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NAUSEOUS FIRST TRIMESTER
FIRST BODY CHANGES
MY FIRST MATERNITY CLOTHES PURCHASE
THE BEST MATERNITY CLOTHING STORES
All photos by Emoke Gyurasits
It took me some time to get a feeling for Budapest and find things I love in Hungarian culture as I moved to live in Budapest primarily for work and my heart was and is still in Barcelona where I live with my boyfriend for the second part of each month.
What really attracted me to Budapest, intrigued me and made me fall in love with the city are at the first place friendly people, my friends - young people of different cultures I got to meet, food, romantic and mesmerizing historic architecture and urban young and creative subculture I am looking forward to explore even more in upcoming weeks and months as I am KatWalking through Budapest.
For this particular shoot on Danube coast and by rivers beautiful bridges I choose my Summer favorite, Lei Lou by Alex Dojcinovic floral tube dress 'Fani' with bra padding which I can wear with sandals for a stroll around Budapest, ballerinas for work or high heels and more elaborate jewelry for fun nights out.
This outfit was also featured on Budi.In portal.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
This week is Earth Week and everyone is trying to be a bit more mindful on how they use energy, throw their trash and consume daily consumer goods. Media is bombarding us with tips and tricks which I think are good to put on a pin board somewhere in the apartment or in the office as a reminder for the rest of the year as well.
A couple of things I do to care about environment more and my body as well is to walk wherever I can without using a car or any other mean of transportation, I bring water in my purse everywhere in my equa thin glass water bottle, recycle my trash and plant my own spices, I also bring my fashionable canvas Karl Lagerfeld bag with me in my purse for whenever I plan to do a grocery shopping after work.
I selected a couple of ways fashion industry gives back.
GIVING BACK TO COMMUNITY
Fashion industry is known to be not just very creative but also actionable and generous when giving back, and doing so in organized and transparent matter.
I know that every time you walk down the street someone is asking you to donate, sign or commit to a charity cause. My way of thinking about it and choosing if I will engage is that it is equally important to investigate and truly personally believe in the cause, to make sure that if you are donating your time or money it is for the cause you are passionate about and believe it.
“I am excited to see so many of my friends and CFDA designers use these hearts as a blank canvas for their unique creative expression to raise money. Together, we believe in the brilliant artistry of a country filled with some of the most creative people I have ever met.”
Donna Karan
One of my favorite recent projects are Donna Karen and CFDA project initiated on Valentines day and still ongoing called Fashion for Heiti: One Million Hearts. Over 160 fashion designers participated in this project by decorating custom papier-mache hearts which are now auctioned off on Ebay.com until May 2nd to raise money for Donna Karen's Urban Zero foundation dedicated to creating jobs and enhancing education of Haiti’s artisans.
CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Consumerism and constant need for shopping is creating a demand for mass production, which includes mass resource extraction, fabrication, distribution, and eventually, disposal. This system is not at all sustainable and it creates a bit amounts of waste in energy and products.
Have you ever wondered what upcycled clothing is? After listening to CFDA Earth Day Google + chat I started to investigate more about it. Upcycled clothing is the green, environmentally and socially conscious side to the fashion industry which is sweeping the youth generation of today, you could notice on Ebay that some clothes are marked as upcycled clothes. To upcycle clothes simply means to redesign, rework, and recreate clothing pieces that would have otherwise been thrown away.
Photo: H&M Conscious collection
Photo: H&M Conscious collection
Some of the negative consequences of factory-made, mass-produced, or even worse sweatshop made clothing include the need for it to be made long distances away (where workforce is cheap) the lack of sustainability and temptation to always buy more (aka our consumerism), and the ignorance that occurs when we buy a product and have no idea where, or how, it is made.
Great examples of this practice after a number of complaints for unsustainable practices is H&M with their Garden collection launched in 2010. and then Conscious collection a year later. Also, TopShop has launches their Reclaim to wear collection made out of upcycled materials.
“This is the first step towards the creation of zero-waste design collections ”
Orsola de Castro, TopShop
Last 10 days or so I was slacking with posting regularly due to busy work schedule which I tried to balance with couple of days of vacation and finally spending some time with my boyfriend. I had a lovely press event planned for one of my companies brands last Wednesday in the gorgeously luxurious Radisson Blu Resort & Spa in Dubrovnik, so I used the weekend before that to spend time visiting my boyfriend and his parents who also live in Dubrovnik.
On Saturday we went to the amazing island of Lapad, where we were swimming in the lake at the very centar of the island, had amazing Mojitos on the beach and spend our time at the island surrounded by gorgeous peacocks.
Naturally, I used the opportunity when my boyfriend was working out to ask his mum to show me his childhood photos. Wasn't "she" cute? ;)
Late at Wednesday night I got back to Zagreb to work, so I had to calm down my after mini-vacation depression with some lovely neon nail polish I got in H&M Madrid a month ago when visiting my boyfriend at the end of his play season. So, this was marked as neon Thursday. ;)
On Friday I naturally had to catch up with pilled up email on my blog email account as well as on the work one so I worked late but also had to catch up with cleaning after arriving back to my apartment so I did a little valet cleaning and emptied my change to fill up my Shoe fund (yes my boyfriend has one to, his sneakers collection is almost as vast as my heels collection).
After my Spanish class on Friday evening I was dead tired but still had to work on preparing games and decorations for my sister baby shower (she is pregnant and due beginning of August with little boy who's name will be Lovro). This is the Pampers cake I made for her.
After fun baby shower my mum used the opportunity when I was visiting her (shower was held at her house) to pile me up with cooked meals, cakes, fruits and vegetables from her garden to feed a small army. :) She is especially proud of her spices and berries.
Today, Sunday I planned as a relaxing day so I invited my friends Iva and Ljiljana for coffe and cake, I also managed to do a small shopping and to color my nails with H&M's "Blue my Mind" shade of blue for next work new work week adventure. :)
How was your week lovelies?
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