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Monthly Archives: February 2016

Top 5 Most Original Outfits at the Oscars 2016

29 Monday Feb 2016

Posted by Lorellay in Style & Outfits

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Last week I listed 8 mind-blowing dresses for the wedding season and while I was writing, I remembered that the Oscars are coming with the many wonderful and less attractive outfits on the red carpet.

Have you been watching it last night? I, as usual, followed the feed of the biggest entertainment and fashion magazines, and followed up on the videos that seemed to be funny, legendary or just touching, from the event. One such moment was, obviously, the Oscar prize handing to Leonardo di Caprio and his acceptance speech.

But let’s go to the fashion corner. What outfits have you noticed that almost made you cry like a baby in front of the screen?

My top 5 favorite celebritiy outfits, but that I also find original, creative and inspirational:

Kerry Washington

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KERRY WASHINGTON IN ATELIER VERSACE

Cate Blanchett

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CATE BLANCHETT IN ARMANI PRIVÉ

Gwen Stefani

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GWEN STEFANI

Kate Hudson

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KATE HUDSON IN MARIA LUCIA HOHAN

Lady Gaga

LADY GAGA IN BRANDON MAXWELL

LADY GAGA IN BRANDON MAXWELL

 

What other outfits you loved at the Oscars and the party around? If only we could have them all in our dressing… Oh well, we can keep dreaming 🙂

Do well,

L

 

Photos: Getty Images

8 Stunning Dresses For Weddings & Cocktails

22 Monday Feb 2016

Posted by Lorellay in Fashion, Style & Outfits

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In March starts a whole serie of weddings for me, some in Stockholm, some around… While I was looking around the internet for wedding outfits, I found a few models of dresses that basically left me day-dreaming! Some are little bit over-priced, some are worthy, but you’ll absolutely love them!

So if you’re in need of a dress for a fancy event as a wedding, party, cocktail, reception, here you have some inspiration, so you know what to look for:

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wedding dresses - haute hippie elegant dress

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mlh wedding outfits party dresses

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tom ford party dresses

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OSCAR DE LA RENTA

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If you liked my selection, spread the love with your friends in social media.

Love, L

3 Creative Fashion Businesses Every Woman Can Do

09 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by Lorellay in Girl Boss

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Lately I am more and more interested in creative business concepts. For the last 2 years I’ve had douzens of business ideas I wanted to do, but an idea always remains an idea if nobody has time to and interest in doing it. I always believed that in order to start a trip like that, you must have a big interest in the industry you’re going to work in, a slightly entrepreneurial feeling or push, and much, much patience. But with such a saturated market, there is one more ingredient I believe one should have: Creativity.

So if you’re into fashion, here are 3 small business ideas you can develop furthermore to adapt them to where you’re from:

1. Fashion Trucks

Like food trucks, fashion trucks are businesses on 4 wheels that you can carry all over the town. Except the fashion products that you’re going to sell, you’ll need a really interesting and original concept. The more creative and new, the better.

While I was digging into cool stores, I discovered Le Fashion Truck (in the image above), a pink mobile boutique in Los Angeles. The founders, Stacey and Jeanine, started their own fashion business after meeting at an arts and crafts market in L.A. where the two of them were exibiting. Le Fashion Truck is one of the first businesses in L.A. of its kind, and it has become a very successful one, getting a ton of press attention and being featured in places as Business Insider and Cosmopolitan.

The two creative entrepreneurs are hosting a webinar on February 21, teaching how to start your own fashion truck. Here you can learn the basics of such a start-up, tips & tricks and you’ll be able to ask Stacey and Jeanine whatever questions you’d like, related to the fashion truck business.

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2. Personal Items Pop-Up Stores

You know those fashion bloggers that sell their clothes online or in pop-up boutiques? Why not organize your own pop-up concept store together with your friends and colleagues? Give it a creative name that fits your personalities, maybe. Resell your nice and well-taken care clothes and accessories in pop-up stores at fairs, malls or street sales. You can even have it online on a free shopping platform like Shopify, Tictail or Etsy. And if it grows, there are plenty of opportunities to develop it into an original vintage shop.

If you’re interested in such a business, another tip would be to turn outdated clothes into new, refreshed ones, like shortening a dress, add some prints on T-shirts.

3. Made By You – Online Shop

Handcraft Is Back

You have a sewing machine at home? Find out through YouTube tutorials how to use it to make clothes or maybe even to create custom pet clothing?

You’re a graphic designer and have some cool ideas for shirts, caps or even dresses? Print it out!

You create bracelets or other jewelry as a hobby? Time to make it a business.

Take your hobbies to the next level. They say a business becomes successful if you put love in it. Imagine if it’s born by love?

There are douzens of creative fashion businesses a girl can do, no matter if you are in the beginning of your career, an experienced entrepreneur or a full time worker in a company. Get inspiration from what you desire to work with, what are your passions, what are your knowledges. Sometimes is best to build a business that doesn’t exist, a new concept, sometimes you can improve an existing one, update it and sell it as a new business area. In either way, you’ll find obstacles, hard times and pressure, so if you don’t have passion into it, you’ll find it hard to continue and won’t enjoy the ride.

Hope this inspires you and if you have any more ideas, write them here in comments and pay it forward.

Love, L

Photo Credit: Le Fashion Truck

 

 

Is Buying Local Fashion, A Luxury?

03 Wednesday Feb 2016

Posted by Lorellay in Fashion

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This morning I listened to an interview on the radio station, encouraging buying local products from obviously, local companies. It makes sense. You contribute to your country’s economy instead of a big corporation with offshore headquarters and the prices should be cheaper, considering that there are no import taxes, transportation costs, etc. Even in the fashion industry.

Except it’s not!

It is not cheaper to wear local designers, neither in Romania, my motherland, or in Sweden, where I live. Let’s say local brands are manufacturing their products locally as well. Unlike the big fashion brands that produce in Asian countries.

In Sweden, I could basically understand. The taxes are higher, the workforce is really expensive, and most probably the materials are really qualitative. In some cases, not, though!

Now, I haven’t investigated why do local brands cost so much, but I do know, something is not right when a simple pencil cotton dress costs over 600 Euros on an unknown designer. Or when a simple long dress made of polystyrene, advertised as “handmade” costs over 1000 Euros. Because the specific brand/designer has a nice logo, website and well-positioned friends.

On the positive side, there are many talented local designers who actually deserve the fame and price tag of Dior, Chanel and other high-end fashion houses. I know them, admire them and wear them. I imagine the reason their prices are almost as those luxury brands is because they manufacture in their homelands and keep the quality standards high up. Better craft, materials and communication with the fabrics.

But maybe I’m wrong. I would like to hear the story behind local designers, new and old ones.

I’m sure about one thing:

Wearing, eating, travelling locally, should be a normality and not a luxury.

If you have any more information about this subject, insights or you just want to let me know your opinion, write a comment and let’s have a chat. I’m really curious about what others think about this.

In the meantime, take a look at this video behind the scenes in Elie Saab’s headquarters, in Beirut. Look at  how many artists and artisans, and how much work it takes for a dress so beautiful to be made. That should give us some ideas about how much fashion in our countries should be worth.

How is it in your country? Do you wear local designers?

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