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Holidays in holy clothes.

2011-04-12T10:54:00.000-07:00

I just came back from my wonderful trip to the UK. I realized that London is the New York of Europe. A place where everything takes place. There was so much sun there that I don't believe it ever rains or even a single cloud appears on the British sky.

And because holidays are always so holy days, you also need your holy clothes. And in London there are only All Saints clothes.

I went to the Notting Hill store at Portobello Road and these are my favorite holy items:

My giraffe neck.

2011-03-30T08:01:00.000-07:00

Spring is coming towards us. The birds are singing and the flowers blossom. We blossom as well. It's as if the pollen fills our system and everything seems different. The change is obvious in our clothes, too. More colors, more flowers, less clothes. Our neck also feels the change. With flowery, happy necklaces, our neck becomes longer. Just like a giraffe's neck.

This is a picture I took at the Attica Zoological Park, which I visited last Sunday. Giraffe is one of my favorite animals. And I didn't like the fact that it was kept in a zoo. In fact I don't like zoos. But I did go and left a little bit sad. Anyway, that's a really long neck. She can wear as many necklaces as she likes.

Below, I'll show you some necklaces that are quite springy. For your one and only giraffe neck.


Triple pendant with the evil eye, fatima's hand and the peace sign. All for good luck. Bought from Anna Maria Mazaraki's shop.

A discreet pendant with a white chrysanthemum, a small blue and a purple stone from Anna Maria Mazaraki, as well.

Batucada 'Baroco' Drop Necklace - mocha color, bought from the wonderful ella georgia online shop & blog.

SANDALS B.C.

2011-03-15T08:58:00.000-07:00

Sandals are simple footwear composed of a sole that is held onto the foot by straps. Though the ancient Greeks did not invent the style, they did create many types of leather sandals. By 500 B.C.E. the average Greek citizen could tell much about the people that passed in the street by the style of sandals they wore.

The oldest known sandals were discovered in Fort Rock Cave in the U.S. state of Oregon. They indicate an age of at least 10,000 years.

The ancient Greeks created the baxea, a sandal made of willow leaves, twigs, or fibres worn by comic actors and philosophers. The sole of the latter was sometimes made much thicker than usual by the insertion of slices of cork, so as to add to the stature of the wearer.

The ancient Egyptians wore sandals made of palm-leaves and papyrus.

Two-thousand-year-old fossil sandals show evidence of fibers suggesting that the Romans wore their sandals over socks. That is a funny thought :-)

Let's take a look at some of my favorite sandals for this summer 2011, below their history.


ancient Egyptian Jimmy Choos ;-)

GUCCI Bamboo-detailed rope and leather flat sandals 360 euros

ancient Egyptian sandals

ALEXANDER McQUEEN Metallic leather flat sandals 408 euros

ancient Roman gladiator sandals


GUCCI Studded suede sandals 643 euros

Ancient sandals from Darasuram, India


CHLOE Suede wrap sandals 475 euros (my favorites, I want them, I've got to have them!)

ancient Egyptian sandals

MARNI Tie-detailed leather sandals 300 euros

India

LD TUTTLE The crop leather sandals 335 euros

Sandals of Sisyphus, Delphi, Greece

MIU MIU Cutout leather sandals 290 euros

Sandalias_Esparto sandals from the 6th or 5th millennium BC found in Spain

MARC BY MARC JACOBS Leather sandals 275 euros

Style it my way.

2011-03-08T11:28:00.000-08:00

Well my girly girls, I decided to show you some outfits that I created using a fashion site.

I hope you enjoy it and get some ideas on how to wear certain items that you have in your closet. Don't be afraid to mix 'n' match them any way you like. As I said many times before, style is not about money. It's all about attitude. And guts.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart & Farrokh Bulsara

2011-03-04T14:58:00.000-08:00

No, I'm not into classic music. But I'm into classic clothing. I mostly listen to rock music. And now that I think about it, there are more similarities between those two kinds of music, than differences. The tension, the feeling, the silence at times and of course the clothes. They look like something Mozart and Freddie Mercury would wear. Don't you think?

White "Mozart" shirt from sava. Gray vest from helmi.

Roma, ti amo.

2011-02-25T05:54:00.000-08:00

After my wonderful trip to Rome I came to realize two things: That I can live there forever and that I love Italian fashion. By Italian fashion I'm sure that most of you think about Dolce&Gabbana, Valentino, Armani, Ferragamo, Ferre, Bulgari, Prada, Versace. But this is for the few. And I'm not included in those few. I love the way simple Romanian people dress. After all style is not about money. That's why I love sava and benetton. Their clothes are Italian and inexpensive.

Extra light cardigan (benetton). Cotton top (sava). Leggings that look like blue jeans -but are not (H&M). Coolway Newsweet Boots (Tsakiris Mallas). Flower Necklace (majo).

Extra light cardigan (benetton). Tank top (helmi). Long-sleeved gray t-shirt (intimissimi). High gray socks (calzedonia).

Along with Italian fashion, you can enjoy the greatest Italian song ever:

Casual hip-hip-hooray!

2011-01-18T11:03:00.000-08:00

Hip means fashionably current. Casual means everyday dash comfy.

A jean dress is always fashionably current and can be worn everyday,

from working time till drinking time.

My jeans dress is blend she found in a forgotten more & more shop.

Make it official.

2011-01-07T04:44:00.000-08:00

Here we are with the second post of the day as I promised.

Those of you who still have their job (and of course I hope you keep it and laugh with my black humor!), may find this post interesting, since it's quite for an office outfit. You can wear it anywhere though and here I am wearing it on New Year's eve, on a texas hold'em tournament at a friend's house.

All of the items are bought from attrattivo and next to my photos, I'll show you the photo in the shop's catalogue. Yeap, sometimes you can't resist buying clothes exactly the way they show them to you. But let's not make this a habit! We've got our own style, remember?

Just the three of us.

2011-01-07T04:12:00.000-08:00

Hello my fashion friends and happy 2011!
I know you've seen this dress from heel too many times on this blog. Please forgive me, because I want to show it to you once more, actually three times more (!) and after that, I promise you won't see it again. Unless of course if you see me wearing it on a random day on the street or at a bar or something. I'm sure you'll know it's me from the first sight. Or my sister. Or my niece. ;-)

Actually, there's another post coming right after this one, coz I know this is not exactly a new post!

xxx

The snow white (and other fairytales).

2010-12-11T04:32:00.000-08:00

Finally! It's snowing. We can now feel the winter and that old forgotten xmas spirit. And while getting ready for a walk in the snow dreaming of that delicious warm coffee that's waiting in the cafeteria, I was thinking that jackets and anoraks are necessary at last.
Stay warm people!

This is my snow white vest-jacket with a little fur on the hood, bought from zara many years ago.

My gray anorak from badila.

And this is my brown jacket with a lovely furry hood, bought from bershka a few years ago.

Dress for success.

2010-12-08T08:27:00.000-08:00

Success is a lot of things. And it has a different meaning to each and every one of us. For some people success is a beautiful family. For others it's a great career. And for those like us that have nothing of those things at the time, success is enjoying every single day. And how can we enjoy our days, without the proper dress? Here are two of my favorite ones.

And this tiny dress is Kyvelie's (3 years old) xmas present. I bought it from mini heel and I can't wait to give to her on xmas day!

I usually wear this purple silk dress (from sava I think) with jeans and my blue cowboy boots from bata.

An autumn fairytale with a different ending.

2010-11-30T14:56:00.000-08:00

Today is the last day of November. It's the last day of autumn actually. An autumn full of spring. So I'm showing you a different ending to the fairytale (paramita) I posted on October 19th, "Autumn, my cousin's ex girlfriend." I wear that paramita skirt I bought from beautiful Barcelona 3 years ago with different tops and different boots.

And then, I wear that heel strange blouse with black leggings, instead of jeans.

And that's because every fairytale has always an alternative ending. And this autumn wants to ...spring it on!

And this is my fake Bulgari little barrel necklace.

Flowers blossom in winter.

2010-11-16T10:56:00.000-08:00

It's the middle of November and there's nothing but sun in the sky. Swedish people would say that this is heavenly, but here in Greece we know that's not normal. We love all seasons and want to experience them as much as we can.

We like singing in the rain. We're dreaming of a white xmas. We want to shout that the dark days are gone, and the bright days are here. And we wanna lay down on a bed of roses. The only thing we can do about it, is take care of our planet every way we can. We can also wear flowers all year round and feel great about it.

That's why I wear that wonderful flower necklace from the handmade jewelry e-shop majo with my checked bloomers from Strativarius (vraka in greek) and brown boots.

The constant gardener.

2010-11-12T05:22:00.000-08:00

By wearing loose jeans and putting them into my boots, doesn't make me a gardener. But I surely look like one. My jeans aren't really jeans, they are made of fine, thin fabric that tightens down the legs. I bought them from a shop called Vavel, famous in Cyprus.

My lovely necklace is handmade by friends that own the www.majo.gr the handmade jewelry e-shop.The flowers on the necklace are from my imaginary garden...

Marc up.

2010-11-06T02:35:00.000-07:00

Marc Jacobs is one of my favorite designers. His Fall/Winter 2010/2011 fashion show is as theatrical and inspired as he is. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

A piece of carrot cake.

2010-11-04T07:30:00.000-07:00

I love Carrot Cakes. Especially the one that my aunt Eugene makes. It's so juicy and crunchy that I only stop eating when the platter is all empty. Here is the recipe and I hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients

4 eggs, 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil, 2 cups white sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons baking soda, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 3 cups grated carrots, 1 cup chopped pecans, 1/2 cup butter, softened, 8 ounces cream cheese, softened, 4 cups confectioners' sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 cup chopped pecans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. 2. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. 4. To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.

That's probably why I love Carrot Pants, too. They are comfortable and juicy as well, don't you think? And of course, they are carrot shaped.

That's me (no head, no head) wearing my grey-brown carrot pants from Zara, with grey Intimissimi tank top, camel La Redoute boots and Massimo Dutti cardigan.

The butterfly effect.

2010-11-02T10:44:00.000-07:00

According to the chaos theory, if a butterfly is flapping its wings in South America can affect the weather in Central Park. And because my life is some how chaotic, I'll show you my butterfly top from http://www.bsbfashion.com/. I surely hope that every time I flap my wings in Chalandri, it rains in Africa, since they lack of clean water.

flap-flap-flap

my sava cycling boots

my giant rings

I love the... hole world.

2010-10-30T08:52:00.000-07:00

The winter is very very close. So close I can feel its freezing breath on my neck. And definitely on my toes. You wouldn't like to have holes on your walls, but you do on your clothes. I'll show you a "hole" dress from www.sava.gr and the way I wear it.

Last year's buy, this year's fashion.

2010-10-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

Isn't it great to have an item you love in you closet from last year and this year is suddenly in fashion? That happens to me all the time. Maybe it's because I'm always ahead of my time :-) Anyway, I'll show you a checked t-shirt slash dress I bought last year from Cop Copine and two ways I wear it. In fact, I'm wearing it tonight (the 2nd way) for a name dash day celebration I have to go to.

Buttoned up (it has small buttons on the neck) with black tights and flat black boots.

Unbuttoned with lettered t-shirt (www.sava.gr) dark gray tights and flat black boots.

Autumn getaway: Checked bloomers. Check.

2010-10-22T05:44:00.000-07:00

The weekend is finally here and the wind blows through our autumnal brains. Yes, it's time for our getaway. There is no place that can't be matched with these beige bloomers. Checked fabrics are in fashion this year, but I don't think they were ever out of fashion, especially in the countryside. They may seem rumply to you, but they are not, because when you wear them, they are quite loose on the body and make these wrinkles. I call it visual reality :D I bought them from Stradivarius shop and I present them to you with a grey top (intimissimi), a brown zipped cardigan (benetton) and dark brown tights. I prefer these high-heeled boots, but I wear it with flat ones, too.

High heel-ed night out.

2010-10-20T06:41:00.000-07:00

When it comes to Saturday night we all have a problem to decide what to wear. How many times have I sat in front of my closet, staring at the clothes and don't know what to do. Other times I changed so many clothes that I couldn't make it on time. And others I just put on whatever I'd touched first. The most important thing is to feel comfortable in your clothes, even if it's a Saturday night. Because when you feel comfy, you act like one.

Below, you'll see pictures of my favorite outfit, which I usually wear with high-heeled boots. It's from www.heelshop.gr and as you realized from my previous posts, I love it.

Autumn, my cousin's ex girlfriend.

2010-10-19T03:12:00.000-07:00

My cousin lives and works as a doctor in the US. Some years ago he was dating an American woman whose name was Autumn. Autumn has always been my favorite season. That's why I was very sad when they broke up. And every time September begins, Autumn -the woman- comes to my head. The following clothes are dedicated to her and I hope she's happy, wherever she is.

My loving crazy skirt from my trip to Barcelona from www.paramita.es

I usually prefer wearing my paramita skirt with these brown cowboy boots.

My latest buy from www.heelshop.gr. Really Autumny.

And this is the see-through chantilly-laced back. Isn't it magical?

And here it is with my diesel jeans.

Boot-camp.

2010-10-16T09:25:00.000-07:00

I went for a morning walk with a friend at Golden Hall. When I passed by the Marc Jacobs' shop and saw his face on the fragrance poster, I had an appetite for my favorite fashion item: Boots (relevant in a strange kind of way).

So, I'm going to show you some of my favorite pieces. From past till present.

In my opinion, this is the most stylish Marc Jacobs’ boots, from his 2008 collection. High heels that are perfectly suitable for tights, skirts or jeans.

The wonderful 2009 classic military style lace up boots by belgian Ann Demeulemeester, who is still not very widely known by greek women.

I love these Vivienne Westwood suede pirate boots with silver leather buckles. Believe it or not, they were first produced in 1981 and are still in shops and in fashion.

Black and white and gray, that's the deal of the day.

2010-10-15T02:32:00.000-07:00

Well, hello again. Today is the day that I will introduce you one of my favorite "Mozart" style long white shimmy. I bought it last autumn from sava.

Below, I will show you two of the ways I usually wear it.

Over a long off-white sleevless t-shirt, with grey skintights from La Redoute and flat casual boots.

I also wear it over a gray satin dress (sava). I buckle it up till the waste and let it loose so the dress' detail will be obvious. My favorite detail is the strapless blouse that I put over the white shimmy. I wear it with flat casual boots in the day or high-heeled boots for a night out.

So that was my black and white and gray suggestion of the day. You see that there are so many ways to wear a long "Mozart" shimmy.

1st time fussing.

2010-10-14T07:03:00.000-07:00

We all need some fuss in our lives. Especially when it's a fuss about fashion. We need fashion. And although there are many fashion blogs that do a great job, there will never be too many. Everyone needs to have a different opinion and objective. This is my fussing around. You will find the first three pieces out of my closet. Enjoy.

This is my latest acquisition from heel. It reminds me of my lovely niece so I call it Kyvelie. I will surely wear it with skintight trousers and black boots.

This is a piece I bought 2 years ago. They are saten military bloomers from desigual. It's skirt and pants in one.

This is an older shirt that I bought 2 years ago from Cop Copine. I just love it.