fashion year 2012

Let’s try to sum up this year in fashion. And I do not mean enumerating the trends or choosing best outfits of the year. A personal summary this time.

Well, it was a second-hand focused time. Raiding these messy shops at 9am to be the first to get best pieces was a real sacrifice and ahuge pleasure. Now my wardrobe abounds in vintage-like garments with great potential, especially for the next summer season! Can’t wait. Promise myself to learn to sew and re-make all these sweaters and tees piling up.

When it comes to high-fashion, twenty twelve was more of being infatueated with same stuff which is Balmain and Stella McCartney. Keep dreaming to afford a pair of shiny, skinny, embroidered pair of Balmain pants. But I still got a chance since I survived 21.12.2012. Thank you Mayans. What a relief.

In terms of shopping it was most exquisite year ever! How superficial it sounds! Since moving to London, it’s like being let in to Hamley’s after playing one Barbie all your lifetime. Screw Topshop and Urban Outfitters. I can dress in Beyond Retro or at Spitalfields Market. Just give me the money.

What about personal style and how it evolved? It seems to have been a crucial time. After wavering between hipster-like, bold apparel and minimalistic, COS designs, I feel like I’ve finally reached the balance. My wardrobe offers me so much for the moment being I am happy to think of what to wear every morning. How delightful it seems!

I wish the next year will be more of a settling down with my style and taste. I loved you 2012, but move on! 2013 is coming! X

playlist twenty twelve / part 2

So this is the part two of my playlist for this amazing year. It is all about best singles/EPs/songs that either gained some recognition or have been unjustly overlooked. I do not care that much, just love these tracks!

Sky Ferreira 'Everything's Embarassing' from Ghost EP



Summer Camp 'City' from Always EP



Mikky Ekko 'Pull Me Down' Single



Tame Impala 'Feels Like We Only Go Backwards’ from Lonerism

Joey Bada$$ 'Daily Routine' from 1999

gdansk

Hi Gdansk !

Hope you are well. It is so nice to know you are my real home.  The one with my beloved places and forests. With snow in the winter and sun in the summer.

Since I left you I’ve never felt more patriotic. Living in London cannot even be compared. You’ve got it all, exciting life (if one knows where to look for) and serenity, order and wilderness, urban space and dilapidated sights to hang around.

Now, when I am on my way back to you it’s just feels exquisite. I just cannot describe my joy, but it is probably because of the flight that awaits me and I dying from fear now.

But hopefully, we will meet again soon and I will exploit you as I used to do. With friends and alone.   With mum and dad and my brother. Because when I visit you all is complete. This is where people are. This is where I belong.

I will always be missing you no matter where I will go. But know, you are the ultimate place I will come back to. Sorry to keep you waiting.

If I ever could tell someone how amazing you are, I wouldn’t 1. Find the right way to say it. 2. Even if I did, I wouldn’t like to. Stay small and cosy and cool as always.

Well, we’ve got the deal now. Please, remember about me always. We are great together.

Kisses,

X

playlist twenty twelve / part 1

A little less fashion related topic, however once  I have written about link between these two categories: music and fashion. So I decided to prepare my playlist of 2012. Biased it will be and simply in my taste. No consideration for the ‘trendy’ and ‘must-knows’. Here is part one.

 Grimes ‘Oblivion’ from Visions



   Best Coast ‘Do You Love Me Like You Used To’ from The Only Place

  Merchandise ‘Become What You Are’ from Children of Desire



 King Krule 'Bleak Bake' from Rock Bottom/Octopus



 Guards ‘Coming True’ from In Guards We Trust EP

i have the view i cannot reveal

Fashion is about having a point of view. And having a point of view is about loving it. At one of the lecture I attended, vey accredited fashion journalist said that what he has learnt is that writing about fashion is also form of resignation from your own comments and thoughts,  just a mere attempt to satisfy the reader by writing things you instinctively feel will be appealing for the audience. So it seems like a contradiction, having views and not keeping your mouth shut?

I do not know what I want to do in the fashion world yet. Now I am writing. But also looking for experience in PR. It is such a broad industry, it seems it will take some time until I create my true, genuine fashion views. But even if I do, I may not be able to express them except from my poor blog which is definitely not reaching the audience wider than my mum.

It is a little bit tricky and I wonder if fashion journalism is what I should strive for. Journalism, in general, seems like being controlled, curbed, criticized and underpaid. But the dilemma here is why opinions, even in such fascinating field like fashion, are a necessity and a thing we should hide at the same time. Isn’t it a form of frustration, which all of us try to avoid while making their career choice ?I am just a little bit unsettled. Hopefully, I won’t end up suffocating my outlooks for money’s sake. But still will be working in fashion. Still being happy. X

fashion questions

Probably you know this awkward moment when you’re about to leave, ready to go out and then, suddenly you just take off all the accessories, wash off the red lipstick and wear just black. If not, I am envious, because I do it all the time.

I feel fashion should be about sophistication. Rings and nail polish, necklaces and embroidered bags. Some would say less is more, but sometimes it sounds so unconvincingly. Then, I regret changing the whole conception of an outfit in mere 10 seconds, which seems to prove I know nothing about personal style and individuality. What can be more dull than black and plain?

The dilemma here is what is the authentic definition of style. If it is about marking one’s place in the street with bold, distinctive garments and accessories, I failed. However, it may be also about reflecting what really appeals to you. In this case , I succeeded.

Fashion can be like philosophy on a different, less severe level. Saying that, I feel silly. It is just that  it puts me in this dilemma, should I care for style? Really, all I can thinks of is if  things I wear can be a part of fashion’s appealing world? Don’t really know if I am eligible. But gonna try. Because it is fun that I want my life to be filled with. X