From dots to flowers

I want to share with you a thing that keeps happening to me every year. It’s a mystery really how, like nature’s transformations, I go through my very own transformation by the changing of the season. Before you think I am some kind of lunatic that thinks she grows wings during spring, I have to clarify that I am speaking of a stylistic transformation. Let me be more exact.

Every winter I am into pin-up and vintage clothing, with dominant colors being the contrast of black and white and costars being vivid ones, like red or yellow. I am dying to lay hands on every pair of Mary Jane doll style shoes and never consider it too much or unnecessary buying another item with polka dots and stripes, such as a dress or a silk scarf. In contrast, as soon as spring makes its first appearance I start feeling like yellows and browns. I want floral prints, wooden platforms, accessories from natural materials! I turn more into a boho queen or a romantic 70’s butterfly. Now you are probably thinking “Big deal!” since the ones I mentioned are the leading trends for each season and every store is stuffed with clothing of those styles. However, before rushing into judging me unfairly, I have to tell you that the difference is that I am not doing it consciously. It’s more like a subconscious procedure taking place in my head. To support my point a bit further I have to tell you that this kept happening to me even before I knew how to name those styles or that they even belonged to a style category!

To conclude, since my flowers and bees period is approaching I thought I’d share with you some pieces I am currently drooling for! Check them out and see if you are actually changing skin along with me this time…

Beige-Brown Time by Silky_Buzz featuring Tarina Tarantino hair accessories

Baby pink by Silky_Buzz featuring Monsoon accessories

Shoes in plastic - it’s fantastic and vegan!

When I first laid eyes on a Melissa’s plastic pair of shoes, my first thought was “Barbie must have started being produced in real life dimensions, since those shoes are definitely doll shoes!” – could you think of anyone else wearing a pair of pink plastic oxfords around the city? Then I noticed they kept popping up more and more on magazine pages supported by big designers’ names (Vivienne Westwood, Alexandre Herchcovitch, etc..), plus they could be found in extremely interesting styles like peep toes or platforms and sandals. However, it wasn’t until I found out more information about the brand Melissa, which produces them, that they utterly won me over.

Melissa’s factory, located in Brazil, works under very ethical right conditions, as its employees are getting paid above average wages and benefits and the shoes devoid of any animal products. In addition, both products and waste are 99% recyclable and the factory often recycles overstock in order to produce next season’s collection. The plastic the shoes are made of is hypoallergenic and 100% safe to your health, odorless and extremely flexible. Even better? The shoes go through a procedure, when heated that gives them a bubble-gummy smell!



If there is one thing that makes me gazing future with hope is seeing fashion heading towards more eco-conscious directions and in this case it did so and provided very pleasing results. Those plastic treats have an 80’s sense of style about them – that is a total must for the season, plus incredible originality and ecological conscience.



As for me, I think I am going for a pair of these electric blue wedges. Aren’t they yummy?



All photos taken from coggles.com

Athens Fashion Week – but are you a fashion person?

Last week, March 26 to March 29, Athens fashion week was taking place at “Technopolis” in Gazi. I couldn’t resist the temptation to go check it out, even though I didn’t have an invitation for a fashion show, but only got disappointed. For some reason I expected it to have more events in order to get you a little involved, even if you couldn’t watch a show. Maybe it was that big, welcoming-to-all advertisement, that had been popping up every here and there the previous weeks, that fooled me.

In fact things were quite different. The only things you could do, if you didn’t hold an invitation, was to see a photo exhibition, with very few and quite irrelevant to the subject – if you ask me – photographs and a very small boutique, where you could buy designers’ clothes at a retail price. Maybe I am the cranky one here, but I believe you should be able to see a show if you want to, even if that means you have to pay for it. Fashion refers to people, is inspired by people and thus should let people be involved with it. Not only fashion people, they do not sell to each other anyway now, do they? But enough with the nagging because, at least, one good thing came out of this...

While browsing the clothes at the boutique I found out of a very remarkable designer that I didn’t know of until then. His name is Avdantil and he is Georgian. I couldn’t choose between his great clothes and I fell in love with almost all of his dresses. Most of them were in black and white or beige and although the textiles were of a very good quality (such as silk and organza), the prices were very low and the look very accessible. Take a taste of his work in case you don’t know him from his spring-summer 2008 collection…









See what I mean about the dresses? Let alone the fact that I am still wondering how I came back home without this one: