Power Fashion: how to dress for politics


Valérie Trierweiler perfectly pulled off, the french chic when her partner, François Hollande was sworn in as the new president of la grande Nation. Although her role as France’s First Lady might be interpreted a little bit different by a woman, who describes her life to have been built “on independence” and not set out to support the man on her side, at least from a fashion point of view we won’t be disappointed.

Dressing for politics is probably the most difficult discipline of fashion. The dress-code is very restrictive: it has to be professional first of all but should also have a hint of sensuality and be feminine. But Valérie Trierweiler wouldn’t have to look for long should she need some Photo Credit: style inspiration. There are a couple of ( yet not enough) very well dressed female politicians adorning parliaments around the world.

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Office-Outfit

If you know me on facebook or have given my blog, the honour of  a Like on facebook (if you haven’t like it now), you already know that I started an internship at Net Media Planet, an online marketing agency. It’s been a great experience so far and I’ve learnt all sorts of things about Google (world domination will be mine :-) ), writing for the web and how to make money off  websites. The internship was the first time that I was confronted with the challenge to dress for an office job. Luckily Net Media Planet does not have an overly strict dress code, but everybody pays attention to look decent.

I haven’t taken pictures every day but here are two of my Outfits.

Outfit 1

dress: Zara

coat: Desigual (I particularly like the buttons on this coat. I think I haven’t shown it on the blog yet)

shoes:(black ballet flats) Max shoes

Outfit 2

shirt: Vintage

Blazer: Vintage

legging: Uniqulo

shoes: Max shoes

earrings: Boots

What I wear to the Gym

This was the third year, I decided to give up something during lent. I am not particularly religious, but I think giving up something for 40 days before Easter strengthens your willpower and it is a good way to make a step towards living a little bit more healthy. I gave up sweets, which is quite a big sacrifice for someone , who easily finishes a box of chocolates in one day.

I broke my self-imposed rules twice, with the second one being a milk shake, which could maybe pass as not being sweet, anyway.  Overall I thought I deserved a little treat for my discipline, so I bought myself a new Outfit for running and my gym classes (GapfIt, ~20 £, each). Probably not what most people envision as a treat, but while I hate diets, more than anything and never succeeded at pulling one through I do  love exercise.

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How to do le Chic Français

Le chic français is  a myth of the elegant and classic style, which is primarily seen on french women, especially in the capital of France. I’ve bought this little book a while ago 

to get into the mood for my little Trip to Paris at the end of the month and I’ve also done some research on le chic français for my french oral presentation to extract the essence of french style: Voilà, le chic français en bullet points for you:

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Up-cycled Art

Photo via e-junkie

This is Seo Young Deok’s latest work of art: a larger than life sculpture of a human head made of a mile of bike chains. It took him a year and more than 25 000 pounds to complete the work.

The detail of the the face and the emotional expression is astonishing. The artist earned a degree in Environmental Sculpture at the University of Seoul, which is probably where the idea of up-cycling old bike chains came from. ‘Dystopia’ is going to tour the world, heading to Istanbul at the moment.

Trends: the thong is history and the VPL is back


Not so long ago gossip magazines  couldn’t get enough of showing celebrities’ VPLs and denoucing it as a crime. The fear of the dreadful Visible Panty Line fed the sales of thongs and pushed some celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears to go completely sans knickers. 13 year old girls pilgered to H&M for buying the barely-there pants as a sort of inauguration of being a woman and older women sacrificed hours for bum-exercises for the sake of this little piece of fabric.

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DIY: Simple leather top

Photo Credit: Ivania Carpio from Love Aesthetics

I found this great DIY project by Ivania on her Blog yesterday. It is a leather tank-top, which reminds me a little bit of COS shirts, but I guess it is cheaper if you sew it yourself. I love the clean and simple chic and the high neckline, but I am not sure if it would look good on my (more curvy) body.

The other problem would also be my  basic sewing skills which would probably not manage to sew a leather top.

Fashion Extremists

Why Fashion is unsexy

How can you tell that you are too much into fashion? What is the point where you realise that looking pretty has long slipped your fashion conciousness and that you have joined the ranks of these weird people, who seem to constantly think of yet another extravagant Outfit to grab everybody’s attention (BryanBoy) or who think anything below straight-off-the Catwalk is boring (Anna dello Russo) or who converted to their own uniformism (Karl Lagerfeld)?

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