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Colour of the Month: Terracotta

Scroll down to see my favourite ways to style this Pantone approved shade!

Welcome back to the colour of the month series. In an effort to make our way through what’s in for fall/winter 2016 and make sure you’re wardrobe reaches it’s season colour potential, I introduce you to the next must have shade in your fall palette. Enter Terracotta. Although it seems like a strange shade (I mean, is it orange? Is it brown? What is this colour.. is it kind of like tobacco?) It’s actually a great one to match with lots of colour combinations that are sure to get you noticed!

Images used in title graphic: A.P.C via Vogue.com, Yeezy via Vogue.com and Acne Studio via Vogue.com

Images used in graphic: A.L.C via Vogue.com, Tibi via Vogue.com, Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest

Burgundy + Terracotta

There is no denying this beautiful combination. If mother nature can work it (look at the autumn leaves, duh), so can you! It’s pretty much perfect for fall.

Purple + Terracotta

Anyone who knows me well knows that I am not a fan of purple, but even I cannot deny how well this combination goes… maybe it will convert me.

Images used in graphic: Pinterest, APC via Vogue.com, Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest

Images used in graphic: Pinterest, Dior via Vogue.com, APC via Vogue.com, Clover Canyon via Vogue.com, Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest

Blue + Terracotta

Is there anything that blue doesn’t go with? I love matching warm and cool tones together, the contrast is beautiful!

Special Mention: Terracotta + Pink

I think this is my all time favourite combination, or at least my current favourite combination… keep your eyes peeled because I’m going to be wearing this combo super soon!

Image used in graphic: Pinterest

Pleats + Pieces of Mine

No outfit is complete without a touch of personality.

I am one of those people who loves to match – one of my favourite feelings is when you find two pieces that go together so perfectly they look as though they were meant to be together! (As you can imagine, co-ord sets are my dream – I’m not sure if this stems from a childhood in school uniforms or just general organisational tendencies but I do love it) So when my cream pleated pants and this pleated top went together so perfectly, not only in terms of colour coordination, pleating and length, I couldn’t help but put them together.

What really took my outfit to the next level was the addition of some key jewellery pieces. No outfit is complete without a touch of personality, and for most of us it’s our favourite ring, bracelet or earrings. There is nothing more satisfying (Yes, that’s right, MORE satisfying than the co-ords) than having a piece of jewellery that you know is yours, that you know is unique, that you know won’t be paraded around by every second person you see, regardless of the fact that you might have ‘different colours’.

That’s why Pieces of Mine is so perfect for me, and probably for you too. I loved the selection I found on their website solely because it was so unique, bringing together designers from all over the world to curate a collection of jewels that really speak to you, at a price point you can get on board with.My favourite pieces were these gorgeous earrings (how BEAUTIFUL is that pearl drop?) and no outfit is complete without these stacking rings! Thank you Pieces of Mine for the jewellery.

Top: Maje

Pants: Topshop

Bag: Chanel

Sunglasses: Ray-Ban

Shoes: Carvella

Earrings: Pieces of Mine, Rings: Pieces of Mine (Pearl one, Gold One)

Lumas Art Now

Style, Art, Champagne. Who could ask for more?

In a dark classroom, filled with wooden desks and dim laptop screens, I found myself slowly dozing off to slides of Monet. My Art History class was a compulsory module in order to take my Film Studies class at Columbia NYC that summer; but at the mere age of 16 I had a massive lack of appreciation for art; I regretfully admit that I was more interested in the gift store at the MoMa. Rest assured, much has changed over the last five years and through some sort of midnight epiphany, I found a love for art when I did a hop, skip and jump over to London. Imagine my glee when I got to attend the Lumas: Art Now launch last week. (Beyond belief in case you haven’t caught on)

I don’t think art is something you stare at blankly on a prescribed marking on the floor and attempt to reach some sort of internal enigma. Rather art is relatable, or rather it should be. At the risk of preaching a Theory of Knowledge syllabus at you (holla at my fellow IB’ers) art is a matter of perception; a personal matter. What makes it worth hanging up on your wall or gawking over at Frieze or ignoring completely, I don’t know, but all the same, it’s thought provoking. To even have this discussion, art should be accessible, which was the goal of the Lumas: Art Now launch – Limited editions print in small sizes available for your gifting/consuming pleasure.

Top: It’s a bodysuit from Topshop, Pants: ASOS, Shoes: Vintage Chanel, Belt: Old (my mother’s actually, same as the shoes), Bag: Chanel, Sunglasses: Sunday Somewhere (how awesome are these?)

Parallax Image 1: Flamingo Kids 1 by Sebastian Mader

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Stripes

There’s something about stripes that I find so chic. If paired just correctly, they can be incredibly elegant.

Although my iPhone is set on crushing my dreams of warmer weather approaching, I choose to believe that what I physically feel when I step out is more accurate than what my weather app chooses to show me. As I type this out, rays of sunlight are shining in to my flat, ensuring me that I am in fact correct. In other words, Spring is coming (As is Game of Thrones… if you missed the reference). While I shed my layers in the coming months I find myself reaching for prints instead. You can’t really go wrong with stripes after all.

Top: Topshop, Pants: Topshop, Shoes: Casadei, Rings: Isharya

Fringe Away

There’s a certain attitude to have about trends.

We can’t lie when we say that the arrival of fashion month doesn’t bring us all excitement. Whether you’re attending the shows or observing from afar via your technological medium, it’s really the advent of the new. New trends, new clothes, new moods, essentially, if I dare use this word, new vibes. So although we are gearing up to see what Fall/Winter is going to bring us, let’s appreciate what’s coming instead. Even with all the excitement, treading on trends is similar to walking to on hot coal with no shoes, be sure to tread carefully – there is no point attempting to recreate the exact trend/look/vibe (Couldn’t help myself, such a fun word), and loosing your sense of yourself. In case you missed it, tassels and fringe are one of the many trends for S/S 2016…Clearly it’s also one of my favourites.

So if it’s one of your favourite trends to, be sure to play with it, make it yours, and by all means be inspired!

Velvet Overalls

For my very first birthday, my mother had the dress of any little girl made – a maroon poof of velvet. Jumping for joy with frilly white socks on my two little feet and a bow in my hair, I was, as the videos and photos revealed, as sassy at the mere age of one, as I am at the not so mere age of twenty-one.

(I have also confirmed my suspicions that the bow was not in my hair as some sort of ‘adorable little girl accessory’, but rather was placed there as a constant reminder that although my hair style at the time brought to mind that of a little boy, I was very much so far from that…. Wonderful) Even then, at the age of one, I shared many little secrets with my mother, the first one being the carefully added details to what seemed to be an ordinary red dress. In true fairy tale fashion, Disney or otherwise, my mother had tiny silver jingle bells stitched in to the inside bottom hem of my birthday outfit.

The results were nothing short of magical, or at least so I choose to remember. With every twirl, leap and jump there was a small jingle jingle jingle – Magic. When you can feel the kind of happiness I’m sure I felt at that moment in time, it never really leaves you. For me, that feeling of magic reappears when I wear velvet (It would explain my obsession with velvet as well I suppose) I’m not sure when the next time I wear a maroon velvet frock will be (you never know?) but velvet overalls seem to be the next best.

Back to the books. See ya.

Shirt: Uniqlo

Overalls: Claudie Pierlot

Necklace: Gift

Shoes: Casadei