Boots And Booties Talk!

You know a while back I was looking for the perfect pair of jeans. I found them. Correction – my wonderful husband found them for me. Dark denim. Gorgeous.

Now I’m working on a new shoe-wardrobe to match those beauties. And I can’t seem to make up my mind. The beauty of internet is that there’s a practically infinite dressing room with so many choices it makes you dizzy. So I’m bringing few of those mind-stopping items to your attention. Not because I would go out and get them all tomorrow but because I think we all like a quick girlie shopping session. Let’s get therapeutic! After all, we’re just harmlessly internet dreaming!

I brought to your attention few pairs of booties that I find interesting, subject to discussion. Starting with the Jeffrey Campbell Motorcycle Boot in brown, a classic every girl should have, in any color. I have a soft spot for non-black clothes and shoes, so I chose this one in brown.

Next you should all be aware of my passion for (very) high heels. Thus, I’m takings things up to a peep toe bootie (even if I can’t make myself fall for this peep toe booties trend, I found these rather interesting. Must be the fabric combo). The Leighton Patent and Stretch Peep Toe Bootie by Bebe.

And last, a simple brown suede beauty: Pedro Garcia Charlot Brown Suede Booties. Simple. Effective. What do you think about my quick selection? Do you think I should go further into choosing more pairs? How many boots/booties a girl should have to fulfill her every day shoe needs? (via 1, 2, 3)

Sometimes I wonder how good fashion can go wrong. The answer in images, below! Cate Blanchett and Jennifer Connelly chose two dresses (similar in style) for Red Carpet movie premieres (two different movies, two different locations). One ended up looking like a puppet on a string and the other like the princess from fairy tales. Guess who’s who?

I really like Jennifer Connelly. As a professional and physical appearance (I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting her personally) but this Balenciaga does her no justice! Beautiful colors complimenting her eyes, sparkling texture for a festive mood and still… Something’s missing! Cate, on the other hand (well, you already know I like her, but still…she has been known for making her share of fashion faux pas!) she’s also wearing Balenciaga. Same Spring Summer 2009 collection. Above the knee dress. But she’s perfection! You can’t get more from that dress, never! Her coolness and that sequined dress were meant to be together in my view! Who’s you favorite Balenciaga girl? (photos via justjared, style.com)

I hope you missed your blogosphere round up! Because here goes another one of those carefully picked bits and pieces from the fashion blogosphere. Let’s go!

This season, you must keep safe from temptation, even if it goes mercilessly right to your soul with some Givenchy.

When the Season comes, I’m head over heels with Christmas decorations. London windows get the Season’s treatment. Pick your favorite.

You’d better enjoy those department store decorations this year! For all we know, it could all disappear very soon!

In the mean time, you could pile up on accessories and take inspiration from these lovely pieces of jewelry.

Because it’s (supposed) to be the white season, treat yourself with a mix of white-ish images, food for your wardrobe, your mind and your soul!

Now, just for fun, try this clever poll! It’s “alreadypretty challenging”! (photo via aviewto.blogspot.com)

Because sometimes I can’ find the right words to say it, I just use a song to say it for me. Because sometimes I’m simply overwhelmed by that splendid feeling called love, I have my wonderful husband to share it with. Everyone should be that lucky! Today it’s one of those moments when I only care about what’s important in my life. Some put the kids first. I put my husband. Because he makes it all possible. There could be no kids without him. There could be no life without him!

Because I learned how to love and how to be loved with you, because there’s no soul in this world (or any other world) I call my soul mate but you, because I simply love you and can’t get enough of saying it and doing it with every single chance I get! The most beautiful love song I ever saw Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers! (you can find the original right after the jump)

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We all have our fashion-low days. Days when things mostly mix but don’t really match, when nothing else-fashion matters.

Jessica Simpson (yes, one of the Zzzz listers) is one of those media darlings always tip top with impeccable makeup, hairstyling and, of course, impeccable clothes. Not to mention all those brands she exposes allover the place! Like every one of us, Jessica has her off-fashion days too. Especially since she’s sharing her romantic life with a sportsman, she lost all that glitter and went for a comfy look for almost every outing. Now I understand comfy but I don’t understand the lack of taste.

If you’re a public face, the least you could do is work your appearance. Plaid red&white men’s shirt with yellow sports pants and ugg-like brown boots worn inside out would pass like a blind picked outfit if it wasn’t for the Gucci pet carrier. This kind of bad taste can’t go unnoticed. Not for us! My logic tells me that when you’re dressing down, reducing all your style to a practical comfy outfit, you must maintain a low profile, the very key of being and staying comfy. Carrying your dog in a Gucci bag is not a low profile thing, is it now? How do you live your down-fashion days? What clothes help you through the under-style moments? (I for one have a weakness for velour tracksuits) (photos via celebuzz.com)

Today I wanted to take some news time off and write something else. Not your usual Stylefrizz article, but then again, what is your usual Stylefrizz article?

I started this wonderful (blogging) adventure not long ago without a specific idea in the back of my head. Just doing what I always wanted and loved – reading news about the young, beautiful and famous, going through every fashion defile, searching for new and surprising clothes and accessories.. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! I never was a fervent magazine buyer and my few years of buying this and that fashion-zine were enough to make me throw them away without regrets. I didn’t found what I was looking for. Not completely.

I always thought there was something very womanly about fashion (and beauty) magazines. I once said to my rebel self that when I’ll grow up, I’ll buy fashion magazines. The curiousness of it all was that in my teens I was paying more attention and buying religiously Vogue more than “when I grew up”. Why was that? How did I loose interest?

Fashion magazines (like any other media) are to me a way to manipulate masses, a lucrative, prosperous business where images and brands rule the fashion land. There’s no beauty, no authentic style in those paper pages. There’s just a publishing house asking for subjects that fall in most wanted… or most talked about… Ordered by editors in chiefs and dead-lined by aspiring editors in-chief. In other words, what’s there to read in a magazine that hasn’t been touched by the marketing wizard? That hasn’t seen the light of so many editors screen, publishers and layout supervisor?

Not too long back, I asked you how you see blogging evolving and how would you make it better (there’s always room for better). By writing this, I’m somehow taking things back to that question. Because I was a magazine consumer (not loyal to buying magazines, but as they say, Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum – to err is human; to persist is of the Devil) but did not found what I was looking for in those pages, I switched to internet.

Because I was a magazine consumer who wasn’t looking for a simple “oh, what a beautiful dress!” tagline, I switched to internet. Because I was a magazine consumer who wasn’t bound to magazine photo shooting beauty, I switched to blogging. I wanted to have my own saying in this matter. To make my own beauty in this fashion madness.

I wrote all this partly because Sal from Already Pretty made me think about something I left in the background, still running, but passively. She made me reflect about what we think about ourselves and the surrounding world. About what they’re teaching us to believe about beauty. About beauty and standards. About magazines and skinny framed bodies. About our mind’s freedom to think what it wants and not what we’re told to and smart marketed to.

I wrote this because I wanted to go beyond the news and the fashion frenzy to who we really are, us, the fashion and media consumers. And what we really want and think about this and that, about everything. Because we do think. Because we’re not only doing what we’re told to, because we’re not only the clothes we wear but also the mind that chose them and put them together. Because we’re not only shopping the wardrobe that has been seen on A-listers (or B-Z listers worldwide) but because that’s how we placed ourselves on social and cultural scales.

What’s beauty to you? Which one of your hungers is fed with fashion and blogs? Is this fashion constellation raining glitter on you so you’ll feel sparkling in the night, just because you’re doing your daily fashion and gossip readings? (no via. Just me and you)

If there’s no car or yacht in sight (or helicopter, by all means!), a Coca Cola bottle can do the designer trick too. Light! Please!

You remember Cavalli’s Coca Cola light? Since that line had an Italian exclusivity, now’s France who’ll be having an exclusive Coca Cola light starting January. Dressed up by Nathalie Rykiel (oh, yes, that stands for Sonia Rykiel’s daughter!) in a happy attire, the new Coca Cola Light is made in aluminum and costs 1,25 euro chez Monoprix or La Grande Epicerie. The collateral fashion – the same bottle, crystal studded, will be sold chez Colette; a bag with the same joyful print, maybe chez Colette too. The ad campaign “Vivez light by Nathalie Rykiel” will be aired from February 2009. Which one do you prefer? Cavalli or Rykiel? (via)

I don’t know about you, but when I was little, I was a fan of (any kind of) mythology. I used to read those legends on and on and never get tired of them. Now if I see a pair of shoes with wings, I can’t think about anything else but Hermes, the Greek god.

With no current relation with the infamous luxury brand Hermès, the Messenger of the Gods used to ride the skies (said the legend) with his winged sandals. I don’t know if Jeremy Scott’s intention was to bring out the Hermes in you, but I know that he designed a winged pair of golden sneakers for Adidas. If you’re impatient to find the Flying God in you, it’ll have to wait until March 2009, the release date of the golden winged JS Wings Adidas. Could you wear one of those? (sneakerfreaker via highsnobette)