Let the street be your canvas

To me, graffiti is real art. I've always liked the idea of putting the message of art and creativity into the world via pimping walls, flats, streets and old buildings. Here are some pictures of graffiti that I think are really inspiring:

Yesterday, friend M. and I had a lot of fun with graffiti. That week, we had bought three colours: black, pink and white. We pimped an old closet, but all the paint started dripping! In the end, we thought it was actually pretty cool. But let me tell you this: it's a lot harder to spray paint into something than it seems!

M. made the bunny, I made the letters, the heart and the butterfly.

Our initials and a heart.

My initials.

M.'s initials.

Back-to-school stuff

Last week I didn't have to work at school, but this week the new school year has really begun. My back-to-school wardrobe looked a bit different than the other people on my school; today I wore a vintage dress that I customized yesterday. It's a dress with lovely blue and purple flowers on it. It was a bit too long for my taste, so I made it shorter and into a balloon skirt. I like balloon skirts, and it's not very hard to make; I'll just put some elastics in the seam.

Dress: vintage, ribbon: Vila, tights: V&D, shoes: Converse, blazer: vintage.

I bought the sheer black tights a couple of days ago, because I saw them everywhere, like on the new Kate Moss heart Topshop collection.

Dreams of Claude Monet...

I'm very inspired by Monet lately. I stole a book from my father about his work, and found it so beautiful. It matches perfectly the floral mood I'm still in since spring...

Madame Monet and her son.

Holland; where I live!

Women in the garden.

Flowers!

The music that goes perfectly with the paintings in my opinion is Lady&Bird; a side project of Keren Ann and Bardi Johannsson. Their music is very dreamy, very mysterious, and a bit creepy. I just love to listen to it when I'm working on something, it's very peaceful.

The Secret Garden

Dress: Vila, floral tights: H&M, shoes: Converse, hat and coat: vintage.

Top: Bershka, leggings and coat: H&M, shoes: Converse, necklace and headband: vintage.

Skirt, blouse, hat and belt: vintage, pair of braces: H&M.

"The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place." -The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Chapter 10

Fashion is a religion. Vogue is the bible.

I can't wait to see The September Issue, the documentary about Anna Wintour and the making of Vogue. Director RJ Cutler followed her while she was busy with the September issue; "September is like the January in fashion." I can't say that I'm not intrigued by the small women with the bob line and the big sunglasses, who is probably the most powerful women in the fashion world. But before I make all these big expectations, let's first see how much she'll open up in the movie that'll be watched curiously all over the world by fashion victims.

Song of the day: The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts-Sufjan Stevens

Garage Glamorous

I just love this new line from Erin Kleinberg. The soft T-shirts, tank tops and cardigans with chain detailing are so cool. You can wear them with distressed jeans and studded booties, or as mini shirt dresses with sheer black tights, as good friend and model Theodora Richards does for the Lookbook of the line. I wish I could afford a piece!




I just love the outfits that she wears in this vid: La_Roux-Bulletproof; love the song too, it sticks in your head.

Fall Wishlist

Hi everyone, I'm back! I've had a wonderful holiday in Marocco, where I went backpacking with my family. I've seen very beautiful cities and extreme landscapes, I've met so many nice people and I've learned a lot too. I hope you all had fantastic holidays!

Well, I'm back home, and the new school year's about to begin (I have two free weeks left). For me, that means three things:

1. My birthday, I was born on September 22nd(finally fifteen)

2. The new school year; new classes, teachers, subjects...

3. And, of course, the new fall fashion!! I can't wait to decide how my new fall wardrobe is going to look like....

This'll be my wishlist:

1. Studded boots, like these from topshop;

2. A military jacket to throw over my distressed jeans, like this one from Balmain;

3. A men's blazer to wear with a white lace dress, like this girl on the streets of Paris does;

4. The perfect shade of red lipstick;

5. Bright scarves in all kinds of colours and prints, like this pink one from Marc Jacobs;

6. A big red bag for school, like the one this stylish girl is wearing;

7. I always love the bright, colourfull ads from Juicy Couture, but I just gotta have their newest fragrance: Couture Couture. I collect perfume bottles, and this will be one of my jewels.

The single thing I don't like from all the fall fashion, is the obsession about the extremely high boots. I don't know, it just looks ugly to me. I prefer ankle booties! What do you guys think?