outfit of the day
For the location of this shoot I choose a unique concept store in my neighborhood Luzio. Luzio was opened in 2006 by MarÃa José Gómez and Maximiliano Zigart so last year the shop celebrated 10 year anniversary.
Luzio is a first luxurious concept store in Barcelona with over 800 m2 of space in exclusive Turo Park neighborhood with unique experience which represents a delight to all five human senses: sight , touch, hearing and smell.
The venue includes a luxurious home decor and furniture shop, flower shop and a Brooklyn style restaurant Iluzione opened on shop's 10th anniversary.
If you get a chance to visit Barcelona be sure to visit and experience this exquisite shop where you can buy high quality home-wear and accessory carefully curated by Luzio's experienced team of buyers.
MIRO MIÅ LJEN DESIGN
As a base of my outfit I choose Miro Mišljen Design vest with unfinished seems.The front of the vest is flared outwards and it ties in waist with a ribbon with two side front pockets. The vest is made out of two different materials, front one is soft dark green checkered material while the back is made out of thicker carpet like wool in floral print, resembling embroidery.
Miro Misljen is one of the most popular Slovenian fashion designers, he studied interior design but fashion was his love since the early childhood.
Miro opened his first boutique when he was only twenty years old and since has been favorite designer of Slovenian celebrities. He is known as a 'bad boy' of fashion as his shows are often shocking and designed to carry a social or artistic message. He is known as an extravagant and somewhat eccentric designer.
Miro is forever inspired by love and people living on margins of society, he always searches for new ways to combine fashion and art.
I purchased the vest as I loved this carpet floral material on the back and I saw myself wearing it with white bell sleeve blouses or grey t/shirt and high waisted black jeans.
ACCESSORY
Hats are one of the accessory I wear the most! I got lots of hats and I choose them carefully. The green wool hat I am wearing in this post is by MIYUU Barcelona . Handbag I am wearing is a super-hero handbag by Croatian brand Hero4Heroes. My ID bag saids my super power is being Anabela's mum which is really the truth as this 'job' takes more energy then anything else I ever have done!Whenever I wear this handbag I see people sitting next to me reading from an ID card that is on the front of the bag and smiling! 😃
The brand Hero4Heroes is based in Rijeka, Croatia. It represents a positive fashion spirit for true everyday heroines dressed up from head to toe. Designer Marijana Hero mostly designs unique, one of a kind pieces that are partly or fully hand painted on silk.
Her designs are embellished with pearls and faux gemstones. The brand is known for it's bright and cheerful spirit and using colors and fabrications in full rainbow color pallet.
When it comes to jewelry I wear necklaces the most but I also like statement rings like the Trendcy ring I have on the photo bellow.
I decorated the vest with vintage pins I collected over years, most of which I purchased on various yard sales and in antique shops in New York, each has it's own story. For example, this long wooden needle pin is from my grandmother and it was worn as a pin on red checkered Scottish pleated skirt.
For the past 2 years since I found some fabulous ear cuffs I wear those whenever I am going somewhere without Anabela as she always pulls it when I carry her. The bronze color floral ear-cuff I am wearing on the photo bellow is from H&M, I got it in late 2015.
I also own a fair number of choker necklaces and my favorite one are velvet ones, I have a couple of those simple chokers from Asos.
All photos: Andrina Peric
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Earlier this week I went to visit one of the most fabulous places in the city - Bellavista del Jardin del Norte. It is a small town or as here in Spain we would call it El Pueblo hugged together into an adorable restaurant perfect for group dinners and family gatherings. Guaranteed to make a lasting impression with every single little detail well thought off the place looks and feels as if you are walking into a book.
BELLAVISTA DEL JARDIN DEL NORTE - BARCELONA
There are abundant of beautiful restaurants and cafes in Barcelona but Bellavista del Jardin del Norte offers unique experience indeed with a game room, arcades, record player, barbershop, a place to buy and post postcards and oouu not to mention delicious red velvet cake and beautiful green patio on the back.
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DIY DENIM JACKET
Couple of years back I got this basic boxy denim jacket from Zara for Summer and never really wore it much. Now after having Anabela I embroidered a couple of her dresses and denim shirts with her name and various cute patterns and decided to decorate this (now somewhat small on me due to recent pregnancy) jacket I never got to wear and give it a new life!
First I got a number of iron-on patches from various online sites and then I outlined the LaKatWalk logo on the back by using the print out of a decorative font I found online and printed it out in large bold font on A4 paper horizontally. I cut it out precisely with xacto knife and outlined with special pen which disappears in wash, but you can also use a regular white chock pen.
Then, I got a shinny gold embroidery thread, round embroidery frame and started tracing the letters with a thread to create a frame, next I filled it across using cross stitching technique and voila! Few days later I had 'LaKatWalk' embroidered on the back! 😃 I was working on it about half an hour a day when Anabela was sleeping at night but if you have time to sit down and do it, you can certainly do it in one day.
OOTD - DRESS OVER PANTS
Dress over pants is not a look that I would regularly wear but I decided to give it a try given that I live in Barcelona which doesn't really have a true Winter and my closet is packed with cross seasonal clothing like this pin stripped asymmetrical shirt-dress. I am not a fan of wearing heavy Winter coats but I do enjoy layering clothing into interesting outfits so for this casual look I decided to highlight the DIY jacket while underneath I wore coated rose gold skinny ankle length pants, nude camisole and mentioned pin stripe collared dress.
When it comes to choosing accessory I went with pink camera bag from & Other Stories and pink unicorn Startas sneakers. The only jewelry I wore was Trendcy ear-cuff with matching stud earring while I tied dress belt as a neck scarf.
Have you ever embroidered before? How do you give a new life to your old clothing pieces?
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This is my first outfit post after having Anabela. She is now almost 11 month and becoming more and more independent so I am slowly but surely getting my grove back when it comes to managing my fashion business - Trendcy, my blog and managing my household which is not an easy task when you live with a professional athlete. :)
In this post I have put together a quite preppy business look which is suitable for a day in the corporate office with a dress code equally as for a job in creative industry (both of which I had during my career). Even now, when I work from home office I still dress up and apply make up every work day morning as I would when going to the regular office. This is important part of my daily schedule as it get's me going and puts me in a creative mood which is not always easy when you don't sleep through the night and have a back to back work-home-baby schedule, so right clothes does help! 😃
RUGBY BY RALPH LAUREN CLASSIC NAVY BLAZER
Rugby by Ralph Lauren used to be a collegiate brand in Ralph Lauren brand portfolio which I worked for while i lived in New York. Just like all the other Ralph Lauren items I have in my closet this jacket is of such a great quality that it's a piece you wear for life. It has a beautiful gold signature buttoning and rugby yellow and blue stripes on the back of the collar.
Well tailored navy smart blazer is a piece I recommend every women to have in your closet. It is as easy to style as little black dress and it absolutely picks up any look! I wear it with light wash boyfriend jeans, grey v-neck t-shirt and white converse sneakers on ☼ Saturday morning walks with Anabela but it's also a signature piece for business wear. As part of workwear look I often combine it with dark denim and heels or nude and beige skirts and boots.
BELL SLEEVE BLOUSE - Blackpearl by Sara Loncaric
Since I first got it a month and a half ago I have been wearing my bell sleeved Blackpearl by Sara Loncaric blouse a whole lot combining it with skinny black high waist jeans and leather jacket or with a denim bell shaped button up skirt and flat tight high boots.It this workwear #ootd I am wearing the blouse with leather midi skirt and navy smart jacket.
This Blackpearl blouse reflects a sense of relaxed and timeless romantic elegance, it is made out of soft ultralight semi-sheer fabric featuring subtle details that create an unique aesthetic which I really love, thus I wear it over and over again.
KNUCKLE RING BY VALENTINA BRUGNATELLI
I got this super unique Valentina Brugnatelli ring in Trendcy pop up shop in Barcelona and although it's definitely not the piece to wear every day whenever I do wear it it makes a statement and it's always a conversation topic at parties!
In 1990 Valentina began working for Gianfranco Ferré, who would go on to be her mentor for the next twenty years. Her collaborations range from Yves Saint Laurent, Kenzo and Missoni among others. Today she has her own jewelry line and still does collaborations.
I wear this ring on middle two fingers, it is costume jewelry and really a unique piece which I save dearly to hand over to my daughter one day.
Valentina Brugnatelli believes a jewel needs to have a soul: an element that doesn't relegate it to something decorative. It is essential it tells a story and triggers an emotion. She imagines her jewels worn by by a free-spirited woman with a personality strong enough to wear whatever she feels like.
& OTHER STORIES MIDI LEATHER PLEATED SKIRT
& Other Stories is a brand from H&M group which has creative ateliers in Paris and Stockholm and it designs diversified fashion collections with interesting details and batter quality materials then what you would find in regular H&M stores. They sell online but also have physical store here in Barcelona. Often the brand has capsule collection collaborations with young designers but also more established ones like with Rodarte.The beige midi pleated high waisted leather skirt is by & Other Stories and although it's quite bulky it's super easy to wear it! My favorite way to wear it is with stripped nautical sweater and white converse sneakers.
INTROPIA SUADE BOOTIES WITH LEOPARD HAIR HEEL
Lastly, Intropia is a brand from UK previously called Hoss intropia. INTROPIA is a life style, a philosophy, where the Mediterranean spirit and way of life shines through in every piece.I got these fabulous black suade booties with leopard print hair heel a couple of years back and I still wear them quite often despite the heel hight. I like to add a dash of leopard print here and there to my look.
All photos by Andrina Peric
Did you know that the fashion industry is the second largest consumer and polluter of water in the world right after the oil industry? Shocking right?!
Fashion industry yearly releases tons of hazardous chemicals into environment. While all of the unsold clothing are also dumped into landfills creating more waste and releasing more chemicals into environment resulting with enormous carbon footprint.
"It can still take more than 5,000 gallons of water to manufacture just a T-shirt and a pair of jeans."
It's funny how we are more and more conscious (luckily) and want to know where our food comes from and how it's been grown while we don't necessarily question the pesticides (used in cotton farming) and chemicals (from toxic fabric color dyes used in manufacturing) our skin is absorbing through the clothing we spend the whole day in.
IS FASHION REALLY A DIRTY BUSINESS?
Currently, textile waste represents the biggest growing waste in the Europe. Shopping has become a way of life in many western countries, a weekly pastime and for many an addiction. Sadly, consequences are much greater then a maxed out credit card.
“Fast fashion” is a 10 year old trend where cheap and disposable clothing is designed to be moved as quickly as possible from catwalk to store and to consumer. Such pieces mostly fall apart after just a several washes, obviously, so you can replace them with new ones.
This fast turnover doesn't do anyone any good (well other then the fast fashion company owners), ultimately it is accelerating carbon emissions and global warming, you are left with cheap clothing made to be disposable, loaded with chemicals and pesticides which (let's be honest) also looks quite cheap no matter how you style it.
PUPPA - ZERO WASTE STRATEGY & UPCYCLING.
Puppa is under the radar upcycling fashion company from Slovenian Pomurje -a region with a long textile making tradition. The company prides itself on valuing their employees with fair salaries and empowering working conditions thus keeping the jobs in the local community.
Puppa makes fabulous clothing sustainably, ethically and with zero waste. Their goal is to show that making and wearing sustainable clothing can be also very chic and trendy.
All of the Puppa apparel is created in sustainable and environmentally friendly manner. The brand has developed production process based on upcycling where pre-existing materials (rescued dead-stock) is used to make new clothing pieces. By doing so, less waste is generated and less water is consumed in production process thus there is less pollution coming from clothing production.
Puppa red holiday cardigan & BlackPearl by Sara Loncaric choker necklace.
Puppa blue denim & white stretch cotton peplum top and Mala Radnja Dizajna Hat Backpack
On top, the brand developed Zero waste production process using applications created out of leftover material to design new designs and no further material scraps are going to waste. How fabulous is that? 😃
Puppa is really re-loving ♡ unused fabrics and creating trendy designs with lots of positive energy injected into it.
All photos by Andrina Peric.
The only way to force fast fashion to change production process is by changing our consumer way of thinking and our shopping behavior. We should be equally conscious about what kind of chemicals we are exposing our body (and our fashion style frankly) to through clothing we are buying and wearing. The women looks endlessly more trendy wearing a few classic high quality items then piling on new 'current trend' junk on every few weeks and then disposing it.
I personally have quite a romantic way of thinking about fashion, maybe a bit foolish, I take time to care about the clothing, accessory and jewelry I own and think about my daughter playing dress ups and proudly wearing my clothing when she grown into a young lady.
Do you think about what you shop and wear ladies?
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