Christian Dior Haute Couture SS 2011

Firstly, I have to apologise for being so absent lately, however I just have to report how absolutely smitten and taken I am with John Galliano's new, 40s and 50s inspired, collection! I live absolutely everything about it: the fabric, the design, the make up, the hair decoration and the hair itself. These beautiful waves and the subtle eye liner paired with the red lip stick. These amazing pencil skirts, petticoats, waste hugging belts and  bust accentuating blazers... I am definitely sold!

Images via vogue.de

Creatures Of Comfort's Prairie Woman-Chic Collection

Today I absolutely fell in love, once again... I saw the back view of a top on another blog and found it stunning, so I started looking and found the whole lookbook with the SS 2011 collection. I love almost the whole collection and would wear most of it. With clothes as beautiful as these, one literally cannot wait for the summer to come.

The collection has been designed by Jade Lai and carries floor length skirts, loose tops and airy shorts, thus absolutely perfect, and if combined correctly even works as work wear!

You can also view the whole lookbook here.

Images via http://www.refinery29.com/

New Year's Eve

Here is my this year's outfit for New Year's eve. The beautiful cameo I'm wearing was my grandmother's birthday present as well as her scarf tied into a bow. I hope you guys had a great night and will have a great year. (Click to enlarge picture)

 Dress H&M • Patent leather pumps Schutz • Cameo Vintage • Scarf Vintage

I also wanted to post a quick video tutorial I got from Youtube on how to create easy smokey eyes, since some of my friends have asked me how I do it and also because I previously used to have some trouble with it myself. So here is Beau Nelson's video for you:

A bit more of SS 2011

Here is a bit more on fashion for SS 2011. I know I already had a "Fashion trends 2011" post earlier, however, I really couldn't help it. I really adore the coming season's collections, plus, I really can't wait for a warmer season to come and it serves me as an inspiration and warms me. My absolute favourites here are Jason Wu, since it very much conforms to my style and also Marc Jacobs, which is very 50s inspired and just lovely to look at.

Hope you enjoy it!

Images via www.vogue.de and http://www.harpersbazaar.com/

 Jason Wu

 Carolina Herrera (far left) • Calvin Klein

 DKNY • Donna Karan (far right)

Narciso Rodriguez • Thakoon ( far right)

Marc by Marc Jacobs

Olivia Palermo

Today's post is inspired by Olivia Palermo and I have to admit that it's a lazy post, since I had this one prepared already. But since I'm sick I decided to make my life a little easier.

I know some people say the star of today's post isn't a very nice person, but this definitely isn't for me to decide and I do think she has amazing style absolutely worth talking about. I arranged the pics by style and colour and hope you guys enjoy. She definitely inspires me to try and experiment with fabrics and colours. She is also known for her statement jewellery and previously I have been trying to avoid big chunky pieces, and rather liked delicate jewellery but this is definitely slowly changing.

Images via various sources

A little bit of green

Another outfit from these days (click to enlarge):

Shirt and tights H&M • Leather Shorts Vintage • Booties from a store in Madrid • Necklace Accessorize 

Beige/Brown/Gold

This was my holiday dinner outfit (click to enlarge):

Cardigan, top & tights H&M • Skirt Primark • Boots Aldo • Jewellery Vintage 

Nail art

Yesterday I have been trying some nail art. I have to say that it took me a while to try it since I am normally quite sceptical when it comes to this particular matter. I usually find most of it quite tacky especially on fake and super long nails and it's really not my cup of tea. But after watching a few videos on Youtube I decided to give it a try and this is what I came up with:

I drew little flowers on a black background and sealed everything with a matte top coat because to me the motive is much better visible than on a glossy nail. However, to me this is probably as far as nail art goes. 

Just a little baking

It has been snowing since yesterday evening and there are about 25cm on the ground. I really don't remember a winter like this here in Germany and it reminds me of my childhood in Ukraine. I was going to the supermarket in the morning to buy the missing ingredients for the biscuits I was planning to bake and literally couldn't open my gate because of the snow masses blocking the way.

Anyway, I made it and also managed to bake today. Although I don't celebrate Christmas I somehow got into the spirit of the holidays. And here is my contribution:

I am actually very proud because they look really nice and taste even better! It is a really easy recipe to make and it doesn't take long so it's a quick addition for the holiday morning.

DIY Weekend

It has been snowing in Europe for days and to be honest it's just so much more tempting to stay at home and spend the weekend in bed. Yesterday I was still out and doing some shopping with my mom and bought some supplies for my DIY-projects.

Since it was the perfect snowy weekend I spent some time flipping through other peoples' fashion of life-style blogs and got inspired.

Firstly I knitted a turban in light pink for myself since I've been desiring it since the "Sex and the City" movie and saw a knitted version of it in Zara. I really like my creation because it fits me perfectly and I actually love the colour. I think I'll be knitting one in black for myself as well. The advantage with this project is that I have so many yarn left-overs in different colours thus I can just check my stash without spending money on more. Anyways, here is the result:

Update: After wearing my little turban today I realised that the top of my head was getting cold, thus I added a top to it and here is the result:

Secondly I decided to transform my shoes. I bough green suede heels when I was living in Madrid and decided it's time to change their appearance a little. I have to admit that it wasn't entirely my idea and I got inspired at MADAM BROSHKINA's blog here. I bought these little gem stones as well as transparent glue and have been placing them with tweezers today. So here is the result of that and I absolutely LOVE it:

So what do you think of my weekend pastime? And what did you do during this total weather chaos?