My perfect shades for Fall

I have been doing some traveling this month, Montreal, Helsinki and Stockholm so have not been in touch. To start off with, three new fabulous shades of fall from Chanel are being launched in New York in two weeks. Wish I was there to grab all three, they would finish off every single look for fall.

The Coat of AW10

Summer is not over yet but my mind is on winter. I love the summer and wish it would never end but when I saw this Acne version of the sheerling aviator coat I dreamt of that crisp cold winter air just so I could wear this.
At £1420 this is still a bit out of my price range. I am counting on those brilliant Swedes to show me a mid range sheerling coat when I visit there next weekend, wish me luck

Serge Gainsbourg and his ladies-Birkin and Bardot

Simply titled Gainsbourg, the movie about the infamous French singer/songwriter is coming out in London July 31. I obviously can't wait to see what the actresses who play Birkin and Bardot are wearing in the film as they have been as much influential on fashion as Monsieur Gainsbourg has been on music.

Maison Martin Margiela 20: The Exhibition

I finally managed to get together with a friend and go see the Maison Martin Margiela Exhibition held at The Somerset house. Personally, I think this is one of the best exhibitions I have seen at the Somerset house.
My 3 favourite things:

1. The screening room: A room with the walls filled with a collection of various sized television screens or projections showing images of past shows, lookbooks and personal clients modelling their Margiela wardrobes. Sitting in the white sheet covered chairs, all I needed was a gin and tonic and I could have sat there forever.

2. The flat series video: A demonstration on how the pieces that are designed to lay flat are worn. There is a lot of DIY potential in this video and you don't need the flat items to do it.

One clip showed a girl wearing a bodysuit over jeans and putting over it a white shirt and tucking in the bottom of the shirt up into the bottom of the bodysuit. Sounds wierd but it looked great!

Another clip showed a girl wearing a set of suspenders/braces but the straps met in the middle of the jeans at the button. Here she also put on a white shirt and tucked the front around the suspenders for some more ruching. I don't know if you can picture this? I wish I had this video to show you.

3. The trench coats: see photo. I want them all.

4. Oh wait, there is a fourth reason. The hair attached to the headband to create long bangs/fringe. I really want one in a normal length fringe just for one day as I am too nervous to cut!

photos: fashionista.com

Friends

I love how Tommy Ton captured this moment between friends, it looks like this woman is telling a story behind the necklace her friend is admiring. Ultimately, we dress for our girlfriends and it feels nice when your friends like what you do!

I miss all my Canadian friends!

photo: style.com

Gorgeous Necklaces from Hoss Intropia

Spanish high street shop Hoss Intropia always have the most creative and prettiest jewelry. I find their accessory line much more sophisticated than the clothing. Their bags, shoes and jewelry could be a shop in itself. It is crafty but not overly so and most pieces are quite substantial in size making them perfect statement accessories.
These are some of the Spring pieces they are showing online, except they don't tell you the price online so I may have to pop in there this week to take a look.

Summer!

This is what I will be doing tomorrow as it is actually sunny in London. After that I will try to be inspired to post something new!

photo: lookbook.nu