Extra magazine Croatia editorial.
photos by Goran Matijašec. Model: Helena Šopar.
Dresses: Lei Lou by
Alex Dojčinović
As I have promised yesterday, I am
continuing my holiday wear posts with my favorite model of the dress, the maxi
dress. My favorite maxi dress this year was Zigman’s sequins maxi dress with open
back which I have showed in this post of my Christmas recommendations.
I
made a selection of Croatian and international designer maxi day to night dresses,
choosing Lei Lou by Alex Dojčinović who trully triumfed with dazzzling wearable collections
she presented in the past year, big brand comercial cooperations and vast numer
of celebrities appearing wearing her dresses in numerous media events confirms
that she designs clothign for women of different sizes, ages and income levels.
Maxi for the day.
I
would recommend wearing these amazingly comfortable Lei Lou maxies during the winter
work day or weekend with short leather jacket, biker boots and a thick woolen
scarf or with a thin belt and high heel boots with a comfy coat for the more
dressy look. The price for these lovely dresses is 1500 HRK or 200 Euros while
the belt goes for 500 HRK or 66 Euros.
Extra magazine Croatia editorial.
photos by Goran Matijašec. Model: Helena Šopar.
Dresses: Lei Lou by
Alex Dojčinović
Maxi for the evening.
For
the evening, there is a lovely selection of black and cooper colored sequin
tube maxi's which can be worn with or without belt. The price of these gorgeous
dresses is 2000 HRK or 266 Euros.
Other then maxi dresses, sequence
pieces and lace I absolutely adore backless dresses and shirts, not so much
summer shirts as the cashmere backless winter dresses and/or sweaters, just
like the black one I got from Rugby Ralph Lauren two years ago. This sweater
actually motivated me to look for maxi backless dresses and inspired me to
write this post.
Holiday season is therefore
great for me as I got to wear flashy pieces I like on all of these Christmas
and New Years parties J Bellow I have selected
some of the lovely backless pieces. Tomorrow I have scheduled a motivational
post with gorgeous photos of maxi dresses which I definitely recommend for all
of the tall girls out there – I am telling you, maxis are a guaranteed stand
out.
Do you own any open back
pieces lovelies? What do you like about them and how do you where them? If not,
why not?
“I feel very strongly about dresses on
every level - a dress feels like underpinning.”
Donna Karan
Since I was a child, I knew
what I wanted.
I was not good in planning how to get to it as I can't keep my focus on one thing for a long time, but I always mutlitask. Most of the times I
would improvise and I do most things last minute (which I would like to
change) but I always know exactly what I want and I achieve it sooner or later.
My family used to call my
plans and drawings “rich imagination” or “dreaming” but recent discovery of my “map
of life” which I drew when I was 14 and theatrically and romantically burned a
bit at the ends to make it look more vintage.
Finding this forgotten map in my room surprised my family quite a bit, every single point of this map was very precisely completed, from my life and studies in US, my basketball career, my choice of a certain type of men for boyfriends (tall menJ ), career focus on fashion and working in big company afterwards.
So…I decided to use this
post as my "grown up map", as there is obviously some truth in the fact that you
accomplish things easier when you put them down in writing (I am the living proof as it seems :)).
Just to explain...I
am not making a to do list here…God knows I have to many of those. I am meerly writing this as an
inspiration board and as a draft of my plans for the next couple of holiday days ahead with an overal guidelines for what I would like next year to look like for me. I hope you will to find it inspirational or at least calming :)
I wish…
....for a stress free,work free Christmas dinner with my family.
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
Anthony Brandt
...I wish to spend more time and give more of my undivided
attention to my attention craving and human childlike acting dog Papi…
“My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.“
Edith Wharton
I wish to
continue to grow and learn doing the job I love every day, exploring my
interests in fashion through my blog & my column while learning to be more
patient and open with people and slowing down a bit now and then…just to be at
peace for a while and clear my thoughts here and there...
“It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.”
K.T. Jong
I wish everything
goes well and we welcome the first baby in our family in about 8 months from
now (no its not me but I like the suitcase)...
“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten,
and the future worth living for…”
I wish to have a
great relaxing fashion crisis free first New Years evening with no special
expectations with my boyfriend.
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's
Day."
Edith Lovejoy
Pierce
I wish no one
would ask me again why do I do it or if it’s hard…cause they just don’t
understand…yes I am sure, yes I like it and I choose it to do it my way...
“Missing someone gets easier everyday because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will.”
Many of us are kind of planning
Christmas shopping for weeks and then all of a sudden some anomaly in scheduled
week happens its like the black hole in time continuum and all of a sudden -
upsss…tomorrow is Christmas Eve and you still don’t have all of the presents
and you are terrified to enter the stores because all of those nice-mannered
fashionistas all of a sudden start acting like they have been let out of prison
early and didn’t have time to adjust back to civilization so they are pushing
and pulling each other while waiting in lines to pay or to try on stuff.
So, if you don’t have time
to look around or you are scared to get hurt during Christmas shopping mania
you can be sure some of my recommended gift ideas bellow, all made by Croatian
designers will look fabulous under every
fashionistas Christmas tree!
All Croatian designers:
In my next post, tomorrow, I will write about some quick and simple ideas on how each of you very busy working girls can decorate your home in a bit of a less traditional and less expensive way for holidays as well as about some cool ideas on how to make some of the presents on your own. J It is 2 am now and I am finalizing one of the 2 presents I am making for my boyfriend.
In my next post, tomorrow, I will write about some quick and simple ideas on how each of you very busy working girls can decorate your home in a bit of a less traditional and less expensive way for holidays as well as about some cool ideas on how to make some of the presents on your own. J It is 2 am now and I am finalizing one of the 2 presents I am making for my boyfriend.
He who has not Christmas in his heart will
never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
One of my now favorite
places in Madrid is most definitely at Mimi’s.
Mimi’s Craperia with its old
fashion exterior and more modern interior with crystal chandeliers, 80s cooking
appliances, proudly displayed huge jars of everyone’s favorite crape topping –
Nutella and most importantly friendly staff from Balkan countries, tons of positive
energy in the room and the crapes to die for is definitely a place I open
heartedly recommend you to visit when you are in Madrid. Kind warning! – You might
get hooked and come back again the same day!
This cool little café in very center of Madrid close to plaza Mayor in the building of the oldest hotel in Madrid, serves amazing crapes of all kinds: salty and sweet, with fresh fruit, ice cream, Nutella, cookies, various nuts or any other toping you can think of appropriate to be eaten as a full meal morning to evening. You can also purchase your crape as part of the daily special with a cup of coffee and a soft drink on a side if you wish.
This is where my boyfriend and I come after his games when I visit, hang out and eat our favorite crape with Nutella, banana, cookies and coconut with vanilla ice cream on a side!
p.s. My friend Zoran saids their Tiramisu is also amazing!
What's yours favorite place in Madrid?
The worst thing about going away
is fighting
every little piece of me which just wants to stay.
The hardest thing to do
is leaving
without being sure that giving my all is good enough for you.
The worst thing is the day before,
when sadness silently floats around the room,
when sadness silently floats around the room,
next morning you come home to an empty
house and can still smell around what's left of my perfume.
All the feelings which are left unsaid
keep spinning
around in different forms in my head.
While I am walking towards the plane
trying to silence my heart and listen to my brain...
...I kind of wonder where is home?
….with you where my heart is …or there
where I’m from….
Andrea I hope you will send us the photo of the outfit
you put together with your Fensica sheep!
Thank you all for participating, keep following La
Passion pour la Fashion and participating in my upcoming giveaways!
Xoxo from Madrid
Agatha Louis de la Prada @
El Corte Ingles Christmas store window
Sitting in the plane from
Prague to Madrid those two hours 20 minutes seemed like an eternity. I kept
asking a flight attendant – are we there yet? Like the kid on a road trip with
the family. I just couldn’t wait to finally see my boyfriend. I walked so fast
to luggage check that the other people from my flight made a passage for me in
the crowd probably a bit scared of my military stamping in my heels, I picked
up a luggage in a second, fixed my lip-gloss and ran out and..Mwaaa mwaaa….Ante
was not there yet as I was obviously too fast. In few minutes he appeared, he
said he missed the exit to airport twice out of excitement.
\
He was wearing a green and black sweat suit combo, his favorite, with his signature messy hair and in the car there were 88 chocolates waiting for me together with a Christmas star flower, he didn’t know the flower was related to Christmas but he said the store didn’t have regular flowers J LOL
He was wearing a green and black sweat suit combo, his favorite, with his signature messy hair and in the car there were 88 chocolates waiting for me together with a Christmas star flower, he didn’t know the flower was related to Christmas but he said the store didn’t have regular flowers J LOL
Most of the next day I was sleeping, cooking, kissing, shopping , ending the day with getting the fabulous (as Ante calls it Heidi) warm, soft and cozy sweater made out of 100% wool and gorgeous Lamb skin leather jacket @ Zara (Spain’s signature brand). There is one more piece I am looking to get while I am here – new black motorcycle boots.
I found myself shopping quite carefully and conservatively as the economy is becoming so unpredictable lately, nothing is sure – employment, pay, living expenses are rising, so I am thinking twice while picking up a piece to purchase focusing on price per wear ratio, quality of making and quality of fabrication rather the brand name which we all know doesn’t always stand for quality. In that regards, I am proud of myself knowing that the Xmass decor and discount together with stores packed with people manically shopping does not affect me much. I take more pleasure in observing gorgeous Chistmas store windows and sipping on Starbucks peppermint mocha.
I’m excited to see YSL Retrospective exhibition today before my boyfriend’s basketball game. This will be the topic of my tomorrows post. Xoxo from Madrid lovelies!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Social Icons