5 Ways to Dress Up Your Jeans

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While denim is synonymous with the casual day time look, we’ve got some helpful tips on how you can dress up your jeans for styles that work from day to night. We’ve come up with five easy ways to make your jeans look a little more glam, plus some examples for inspiration!

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1. GO MONOCHROMATIC
Normally, cropped white jeans aren’t even an option for what you’d wear out, but if you pair it with a white blazer or a structured creme colored sweater, it will look really crisp and clean! Make the outfit pop even more with a bright colored top and some metallic accessories. Since the jeans are cropped, make sure you wear a pair of eye-catching shoes.

→ Seen in: White Slight Curve ankle skinny Levi’s® jeans,
white Zara blazer, yellow Mango top, white Mango belt, silver Sam Edelman heels

2. LAYER YOUR KNITS
There’s no outfit that looks more put together than one with the perfect layering. Try this simple, all-American look by pairing your dusty blue jeans with your favorite sweater (this one has a nice preppy look), a sharp collared shirt, and structured coat over top. Wear it with light colored heels or a pair of leopard print loafer flats.

→ Seen in: Modern glory blues Slight Curve skinny Levi’s® jeans, green Ralph Lauren sweater, striped Nordstrom T-shirt, beige Zara coat, silver Sam Edelman heels

3. WHITE T-SHIRT, MEET BOLD SCARF
If you’re a jeans and a T-shirt type of girl, chances are you’ve found yourself looking and feeling under dressed. You can dress up your casual uniform by wearing a bold colored scarf (this one is red with a fun Fifi Lepin print) or some statement accessories. Tuck the T-shirt into your jeans so it looks a little less sloppy and a lot more refined. If you don’t like to wear heels, wear a pair of loafer flats.

→ Seen in: Modern low rise Slight Curve flare Levi’s® jeans
white Zara t-shirt, red Fifi Lepin scarf, black Dolce and Gabanna heels

4. TOP IT WITH A BLAZER
Blazers do that magical thing where they make every outfit look 100% more dressed up. If you haven’t got yourself your go-to blazer yet, go get one! For an evening look, wear your black skinny jeans with a pair of black heels (these are peep toe with laces), a blazer, and a messily tucked in top.

→ Seen in: Modern black Slight Curve skinny Levi’s® jeans, white Zara blazer, blue Mango top, black Hudson peep toe heels

5. DO THE 70’S
Bell bottoms, wide leg pants, flares – whatever you want to call them – they are a little trickier to dress up. Make sure you don’t look like you’re stuck in the 00’s and go all out 70’s by pairing them with John Lennon, round shaped sunnies and a leopard print blazer. This 70’s style is perfect for a shopping trip at Haight and Ashbury. A pair of black clogs and some chunky rings would complete the look.

→ Seen in: Modern low rise Slight Curve flare Levi’s® jeans, creme Style Sofia chiffon top, leopard print Storets blazer, brown vintage sunglasses, black Dolce and Gabanna heels

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by Amethyst Wang

Photos taken by Libby Kusuma

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My week with Marilyn

In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn – this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.

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Flowy Silk Dress Greta

Swimming pool glimmering, darling, white bikini off with my red nail polish. Watch me in the swimming pool, bright blue ripples, you sittin’, sippin’, on your black Cristal – LDR

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84th Annual Academy Awards – Red Carpet Fashion

My Dearest Allie. I couldn’t sleep last night because I know that it’s over between us. I’m not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I’ll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I’ll be seeing you. Noah

The Notebook

1940′s Fashion

This era is frequently referred to as the Big Band era. Swing music was fashionable and reflected the way people dressed. This decades fashions were heavily influenced by World War II. There were many fashions from this era as you will see by the references below.

• Hair was worn long and curled at the ends for a soft, feminine look. Beauty salons can be expensive and women saved money by having their hair cut less often. As so many women enlisted in the military or took factory jobs, it was easy to tie long hair back for safety. Then, the long hair could be worn down for casual or dress occasions.Women often knit or crocheted snoods which were an attractive combination of a hair net and a veil.

• Girdles were out as the rubber was needed for the war effort. Skirts and dresses were often fitted with adjustable waistlines. But it wasn’t hard to be thin when food was rationed.

• The fabric used in the manufacturer of swim suits was also reduced causing the disappearance of the little skirt flap so popular on one piece suits. Fabric reduction was responsible for bare midriffs and the introduction of the 2 piece swim suit. The bikini made its debut in 1946.

• Shoe heels were lower and shoe designers thought to add interest with the introduction of the wedge shoe. Many women wore flat heeled shoes for safety and comfort in the workplace. T-straps and open toed shoes looked lovely and saved on shoe leather.

• Pants became a staple of women who worked in factories and soon gained widespread acceptance for casual wear and for work at home in the garden. The actress Katherine Hepburn helped make trousers a popular garment for women as she appeared in several movies wearing elegant, wide legged trousers.

• Stockings formerly made of silk were made out of nylon but when the military began to use nylon, many women used tan make up on their legs and drew a line up the back to simulate seams. Bobby socks became popular among the younger set.

• Shoulder pads became popular to highlight the masculine, military look. They also added an interest to the shape of the slim silhouette.

Corsages made of fresh flowers like orchids and gardinias were worn to snazz up a plain black dress. Many women also owned corsages made of artificial flowers or gathered netting.

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Reem Acra F/W 2012

Reem Acra designs beautiful womens wear that epitomizes feminine glamour and beauty. With her Fall/Winter 2012 runway show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, she was inspired by and focused on “feminine power” to enhance her standard evening gown looks.

To achieve the powerfully feminine look, Reem Acra decided to add elements of leather, lace and chiffons.

The show began with a bold, structured hunter green leather dress & finished with an ornately embroidered evening gown. Though the two styles are seemingly not cohesive with each other, you quickly realize that the entire runway show began with a day look and progressed into an elegant night look.

LOTS OF LEATHER
The show began with well-tailored leather sheath dresses. Tailored jackets, pencil skirts, gloves and purses all came down in matching rich shades of leather.

DAYTIME EDGE
The leather pieces were followed by beautiful coats and blazers in ebony and metallics, continuing the theme of the sophisticated badass look. Amazing fitted jackets were seen with sculpted sleeves and classic tweed blazers were finished with lovely sequin embellishments.

COCKTAIL HOUR
The looks transitioned smoothly to cocktail hour favourites. A few knee length sheath dresses with drop waists and sequin details were followed by long sleeved mini dresses with shiny metallic patterns.

LUXURIOUS GOWNS
The show finished with stunning full length gowns, featuring silks, tulle, and detailed embroidery. Large cutouts were featured and shining metallic details covered entire dresses, for a showstopping night look.

SPOTTED
Fellow Canadians— supermodel Coco Rocha, & fashion journalist Jeanne Beker! Also model Ingrid Vandebosch, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon and actresses Ahna O’Reilly and Jenna Dewan-Tatum
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Proenza Schouler Fall 2012

“Copycats.” That’s what some may say about the latest offering by the Proenza Schouler boys for Fall 2012, but there’s much more to it than that. In fashion, the gut reaction proves to be essential in deciding whether or not a show was “good,” and from a visceral point of view, that collection was amazing. It had everything that a modern, fashion forward girl wants to wear; intriguing for a street style shot, entertaining for editorial, and interesting when broken apart to incorporate into anybody’s wardrobe. The colors were futuristically autumnal, the layers were effortlessly put together, and the silhouettes were obstructively modern.

As gorgeously modern as it was, analyzing the collection expresses a different side to the fashion coin. The collection is beautifully playful, but is it original? Not really. Anyone who sees the collection can obviously see the Céline and Balenciaga vibes of the collection. However, the quickness to call plagiarism in Schoul seems too negative a title to describe a positively enjoyable show. Maybe it’s a sign of the times. As a fashion culture, we all express a common love toward the revolutionary straight silhouette of the 20s, the glamorous New Look of the 50s, or the strong shouldered power of the 80s. Even those who don’t know much about fashion can speak of these definitive ideas, silhouettes, and designs that evoke an era. Can this era be defined by a dynamic, futuristic couture-influenced aesthetic? With Philo, Ghesquière, and Simons ruling the fashion world, the answer seems to be yes. Their influence is seen throughout fashion in any designer’s collection. While we should obviously praise originality, we also crave cohesion and beauty. We don’t know for sure—it is only 2012 after all—but that look doesn’t seem to be dying anytime soon.

That’s not to say that the collection wasn’t expressive of the Proenza Schouler brand, because it was. There was a slouchy disheveled-ness that looked more soft than Balenciaga and more rugged than Céline. That balance was kept throughout the show. Where Philo would go structurally androgynous and Ghesquière would go artistically draped, Jack and Lazaro’s lacquered shirts were messily tucked in, oversized, and surprisingly backless. The silhouettes obstructed the body. Shapes that were revolutionary in 50s and 60s haute couture are now part of the normal fashion vernacular, finally ready to reach the masses and Proenza Schouler is a great place for it to do that. When Balenciaga does Balenciaga, the couture elements are part of the vocabulary, but at this level in New York those elements are new to the younger, less heritage-driven kind of brand. The sculptural element was there in form of boxier jackets, but the schoolgirl layering seemed innately them, especially with a subtle contrast in color of collar on loads of the looks. There were comebacks of their tried and true strong pieces reinvigorated. The furry collared varsity-style coats and jackets from their Fall 2010 collection appeared again in a surprising way, with added volume and asymmetrically falling over to one side. The slightly surrealistic, Japanese-Parisian influence of that asymmetry expressed the Asian inspiration in a less obvious way than the Japanese-woodblock peacock prints toward the end of the show which Lazaro Hernandez said were “Asian but in a New York way.” The spilled-over coat was Asian but in a Yohji, Junya, and Rei European way, via New York. With that, the high-art look of Balenciaga futuristic couture, Céline boyish minimalism, and Japanese avant garde all combined together to create a street version at Proenza Schouler for the most commercial of fashion capitals. Obviously, geography is important here.

In keeping with the Céline influence, the bags imitated Philo’s driving helmet inspired ones for Fall 2011 but were more tubular than round. The shoes were, alternatively, more Balenciaga inspired. The heeled leather boots had Velcro straps instead of buckles, and lacked laces which showed off the sporty-street New York vibe that they do so well. Dr. Marten’s refreshed. The standout pieces, however, were clutches that made us fantastically fearful for Bambi’s life. The furry bags had deer spots and tufts of tails protruding from the tops and bottoms, all of which gave the more techno-artificial feel of the collection some ground, life, and needed rusticity.

The peacock, used so heavily in the last third of the collection, symbolically represents immortality and renewal. That idea is so important in fashion; this collection renews and immortalizes the influence of Phoebe Philo and Nicolas Ghesquière in the world of design. However unintentional it may be, the peacock symbol makes sense in a collection that so densely draws upon Parisian fashion’s innovative thinkers for inspiration. Where Philo’s girl loves strength and Ghesquière’s loves the cutting edge, Proenza Schouler’s customer loves fashion. This collection was gorgeous, expressive, and thoroughly enjoyable. In a time where there are millions of micro trends and new collections never stop showing, the continuation of a familiar look into new territory is refreshing, especially one that evokes a confident style that says, “Artistic. Forward. Modern.”

See the full collection → Proenza Schouler FW12.

By Iris & Daniel
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Fish Pedicure in Cape Town

Have you heard of the fish spa, also known as fish therapy or doctor fish? If you spent a holiday in Thailand, you might. You put both your feet in a fish tank of warm freshwater for 15-30 minutes and hundreds of garra rufa fish will gently nibble at your skin (they are indeed attracted to skin). The fish eat dead skin cells, but don’t worry, they also get food.

As a result your feet feel refreshed and healthy. This treatment has been very popular in Asia and is now spreading in the US and all around Europe. The fish tanks are connected to a filter where the bacteria is eliminated. In order to keep the water clean, for your health as well as for the fish, each patient will have a complete foot cleansing and disinfection prior to the fish therapy.

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