Tag Archives: Vintage

7 januari 2016

edda

Happy New Year!

The long weekend after the New Year was so peaceful and inviting to do nothing that I did exactly that. Polished my heels, ate the rest of my Mom's cookies, slept in, cleaned out the Champagne bottles and before I knew, duty was calling again, and 2016 had officially started.

What a bliss to look back at the old year and give a warm welcome to 356 new days, completely free to be designed in each of your favors.
I hope they will be filled with new ideas, inspiration, laughter, health and happiness - plus the odd new shoe - which will carry you to great new places and adventures.

Have a fabulous start into the new year Shoemonsters!

xxx

Today’s shoes are Balmain
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5 maart 2015

edda

Elizabeth and James, H&M, Maison Martin Margiela, YSL

How to: The Military trend

Last week when picking up a friend from the airport (working huge black sunglasses and a Starbucks- mug only, it was wayyyyyyy to early) I spotted a guy in a full spring/summer-trend outfit. Excited and still half asleep, I kicked BF and whispered: “Look, that’s how you work the military trend!”. Needless to say that I pointed out at a soldier in his uniform who picked up his fiancé (my fashion brain totally tricked me) but what can I say: THIS GEAR IS HOT. Even hotter as it’s not only sported for survival reasons (*hut* hut* hut* through the mud) but on every runway this spring too.

Back home and fully awake now it gave inspiration enough to dive into my closet and get carried away by camouflage prints, muddy greens, and earthy hues. Now you have a reason to cherish chunky boots, rough knits and work all of it “tone on tone”. Key essentials for the look: pockets everywhere (to store lipstick, mirrors, diaries, scented candles and whatever we carry around), heavy belts, laced shoes and of course the inevitable navy-pattern. You probably all have the key items in your wardrobe already, so feel free to get spirited up & fire away (no pun intended) with my guide above. For all the others I can recommend a visit to your local army store: hot dudes spotting all included.

HAVE FUN!

xxx

Today’s shoes are various
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22 augustus 2013

edda

Camilla Skovgaard

No pain no gain

My 10 year old nephew is visiting Amsterdam for the first time (a promise I gave to all four of my nephews, so expect an annual live report from now on), and I find myself in places I never experienced before, doing things I’d actually swore I'd never do.

Exchanged my Gucci, Prada, and vintage boutique city route to explore the Nemo museum (know how my left & right brain works right now - aka learned it’s the left one (logic) shutting down every time when it comes to buying shoes), climbed pirate-ships and dunes and visited the torture museum.

The last one actually made me think: all those medieval spikes and pricks to torture the poor victims until they confessed whatever... it would have been so easy to make them walk through a city all day long in 10 inches, carrying a “Pausenbrot”, 1 liter of fizzy drink, some exchange clothes, a kid’s kite, spare crocs(!), a set of ball game (Botscher), Asterix books and some other stuff kids need on an average day. Well, I guess it’s no pain no gain. And I might very well have my own torture museum (aka shoe closet) at home. Middle ages: you just got an upgrade.

xxx

Today’s shoes are Camilla Skovgaard
Even they look like torture, they actually walk like heaven (for five minutes in a fancy restaurant then)

Today's picture was taken by my lovely sister in the Torture Museum Amsterdam (which btw is the worst designed museum I've ever been to)

10 december 2012

edda

Ash, Jimmy Choo, Supertrash

Fashion Soul Sisters

When it comes to inspiration, I've never really run short, especially if it’s shoes, fashion, or accessories that we’re talking about. And the desire some girls seem to have, to have exactly the same purse, heels and dress as their colleagues or friends has always struck me as odd. Where’s the charm in being identical? So I laughed my a**, ergh, heels off when I met up with BF Connie (who you know by now is a fashion wizard) and her Austrian friend Andrea:

All of us showed up with a little fluffy, furry (vintage) thingy, some statement jewellry (no sparkles no glory), and mixture of similar shades. As though we had all received the same briefing before, which of course, we hadn’t. You can probably imagine what our discussions were about too: an endless girl fashion talk without any full stops or commas (but a lot of exclamation marks indeed). Oh, and the odd "vintage" boyfriend theme of course, but uhm, that's so not exciting. Feel as though I’ve spent some hours in a washing machine, program fashion spin cycle, conditioner: 100% more inspiration. What a nice afternoon! If you will please excuse me now: have some serious shopping to do!

xxx

Today's shoes are Supertrash. Jimmy Choo, ASH

3 juli 2012

edda

Manolo Blahnik

Very Sex and City

Had a very SATC like experience with BFF Connie which is always ending totally ROFL.

While our boys dug into toasties and exchanged fun facts about driving vintage cars in the Mugello road race, we girls snuck off to some other vintage: Connie’s closet.

Patricia Field would probably faint upon seeing this amazing collection of old and new, and I am tempted to do just that and let myself fall into her piles of fluffy furry coats. Wouldn’t even mind getting strangled by one of her beautiful Chanel necklaces while doing so…. dying in vintage heaven: how dramatic, very movie like.
Since the movie was on (again) yesterday I am feeling very much Samantha, desperately longing for the hot neighbor (naughty ideas and all)…except in this case I’m drooling over Ferré and Salvatore Ferragamo as I’m taking today’s picture.

So, did we watch the movie than (for the 1.000th time?) Of course!
It’s a total tribute to girls’ friendship, and who could be more Sex and the City than Connie anyway? Question remains: how could Carrie EVER marry a man who tosses Manolos (even if it’s for the happy ending) away just like that?

No one put’s Manolos in a corner. Baby!

xxx

Today’s shoes are Manolo Blahnik

17 februari 2012

edda

ZARA

PS: I love you

If you are born before 1960, please stop reading right now, you will be considered to be called exactly like my topic today: “Vintage”.

The term itself is as wildly abused as the idea that it’s so “today” to wear something yesterday. Almost everything which has previously been worn (or smells like your grandma’s drawer) is sold as vintage nowadays but only garments produced between 1920 to 1960 deserve to be called that.

Anyway: the idea that someone probably sweat into your clothes before you did is actually pretty appalling (though some out there refer to that by saying: “it comes with a story”…)

So you will think that I would rather belong to team “brand new” clothing, right?

Wrong: I just found out about “PS” ( http://ps-atelier.com ) in Amsterdam.
This is nothing like you might have experienced in other “second hand” stores: Chanel bags, Nicholas Kirkwood shoes, Marni dresses aaaaaaaaaaaaah and all selected with love, taste and a feeling for what’s hot now…

I want the utter charming and vivid owner to be my best friend (she talks “vintage Alexander McQueen” fluently with a heavy celebrity influenced accent: I like!) immediately.

Chatting along with her while scoring a (totally this season) BCBG MaxAzra dress, Johnnie (by now) insists that I utterly resemble someone famous she knows.
Very flattered (believing she must refer to my very vintage and very style icon Audrey Hepburn), I find out it’s (very) contemporary designer Bas Kosters.

He is a guy.

“PS” I love you anyway.
P.P.S.: Todays shoes are (brand new) ZARA

15 februari 2012

edda

Uncategorized, Vintage

Everybody is going green and so am I

From big words like “sustainability” to biological food and left and right twisted organic fabrics: the trend to go, live, and think green is one no one can avoid.

And trends baby, I follow.
Best example: I had a very green Valentines-day yesterday, getting lovely (super green!) flowers, cancelling cab ride to four star restaurant (saving environment), not wrapping gift for my love (saving paper), staying in and enjoying a lovely homemade dinner with regional products… namely mussels and beer. (Might die of overdose of lemon mayonnaise though...

I am all up for the good cause, hugging trees, and speaking to my plants.
I try to recite words like “eco-social market economy”, “environmentalism”
and remember the difference between E102 to E621.
I cycle to work, I buy recycled toilet paper, I tried drinking green tea while listening to “Green Day” and reading Gwyneth Paltrow’s eco-social-green blog. I’d say I do my best.

But here’s my problem. The only “E” I really know is an entertainment channel, and the last time I tried to show my affection to a tree, I was asked if I had had a drink too many.
All of my plants die under mysterious circumstances.
I have already had three accidents with my bike this year and spent a fortune repairing it.
Recycled toilet paper is giving me pimples (yeah: THERE), I prefer coffee over tea, “Green Day” is of no use except their first album and the only blog of someone “green” I would really like to read is by Kermit the frog.

Hm, maybe I should stick to something I really know: “going green” in shoes.

xxx
Today's shoes are Vintage. Turn's out I am not so bad in recycling after all.

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Tag Archives: Vintage

Happy New Year!

How to: The Military trend

No pain no gain

Fashion Soul Sisters

Very Sex and City

PS: I love you

Everybody is going green and so am I