Talk talk talk

Today I have a very special post for you. A long time ago I decided to make interviews with some of my favorite bloggers and see what their opinion is about different topics.

Now the time has to post it, as a bonus to the anniversary week “celebrations”.

The interview has been made with two bloggerinas: Celine aka The Shoe Girl and Sam of Daily Fashion Boost. Both girls are crazy for shoes, that is what they have in common. They are however, different regarding their age, their career, their location and their personal style. I’m still a fan of both of them!

What else do I have left than to show to interview? Enjoy!

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- At what age did you start to show interest for fashion in general? How did it start?

TSG: I like to say I was born with heels on Honestly, as far back as I can remember I loved fashion and especially shoes. Having my dad in the shoe industry meant that I was always around shoes and fashion conscious!

DFB: I always was interested in fashion. When I was a little girl I was always sitting behind my grandmothers sewing machine, busy with making clothes for my Barbie’s or sewing pieces of fabric together. She always had trouble to get me away from it, haha.
Or when I was shopping with my mom, my mom showed me 2 different tops and I had to pick one. I said for example the left one and she kept the left one, got a different top and let me choose again. I kept saying that I wanted the left top. I always knew what I wanted with clothing.

- What do you think about the importance of the shoes in an outfit?

TSG: I think that many times the shoe IS the outfit. I’m a firm believer in cheap clothes/great shoes! I can only really afford either expensive clothes or shoes and I choose shoes almost every time. I love to dress up an inexpensive outfit from Forever 21 with some killer heels! When I’m going out I usually build the outfit around my shoes too.

DFB: It can make your outfit or break it. I think a lot of girls agree with me on that. If you have a great outfit, but the shoes don’t match it in any way, the outfit is a disaster. I often see girls walking on the street with great things on, but then I look at the shoes and it just doesn’t match, the whole outfit is ruined for me then.

- What is your opinion of fashion trends? How do you decide, what to follow and what is not worth it?

TSG: Being in “the business” I feel like it’s not really something I think about anymore. Knowing fashion trends is my job so it’s sort of just embedded in my brain and when I go to buy things for myself it’s not really something I think about – it just happens.
Obviously I have to keep in mind what trends are age appropriate though

DFB: I’ve always had a strong opinion. If I liked something, I really really liked it and when I didn’t liked something it’s immediately over. So I like some trends and some I don’t. I don’t like the most of them this winter. I’m not the kind of girl who’s going to wear leather pants, ripped tights, studded leggins and things like that. Though, I must admit that I really haven’t looked at fashion shows for this fall and winter. I only look at the ones I’m interested in like: Prada, Miu Miu, Luella, Chloé and that’s about it. They always have things I like. I see the rest of designers on fashion blogs! And I look at Dexter’s blog for the shoes!^^ (Oh thx lol /Dexter)

- Who is/are your favorite shoe designer(s)?

TSG: This is always such a tough question! I think it depends on the season and the collection but if we go by how many shoes of a certain designer I have – then Christian Louboutin is the winner. If we go for sexy style and amazing comfort – YSL takes it. For dramatic shoes unlike anything, my Kirkwoods are it!

DFB: Miuccia Prada, Miuccia Prada, Miuccia Prada! I have about 7 pairs of shoes from Miu Miu and 3 of Prada. From not one designer I have this many shoes. It’s like she reads my mind.

- Show me your favorite shoe(s) of your own wardrobe!

TSG: Here are some of my favorite shoes of the moment!

DFB:

(I still have many more shoes I love love love, but these have something really special.)

- Sketch/draw your dream shoe!

TSG: I wouldn’t say thins was my dream shoe but it’s inspired by one of my favorite trends – art deco. The back is inspired by New York and the Chrystler building I LOVE NY!

DFB: My dream shoe already exists! I don’t even have to draw them! They’re from the S/S 2010 collection from Miu Miu (of course).

I’m already saving for them! I really need to get my hands on them. I never had this big urge to have something like now. This is seriously my dream shoe. I already know how I want to combine them!

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Let me say  T H A N K   Y O U  to Celine and Sam for doing this interview! I hope all of you enjoyed it!

Last but not least I was honored by Hauteworld as she passed an award to me:

Thank you! I pass it on to every lovely blogger(ina) who’s blog I regularly visit!

Best of October 2009

Today is the first Sunday of November, so I did browse through my pictures of October and selected 25 of them that I consider the best or the most interesting.

Alessandra Ambrosio

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Asia Argento

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Blake Lively

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Ciara

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Diane Krüger

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Tennis players in Dubai

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Evan Rachel Wood

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Jeanette Biedermann

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Jennifer Lopez

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Katherine Jenkins

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Katy Perry and ...well, you know, lol

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Kelly Rowland

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Kylie Minogue

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Audrina and Lo

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Lauren Conrad

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Marisa Miller

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Mihalik Enikő

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Miranda Kerr

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Donatella Versace and Mischa Barton

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Nicole Scherzinger

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Pamela Anderson

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Shakira

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Taylor Momsen

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Thalia

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Tyra Banks

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You can download all the pictures in high resolution by clicking here.

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The anniversary week may be over today, but I still have a giveaway for you:

This is a one year subscription of  ”Wonderland” magazine. Just leave a comment to enter

I hope you all had a great weekend!

Colorful anniversary

Special day, special post

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Download all these pictures of Agyness Deyn in HQ from here.

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Download all pictures of Kylie Minogue’s Tourbook 2009 from here.

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Lady Gaga for Rolling Stones magazine 2009

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Download all pictures of Mihalik Enikő in HQ from here.

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Download all pictures of Campari’s 2010 calendar with Olga in HQ from here.

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Download all pictures of Olga Kurylenko’s shoot in HQ from here.

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Download all pictures of Scarlett for Mango in HQ from here.

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Today is exactly the day of the blog’s first birthday, this was my first post.

There are some interesting stats of this first year:

Number of posts: 146

Comments: 827

Total number of visitors: 150 113

Top 10 search engine terms:

Olivia Wilde 3,953
Julie Benz 2,340
Nastia Liukin 2,279
Barbara Bermudo 1,871
high heel times 1,619
Ali Larter 1,330
Blake Lively 1,280
Kaley Cuoco 1,191
Emmanuelle Chriqui 1,189
Jennifer Esposito 1,173

Top 5 referrers towards my blog:

theshoegirl.blogspot.com 1,018
janetteria.blogspot.com 381
passionlouboutin.blogspot.com 261
heelsandthequeencity.heels.com 233
glitzproject.blogspot.com 233

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As the last part of todays post, guess what, there’s the second giveaway:

A satin shoe bag and the book: Manolo Blahník Drawings (60th Anniversary Edition) over 200 pages. To enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment (you can multiply you entries by the usual twitter tweets). Open for a week.

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Big  THANKS to all of my readers and visitors over the past year, I hope you’ll continue to stop by every now and then!

Power trip and …

I’m posting that certain editorial from Grazia that I have been talking about back then. Despite the magazine is far from fantastic, I still enjoyed these few pages. I hope you like them as well!

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That’s not all for today. As it is anniversary week, I’m doing my first giveaway:

The package includes the 365 Days of Shoes Calendar 2010 (Picture-A-Day wall calendar) and a ”Dior Vernis” nail lacquer by Christian Dior (color 972). Not much, I know, but giveaways are supposed to be fun in the first place, right? To enter, just leave a comment, that’s all. Closes in one week, on the 3rd of November.

Check back regularly, who knows when the next giveaway comes up

The dresses of October 2009

Today is the last Sunday of October, so I did put a few outfits together. I think they represent the current trends in London, I’ve been influenced by all those looks on the streets, I admit.

Let’s say, three sisters went out to party to London’s most fascinating places:

Click here to see all the details – shoes by Brian Atwood, Emanuel Ungaro and Christian Louboutin. I know, I know, these ladies left their home without their purses and without any accessoires

Okay, let me talk now a bit about the influence and the experiences that I had when I put these outfits together. First of all, I had the opportunity to see the City on a Friday and a Saturday night, which means everyone went nuts there and showed off their outfits. I also had the pleasure to be at a prestigious night club (where a fashion show took place, pictures coming up next week) – I felt like I’d be in the Hills The point is, I’ve seen plenty of chick and glamorous girls and ladies, their outfits gave the inspiration how to do the looks of the sisters – of course, with high-end items.

There were also other experiences. In this city, girls wear flats at daytime, there aren’t that many heels during the day – which is quite interesting IMO (except the Japanese ladies who seem to have born with heels on). I know it’s hard to wear them like for 8-9 hours, but still, that’s not impossible. I’ve got a friend who has one pair of flats and that’s her trainers which she uses for running. Anyway, all these girls change when the sun goes down, and almost the whole city has heels on – and they don’t seem to suffer!

Of course, some of them do. I can’t hide my smile when I see a girl carrying her heels in her hands around 1 am, walking on the streets barefoot (=big NO!). Is it impossible to find shoes that don’t kill your feet? Clever girls take a bag with them, in which they have their ballerinas for such occasions…

Another thing: I see girls and ladies in this city going to the party/going home without any jackets, usually without thighs, sometimes wearing peep toe pumps. I can see some of them are freezing in this temperatures (around +3-8 Celcius), some are all right. What is wrong with them? If it’s cold, why don’t they wear a freakin’ jacket? Those who are all right, how come they don’t freeze (no, they aren’t all Russians)? Please tell me the story behind this. The cloakroom isn’t that expensive!

As you see, there are some things that surprise me in London If there are any readers from London, feel free to tell about your point of view

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This week is blog anniversary week, hopefully there will be a lot going on around here, check back often!

Thanks for reading, have a nice Sunday!

The crazier the better

Finally, I’m back on track and here we go again with another selection of three quite extreme pairs.

To start with the simplest of them, let’s take a look at LC’s beloved footwear these days:

I love the details of this sandal; well, we expect spectacular shoes from Givenchy, don’t we? It’s price is around $1200.

The next innovative pair is this:

Cool design, isn’t it? In case you’d like to buy a pair, you don’t have to save for such a long time, it costs only $360!

The craziest of today’s post is definitely the boots of the French magician. You could see Carine Roitfeld wearing it, and one of the most hated bitch girl of Hollywood, Heidi bought a pair as well. In my opinion, she looks great in the first outfit, the boots and the clothes match well. In the second outfit however, she managed to created the streetwalker-look, which might not have been the best choice of her life.

Nevertheless, the boots are awesome, if you’re brave enough and have a matching outfit (and $2000), go for it!

Tomorrow I’ll attend a fashion show again, I’m going to post the images of it along with those that I still haven’t ASAP. See you all on Sunday, ladies and gents!

UPDATE:

The Shoe Girl wrote first about these…looks fantastic…$3400…

In the UK they think…

I’ve always wanted to know, what’s inside an average British fashion and style magazine. I had no choice than to buy one, I’ve bought “Grazia” and now I share some parts of it with you.

First of all, what kind of ads are in such a magazine? You might remember what ads have been featured in the British Vogue, let’s see what’s the difference! Some pictures are available in a bigger size too.

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One could also read their opinion about the London Fashion Week:

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There was also some fashion advice:

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The reason why I’ve chosen “Grazia” was that they’ve had a special part for shoes:

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Sorry for the quality, I didn’t have much time and equipment to do this in a fine quality.

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I’ve also picked up another magazine, as far as I remember, it was for free, they had this advice for the readers:

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This is it for today, there have not been too many fashion disasters lately so there was no need for the “Please don’t” post today. I hope you enjoy these pictures, now you know what the mainstream British fashion media is talking about.

I’ve also bought a magazine with a much higher niveau, it’s called Wonderland. That is an amazing mag if you’re looking for fantastic pictures and ultra-high-end fashion. However, pictures of that will be coming up later

Help!

Counting down the days…If nothing unusual happens, hopefully I’ll be able to read your blogs from Wednesday again – I bet I need to catch up. Sorry for not visiting you blogs!

Somehow I still managed to post today. The usual question: who are the designers of these shoes?

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See you soon!

Best of September+Polydress+London

Today I’m able to post again, my internet crisis will end in 12 days. 12 looong days…

As today is the first Sunday of the month, it’s time for me show my fav pictures of September:

Amber Heard

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Anna Kurnikova

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Avril and Tommy

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Blake Lively

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Charlize Theron

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Diane Krüger

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Emma Watson

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Eva Mendes

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Ivanka Trump and Olivia Palermo

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Katie Cassidy

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Kelly Brook

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Keri Hilson

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Kim Kardashian

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Steph, Audrina and Lo

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Lindsay Lohan

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Maria Grazia Cucinotta

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Mariah Carey and Oprah

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Freida, Alexa and MKO

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Mihalik Enikő

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Mihalik Enikő

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Miley Cyrus

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Reebok event - Miranda Kerr

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Reebok event - Marisa Miller

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Reebok event - Irina Sheik

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Nastia Liukin

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Oliva Wilde

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Pamela Anderson

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Rihanna

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SJP

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Sharon Stone

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You can download them all in high quality from here.

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In this post I also feature the post that I should have posted last Sunday, the dress(es) put together with Polyvore. Inspired by the trends in London, but sticking to the basics items, here’s what I’ve come up with:

Details here. Shoes by Rupert Sanderson, Brian Atwood and boots by Alexander McQueen.

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About London

Aye doin mait?

Well, as you can imagine, there’s a lot going on. One of my things to do was to buy THE book:

I’m so excited to have it!

I’ve also managed to see the exhibition of Garance Doré that Hauteworld wrote about. I’ve made pictures, so in case you’ve missed it, you can still see the exhibition. Click on the image to get to the gallery.

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I’ve also been at a charity fashion show and took an awful lot of pictures, but I’m still behind with the uploading. I’ll post the link ASAP.

Have a nice Sunday, cheers

PS: The only thing I hate about this city is the huge amount of UGGs. Sorry.

Maintenance

I’m facing internet troubles at my new place in London, not sure when I’ll be posting again. The Polydress post is late already…Damn, I thought it would be easier to have working, fast internet in one of the biggest cities in the world in the 21st century…Grrrr.