A Vignette of LONDON

This is a little late but we both have been crazy busy this week. London fashion week ended and the shows are now going on in Milan but hopefully you will be inspired by a few of our London favorites. Christopher Kane was lovely with pastels and Gingham mixed with shear. The thigh high slits in the skirts were sexy but wearable for both young and older woman without looking trashy. 

Christopher Kane Photos from Style.com

The designer Luella always makes me smile. Her line this season is so cute and vintage inspired. To me that means start hitting the vintage stores and look for little dresses from the 50's and 60's. Then just lop off the bottom to a more current length add a heel, belt or both then throw your hair in a pony and VOILA! You have your own vintage inspired Luella.

Luella photos style.com 

Burberry Prorsum

Last but not the least, this is by far my favorite. Not much to say I think it speaks for itself. And being California girls we and you can start this little look of cute slouch anklets with platform sandals. LOVE IT!

Burberry Prorsum Photos style.com

Lovin my Gossip girl!

Inspired by Jenny

We love this little doll of a dress. We added a little J Crew pearl button cardigan and belted it with a patent J Crew belt. The brown boots seemed just right to make the dress easy for day and more casual

Of course you can see just how cute this design is with the little puff sleeves, it could easily be paired with a great Ballet or heel to make it more dressy.

The cute little shape makes it flirty and fun and oh so versatile.

Inspired by Blair

We took the little ribbon belt and wrapped it in the hair then added a very sweet and pretty sash from J Crew around the waist

The cute booties are charcoal Grey and from Italy sold at Anthropologie

Hooray for Anna Sui!

Yes, We Love Gossip Girl and Ann Sui.
This Tweed dress is inspired by Serena

Notice the cool sequin trim around the neck. It is cut very low so we added a bandeau top from American Apparel. We wanted to style it like Serena might wear it so we added these Charles David shoes. Although for a day look we thought we'd wear some great boots.

Well in case you haven't heard Fab and Fun designer Anna Sui just did a line for Target. The great thing about Target getting designers to do a line for them is, it's affordable and still the designers aesthetic. Anna designed her line for Target based on the hip show Gossip Girl, and as you all know, the girls from the show always look so cute and stylish. It's only for a limited time, basically till it's all sold out. So go check out the line and see what you can find, we did and found some pretty sweet dresses inspired by Serena, Blair,and Jenny.

Proenza Schouler = Fabulous

Spring never looked so good!

Young and fresh

Love the detail and color

Watch the video below to see up close.
Enjoy!

Proenza Schouler spring 2010

A Lovely Little Dress

Yes this is Azzedine Alaia again!

Can't help It, we just Love Him!

As Cher from the movie Clueless would say,
" Oh, no. You don't understand this is an Alaia. It's like a totally important designer." Enjoy!

Coffee, Tea and Me.

The number we were given was 24 and yes, that's our lucky number, it was going to be a good day.

My little yellow dress is Marc by Marc Jacobs. Maggie wore a Marc by Marc Jacobs top and a Corey Lynn Calter skirt.

My shoes are by Frye and socks from Anthropologie. Maggie wore shoes by Jeffrey Campbell.

A Great way to end the week!

There is this sweet little Cafe that opened a while ago in our home town called, The Yellow Vase. We absolutely love it and since it is Sunday we dressed up in our Sunday best and met our friend Maggie for bunch and dined on delicious crumpets and coco. Yum!

FASHION WEEK BEGINS

FASHION WEEK

Charlotte Ronson

Cynthia Steffe

Fashion week started yesterday in NYC for Spring 2010. Since Cami and I can't be there we have been checking out the fashions on line. The Spring 2010 line up started Thursday morning with
BCBG by Max Azria. He is always good for cute little dresses and that's what we got, plenty of them! Then today was Cynthia Steffe and Charlotte Ronson which again had some lovely little dresses but also shorts. Here are some of our picks from their lines. Enjoy! We will try to update you throughout the next week as more designers show their collections. But, if you really want to see all the collections go check out style.com. Have fun.

Look of the day.

Inspired by blogger am-lul looks of the day! Check out her Blog site too I have it on my fave blogs, she's great! Here is my look of the day. H&M dress, Jeffery Campbell Booties, Bangles from India and my fave slip from Rozae Nichols. Also featuring My kitty Gizmo!

Down on the Boardwalk

The last weekend of summer is bitter sweet. It marks the start for many people "Back to School." Soon days are filled with homework, carpooling, sports, necessity shopping, field trips and just the plain reality of life. Living here in California on the beach it is easy to pretend everyday is a vacation. You just need to walk down to the ocean put your feet in the sand and RELAX! The Mama's and the Papa's coined the phrase "California Dreaming" for a reason.

Searching For Alice

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense."

"Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't."

"And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be."

"And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"
Alice in Wonderland

The new Tim Burton film Alice in Wonderland does not come out until March 2010 but we absolutely LOVE Tim Burton. He is genius! Just watch the trailer and see if you can wait. We were so inspired by it we decided to make our own little photo version of Alice. Using a vintage dress from 1910 and a Rozae Nichols gold slip dress underneath we went looking...

Azzedine Alaia 1980's

Azzedine Alaia and super model Naomi Campbell in his studio

" a woman's not going to buy a little skirt for a lot of money if it is not for seduction. What else are clothes made for" Azzedine Alaia

The dresses of his late 80's collection. There is a picture floating around by the fashion Photographer Gilles Bensimon that was shot for Elle Magazine of the supermodels wearing Alaia. While we were in New York earlier this summer we went to the Met to see the exhibit of MODEL AS MUSE. Azzedine was not represented there and because of that a few of the 80's super models did not go to the premiere. I was so disappointed that he was not being shown when he was such an important part of the fashion scene of the 80's but there was ONE photo of all the 80's super models wearing Azzedine Alaia. I wanted to post it because it has the dress that Camilla is wearing but I couldn't find it anywhere. YET!

Azzedine and Yasmine

Naomi his Muse in of course Alaia