I LOVE Paris...

Finally I have time to post on my blog again! I'm very sorry you guys, that it took me so long, but I had a lot of work to do at school. The good news is: my list of marks is very good! Now I'm done with school, I can enjoy my summer holiday and I'll spend a lot more time on this blog.

I have to catch you up on a lot of subjects, and one of them is Paris. It was definitely awesome. It was better than the best I imagined. I took a lot of photos, almost 600, so I will post a few of them. These are the first five photos from day one:

Across the street where we booked our hotel, there was a Christian Louboutin store! OMG, we just couldn't stop admiring the shoes...

A close up of the Notre Dame

Inside the Notre Dame

Jesus

The Centre Poumpidou, an interesting building.

There is more! I will post other photos soon.

Paris, je t'aime...

I'M GOING TO PARIS TOMMOROW!!!!

Omg, I'm so excited! I'm going with school, with my art class. We're going to visit a lot of museums. I've prepared all this stuff and I've been looking forward to it for so long. I even worked very hard at my French! So this is my Paris list:

Movies:

Amélie

Paris, je t'aime

Coco Avant Chanel

French Music:

BB Brunes

Brigitte Bardot

Francoise Hardy

Rose

Yelle

Paris Music:

Paris Théorie - Assasin

I love Paris - Ella Fitzgerald

April in Paris - Frank Sinatra

Free Man in Paris - Joni Mitchell

Paris Samba - MC Solaar

I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris - Morissey

J'aime plus Paris - Thomas Dutronc

Paris is Burning - Ladyhawke

Blog:

My Secret Paris by Lisette, a wonderful blog with all the secret places to be.

I will take many pictures and upload them all when I get back. Oh. My. PARIS!!

The Runway Will Be RED!

I'm sorry I haven't posted for so long, but I was so busy all the time! I just got sucked up in all the end-of-the-year madness. Apart from all the work from school, I'm also involved in all sorts of projects. This post will be about one of those projects; A Red Line(Een Rode Draad). I became involved with this through school, because I'm in the art class.

The project was invented by Sara Vrugt, a fashion designer. On Saturday, June 13th 2009, three hundred inhabitants of The Hague will parade over a red runway of three kilometers long through the city. All will be dressed in red, and musicians and dancers will acompany the parade. There will be an after party later. With this project, Sara Vrugt wants to make a bridge and bring people together, because there are so many different people with different cultures living in The Hague. I will walk too on the longest runway ever! We all worked very hard at school to get our self made clothing done in time. I made a dress, and I think this is the first piece of clothing that I made all by myself. It was so much fun to make it, and I'm so looking forward to June the 13th!

This is the dress I made:

Check out the website:

A_Red_Line

Lovely Library

There are a few pictures I owe you guys:

My jumpsuit:

Jumpsuit: it was my mom's, belt: vintage, T-shirt: Didi, tights: V&D.

My graffiti painting:

Talking about graffiti, me and my friends made more than 20 euro yesterday with selling our graffiti art. We were just messing around with aerosoles on wood, and then came up with the idea of ringing the doorbells of my neighbours. We sold all our paintings! Even a legging that we pimped up with graffiti. We had so much fun:).

I went to the library this week, and rented almost all the books of Jane Austen they had. I read Pride and Prejudice and loved it, so now I'm starting with Emma. I like her writing style a lot. I also rented four CD's;

The Pigeon Detectives - Emergency

Best track: Emergency

The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me

Best track: I'm not sorry

Santogold

Best track: You'll find a way

Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned

Best track: Einstein

Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini

Best track: Jungle drum

I also rented music sheets for the Pride and Prejudice movie theme song, Dawn. I just love this song, you can listen to it here: Dawn

I've done a lot of renting this week, because I also went to the video rental store. I rented Into The Wild (Emile Hirsch, Kristen Stewart), Burn After Reading(Brad Pitt, George Cloony), The Beach(Leonardo DiCaprio) and Amelie(Audrey Toutou). I love all these movies. Especially Amelie, it's a movie you absolutely have to see.

Audrey Toutou also plays in a movie I'm very excited about, Coco Avant Chanel.

You can watch the trailer here:

Coco_Avant_Chanel

My mom bought a REAL DIOR JACKET in a second hand store for me. I'm so lucky...

Jeans and top: Only, jacket: vintage.

Thanks mom!
I've been considering to buy the dress on the left at the bottom. But it's 70 euro...:( I don't have that much clothing money...

Matthew Williamson for H&M
This is what I wore today:

Skirt: Pimpkie, T-shirt: Hema, vest: vintage.
I hope you could follow this messy post;). I hope I will be able to stick to one subject next time...

I'm currently listening to:

Born for this - Paramore

Real Street Art

There's something really cool going on in my hometown, The Hague. There are a lot of electricity buildings from Eneco in and around town, but they(Eneco) didn't take care of the buildings. They were all really dirty and with ugly graffiti tags on them. So the local museum decided to fight graffiti with graffiti, and they asked a lot of graffiti artists and adolescents to pimp up the buildings. They did a great job! When I cycle through town now, I see all this beautiful buildings with awesome graffiti pieces on them. It's real art.

I also took a graffiti workshop with a friend at the museum, and I absolutely loved it! I don't know, there's just something really cool about spraying paint to one work of art. We all got our own panel to spray, and I made an angel character. I will post a photo of it later, because it's really big and I couldn't take it home with me. I have to get it later... I think it will be nice decoration for my room.^^

Awesome vid:

Santogold

A trend that makes me wanna Jump!

Jumpsuits! I like them so much. They're perfect for summer; they can be put on quickly, they go well with bikinis, and they're airy, so great for warm weather. I especially like them with a playful print, like flowers or tie-dye stuff. They're also fun in plaid. I bought two jumpsuits vintage on a second hand market, one with green and purple squares and one with blue and pink flowers, and I will definitely take them to my holiday destination: Morocco. You see jumpsuits a lot on the runway and on celebrities, but not so much on the streets, because you need a certain attitude to wear them.
On the runway:
Givenchy

Matthew Williamson

Thakoon

Marc by Marc Jacobs

On celebrities:
Katy Perry

Rihanna

Blake Lively

Pixie Geldof

Song: Laura Jansen- Single Girls (I heard this song for the first time today, and I love it!)

Looks

As promised, here are the outfits that I wore this week:


Blue skirt: Corel, T-shirt: Edc by Esprit, leggings: V&D, belt and necklace: vintage.
Jeans: Only, T-shirt: H&M, bracelets: Made with love, belt: Bershka.
Red dress: vintage, shirt: Temt, necklace: made it myself.
Jeans: Only, T-shirt: Hema; print by me, bracelet: Made with love, belt: Bershka, necklace: vintage.
Shorts: H&M, T-shirt: H&M, leggings: V&D, vest: vintage, necklace: made it myself.
Shorts: no idea, but they're from America, T-shirt: Hema; print by me, vest: vintage, leggings: V&D.
Dress: We, leggings: de Bijenkorf, necklace with bow: made it myself.
Yesterday I made this necklace:
Actually, the fabric from the bow is from an old handkerchief my friend owned; I liked the flower print very much, so I asked if I could have it. I like bows so much, so I made it into a bow necklace.
The jeans that I wore twice this week are new, I bought them at Only's. I was so happy with them, but fate wasn't with me; before I owned them for three hours, I spilled nacho sauce (quacamole) on them in the cinema... Oww... A huge green mark was spreading over my jeans... I thought I ruined them. But luckily, they came clean out of the washing machine; if you don't know it's there, you hardly can see the mark. The jeans are bleached, but I thought about pimping them a little bit... Maybe by ripping them apart, maybe by tie-dyeing them... Tell me your opinion!
Here's a little denim inspiration:






All pictures are from Lookbook.

Song: The View- Same Jeans
I've had the same jeans on for four days now/I'm gonna go to a disco in the middle of the town/Everybody's dressing up/I'm dressing down.