Lady & Tramp

 Soup is ready, chicken in the oven, small cleaning up done and dishes washed. Despite of all the fashion talk I'm doing here, I don't look all the time like from a journal ;) In every lady there's something from a tramp, and in every tramp-girl there's something from the lady. 

  It constantly surprises and amazes me how many great, beautiful, funny, inspiring ideas for fashion I see everyday in the streets. Nothing better to do, just take walk through main boulevards of the  city and glance (don't stare!) at manifestations of fashion-independence. And be one yourself, and let others glance. Let them have a moment of amazement, why not? ;)

Muscle aid

 It happened today, while I was washing the dishes, right after I made a salad to take it with me to work tomorrow, while looking nervously on the screen of my laptop, to find orange skype icon blinking at me. In the middle of planning and stressing out about things to do, I realized that my position is highly uncomfortable, my muscles tensed even if they don't need to, my thoughts running wild and finding upsetting things in good things. This time it's not Sparta, this time it's madness, my own private madness.

 I'd risk a thesis, that we're loosing our conscious easily, that we're loosing it constantly, day by day. I lost awareness of my body, and instead of feeling natural in it, I was tying my muscles and bones into some weird knots. It takes hours, days and weeks to make your muscles ache from tension but it took me few seconds to release all the pressure accumulated in them just by realizing that they're tensed and relaxing them consciously. Being aware of ourselves is a real blessing!

May Issue

  Do you have your favorite issue of a magazines? Mine are January, May and September. I don't know why, but I always enjoy them the most, expect them the most and it doesn't even matter is it fashion magazine or whatever magazine, those issues must be made for me! Maybe it's something in the air, or maybe it's some magic in those months?

January is magical with the possibilities of new beginning. Anything could happen! New career, new adventures, new love and friends, new You, new resolutions and new hopes. 

 May, sweet May. For me May=Birthday :) And Spring in its full bloom with colors, spring dresses, flowers everywhere, people smiling everywhere and again new hopes: if winter is over, we can be better selves too.

 September represents innocent, sunny Autumn. The Autumn that makes you want to go for a walk and admire gold leaves, drink delicious coffee with friends, recall your school days and summer memories, show off with holiday's suntan and bake apple pies. 

 Ahhh... We're in the middle of May and suddenly I miss Autumn! (and September issue, while the May ones are already read...)

Sculpture & Architecture

  Fashion is an interdisciplinary thing. From painting it takes colors, changing with the seasons. From drawing and graphic design it takes prints. And it even takes something from sculpture and architecture, even though it sounds quite crazy to compare your dress with a piece of marble or with a building. If you don't believe me, you cannot argue with Coco Chanel: "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions"   

 The first thing I see when I'm clothes-shopping is a color, textile and then the feel of it in my hands. That's the first selection, but then comes the most important test: how does it fit? In other words: how does it sculpt me? How does it change my proportions? Does it make the construction of my body natural/big/weird/hilarious? How do I move in it? Does it add some grace or clumsiness into my moves? How does it moves on me? That's the thing with ball-gowns, tulle and frills- we love the way it sways, the way it adds delicacy into our moves, it's like adding +100 points to our Grace level. 

 

  Another thing about architectural side of fashion- it's usually hard to iron! :D

Markers & Felt-tip Pens

 One of life's small pleasures and joys- to draw with new and fresh markers. The ink "boiling" in them is like young blood, circulating quick, with high pressure, demanding fast and furious moves and  half-baked decisions.I'm often wondering who rules in sketching: my head, my hand or my pencil/brush/marker?

Appetite

 Keep your appetite high! Living in the times when half of world is on a constant diet and the other half is starving is pretty crazy, don't You think? While I'm the lucky one that have food in my fridge, roof over my head and clean water in my tap, I prefer to enjoy it till the end of mine or world's days. Diets and all that "keep fit" terror wouldn't be needed if people would use all their muscles, brain including (ok, I know technically it's not a muscle, but you know what I mean). 

 Constant dieting is wasting a lot of time on being worried: "How many calories does this have?", "Isn't it too late to eat?", "Isn't this peas too much for breakfast?", "Why can't I have that delicious muffin?", etc. Dieting sucks and actually makes you think more about food and keeps your appetite high. Wait, didn't I use that phrase in the beginning of this post?

 Yes, I did. But what I mean is: if you're eating, enjoy what you're eating. And I mean also appetite for so many things that aren't food: movies, dancing, meeting with your friends, having fun, knowing new things, creating something, listening to music, laughing, loving, feeling. All that closes in this sentence:

"Believe in what you want"