Altuzarra Spring/Summer 2016.
This season I decided to start my fashion week reviews by city starting with of course New York, I have seen all of the shows and selected my favorite looks based on wearability, quality and visible, interesting trends for upcoming fashion season.
Altuzarra's designer described his collection as “Very serene, about the beauty of materials which are close to nature, like linen, cotton and burlap; things which are not fussy, and meant to look wrinkled.” 
I love this collection because it's strong, rich with great quality fabrics, the looks are combined to be suited as office wear and evening wear, very elegant and easy to take care of. My favorite looks are the first two brown leather coat and top worn with navy linen pants pictured above.
Givenchy Spring/Summer 2016.
As Donna Karen resigned as head designer,  Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne took over designing for the brand and used brands signature 90s power suite as a building block for their debut collection. 
Unapologetic power women from New York City who walks the walk and talks the talk is still there, it's in the brand's DNA. Big shoulders and casual, young and stylish takes on signature power suit took the front stage and updated the brand's appeal for a fresh tribe of 21ct power women.
DKNY Spring/Summer 2016.
J. Crew and Ralph Lauren showed what I call 'Greenwich Connecticut look', J.Crew catering to younger audience and lower price point while RL traditionally to crowed looking for high quality luxurious pieces. This is the look I sometimes go for for my casual and work wear classic dressing.
J.Crew is endlessly fun, young and chic but has gone high up in pricing while Ralph Lauren as always justifies the price point with quality, durability and fabric/making quality which is eternal, never goes out of style.
Ralph Lauren's signature Americana looks are very wearable as separates but also styled as on the runway with more dramatic head to toe leather suite looks or double breasted multicolor midi raincoat.
Ralph Lauren Spring/Summer 2016.
Alexander Wang celebrated the first decade of his brand after leaving Balenciaga and launching a successful capsule collaboration with fast fashion brand H&M. As always Wang' s collection listened and followed the street, more accurately, the streets of New York, there was no special concept behind the collection as designer himself admitted, it was young, urban and modern featuring military and deconstructed denim pieces, with a tad of more dramatic fringe on oversized military jackets.

Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2016.
Did you see any of the shows? Which one was your favorite?
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All Photos: Armina Bavcic | Dress: Spell Design | Crown: Kreativni Nered It's funny how no matter how good of a planner you think you are a life sometimes jumps at you with more things at once.
 This Summer was a life changing for me while at the same time very different then any other, busy and dynamic both professionally and more so on private level. My priorities definitely changed, but more details about the change in one of my next posts ;)
My boyfriend and I decided to settle in Barcelona where we purchased our first home together and plan to stay here for next three years and possibly also live here after his basketball career ends.  We also decided to furnish our own Summer home in Dubrovnik, an apartment which my boyfriend had for some time now and which was just sitting unfurnished for years. This was the dynamic part of Summer where I spent most of the time chasing the workers who were pre-paid to work on the apartment to actually come and work. Needless to say, Dubrovnik apartment is still not done and they promised to have it done by end of (last) June. I used the opportunity of spending the Summer in Dubrovnik to collaborate with some Croatian designers and crafters. One of them called  Kreativni Nered  (in translation Creative Mess) made me a gorgeous needle stitched white crown featured in this post alongside of my favorite Summer boho vintage lace dress from Spell Design. The City of Dubrovnik and surrounding area is absolutely gorgeous so it wasn't hard to find a great shooting location. My friend Armina suggested Arboretum Trsteno, gorgeous small botanical garden where Game of Thrones was filmed close to the beach with breathtaking views and untouched nature. Arboretum Trsteno is known by it's natural beauty and the 500-year old giant natural monuments - Asian plane-trees.  One can easily get there in some 20 minutes by one of the regular buses connecting Dubrovnik with the Dubrovnik coast land. Trsteno boasts the15th century renaissance summer residence of Gučetić-Gozze family, with its garden which has been cultivated from the 15th century until today. The garden encompassing the summer residence, aqueduct, mill, the fountain with Neptune and nymphs and the belvedere pavilion overlooking the sea and islands is the finest example of Dubrovnik summer residence garden architecture. XoXo

"There really is nothing else quite like it. We read more books, watch more films and listen to more songs about it than anything else. It quickens the heart, lights the soul and makes us whole."
As I already posted in last several posts, this Summer my boyfriend and I moved to a new apartment in Barcelona but also into a new Summer home in Dubrovnik so this Summer was all about packing, unpacking, cleaning and decorating for us. The good part of moving into a new place is that you are forced to go through and organize all your stuff and get rid of the stuff you really don't need anymore. 
My favorite part of settling into a new place was unpacking my photo albums and my jewelry. I peaked into each of these little precious boxes of earnings, necklaces, bracelets and rings and with this I opened mostly fond memories connected to the jewelry piece I was unpacking.

Most of my jewelry I got as a gift. Some of it is connected with gentle, loving, positive emotions while some make me a bit sad as I reminisce, such as my late grandmothers pearl earrings. 
For centuries people have been gifting jewelry as a symbol of love, a promise, friendship or appreciation. No matter the value, jewelry symbolizes the gift of heart, a gift of emotion which intensifies and revives with each wear.  
I often find myself impulsively clinging on my heart necklace whenever I watch my boyfriend play an intense basketball game, when I feel proud or when I just miss him for being away for home on a longer trip for a number of days in a row. Every morning I am putting it on my neck it feels like I am getting a big hug from my boyfriend no matter if he is home or not at the time. When I put it on, I feel fully dresses and ready to go about my day.

Photo source: http://www.beigerenegade.com/ 

Shop Michael Hill Rings 

Shop Michael Hill Necklaces

When I first discovered Michael Hill Jewelry, the historic brands vision and direction of designing and crafting contemporary jewelry collections really hit home as they simply 'get it'. They know how to show emotion in a way that is bigger then words and their jewelry design caters to a whole rainbow or emotions, types of love, type of people and gifting purposes. The brand was founded in 1979 in New Zealand by entrepreneur and visionary Michael Hill and since it has expanded globally. 

"When given it’s an expression of love. Young love, old love, motherly love, straight love, gay love, forbidden love, brotherly love, it seals love, nurtures, creates, kindles and declares love for all the world to see."

"We don’t care what kind of love you’re into, we just want to make sure you get your fair share."

by  Michael Hill Jewelry "We’re for Love."
What would you do for love? I would love to hear a story behind your favorite jewelry piece in a comment bellow.

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"Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, average-looking clothing. "Normcore" is a portmanteau of the words "normal" and "hardcore". The word first appeared in webcomic Templar, Arizona, and was later was employed by K-Hole, a trend forecasting group, in an October 2013 report called "Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom".

As used by K-Hole, "normcore" referred to an attitude, not a particular code of dress. It was intended to mean "finding liberation in being nothing special."However, a piece in New York magazine that began popularizing the term in February 2014 conflated it with "Acting Basic", another K-Hole concept which involved dressing neutrally to avoid standing out. It was this sense of "normcore" which gained popular usage."
I remember attending Milan Fashion Week few years back and by attending I don't mean taking photos in front of the show venues but actually going to see the show as part of my actual work schedule. There was an army of peacock looking bloggers stopping the anyways messy traffic to take the photo of themselves 'crossing the street' trying to have their boyfriend photographer catch the taxi as a backdrop, at the time that was 'a thing'.
In between the two shows I met with Yvan Rodic,  the blogger behind the Facehunter blog to talk to him about doing a project for my company and potentially attending local Croatia Fashion Week. I remember I was wearing a t-shirt I got in New York years back, skinny black jeans, high black heel sandals and a blazer, I also had a hat on, as you do know already I am a hat person and have a quit a collection. A person from an office in UK came to meet me for a show and we started talking and introducing ourselves to each other, when I said I was a fashion blogger for a number of years now (on a side with having a corporate job) she was surprised and said, Ouu my..I would never say, you don't look and talk like a fashion blogger.     At first I didn't know if I should take it as an insult or a compliment. She explained, you don't use word 'like' all the time and you are not dresses head to toe in weird clothes. So, I took it as a compliment.
In recent fashion forecasting reports and magazine editorials and articles I noticed the trend switch and more frequent mention of the word 'normcore'.
 Normcore is to be differentiated from a term 'basic bitch' which some bloggers derogatory use for someone who is unflinchingly upholding of the status quo and stereotypes of their gender without even realizing it. According to urban dictionary: "This is the person who engages in typical, unoriginal behaviors, modes of dress, speech, and likes. She is tragically/laughably unaware of her utter lack of specialness and intrigue." From my understanding, this would be the person who blindly follows trends and has no personal sense of style which makes him or her blend with the crowd.
With noticing more and more bloggers dressing 'normally' with a touch of uniqueness when it comes to jewelry or other accessory I can't help but wonder is blending in the new standing out?
I would love to hear your thoughts!
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When I lived in US my favorite Summer drink was Starbucks Green Tea Frapucinno, sadly, they don't serve it in Barcelona Starbucks cafes. Matcha green tea ice cream is actually a huge hit this year all over so it's being served at placed like McDonalds, Crispy Kreme, Haagen-Dazs and many others. 
Thus I decided to share a very simple 3 ingredient recipe with you which I tried and LOVED!  You can buy green tea powder in any healthy food store or in Croatia order is from The House of Green Tea online.
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup heavy cream, cold (240ml) 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) sweetened condensed milk, cold (76g)* 4.5 teaspoons green tea powder (12g)

PREPARATION:
1. Mix 4.5 teaspoons of green tea powder in 3 soup spoons of hot water and let cool. 2. Whip 1 cup of cold heavy cream until stiff (you can use hand mixer or a regular manual whisk). Heavy cream (sweet cooking cream) whip it to stiff without sugar. 3. Mix green tea mixture with 1.2 cup of cold sweetened condensed milk. 4. Add in green tea and (sweetened) condensed milk mixture into heavy cream and fold carefully until combined.  5. Move the mixture to a container and cover with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 6 hours or overnight ( I left it overnight).
Extra tip: If you like your ice cream sweater add a one tea spoon of vanilla extract to mixture while whipping. I recommend to add raisins, cranberries, coconut or grounded almonds when serving the ice cream. 
I hope you really enjoy this delicious Summer treat! 

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Even though I have a decent collection of pants and jeans I always somehow end up wearing dresses and skirts. When it comes to my pant of choice I go for skinny or lightly flared jeans which used to be very hard to find in my size which is extra long but not wide as I am 6'1'' tall. 
When I started working in office environment I opted out for dark wash high waist or light flair denim pants or cigarette pants but in recent two years I discovered that crop pant which I always feared as I thought they looked on me as if 'I had a flood at home', with being so tall....but I learned to love and wear them in different fabrications and styles with flats and heels and they actually do look very flattering on tall girls. 


The pant of this season is definitely the culotte pant which has enjoyed quite a reign on the runways lately, so it should come as little surprise that fashion's next favorite pant wouldn't be too far off, actually in the Fall we will be wearing the cropped flare. Whittled through the leg and kicked out at the hem. Get ready to see them from Zara to H&M as high end brands like Giambattista Valli, Alexander Wang, Michael Kors, Theory, Derek Lam 10 Crosby to name the few have already showed them on their Fall runways.
I got my eyes on few of inexpensive and easy to wear every day versions from Hong Kong based brand Wnderkammer. 


Are you wiling to try flare crop pant? See more fab pieces to shop bellow from $30 to $1000!

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