Photos: Courtesy of Estée Lauder
Since I have posted an interview last year with Tom Pecheux for Estee Lauder as part of NYFW coverage I started paying more attention and trying out Estee Lauder products such as lipsticks and eyeshadow and my last repurchase was Estee Launder's fabulous BB cream which I featured in last post, I found it one of the perfumeries in Vitoria, Spain during Copa del Rey where I was supporting my boyfriend at his basketball games.
Recently I got the advice from a friend who works in beauty industry to use daily moisturiser (I use Avene) and then Estee Lauder's BB cream for the day after which I also apply a bit of Bobi Brown's powder finish, it really works great and maintains oil free foundation during the whole day.
This fashion week in NYC marks seventh consecutive season of Estée
Lauder sponsoring the beauty look (makeup & nails) at the Derek Lam Fall
2013 runway shows.
Eyes: New Pure Color Instant Intense EyeShadow Trio in Smoked Chrome (launching Aug. 13')
Estée Lauder Creative Makeup Director Tom Pecheux led a team
of 13 makeup artists to create the stunning look on 27 models – while famed
manicurist Jin Soon Choi and her team polished their nails with NEW Estée
Lauder Pure Color Nail Lacquer in So Vain and Nudité (launching March 2013).
Lips: NEW Pure Color High Intensity Lip Lacqure in Electric Wine (launcing Aug, 13')
Makeup: Tom Pecheux for Estée Lauder | Nails: Jin Soon Choi for Estée Lauder |
Photos: Courtesy of Estée Lauder
“The beauty look Derek Lam and I created for the Fall 2013
show is a sophisticated, minimal urban hippie – playing off of Derek’s
inspirational mood board and the textures and colors of the fabrics in his
collection. The focus is on the eyes and
the lips. I placed a highlight of
metallic shimmer in the center of the eyelid, to make it appear very flat, like
a two-dimensional painting on a canvas.
The saturated stain on the lips is very strong and intense – a mix of brown, maroon and burgundy. The skin is very fresh and iridescent, a
satin-matte texture,” said Tom Pecheux, Estée Lauder Creative Makeup Director,
who used Estée Lauder makeup to complement Derek Lam's stunning collection.
“Every relationship rests on three legs: accepting, supporting and challenging. That's really it, isn't it? You want your relationships to be grounded on accepting each other as you are. On supporting each other through the inevitable ups and downs. On challenging each other to become more, to grow, to flourish."
Samantha Goodwin
Last couple of days I have actually put everything on a side, work, fashion, even following NY fashion week, set on an airplane leaving from Budapest to Madrid at 5 am in the morning and then drove with a friend from Madrid to Vitoria on South of Spain to support my boyfriend during important tournament - Copa Del Rey (King's Cup). First game they played was against Real Madrid, club in which he played last couple of seasons and where many of his dear friends still play. This was actually a true 'finale' game as Barcelona and Real Madrid are realistically two best basketball clubs in their league.
Thankfully, my boyfriends team - Barcelona, won the first game after two quite emotional overtimes, I lost my voice cheering, I knew how much this game means to him so our friend Zoran (who took most of these photos) and I sat right behind the basket with big Croatian flag so he can see us and hear us during hardest minutes of the game. It worked! They won both of first two games and tonight they are playing in finals. If they win, and I am sure they will, this will be our second medal from Copa Del Rey in two years since we have been together.
It is hard, we both work and travel a whole lot and are often tired but one thing we promised each other is to make each other our first priority. Meaning, when we have very important or emotionally draining work event, be in something related to my blog or work or for him important game, the other person will take a first flight and come to support, no matter what.
Since the weather was quite cold and rainy and I tried to spend some time with my boyfriend in between his practices, rest breaks, media meetings and games I found just about an hour or so for a quick run around town with our friend so I stopped by Kiko and iF parfumeria to get some of my favorite beauty essentials which I didn't have time to stock up on during last busy work week.
Vitoria-Gasteiz had a really bad weather last couple of days, raining, snowing and cold, however this little town is really special by so many things. It is first in the whole Spain as per green areas and cultural places per capita, also it is second as per quality and standard of living in Spain. Southern Spain - Pais Vasco is the richest part of Spain. This area is also known by its famous Inernational Jazz Festival.
Here I stayed at historic and comfy hotel Paradores, hotel is very close by car to city center, about 10-15 minutes, staff in general doesn't speak good English but were quite helpful and sweet, food in hotel is pricey but delicious.
“Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.”
Deborah Day
Photo source: www.vogue.com | Gucci Spring 2013. RTW
Seems like this Spring 2013.season started way early in stores this season and pushed out those Winter sales dressing us in Spring's beiges, whites, dots and ruffles already now when it is still quite cold outside.
Karl Lagerfled said couple of years back: "The future of fashion is 6 months" , I would actually upgrade and fast forward this statement saying that fashion industry now became such a fast pace industry that now with resort, pre-season and regular season collection launches it's turn around period is 2-3 months which is quite a big challenge both for creative teams but also sales and distribution teams.
This again leads to unavoidable trend in fashion which is - bringing back and upgrading traditional cuts, fabrications and patterns. After covering Spring 2013. color trends white & yellow, with this post I am covering polka dots trend which I like and can imagine myself wearing if dots are really small white on black and ruffles trend which for me is an upgrade of overused peplum trend in last two fashion seasons.
Here are some of my favorite polka doted and ruffled designed pieces with my absolute favorite being Stéphane Rolland, Gucci and Balenciaga.
Photo source: www.vogue.com | Chanel Spring 2013. RTW
Photo source: www.vogue.com | Ashis Spring 2013. RTW
Photo source: www.vogue.com | Balenciaga Spring 2013. RTW
Photo source: www.vogue.com | Balenciaga Spring 2013. RTW
Photo source: www.vogue.com | Gucci Spring 2013. RTW
Photo source: www.vogue.com | Stephane Rolland Spring 2013. RTW
What about you ladies, are you up for ruffles, polka dots or both? :)
Photo via style.com | Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
All of you who followed Spring 2013. RTW fashion week know that yellow is the color which you could see appearing on almost every single designer show while few designers also followed 60's Mod trend.
Shift dresses and short hemlines were noticed as well and although mostly black and white this ray of sunshine yellow in most collections was definitely worth celebrating.
From lemon, to canary and mustard, and everything in between Spring 2013 fashion week was all about that yellow dress! Personally, I have worn some yellows, lately this were mostly yellow sweaters, cardigans or work out t-shirts but I didn't venture into wearing a full bright lemon yellow dress although I just might this upcoming Spring season! Honestly I can't wait for the warm weather which I think I might catch earlier this year as I;ll spend at least ten days per month in Barcelona, Spain. I better get some tan to make my yellow dress better pop up when walking on sunshine ;)
Will you dare to go full bright yellow ladies?
Here is my selection of fabulous Spring RTW 2013. yellows:
Photo via style.com | Fendi Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
Photo via style.com | Alexandre Herchcovitch Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
Photo via style.com | Chado Ralph Rucci Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
Photo via style.com | DVF Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
Photo via style.com | Gucci Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
Photo via style.com | Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
Photo via style.com | DKNY Spring/Summer RTW 2013.
Lily Donaldson featured in the V Magazine, March 2012
Even though its still quite cold outside Spring is indeed behind the corner, especially if we are talking fashion calendar. Most retail stores are already displaying Spring collections in their windows. So...before we are ready to wear upcoming Spring's quite unforgiving whites, yellows and beige we better start shaping up and working out quickly!
With this post I would like to give you a short fashionable guide on how to motivate and equip yourself to start working out still today! Because yesterday, you probably said you would do it tomorrow. ;)
1.MOTIVATION
Obviously our prime motivation should be healthy and vibrant body, but let's be honest, most of the time it's not. Usually it is rapidly approaching Summer bikini season or another special occasion in life like for example, your wedding. See...for me it's usually clothes :)
So what I do is that I buy a dress I was dying to have and wear in size I should be as per my height, age and well...pre-Christmas measures and then I hang it in front of my closet as a motivation. I also print and stick Kate Moss's quote both at work by my laptop screen and at home at the fridge: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." -it works for me, true story ladies.
2. EQUIPMENT
Or the way I like to call it "looking pretty at the gym FW 2012/13. for SS 2013." What you wear in the gym is obviously very personal cause you should wear whatever makes you comfortable but I think that many confuse the word comfortable with sloppy. Same way you do shopping for any other occasion you should do for working out and you should think of it as a long term day to day activity and not just 'new years resolutions session' and 'panic mode before the Summer session' in the gym.
My proposal is to use year end discounts to stock up on some gym basics like tank tops, really good sports bras, joga pants or tights, towels, slippers, reusable water bottle to stay eco-friendly and most importantly good quality gym shoes.
Bellow are my suggestion of the best pics based on my experience in the last couple of years. For workout clothes I mostly choose Victorias Secret Pink and VSX collections, I have been wearing them since college and still order them here in Europe and I am very happy with the comfort, support and durability they provide.
Victorias Secret VSX Sport collection | price tops: 29 - 56 USD | price bottoms: 64 - 69 USD
Victorias Secret Pink Collection | price: 59.50 USD
I recently got contacted by a charming lady from Equa company producing these practical, very good quality, healtiher for usage then plastic bottles, eco-friendly (100% recyclable) and oh-so-fashionable glass bottles. These bottles are made out of borosilicate glass and the cap is made of stainless steel while they are further protected with silicone bands which prevents them from slipping from your hands during work out.
On top of all, 10% of each purchase goes to none-profit organizations which work to reduce eco-print of plastic bottles in the world.
I have chosen this third yellow and pink bottle for testing and will let you know my hands-on experience soon.
Victorias Secret PINK collection | price: 49.50 USD
I really love customised things so I totally fell in love with Nike's iD collections where you can customise your shoes and other sportswear by adding your iD (name, number etc.) as well as choose the color of every little piece of your shoe! I customised bellow pieces to my liking but you can make it be any of the offered colors.
Nike iD sneakers | price: 145 - 170 USD
3.WORK OUT & ENTERTAINMENT
The gym I go to by my office here in Budapest offers variety of group programs like Zumba, cycling, yoga, pilates etc. as well as the Olympic size pool and regular gym. I do most of my workouts in a regular gym and I listed to the music on my iPhone all the way through.
Few years ago when I was still living in US I got Nike+ sneakers and Apple made sensor which goes into your shoe and it records your runs and synchronizes it via your iPhone Nike application. Great think about my gym is that machines I mostly use: track, elliptical and step machine have USB port where I insert my iPhone and see my playlists on the machine screen during my workout. Once I am done I can share my run score on Facebook and Twitter and brag about how well I ran :)
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