Vintage Earrings

   What I love the most about the Vintage jewelry is that it can be worn in very modern, avangardist way and they fit in any outfit. Take a look at a gorgeous example :

 

 

Spanish inspired outfit:

 Old Hollywood, Audrey Hepburn-like outfit:

Rock outfit:

 

   This pair of earrings is purchased from a very stylish boutique, Italian Vintage( online shop: http://italianvintage.ro/categorie/Bijuterii-0.html ). Trust me, everything is fabulous about it.

Frida Kahlo

   Summer time...

   Everybody is obsessed with getting tanned and there are a lot of tricks that make your skin appear a shade or two darker. The most common is the use of strong colors, neon or fluorescent (or marker as I call them). I opted for another: smassive gold jewelry and strong shades of red on lips, nails and floral prints.

    My choice was inspired by the photos of Frida Kahlo, who have become iconic. Who does not recognize Frida, the one with the flower tiara, bonded eyebrows, plain or printed shawls, long flared skirts and gold jewelry?

    July is the "Frida- month": she was born on the 6th(1907) and she died on the 13th(1954). I took some photos of my new look, only that I don't go out with the bonded eyebrows. Please let me know your opinion.

   The earrings are vintage, the rings were taken from different boutiques, the bracelets are from Meli Melo, the roses broches are made by my grandmother and the shawl is from a hippie boutique called Forever Young.
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    Spanish- Mexican night out:

   Have a lovely week.
   Love, A.

I'm back !

   I've been out for so long( for precisely one month!!!) that I almost forgot how to type. I've been busy with my exams and some other staff that kept me from doing whatever I wanted( posting on my blog about which I hope you did not forget completely).

   The saddest thing in my opinion is that I was not able to keep up with all the Fashion news, though I've tried... At least I've read all the e-mails coming from Vogue, I've watched the E! News and Fashion Police and I had the decency to buy magazines( ELLE, Marie Claire, Beau Monde, Cosmo...). Annnnd I've watched some Sex and the City episodes in the evenings in which I was exhausted enough that all I could do was hearing that cute soundtrack and admiring Carrie's pieces of clothing( I came to the conclusion that she had not the best taste in Fashion... at least not in combining things... if Patricia Field was also the actress, not just the stylist, things would have been better I guess... or not, Sarah Jessica Parker is the perfect Carrie...). Unfortunately I could not read all my favourite blogs or websites... I hope I didn't lose too much...
  
   But now my recovery is almost complete. I'm back! And I have some ideas that I really hope you will like.

   The truth is that now, that I actually got to confess all these, I realize that things have not been so bad for me... As the famous song says, " With a little help from my friends" and my mom, I managed to stay close to Fashion by purchasing some stuff that I would like to share with you :)

  

   Please feel free to comment on anything you want.

   Aw, and today I boght the July issue of ELLE Romania and I've noticed that my letter is in it :D

   See you soon,
   Kisses, A.

... and I will name it... FashionPilule!

   Lately, somebody asked me where did this " hilarious" name come by. First of all, most of the people usually get addicted to pills( yes, I want people to read my blog constantly).... but I needed a more sophisticated name, so I picked the French version of it:" Pilule". Then, I thought that it was a good idea to tell exactly( from the beginning) what is all about, so that no one confuses it whith something else:" Fashion".

   If my blog was an object, this is how it would look like:

   Don't you just love it? :D

   Well, I do!

   Kisses, A.

  

Day. Birthday!

   Today is my birthday and I've planned to make it

crazy
beautiful
youthful
silly
memorable
dizzy
.........

   It is well known that one photo can tell more than a hundred of words.
   So here it is, the photo that best describes my day:

   Have a wonderful day!
   Lots of kisses, A.

https://www.facebook.com/FashionPilule

   I have just created a Facebook page for my blog:

   https://www.facebook.com/FashionPilule

   I hope you'll like it.
   Have a wonderful day!
   See you soon,
   Love, A.

The Real Fashion Icons

   Lately, I've heard some people talking about fashion icons and I've even seen a top made by a famous Romanian fashion magazine of fashion icons and, sadly, I came to the conclusion that the concept of " Fashion Icon" is misunderstood. To make it clear from the beginning, not any celebrity can be taken as a fashion standard.

   Lets try to answer to these questions: What does Fashion Icon mean?
                                                                Who are the real Fashion Icons?

  

   In my view, it is really important to remain objective while talking about Fashion Icons. We should know that not everyone in the magazines or on the TV is a fashion etalon; even if we admire someone, we should reflect on the reason we have this sympathy and not anything that person does for good. As I said, reflection is really constructive. This is available for fashion, too. Unfortunatelly, not every public person takes into account hiring a stylist. A lot of celebrities wear expensive clothing which looks bad because they believe they have an amazing personal style. A professional never does this.

   What does Fashion Icon mean? Well, in my opinion, a Fashion Icon is a person who is accepted by almost every fashion critic as being a well dressed person, someone who usually appears in the Best Dressed section( not one who accidentally dresses well), a person with a genuine personal style that not only fits his/ her body, but also his/ her personality and attitude, a person whose style is definitely unmistakeable!

   Examples of Fashion Icons( this is just my opinion, if you don't agree, feel free to comment):

- Coco Chanel( The One and The Only!)

- Audrey Hepburn( we all know that Hubert de Givenchy in person took care that miss Hepburn will always look... Iconic!; she is believed to be the most elegant and the best dressed female of all times, she has never been dethroned; her pictures became " archetypal")

- Lisa Fonssagrives

- Anna Wintour( her style is unmistakeable: large sunglasses, helmet haircut, her image is also... Iconic!)

- Anna dello Russo( " shoe maniac"; eccentric)

- Carine Roitfeld( ex-model; muse to Tom Ford at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent; associated with Versace and Calvin Klein)

- Miroslava Duma

- Ulyana Sergeenko( dramatic, theatrical style)

- Daphne Guinness

  











   Romanian Fashion Icons: unfortunately, I can only think of one right now- Iulia Albu.

   Iulia Albu is a fashion editor and a fashion blogger( http://www.theflappergirlchronicle.ro/). After she graduated from the Law School, she attended the Fashion Design section at the Univeristy of Arts. Almost all of her outfits are designed by her. Her last name comes from her ex-husband, one of the best Romanian designers, Mihai Albu, from whom she has learned a lot, she admitted in some public speech. It's a pity that in Romania she is more famous because of her divorce and for having a hen as a pet, rather than being a fashion icon and a very active person in the Romanian fashion journalism and events. She describes herself as " Flapper Girl" and in an article on her blog she wrote that her style was highly influenced by her aunt, Ileana Focșa ( actress).





   














   Who do you consider is worth being " labeled" as a Fashion Icon? Please let me know.

   See you soon,
   Love, A.