2010 Style Direction: Psychedelic Ladies Who Lunch
[ 12 January 2010 ]
Tim Walker; photographer unknown.
The recipe: Glamour + psychedelia (of attire, not substances, my darling).
The essential components of the look include fur coats (preferably faux), fabulously ridiculous leg-wear (sparkly blue socks, tie-dyed stockings, cashmere tights), a multitude of completely over-the-top head-wear (sequinned ears, headbands adorned with bows & flowers, sparkly beanies), shoes which define excess (super-high heels; hidden platforms; covered in crystals), a-line skirts & magnificent 50’s dresses, pink lipstick (I like Givenchy Rouge Interdit Shine in Raspberry Shine & MAC Saint Germain), fingers loaded up with rings, wrists full of jangly, glitter-covered Indian bangles & super-long false eyelashes hidden by statement sunglasses…
Worn with individualised perfume combinations (honeysuckle + Bulgarian rose, birthday cake + champagne brut), multiple layers of mascara, strong eyebrows. Who is this girl? She carries a pack of tarot cards in her purse. She wears crystal points on necklaces. She loads up her pockets with sequins & individually-wrapped chocolates. Her nails are always holographic or covered in crystals. She takes long lunches. She wears vintage slips & overdyed cardigans with stilettos, doesn’t care if there’s a run in her stockings & sends love letters to her friends.
Lily Allen; photographer unknown.
She embraces her contradictions. She won’t be told what to do & she isn’t interested in petty trivia. She has a collection of easter egg-coloured tulle petticoats & grows peppermint-striped orchids. She is almost always overdressed but blissfully oblivious. She has an obsession with buying colourful & slightly ridiculous lingerie. She is superstitious. She carries a treasured pen (could be Mont Blanc, could be from a special hotel, could be stolen from a past lover). She makes a perfect gin & tonic.
Mega cloven hoof footwear, jewelled butterflies, bunny ears, sparkly metal-flake helmets, neon suspender belts, drawn on beauty marks, chromatic eye-shadow, tiny bells tied onto motorcycle boots, bright purple fingerless leather gloves, lipstick marks on Moroccan tea glasses...
Stacked crystal bracelets, totem animal jewellery, fairy lights everywhere, overdue library books, circlets & tiny braids, bright bouquets in old glass milk bottles, striped sweaters tucked into exaggerated a-line skirts, hot pink & turquoise cashmere blankets layered on an enormous bed…
She loves to laugh with her best friends over their blessings & mistakes. She doesn’t clean her apartment as often as she perhaps should. She holds hands with her friends & throws impromptu parties. She smiles at strangers & tips well. Her favourite cities are Reykjavik & Kolkata, & never stays in one place too long.
Disco Pocahontas. Feathers & crystals worn with sequins. Season of the witch. Super-feminine with a hint of hysteria. Neon pink love beams & sparkly sticky air-kisses.
...So that’s who & what I’m channeling this year, aesthetics-wise. As much as I love to wear black, I love sequins, sparkles & hypercolour far more! (Plus, most of the time, the inside of my head looks like this crossed with Yo Gabba Gabba!)
Who are your style icons? What is inspiring your style in two-thousand-&-amen (or two-thousand-&-zen, if you prefer)?
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I love love love this post. So many great style ideas
heart~!
My style icons are so vague. They’re a mashup of Valkyrie + Marc Bolan + utilitarian Soviet peasant chic. Think black metal tatters + vintage lambskin satchels + glittery purple eyeliner.
Still working toward the ass-length headbanger hair, but it’s coming in nicely!
Wow system overload! I love this! I’m huge into colors this year as evidenced by my Circus Chic sets, Melting Clocks and Surreal sets on Polyvore and throughout my site. It’s a good year for psychedelia and candy. color. everywhere!
how lovely, how lovely!
QUESTION FOR YOU: i cannot walk in heels, and london streets do not help. how can i pull off the ridiculous shoe look without having to wear heels? all the pretty/ridiculous/sparkly/amazing shoes i see have massive heels. i’m stuck with little ballet flats (useless in british winter!) or big clompy boots. help!
Amazing ideas! LOVE your blog and will be back often!
two thousand and zen sounds wonderful. and relaxing. i can totally dig it!
who am i channeling? oh dear, i’m going to keep it going with a post cyberpunk gypsy with egypt wonder with a dashling of end of the world tank girl madness lost somewhere in the bright city streets of a future japan.
or you know, something like that. :)
sophie~ — Booties! Or as R.Zoe says, “shooties”. I wear these CONSTANTLY — www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/... — & they are super-comfortable & wonderful for walking in. I also just bought these — battlingthedinosaurs.files.wor… — which are the same kind of deal. Or something like these — www.fluevog.com/code/?w=attrib… — they look insane but are comfortable as hell. Hope this helps!
YES!!!!
I could use a lunch like this. Especially in this wintery drabness!!! I often find wearing bright lipstick on a dreary day brightens my mood immeditely. Pair the lips with fabulous shoes and hair….and I’m set. Nothing can get me down after that.This year I finally have the funds to manifest the personal style I dreamed up in September phoenixrising.onsugar.com/5157…
I want to be an edgy, natural goddess of words. One who is constantly writing on napkins and dreaming up big dreams and who refuses to grow up! I also want to incorporate a few more colors into my wardrobe as I am very black and white.
Super-duper cool, as usual :)
I’m so gonna try the Disco Pochaontas thingy, amazing XD
I haven’t really thought about my style for this year yet…I’m planning to move around a crazy lot so things are a bit complicated now…uhmmm…we’ll see, it’s gonna be a Let It Be year :)
Yeah, and one fine day I’ll learn how to spell Pocahontas :P
heeeee! Love it.
“She embraces her contradictions.” I wrote about this here: Of the Universe. I completely agree! I am a walking contradiction and the possibilities are anything but finite when it comes to my tendencies or likes. I’ve embraced my contradictions and now I go every which way I so please!
This aesthetic really speaks to me, crazy, sparkly and colourful whilst being delightfully femenine at the same time, what could be prettier?!
My personal style philosophy for 2010 involves continuing to wear more colour (especially paler colours), more skirts and dresses, as well as starting to develop a more corporate look in anticipation of getting a better job once I finish the part-time postgrad course I’m studying at the moment (which precludes me from getting a job that requires any thinking!).
Jeans and black are still my go-to styles, and I’m working hard to change that!
Now that sounds inspiring! You are/will be a walkin’, talkin’ aphrodisiac! Prozac on legs! I’m not sure what my style is going to be like, but I do hope to incorporate more colour as well! No more jeans-and-sweater, as I was all of autmn 09.
OH YES! wonderful!
Sequins and glitter outdo black anytime! I love this idea of choosing an aesthetic to channel, getting dressed up should be more fun than just grabbing whatever is nearest to you in your wardrobe!
This post is pure sugar on a Tuesday morning, especially when your boyfriend won’t get out of bed to play a good round of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. (Nothing dirty, I assure you.)
I wish more people would put together a ‘style direction’ for themselves. I think it’s uber important for anyone seriously interested in style. :D Besides, it looks so cool at the beginning of your agenda or moleskine.
It just goes to show you that if you keep doing your own thing long enough, it’ll come into fashion! ;] Love love love this post. So much sparkle, so much color. Gray is boring. More glitter, more shiny, more vivid everywhere!
My style icon is Giovanna Bataglia!
The name alone has me smiling! Well done.
Don’t you just love that word? Psychedelic. Psychedelic psychedelic PSYCHEDELIC :D. And may I say I love that turquoise-haired rainbow bikini girl? She is amazing. Anyhow, I wish I could pull off hysteria….but instead I am stuck with being more of a rollerblading-dotty-old-lady-slash-rock’n‘roll. :D
I am still stuck finding the perfect pair of spotted tights, though. And the perfect over sized band tee. Where DO you get all of your big tee-shirts (they are magnificent)?
That’s it. New year’s resolutions out the window – I want to be this woman.
Love this post! Definitely not my style, but as someone who’s trying to break out of wearing all grey and black all the time- it’s VERY inspiring!
Uhhhhhhhhhhh….I’m liking your idea, Gala, lol. Let’s combine that with maternity clothes (possibly! we find out later this week…then go into panic mode, lol) and I am probably set.
this post is rad beyond words!! i’m still figuring out who to channel in two-thousand-&-amen, but this was so awesome, i better come up with something soon!! thanks for being deliciously inspiring, as always. mwah!
Ahhhh! I opened this neon bundle of joy just after returning from an 8AM class and a freezing-cold walk, it woke me right up! I adore all of the beautiful pictures, as always.
This year I’m going to channel some sort of vintage, steam-punk, classy rock star who lives in heels, tulle, and bright red matte lipstick (preferably Nars’s lip crayon in “Cruella”)! Hooray for 2010!
I’ve always been inspired by Marlene Dietrich but this year I’m channeling her more than always! I love her schizophrenic way of dressing: when off duty she embraced androgynous chic (hell, she pioneered it!), wearing man suits, simple shirts, big coats, little berets. But when she had to be glamorous, she was the best at it with her luxurious evening gowns, gloves, veils, furs… In both cases, she was extremely sexy without revealing so much.
So I’m going to be a little tomboyish/dandyish by day and a lot femme by night! I especially want to stock on long evening dresses: I’ve recently discovered they’re very flattering for me, besides being so glamorous. And bonus points: you can wear comfy shoes with them since your feet aren’t on display ;)
Gala your post totally made my day!!! I only wish I had the financial income to overhaul my style the way I want to.
Never mind though, I shall make due and start out small, perhaps with a little glitter shimmer powder on my chest when I go off to classes, or bright pink tights under my ripped jeans. You have once again inspired me to take another look at my style and try and make it more fabulous and more ‘me’.
As for style icons, YOU have to be one of the main ones, other than that I also love to channel Cat Casino (he’s 1 of the guitarists for Deathstars), Effy and Cassie from Skins, and Karen Axelsson (bassist for Sonic Syndicate). I also love the styles of Chloe Sevigny, Kira Knightly, Johnny Depp, Noel Fielding & Julian Barratt, Bret (Flight of the Conchords), and even elements from Lady Gaga. As you can see I have a very diverse mix.
Lately I’m obsessing about argyle knee socks—thankfully they’re easy to find right now so I don’t have to knit my own and who cares if I don’t have the ideal leg-look for them? They make me smile! Plus, they sorta make up for all the regular boots my thick calves won’t fit into.
Going through a bit of fluff with the hair, though, and I’m wondering if knit hats and snoods aren’t in my immediate future!
OOOOOOhh, big time inspiration – I like it!
You should tag this on the Fashion advice for recovering Goths page, just to show how deelicious colour can be!
x
You have such great direction… being a Virgo and in need of organization and home/hearth energy, I’m thinking I need to get my thoughts channeled for my own inspiration this year. Thanks for the kick in the pants, Gala!
Oh F-ing A! I need a style direction. I was thinking previously of a whole early 1970’s, post-Woodstock, bohemian luxe, vibe. Somehow I always tend to gravitate towards the full skirt, girly, 1950’s housewife vibe however. I am going to have to incorporate both into my Spring/Summer style this year. I am so ready for nice weather and my wardrobe is already fully stocked with florals.
I say bring it on!
Loving it! I see myself in so many things in this! LUV! ^^
Film noir mystery somehow mixed with the don’t-give-a-fuck fabulousness of glam rock and the militaristic edge of dystopian film and literature.. that’s been stewing in my mind as a wonderfully confusing challenge to try and pull off wardrobe-wise. I’ve got my work cut out for me, eh? ;)
In 2010 i’m channeling an Electric Shaman look. The palette is black, dirty pink, dirty earth colours, grays, silver. The materials are ancient, drapy, leather, fake fur, feathers, silver as well as polyester, latex, see thru and lace. The vision is diamonds and dirt, or sparkly mud. Accessories include precious stones, tarot cards as well(i’m making my own www.widdershins.org/vol3iss7/i… ), totem animals – eagle especially, turbans. Footwear is fringy. Make up is dark brown or nude lipstick, natural eyes, glowy face. Underwear is sheer and pale coloured, almost not there. Perfume is tobacco & vanilla.
Well, that’s who i wanna be this year. I wonder if i’ll stick with it – i tend to drop the extravagant stuff, i soon get tired of being too self conscious among the less inspired crowd. :/ That’s clearly not ok, though. Do i smell a 2010 resolution?
Gala, your fashion vision is the one i’d steal if there were two of me right now. Just fab!
You just set off a dozen new psychedelic lightbulbs in my brain :D
antonia — ELECTRIC SHAMAN OH MY GOD. $%^*(&*^%$^%#$%^!!!!!! There are no words!!!!!!!!
Oh my gosh, AMAZING! I love this so much! I think 2010 is definitely a good year for me to develop some style, I’m not a little girl anymore and blue jeans and a cute cartoon tee just won’t do it anymore. (Yikes! Did I just admit this to myself? Augh! I’m growing up!) Haha, I love the whole psychedelia theme… I want to dress with love, with big skirts (just bought my first, yay!), amazing patterns, layers, colors, natural fabrics, chunky jewelry… it’s going to be a great year for style. People in the future will see this as THE decade of amazing retro styling. It will be wonderful.
i love this post !
i want to be that girl ; reminds me a lot of betsey johnson and marie antoinette combined :D
I love this it so inspirational but my favorite style icon is Margot Tenembaum from “the royal Tenenbaums”
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Oh god I love it. My own personal style icons are a mish-mash of contradictions, from Blair Waldorf to David Bowie to the batty old lady from across the street and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Royal Tenembaums with a hint of nineties grunge and a little bit Disney Princess thrown in for good measure – I’d say my style was perhaps a little bit more along the lines of Ladies Who Lunch, But Only On Gin and Lollipops – so this article was the perfect inspiration for me. I brought in the New Year swirling around in a vintage 1950s polka dot prom dress with lace tights, a sequin cardigan and huge blue pompom shoes with a giant plastic letter E necklace, and I plan to continue dressing in an equally hyper-girly but slightly offbeat kind of way this year. I am experimenting with bright, block colours (I am usually more of a patterns kind of girl), stretchy pencil skirts, voluminous blouses, tights in colours that clash outrageously with everything else, and huge necklaces with a variety of plastic pendants, verging from the super sugary sweet and twee to the avant garde and edgy. I am planning a pair of Dame Edna-style spectacles and a hat with a veil as my next purchase. And maybe some ridiculous feathered false lashes, you have inspired me …
channeling anna karina this year.
Ugh I love all the pictures in this post…While I love the scenery around me (okay, maybe I love it more in the summer than I do right now), I do sometimes wish that I lived in a location where I could wear such fun, wild and crazy apparel without constantly getting stared down.
You have the BEST ideas, and I can’t wait to see your 2010 aesthetic unfold.
This year I am a SOLDIER OF YESTERDAY’S APOCALYPSE.
a dark artist, a heavy metal aviator, a soldier of the apocalypse, a valkyrie who grows herbs for nefarious purposes, speaking German with a rasp.
Exotic, postmodern hedonist, egyptian gypsies, nefertiti’s smile, coffee shop poltergeist, androgenous chic. The girl who starts every sentence with “When I was in Syria …”, a carefully planned wrecking-ball, all legs and hair flying, a red Sultana, glamour and rivets, a scrap-heap style icon, a Norwegian ice queen, Freya of the mosh pit, a nature goddess of words, a person who makes a difference, a Paradise Lost romance, grymm and frostbitten luxe, the soundtrack to the end of the world.
The harbringer of hysteria, the eternal elf of sausage rolls, the girl who can never clean her desk, edgy feminine with a hint of armageddon.
This year I’m wearing:
reds and purples and blue and orange and brown and black, military jackets, artifacts, long, multi-layered skirts, esoteric symbols, ravens, gears and mechanisms, ancient materials – leathers, feathers, silks, linens and lace, totem animals, scandinavian street style, skinny pants, stompy boots with orange laces, ancient greek epithets, hammers and axes, industrial suspender belts, mismatched socks, vines and thorns and overgrown vegetation, steampunk doom metal.
Ohh, I love all of the color. Honestly, I hate it when the year’s trends lean toward black and white or greys or browns. Let’s get some color in! I’m all for this new trend.
I love this post, very inspiring.
My fashion forecast is very similar to Antonia
Pastels laces and knits with ashy black boots, soft and cozy with lacy and delicate. fringes, sequins, textures and layers. A Neo-vagabond prepared to leave to a foreign country at any moment. Hiking boots with thigh high knit socks and buttery leather shorts. Large coats and little skirts.
I love that pink horse.
This is my favourite post in AGES!
Yay! It makes me want to dress up and go adventuring! xoxo
completely inspiring!
This year I will be an adventurer of the planet and all its beauty. I will carry my beautiful psychedelic rucksack on my adventures, with supplies such as pink post-it notes so I can spread my message to the word. I will dress like a Helena Bonham Carter/pin-up girl cross-over and I will over accessories! I will make individual pieces so I will always be interesting and unique!
My style direction for 2010: Twee As Fuck. Bows, hearts, sailors, schoolgirls, red lips, red hair, fake lashes, vintage dresses, and an array of both ridiculous (wedges, platforms, lipstick coloured bow stilletos) and ridiculously sensible (brogues, docs) shoes.
Hopefully without looking too costumey. :D
Love this. Love it so much more than most of the fashion directions I’ve read for 2010, which seem to meander between “boring” and “hideous”.
I expect my own 2010 look will continue much along the same line as my look of the previous few years: flats, girly but not frou-frou dresses, cardigans, items that narrow the waist. A little predictable, but it works!
I’m picking up a sort of 90’s revival of sorts with my style direction for 2010. No, not the grunge “I don’t like to wash my hair and I wear my boyfriends clothes” 90’s which everyone seems to think about.
I’m channeling Harry Solomon from 3rd rock from the sun, which basically means big fake fur coats mixed with random knit-print vests and insane patterned shirts.
Ginger spice… Big in your face hair, makeup and boots.
And to keep up with my pink/girly obsession, I’m taking inspiration from the beautiful ‘butterflies’ from the 90’s crazytown butterfly music video… pink skirts, bare feat, skimpy tops and bikini bras, bindis, over the top pink eyelashes, ornate body jewelry, aka 90’s girly, sexy, hippy style.
More color and whimsy in 2010! Yes! I’ve been working on adding more of that to my wardrobe.
My Style Direction for 2010: Fairytale Fashion. Enchantment Everywhere. Strawberry Shortcake. Forest Nymphs. Free Your Color. The 1800’s. Black Forest. Pinks. Reds. Greens. Mixxxed Berries. Technoforest. Disney Princess on Acid. Bambi. Castles. Clouds. False Eyelashes. NYX. Love Spell prefume by Victoria’s Secret mixed with Wizards of Waverly Place perfume. Beauty Potions. Fashion Rituals. Maiden. Cute Cottage. Glass Slippers aka Clear Gellies. Berry Stained Lips. Colored Tights. Ruffled underwear over tights w/ Short Dresses. Bows. Ribbons. Glitter. Roses. Antique. Lace. Vintage Fairytales. Rave. Jewels. Violet Lips. Lingerie. Deer Ears. Pixie. Spring Forest Dresses. French. Medival Madness.
This year I am the scandalous love-child of Remus Lupin and Oscar Wilde (I’ve yet to figure out how this biologically works out, but keep with me here!)
a bohemian warrior, a decadent hedonist trapped in the body of a poor woman, a whimsical artist, a collector of books, who slips from French to English mid-sentence and curses in languages she doesn’t speak.
She rides her bike in dresses and waistcoats, reciting obscure sonnets to children she teaches, grinning with her eyes, drinking tea shot with whiskey from chipped tea cups, and prances about in lingerie of lace unashamed of the scars on her legs from trips and falls and climbing of trees.
She leaves red lipstick marks on crystal goblets stolen from her late grandmother’s estate, goes for long walks in army boots and wrapped in moth-eaten cardigans, howls at the moon with her lover, and screams and shouts out chants in protest marches.
She paints graven images over her furniture, lights candles every night, has a stash of chocolate hidden so well she forgets where it is, and dances in the moonlight to old crooners, with a partner or alone.
She wears: creams and browns and whites and dark mossy greens, tweed jackets that don’t fit, rolled up sleeves, waistcoats, dresses with delicate lace, crochet over-the-knee socks, fingerless gloves, flannel shirts, worn leather hiking boots, men’s business shirts belted up with a leather cord, tarnished old rings, velvet, elbow patches, knitted sweaters, too-long scarves, ripped tights, thin wire-framed glasses, and her fringe always too long with her hair that bit too short.
AMAZING and stupendous- this article needs to be printed out, highlighted, and worked into a fabulous style aesthetic. I must say, the though of it greatly excited me!!
This is so wonderfully inspirational, brava lady! I think I will leave the psychidelica to you though…that’s a bit too much colour for me! Mine, I think, is more of a sepia seance look – haunting shades of shadow and dimly filtered sunlight through antique lace, dusty accessories of a vaguely mystical nature, hair in loosely pinned curls, eyes of mussed kohl and pale lips and all scented with resinous fragrance redolent of myrrh, amber, sandalwood.
I think you’ll find that Doe Deere’s candyfuturism is quite compatible with this new aesthetic… Maybe this is where the collective style consciousness is headed!
You have just completely described to a T the decor I have been imagining for my apartment when I move out… well, my room anyway, as I imagine my roommate won’t be so excessive, haha. Wonderful! Wonderful and inspiring and oddly, making me crave sugar.
This absolutly wonderful! Im truly inspired, this makes me happy. One of my favorite post so far gala! I adore you.
I love all of this, but the poor horse looks so sad :-(
Actually, I believe this is two-thousand-and-Gen.
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Yo Gabba Gabba! My nephew adores it and I used to watch it with him until I knew every episode by heart! DJ Lance is awesome
My inspiration this year continous to be Penny Lane (from Almost Famous), victorian-age fashion, flowers and all around vintage-ness
:)
Very inspiring!! I absolutely love the first photo on the right.
I used to have a very punk inspired style, and then I tried to get away from it and went extremely kitschy. I’m kind of trying to balance the two lately, and what I’m coming up with is sort of like a…victoriana punk (sort of steampunk, I guess? but no brown, I hate brown) carnival shaman. Feathers (I’m seriously considering making a feathered capelet, the jury is still out on it as I dunno if I’d ever wear it), bones or cast bones in metal, runes, black, studs, rivets, drapey, black, gray, skirts, boots. metal accents. crazy hair accessories.
I think it’ll be fun!
I have been going the opposite of my over the top shoes and amounted to a few pairs of candy coloured sneakers, you can design your own pair of nikes at the nike store or online and they make them and then post them. I really really want to do this.
I love pastel coloured tutus poking out from under stort frillier skirts and dresses and long pastel coloured hoodies. Coloured jeans (I have a white and pink tie dyed pair) and really big bows. I have been using the japanese magazine `Kera` for inspiration alot lately ( www.i )
I also want to wear more of my vintage dresses that I have been collecting since I was 16 (I am now 22), some of which I have never ever worn!
i have a huuuuuge smile on my face after reading this!!
although i usually dress in pink, pink, PINK, this year i’m going for a more “romantic” look. i will still wear lots of pink when i want to, of course, but i’ve been too drawn in my the by a look that I’d kind of describe as ‘Zooey Deschanel meets the Olsen twins’.
i think i’m also going in this direction because, i want to sort out my life and not have everyone stare at me like i’m crazy when i walk down the street. yes, it’s fun, but i feel like i have too much to sort out this year to go crazy with my style. ♥
Will you be my best friend?
Sounds a bit like how I dress, mixed with vampiric voodoo priestess of course!
This article is seriously awesome!
At the moment I am really influenced by Destroy X), victorian fashion, Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook, miltary/assassin fashion, Lady Gaga and Emilie Autumn. I am also really digging circular John Lennon glasses momentarily.
Fabulous Darling, fabulous! I have been dreaming of reinventing my style also.
I would LOVE to see more Daily Outfits this year! When I first started reading your blog about 2 years ago you had them almost every second day … I have missed them! :( Two Thousand and Divine was a huge year for me … now I’m pumped for Two Thousand and Here-We-Go-Again! xxx
Jeez, I’m so inspired by so many things that I declared a no-buy month for January. Otherwise I’d end up buying too many things I wouldn’t wear.
Now with your amazing article, Gala, I feel like doing a full-on neon year again.
xx
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And on brighter notes, to you, Gala, and to all your lovely readers… you are beautiful. All of you. So smile, show the world that today is the day, and that you’re perfect just the way you are, right here, right now.
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Do I feel a trip to India coming up ? Somehow I can’t imagine you there, for all it’s glamour and colour India is not a place for high heels…
I’m going for 60s/70s Bohemian in London. I’m thinking long, straight, flaming red hair; little floral dresses; battered army jackets; scruffy boots, fake fur; coloured tights; head pieces; flared jeans; long neclaces and art deco rings; crazy prints; maxi dresses.
This is a girl who is kind to the world and to animals, who walks on garden walls on her way to the bus stop, who has perennially messy hair, who leaves loving post-it-notes on public bathroom mirrors, who wears so much jewelery a tinkling sound announces her arrival; who guesses peoples star signs whenever she’s introduced. She’s not afraid to stand up to people when necessary and is eternally honest. She’s spirited, vivacious and always happy.
I always dress femininely and pretty. As much as I love pink, I’ve decided 2010 is the year I get some attitude. I’m going to rough up my look a little bit, while still keeping my favourite things (like my beloved pink satchel).
Hi Gala! I hope you don’t mind, but I tagged you for a short meme. Since it involves taking pictures of a few items around your home, I thought it’d be great to add you to this.
Here’s a link to the meme (http://the-hobby-horse.blogspot.com/2010/01/meme-7-red-things.html). Hope you like it, and hope you join in!
More power to you, and keep the pizazz coming! :)
i found a site and thought of you Gala,
www.buyoncegivetwice.co.uk/eve…
Green green green, dryad-style, leaves.
Season of the Witch is such a great song ^^
Great inspiration, makes me think of music immediately :)
You should definitely listen to some ‘The Moody Blues’ or The Holy Mackerel’s ‘Wildflowers’ they’re great for these looks ^^
This is the best thing I’ve heard all day. Reminds me of this Lula editorial fashiongonerogue.com/2009/04/l…
My favorite post thus far! You are so fabulous.
Oh my, I must have those pink gloves – they are dope!
I don’t exactly have a fashion mission statement, but now that I am officially registered to become a collegiate, I have vowed not to wear sweatshirts, jeans, and chucks like my much older sister. For me, this year at college involves all of my favorite dresses, bright, opaque AA tights, and cardigans that are more saturated with color than my hair.
Amazing post! Very unique and intriguing style.
This post read like a chapter in a Francesca Lia Block book!!! Not a bad thing, she’s one of my favorite writers, always inspiring JUST like this
Wow, this post has gotten me so excited for upcoming fashion opportunities.
What I’m looking forward to?
Tulle, sequins, bright psychedelic colors, heeled shoes, dresses, lace gloves, ribbons, too many hair accessories at once, glitter, & patterns combined atrociously. Bright, sparkly 50s vintage dresses.
Whee!
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