on how to mould my excuses on delaying with this Tweedrun post since April, as we are just tiptoeing at the threshold of the summer;  the sudden spell of "lovely" British weather has spared me the hassle.

My repetitive tweed-blab is the most sensible thing to write about these days.
Welcome the sartorialists:

Swagger!

The only serious vehicle that we had on the ground was from The Chap magazine journalists! 

Here they come the trendy gang.

The Tweedrun took place in April, at a very moderate speed cruising through Marylebone, Regent Street, Picadilly and Trafalgar. Strictly tweed and vintage bikes only.

The convoy of dapperly dressed chaps and ladies arrived to their tea party.
Myself and a couple more volunteers were  in charge of brewing loose Earl Grey tea in hundreds of teapots for the riders. At some point a cake was served but we missed this bit amidst all the heebiejeebies of serving tea.

Hello you two!

mmm, nothing offensive but you seriously look like a Russian man, dude! Levin may be?

He never photographed me back! This is just rude :)

A couple of volunteers that were helping to run the event made a hell of an effort, not only making the party great and filling everyone with litres of aromatic tea, but also turning up in such spruce outfits!

These gloves make me think of Madonna! 

Blatant daylight robbery!

And I still hate yellow socks

Anna Akhmatova's flipping ghost! 

Guten tag herr Furrer!

Teaser, taster, tweed & jaeger

 Just as you are about to maroon my overactive blog, I am going to throw at you this vampish look. Yes, I have more of that to come which will sweep you off your stilettos {or your vintage bike perhaps?}

So grip onto your handlebars and get ready to storm London, as we are heading into what it looks like a traditionally British summer. Thence I suggest you rethink your bikinis and get some serious layers out...and a pump....just in case...

Wrap up

Snoods, Russian hats, woollen socks and mittens...anything would do. 

There's no particular rule to winters' wrapping up because when it is cold it is flipping cold...and usually I just stop carrying and dun my favourite sheepskin and turn into a happy-bubbly little gnome. However there is a way of how to give your bulky silhouette a less chubby and more appealing look -  by breaking it into two main parts: leading and accompanying. 

For example make your snood (if it is as voluminous as mine) - a leading accent. Remember that the coat would need to be monochrome, tight fit or at least straight (if you want your snood to "pop"). And a hat will be an accompaniment hence -a small beanie hat or a beret would be perfect. This way wearing a bulky scarf or snood will give harmonic dynamics to the silhouette and will salvage your look from clumsiness...also will disguise all the festive eating evidence.

My Russian hat is rather small and is not fury on the outer side, so it goes with my  rule number one. You can deem it a petite headgear :)

If, however, you find yourself crying to wear a massive piece of headpiece, the accent then would fall onto your very top of the body.

The best would be to refrain from knitted shoulder and neck accessories. If needing a scarf use a thin scarf from wool or silk, that you could line against your neck and chest not creating too many creases. I use a green version of a short woollen scarf I brought from Edinburgh. But the ideal would be a polo neck jumper or jersey.

Cat frenzy continues

More feline for 2013.
Going to get up to speed with my posts, some better and neater looks are on their way.

Anyone willing to contribute to this blog, please drop me a line.

Today

I am craving for yellows.

In a desperate search of a neon or a bright yellow cardi.

Anyone can knit?

Film affect

I decided to dedicate my ramble to films as I spend my days at work monitoring others beautiful creations in this fabulous industry. And even though it is half a year before summer, and probably even more for this reason-I fell in love with a dress when I saw Blanca Suárez on set of "Los amantes pasajeros" directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

I had a dress crush instantaneously. I loved the beautiful flowery pattern of her simple, cotton dress. It is very much 50s and is incredibly sensual. And I liked Suárez's feminine look on the portrait picture and that her hair are very ltame and she's wearing vans!

Note the strap-cross on the back. I do think that it overloads the dress and is unnecessary providing the flowers do the "statement", on the other hand, this way  it allows the straps to sit better on the shoulders and prevents them from sliding down.

Now, what you think? Buy it or Bin it?
Anyone has dress/outfit crushes?
Please share your films, music videos, other sources of inspiration...

Riding the trend

Cycling has always been around but somewhat "nerdy" and shunned vehicle, often perceived as a chunky, causing sweat and "what if it rains" hassle. But as we already know  fashion-mob has a tendency of picking up any refuse dropped by the general public just to turn it into the most sought after thing. A year down the road and the biggest designers would represent the item in their newest collections topped up with variations of additional gear, special wear and all things cool and wicked. 
Notwithstanding, the hipster-cycling has immersed from after WWII ages for more obvious reason: economical austerity, environmental concerns, and fitness obsession all this has radically shifted the outlook on lifestyle, resulting in cycling's massive come-back in cosmopolitan cities. In addition, the heyday of vintage and all things eclectic  made millions of fashionistas (who are often young and students) to take up cycling. However this time instead of flashing a the newest multi-gear bikes they drug the old grandads' bikes from their sheds to give it some good polish.  And that is the very same piece of junk you used to ride to the school until you would get laughed at by a peer group just to dump it in a shed to have a good matter of oxidation of a rust on it. At last you can cross it out from the 'shame list' and proudly ride your most sought after fashion attribute.

Not only it is an alternative mean of transport, it is also a tremendous money saver, fat burner, health booster and traffic jams' cutter which can also massively add to your look or even increase your outlook on lifestyle as it did in my case.

Many riders will agree that the best thing about urban cycling is that you have an advantage of discovering the face of your city, the back streets, buildings, peer citizens; and get to know your city as you have never seen it before. A bicycle liberates you from the 'moles' prison'- the underground, giving you the total control of time, location and route. You can even have your own personal seat for free! Imagine! 

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Rihanna, the ultimate *********

I am sorry I can't type the word. Even a dutch magazine'e editor in chief had to resign over a joky review on the singer (read here), which in reality was a mere appraisal of Rihanna, but the diva along with her PR's and managers lacked a sense of humour that day and thought it was unfair of others using the same vernacular as she does in her songs. You see, Ri, not everything in life is pon-de-replay and fu*king over a birthday cake and you do need to read between the lines occasionally.
Rihanna captivates my attention a lot. Her aggressive looks, a ********* attitude and the ostensibly continuous relationship with Chris Brown.
But what bewilders me the most is not when she gets it right (stylewise), but when the ********* cocks up and dunns something utterly wrong; thence I draw my inspirations from. You may think it is queer but I'd challenge you to remember if you've seen a person on the street wearing the same item that you've got and you telling yourself that he/she deffinitely got i wrong and it looks nothing as good as on you. So am I right then?
Even though this kind of method is so much less powerfull than a straightforward inspirations from celebrities and glossy magz' skinny b-ches, but here Ive got a little thing that got me completely bonkers.
The pyjama garment by Emillio Pucci that Rihanna wore at The Battleship Premiere:

Despite that it is one of the trickiest trends and I'd rather drop it than wear it in a full suit, she went for the challenge and I think she got it wrong. Wearing the trousers as loose as the top and in the same texture and fabric will only make your silhouette disappear in endless draperies that don't even drape properly as the silky material is just too weightless.

Here's my interpretation of pyjama elements in your garderobe:

and of course the same trousers featured before:

Jibba jabba

Just don't start with..."Yeah, typical Baranovska" ...

I've been looking at a different type of spiky and dangly ear pieces since the last year when they just began to appear on American websites at the price of 70 bucks each; which was a rip off for somebody like me- collecting chests of bling-bling treasures and wearing nothing but a couple of little pearl ear studds on a daily basis. 

Hence I am so delighted I got this for some 6 pounds from H&M... 

The problem is that it is designed for the left ear but I definitely get extremely disconcerted once some extra accessories go on the left side of my body. You know...if you need to make a bow, a knot or a side-pony-tail most of the people would prefer one or the other side of their body. So I am one of that cast who wears everything on the right side.

When the ear cuff is worn on its correct side there are some tacky crystals which make the cuff look cheep and preposterous beyond the exuberance of the idea already...just reduces it to a completely daft look, so  definitely better with the backside.

Graduate Fashion Week 2012

No excuse for not publishing this on time but feeling there is what to say and what to look at I eventually got myself together just to spit it out on you.
This year's London's annual GFW left me astounded  with the students' endless imagination, innovation and  energy to churn out so many new ideas and designs. Never tired to implement the latest technologies, daring to concoct clashing fabrics as well as to challenge the dogmas of the past. 
Just look at these prints and knits and you'll see what I mean...

The mackintosh in the middle, I've been contemplating it for a while, wondering if I've seen it last year at the same event. But once I got closer and looked- it was a print of mackintosh on a mackintosh- and how clever. So all the gizmo bits on the collar and sleeves are just prints and the mack itself is much more humble than it looks. But guess what a tiny and slim little bird you'd look in it if the silhouette is a print too! Disguise, disguise!

I admit, that it wasn't the best of the outfits making me think the top looked more like a little vest in a third generation of some poor Eskimos in Siberia, I still liked the skirt very much. 

Many collections contained elements of very fine prints in very clever applications, which seems to be appropriate since digital prints are getting more and more popular.

On one of the rival blogs I saw some supper leggings with a digital print of a meadow in dawn...unusual, and bewildering..but haven't yet made up my mind about them-prints.

Here I guess we get an impressionists skirt in style of Mary Katrantzou. Lovely :)

One for myself too.

Lauren Moore had some awesome rock chick accessories, despite looking very modest and demure herself;  she showed me to her stand, and, believe me, this bag is the least scandalous of them all. I thought the next thing she would get a whip out and would chastise me right there.
But it is an awesomely daring bag as well as all the others and I've got Lauren's email, so for those who's interested feel free to enquire me for the one - I am sure she would be delighted to cast a couple of hardcore punishments.

Boys- one of them just had some shit happened. Eat more rice darling. 
Do you also think the author is  from Brazil? What's that thing about the yellow and green ? no wonder he's got problems with stool.

Interesting print but I'am cringing with blasphemy. Must be personal.

I'am not a huge fan of trinkets and all things beads but this is a decent peace of work that for a student couldn't have been overlooked. So much respect (see all the neatly done seems ). More so, I took the picture for my dearest friend who's crazily into beads and hand-crafting, and who, besides all, is incredibly talented . Hopefully will be linking this picture to her latest piece of art for you too see the relation. So watch this space.

I loved the sketch. She reminded of myself so I decided to marry her and to take her with me. 

 Men's apparel is always great. Sometimes I think it is hard to cook it bad. 

 And some smack-my-bitch-up feckin shoes - so wet your whip ready.

  

A bit of medieval fluff. Loved the immaculate details and colour palette and the use of metallic on the skirt.

There was also a photoshoot too but I don't know what all the fuss was about. 


May be one model was saying to another:
"Oh I spent last night with Mr X.....his X is this big "
"Oh..hehehe"