Spring 2013 Wardrobe Design. Part One: Orange and Blue.

anyone who knows me at all knows that for years, i have worn black. two years ago, i shocked some of my friends by sometimes wearing purple, navy blue or grey and, for the last four or five years, i'd been whining about how i wished i could wear colour but that every time i tried to incorporate some into my wardrobe, it just didn't work out for me. the colours i did wear were solids or, on occasion, plaids. i also wore coloured tights with completely black outfits or, when out at punk or psychobilly shows, sported bright animal print accents. i also love my pale pink, vintage ben sherman shirt but that was the only pink item in my closet....

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Roots. Part Six: My First Fashion Photo Shoot and Design School. 2005-2008.

in two-thousand-five, i was still dating and living with the man i mentioned in the last "roots" post. i wasn't happy but had grown too dependent to make a change. i had begun working in real estate and assisted a real estate agent in selling prefab condos, which had begun to sprout all over montreal like weed. i didn't believe in my work but it paid for some bills. i decided that real estate was probably the best route for me to take, seeing as i was good at it and i stood a chance at making a decent salary. began taking courses by correspondence and took out student loans to do so.    as far as my designing was concerned,...

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Thrift Store Haul. $15.50

last week-end, my mother and i were getting a few errands done in my neighbourhood, when we noticed that the goodwill that opened up a few months ago was actually open on a saturday. we attempted to simply duck in and check things out, seeing as i had brought bags of clothing to donate and had intended on leaving them on the step, anyway. to our surprise, everything in the store was marked at 50% off for the day. we tried to leave three times but something caught my eye each time and we rounded back into the shop and back to the cash. together, we spent $15.50 and got a gracy boat and dish, a roots mesenger bag, a nike top for  my...

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Decor Break: Inspiration For My Bedroom Makeover.

by montreal apartment standards, my bedroom is enormous. it's 12' x 17.5' with an extra nook in the doorway and two closets. for the last two years i've been agonizing over what to do with my room, wanting so badly to paint over the dark, teal walls, spruce up and/or replace furniture and set up my sewing things in a more aesthetically pleasing manner (everything is in cloth-covered boxes, on black shelves, right now). i poured over thousands of online photographs and flipped through decor mags and books at the library, waiting to feel that spark. i knew i wanted a white, cloth headboard and white furniture, with stainless steel...

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Another One Of My Tumblrs: Photos of Montreal, Then and Now

i really want to set aside more time to write about montreal but, in the meantime and for the last year or so, i've been posting photos of la metropole on one of my tumblr accounts. i must admit that the photos are so far all from "then" as opposed to "now" but i cover interesting themes and feedback has been quite positive thus far. check it out! ...

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Today's Simple, Office-Friendly Look

it's -40 degress celcius with the wind chill factor, today, and motivation to get dolled up just a wee bit more was simply not there. this is today's office look. my velvet blazer is vintage and i've had it for years. my sheer, black blouse was bought at winners and i really should have looked at the label but, again, this morning i just wasn't having it and it's new so... my pants are from forever 21 and i bought my oxfords on ebay. one ring is from le chateau, the other is vintage. ...

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Roots. Part Five: Khimera Kreationz. 2000-2004.

i was nothing short of a hot mess when i arrived in montreal, in march of two-thousand. i was nineteen, pregnant and completely incapable of being alone without experiencing great anxiety. i had just been diagnosed with a non-life-threatening but rather scary heart condition and i got lodged into this vicious stress-causes-palpitations-causes-stress pattern. i barely had any furniture, the few childhood friends i had couldn't relate to me because i now spoke an international french, having long since dropped my quebecois dialect, i was about to become a mother and i now wore cat-eye contact lenses and goth clothing. i went...

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I'm Now on Bloglovin'. Follow Me If You Are, Too!

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The Cringe Factor Behind John Galliano and Oscar de la Renta's Collaboration

one thing that is always hard to deal with is watching someone you never want to have to dislike do something completely deplorable and, essentially, unlikable. i hate to admit that, if it had been almost anyone else who had made those horrible, anti-semitic remarks, in two-thousand-eleven, i would have felt utter rage before anything else but it wasn't anyone but john galliano, one of my idols and someone i loved to like. that isn't to say i wasn't terribly angered by the news of the outburst but i first felt shock, then the horrible sinking feeling of disappointment and then, after all of that, i was right pissed. the higher the pillar, i guess,...

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My Current Facebook Profile Picture

taken by me, in montreal. january, 2008. edited by me, last month. camera: unknown. mine was lost and this one was borrow...

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Roots. Part Four: On The Streets of Ottawa, A Year In Toronto and When I Became A Goth. 1996-2000

i moved out of my home in gatineau, québec and into my aunt's townhouse in nepean, ontario, an ottawa suburb, when i was sixteen. the change of environment was too much for me and, after years of not being allowed to express myself or be a kid at all, really, i went out all and crammed as much ridiculous teenage behavior as i could into one year. this and the fact that i had decided to take a year off from school after i graduated resulted in me being kicked out of my aunt's home after having lived there for just over a year. i informed my dad that i was moving back in. he had finally broken up with his mentally unstable...

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Pieces

if you like perusing through vintage photos from around the world, check out one of my tumblrs. i've been neglecting it for a bit but am about to jump back in and continue with the latest theme of choice, prohibiti...

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The Little Blog That Could

thanks, dear readers! i just reached 15 000 hits today and most of those are from regulars! 59 posts to 15 000 hits is not a bad ratio at all. xx! ...

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Today's Look: Early 90's Marks & Spencer Blazer

today i wore a vintage, marks and spencer blazer to work. it boasts the m & s gold buttons with crossed-rifle insignia and a long, slim line. i've had it for about two years and found it at the mmrc. it's the first time i step out in it, as it had been stored for my shop during all this time. i recently decided that it should be mine, after all. i tried to find a photo of it online, in order to create a collage depicting today's outfit but it is nowhere to be found. if the three blazers in the following collage had a bastard love-child, it would look like the blazer i'm wearing. the rest of the outfit is pretty spot on. my searching...

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Roots. Part Three: Annelie et La Poire

once we'd moved to gatineau, i was sent to saint-aloysius elementary school for three years. it was horrible. in addition to the verbal abuse and general mental fuckery i was dealing with at home and to the the constant bullying from neighbourhood kids because i chose to speak english on a regular basis, i also had to deal with mainstream, suburbanite brats at school. every single day was a struggle and no amount of money in this world would be enough for me to go back and relive any of it, without the confidence and knowledge i possess, today. no way.  there are no english high school in gatineau or aylmer so all the anglo kids from...

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