Why do so many of these looks involve the colour yellow?!
#1 THE LEOPARD DRESS (2014)
Leopard prints are not the easiest to work with, what more one that comes with tassels hanging from the collar. There is too much going on: leopard prints, tassels, the gold jewellery, the orange-gold reflective sunglasses, even the hot pink phone case. If I were to restyle this, I’d ditch everything besides the dress and pop on a simple pair of Ray-Bans. (The same one I’ve been wearing across the past few fashion weeks.) (Image: Herworldplus)
#2 THE BIG BOW AND THE TALL HAT (2014)
Ah, another look from 2014. I'm not quite sure what I was going with this. I had just come from London, which may explain the boarding school meets old school London policeman vibe. The blouse is cute, but together with the hat, mini dress and fluffy Karlito bag charm, it was too cute. I would swap the dress for a pair of tailored pants with a wide leg and a high waist (not unlike the Celine and Prada ones I wore last season), drop the hat and carry a simpler leather micro bag. (Image: Daniel Bruno Grandhl/The Urban Spotter)
#3 THE BIG BIRD SHIRT (2015)
My main issue with this is that it looks a little incomplete. The t-shirt is amazing – it is Dsquared2 and still one of the greatest tops I own – and it goes so well with the Fendi micro baguette. What I don't like is the bottom half of white shorts and white sneakers that I later felt was too casual. I would change it to coloured, printed or textured pants in a minimal cut that go all the way to the floor, since the t-shirt is such a statement already. (Image: George Angelis/Shotbygio)
#4 THE BAGGY JEANS (2015)
This leather Prada coat is absolutely beautiful. The styling? Meh, not as much. The coat itself is a statement piece, which is why I kept everything else casual and simple as a contrast. The mistake lies in the too-long jeans and those GIANT cuffs that further tell everyone that my jeans are indeed too long. The platform sneakers aren't helping, either, as they make that part of the look even chunkier. These jeans are great, so I'd go for an altered version, like what I wore to Miu Miu last season, or choose to wear them at full-length and pair them with heeled boots. I'll change the t-shirt from grey to white as well. (Image: Style Du Monde)
#5 THE MONOGRAM LOGO VEST (2016)
I love the monogram Louis Vuitton vest. I love the Off-White jeans. What I now realise is that I don’t love them together. The look also had a clutch with oversized circle studs and red square-toe mules. Way too much. They worked better individually. A leather vest is a tricky item to style and as this is such a statement piece, the look would have been better with a simpler pair of jeans or a ruffled shirt with a lower collar. (Though, in my defence, this was from an extremely cold and wet day in Paris and I was freezing.) The vest will go with a cream-coloured ruffled mini dress and square-toe or pointed boots that cut above the ankle, too. (Image: Soren Jepsen/Vogue Italia)
Analysing 5 Personal Street Style Fails, Because Everybody Makes Mistakes
Ready to walk down fashion week memory lane and cringe a little with me as I look at some of my not-so-good looks?
| March 7, 2018Going for fashion week is like going for a series of exams. Like the crunch week of the semester. If you don’t prep for it, you panic at the morning of the paper and then it’s the domino effect from there on out. In fashion week terms, the prep is the look, the paper is the show. While I typically plan looks well in advance so I don’t overpack and so I don’t panic in the morning of shows – sleep is a rare treat during the Milan and Paris stretch – sometimes, I find myself short of looks, or I change my mind, or the weather suddenly decides to throw tantrums.
That means conjuring looks very close to the show day, or even on the morning of the show itself. Panic, panic, panic. When you panic, you make mistakes. Of course, not all of my not-so-great looks were the result of panic – some were just because I styled them terribly. Heh. Hey, I make mistakes, too!
So, for the sake of laughing at oneself and proof that finding your own style takes time and that what may sound like the greatest idea four years ago may be absolutely cringe-worth now, I looked through all the looks I wore across the four years of attending fashion week and plucked out the five above that uh, need a little bit of fixing. Scroll through above to see how I would restyle each of them.
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