Words about this, that and the fashion week, too.

   Greetings, dear reader! 

That was a while, wasn't it? Needless to say I have been busy as with all the new stuff in my life and something has had to give. But I have not abandoned this little corner of mine in the vast wilderness that is the  internet, I most certainly have not! 

While tending to things entirely different I've also given fashion a lot of thought during this silent period of blog-life. I think I may have, in a way that's difficult to put into words I notice, found myself again. I've dived head first into the world of fashion after not giving a shit about it for almost a decade or so. And oh my how thrilling it's felt. See, I started reading fashion magazines when I was at mere fourteen years of age. Dreaming of a career as a fashion designer had been a dream and a goal in life since I was kid and my teenage years I spent passionately in dreams of great gowns and drama.

This likeness to dreams started to dissolve when I attended a school for clothing design. I lost my passion in the mathematics of pattern-making and ridiculously boring (yet intensely interesting) hours of trying to wrap the detailed information of yarn of all sorts around my head - or my head around it, both way's the right way. Anyway, passion got lost, I lost my interest and long were the years I lived without giving even the slightest thought to things fashion-y.

Back in the present moment, I write this with my mind full of ideas, details, pictures of magnificently tailored pieces being walked before civilized audiences. Yes, that's correct. The Fashion Week. Weeks. Of fashion delivered in most exciting ways. By the most intriguing characters also called designers. The artists. Artists that I, perhaps, admire the most. Fashion is passion, art, dreams, reality, everything there ever is and was between good and evil and chaos and order. Art of transformation.

And it's back in my life and I happily let myself be hypnotized by the amazing-ness of it all.

One of the most interesting and thought-provoking aspects about this is the way it all unfolds - like it did before, but now in front of my adult eyes. The transition from a childish dream to a form of art and self-expression rooted deep in me is fascinating a thing to explore. Of course there's still all the drama I love (a Galliano gal I used to be and, for the record, think he's an absolute genious in what he does best, which, as we all here most likely well know, is certainly not being correct in his political views or whatever), the dark sensuality I love. Historical references, oh yes please, theatric anything, anytime! Give me black black black, sharp corners that allure innocent souls into their shadowy world. Glamour as it used to be.

But there's a new love in me as well. As I was looking at Chalayan SS2013 last night I said out loud "and I don't even like sportswear!". As it turns out, I do.

I do like sportswear and could even call this warm relationship love. Oh how things change. And change is good. It's what everything is all about. Duh. 

Ok, this turned lengthier than I meant it to. But I felt it was necessary to let all this burst onto words, all this enthusiasm in me. After all, this is supposedly a blog about fashion and style and life. And I'm living it louder than ever. 

So, this space will be livelier again. Outfit posts are to come - of course! I simply need to stop being lazy about taking pictures of my outfits, damnit. And whether you, beloved reader, like it or not, there's even going to be lots of words about my favourite collections. Fashion week reviews, runways photos and deep analyzing oh my!

Thank you for being here, dear reader. Til next time, take care and be inspired by even the smallest of the most mundane things.

20 things.

As I'm avoiding Mr. Sandman here by hanging out in the internetz, I thought about making a list of things that strike my fancy. Just random things.

1. Avocados. I love them so much, but it's few and far between, the times I actually eat them because it's a bit difficult to find good ones in grocery stores around here.

2. Antelopes. They have horns and they are beautiful.

3. CATS. No need to explain I think. (see previous entries)

4. Swing music. Soothes my soul and always manages to turn the sides of me mouth upwards.

5. Statuettes of Egyptian gods/goddesses. 

6. Shoes. Oh dear, and my addiction is only getting worse it seems. I've totally lost count of how many pairs I have. It's not that bad, I suppose, but more than enough still. Oops.

7. Water. To drink, to swim in. You know, just... water in all of it's, uhm, waterness (and that I just made up, that word, I think)?

8. The changing of the season. Living in a place where there are four actual seasons.

9. Tattoos. Have loved them since I can remember. Photos of old time tattooed ladies of the circus have inspired me always. I have quite a lot of them and plan on getting heaps more. I don't plan to post pictures of them per se, but they can be seen in my outfit posts, depending on what I wear etc.

10. Birds. I love to just sit in the garden and watch and listen to birds. Last spring I took on learning the Latin names of all the different birds that inhabit the nearby area.

11. Moving my body in different ways in order to get myself sweating and feeling good. I'm currently in the process of losing weight I gained last year after I broke my ankle, had surgeries to fix it and then a nerve damage happened and so on. Now that I'm doing ok again, I'm enjoying doing sports so so much.

12. Old jewelry. New ones, too, but I prefer things that have stories to them. It's ridiculously difficult to do amazing vintage finds here, sadly. Yes, I guess it's time for me to move into the vast hunting grounds of the internet with this hobby, too.

13. is one of my favourite numbers. I prefer odd numbers to even ones in general for some reason.

14. I hated math in school. Never been good with numbers, me.

15. I love turquoise things. May be apparent, this one...

16. I eat a small bowl of oatmeal every evening.

17. I'm married to a wonderful man.

18. I love taking photos and used to take loads of self-portraits. For some reason I haven't done that so much recently.

19. The history of fashion and costume design has been near to my heart ever since I was but a wee girl.

20. I have a slightly strange sense of humour, though often it's the most mundane things that make me laugh. I love to laugh and do so even at difficult things I encounter in life. Well, at least at some point afterwards I do.

So there. Time to give kitties their antibiotics and then go to bed.