Miu miu SS 2011 - Ready to wear show

I've been meaning to post this since the Miu miu spring 2011 show a few weeks ago, but drawing and editing takes its time and I didn't finish this until yesterday! And I'm glad it took that much time, because my view on the collection changed a bit since I first saw it. So here are my thoughts on it.

I'm not completely in love with it, but I like it more since the first time.
Yes, the jackets are still awkward and the dresses don't look flattering even in small bodies, but now that I'm used to the collection, everything looks more pretty now.
And the shoes aren't that bad.

Four of my favorite looks from the collection. I really liked the third coordinate, including the shoes. Specially the neck of the shirt.
What I didn't like very much were most of the skirts. Too straight and didn't move with the model's body (not all of the skirts did that, luckily).

One thing that stood out while watching the show was how similar are some motifs to Irregular Choice's designs, mainly the stars.

The bags remind me greatly of Victor Horta/Hector Guimard's Modernism. Not all of them, there are some horrible bags thrown into the collection, but a few of them do.

This is not one of the ugly bags, for example.

Also, the loved-by-everyone swam dress and the snake dress remind me of Aubrey Beardsley's drawings. Yup, as I was saying, hello modernism (flowers everywhere too).

Third look, a skirt that looked good, and one of my favorites. Jacked included.
I'd really like to see someone on the streets wearing one of those awkward jackets. They are pretty but the shape is too weird. Like if the person wearing it was an american football player.

Some of the dresses made the models look like they were wearing plastic bags, not very flattering. On the other side, dresses like the swam ones were loose, which looked good.

What I love from the dresses is how, by using the belt, it makes the body shape stand out, and actually showing some shape, even if the models are so thin they have almost no curves. But I think that is a nice contrast. Straight forms are nice, but a bit of shape is pretty too.

Shoes on a close note.
But I'm in love with the shoes, I ought to confess. The color choice may not be the best at times, but putting that aside, I've come to like them a lot. In fact, shoes were the first thing I came to like from this collection.

Again, something that could came from an Irregular Choice shop, but that's something I don't really mind at all (any other IC fan out there?)

Ok, I have to admit defeat. After drawing them, and having to stare at them for a long while, I can say I love them.
Find them all here.

Clutches, are you sure they are?

If you look at how models hold the bags, you think they're clutches, don't you?
I like them, a lot. I went from "ergh!" to "I want this and this and this. And I don't like this color but I want it too". But maybe they're too big to just hold them all the time.
Even more if you're like me, whose purse gets full even when going out for a couple of minutes.

Seeing how long the straps are, you might even be able to hand them on your shoulder? That would be great.

All the bags from the show here.

And following, the video for the whole show.
The lightning is not the best, and maybe the whole ambience is a bit depressing, but anyways, it's worth watching it.



All the models were walking so awkward... nothing strange seeing how tall the heels were, but still, it looked weird. Distracted me at times.
Loved the make up, though. Nothing complex, but stunning. Cute.


You know those times when you dress, not thinking about how others see you, instead you dress up just for yourself, thinking about that movie you saw last weekend that you liked so much and that left a big impression on you, and then you go to a party dressed like that not giving a shit about the world? Well, that's the impression this collection gives me.

Now, your thoughts on it?

New shoe obsession

When I was younger I didn't understand why on earth would somebody want to own more than one pair of trainers and one pair of dressing shoes. And heels? they hurt, so why spend money on them?

That radically changed about two years ago when my own obsession with shoes started.
Nowadays I own three pairs of heels, a pair of wedges, a pair of tabi-boots and a pair of cowboy boots, two pairs of normal boots plus trainers and random shoes from way back.
And that's not remotely enought for me. If I could, I'd have an entire room full of just shoes (who wouldn't?).

I'm specially obsessed with miu-miu shoes, but my budget isn't, so all I can do is dream and wish (for now).
I also love Irregular choice's shoes.
That's more affordable. I already own a couple of pairs from them. They're (super) original, have good quality and they're not cheap, but not too expensive either.

And my recent discovery, Kronkron, is proving to be original enought to have become a new target.
I haven't taken an exhaustive look at everything, but I already can say I want at least one pair from them (even if they aren't on my affordable range of shoes being 322€ the cheapest pair D:)

Anyways, if you ever want to give me something because you're such a good person, just take a look at this amazing pick-up list.

What can I say, I'm in love!

So, what are your favorite shoes? And your favorite shoe-stores?

Shoes

If I had the money, I'd be a compulsive buyer.
But since I don't, I only can dream of being one.

But one hability I certainly have is this one that allows me to find the prettiest of the stores on the web.

So yesterday was that time of the week (sometimes month) that I find pretty stores.

Then was when I started my list of ...

Just a quick list (only 3 pairs).
Just 3 on my wishlist?? obviously no XD Just wait a bit and you'll see the rest.



This are from Rapty (http://www.rapty.com), a super nice japanese store that sells lots of clothes and accessories too.
Nothing really new, super classic. But I've wanted a pair like that for quite a long time now.

This site's not english-friendly, so you can't order directly from them if you don't know japanese (doubt they send overseas anyways). But I'd like to buy from them anyways, not expecting much about the quality, the price is pretty cheap.



Rowky is a corean shop with lots of nice things too (http://rowky.com). They copy quite a lot of japanese clothes and accesories, they even use magazine pages and spank! logos, but they also have original pieces.

First pair, I saw similar ones at H&M once, and fell in love, but when I came back to get them, they weren't there... I've been thinking about them since then.

And about the second pair, I've seen that kind of shoes often in magazines, and I think they combine nicely with quite a lot of things.

Unless you know corean, it's best to use a shopping service, since the whole site is in corean, and I can't even find if they ship internationally (I suppose they don't, since they don't have an english version of the site or the shopping cart).


That two sites were my yesterday's big find. Another store where I could go broke.
Do you have any interesting online stores to share?