The biggest debate to conclude my week of starting college is to dress or not to dress for the darn unpredictable Irish weather, along with the conscious decision of whether your outfit will make a fashionable first impression (mine certainly didn't).
My first day of sticking out a day of being a newbie was Wednesday. I wore an orange jersey dress from Penneys, black tights, black hoody, and a clear beaded jewel necklace. Trying to cater for both weather AND fashion purposes ended up in a mediocre, and shameful outfit. The whole hoody and dress combo makes me shriek, yet I always seem to end up in the same thing in order to shield me from the ever impending weather.
Come Thursday, I stepped it up a gear. Neon leopard print skirt, white roll up tee, same black hoody, and some black & pink neon jewelled earrings. You could question whether I was a confused hipster, or was about to be issued an asbo, but let's not go there.
Finally Friday? Well let's just say I learnt my lesson by the third day and went full steam ahead comfort wise. Leggings and a baggy top. I really really pushed the fashion stakes, you know. My only excuse is that I was catching a 2 and a half hour bus back to Wexford after college and leggings meant I could run after said bus if I was late. (I have a habit of getting on the wrong bus, or being late, or getting off at the wrong stop, basically buses are not my friend)
Come rain sleet snow, and catching the wrong Dublin Bus, I shall be dressing for comfort when trekking it to college. So for future reference, no pain no fashion gain.
Stay tuned for Top 10 Pieces to get you through Autumn Winter.... COMFORTABLY & WEATHER PERMITTING.
Saturday 14 September 2013
Monday 9 September 2013
Colin Horgan SS14
Recently I had the great pleasure of seeing Colin Horgan's SS14 show and meeting the man himself as part of Dublin Fashion Festival. The show was held on South William Street in Dublin, neighbouring Powerscourt Townhouse among other little fashion havens. Any reader (including myself) would question, how the hell a girl with no contacts as such would get her smitten little paws on tickets to a show? My answer? Twitter.
A quick tweet or two expressing your love for a select chiffon piece or a structured leather jacket may seem like an easy way to bag some Horgan tickets but it is exactly that, that led me to become... dare I say it ''twitter buds'' (CRINGE) with Colin. So there you have it, don't be afraid to praise those up and coming fashion designers. They need all the praise they can get from us bloggers, as media coverage in Ireland today, isn't exactly the most fruitful.
Colin's show consisted of a very ethereal and attainable atmosphere. It was a show with no hustle and bustle, you could sit back and watch the garments from sports luxe to slick chic pass you without having to search for the fine detail of what colour thread he used, or question why garments were structured in the way presented. The clothes just existed in themselves and told their own story. That may sound like a somewhat bazaar concept, but each piece was individual, yet the whole show carried the same thread with variations of hues and shapes.
The sports luxe trend could be labelled as over done, as year after year it seems to pop back up but never seems to entirely catch on in high street stores. It's the luxe, that high street stores seem to miss out on, legging and beanies aside (yes I'm a culprit). Colin has put a new surface to sports luxe with mixing different fabrics and keeping the sports element fresh with bursts of orange or blue but keeping it uniform and slick basing it on a monochromatic theme.
Colin's inspo for the collection was from the film The Place Beyond the Pines, he explains
''I was drawn to the character Romina and her struggle to move on in life by herself. Rebuilding and reinforcing the open areas that are constantly left raw leaves pain as she tries to remain strong''. This explanation transfers poignantly and beautifully in Colin's collection.
Colin Horgan is currently studying a BA in Fashion Design in the Limerick School of Art and Design. He has interned with Johanna Pihl in Stockholm, and has worked with Danish designer David Andersen in Copenhagen. Colin Horgan is a menswear and womenswear fashion label, with awards like the KFW One to Watch 2013 among others to his name. His menswear was triumphantly introduced at the Vodafone DIT Fashion Show, where it made the final 10 out of of 43 other designers being the only menswear to make it to the final.
To find out more about Colin Horgan click here, for his facebook page click here, or for his twitter click here.
A quick tweet or two expressing your love for a select chiffon piece or a structured leather jacket may seem like an easy way to bag some Horgan tickets but it is exactly that, that led me to become... dare I say it ''twitter buds'' (CRINGE) with Colin. So there you have it, don't be afraid to praise those up and coming fashion designers. They need all the praise they can get from us bloggers, as media coverage in Ireland today, isn't exactly the most fruitful.
Colin's show consisted of a very ethereal and attainable atmosphere. It was a show with no hustle and bustle, you could sit back and watch the garments from sports luxe to slick chic pass you without having to search for the fine detail of what colour thread he used, or question why garments were structured in the way presented. The clothes just existed in themselves and told their own story. That may sound like a somewhat bazaar concept, but each piece was individual, yet the whole show carried the same thread with variations of hues and shapes.
The sports luxe trend could be labelled as over done, as year after year it seems to pop back up but never seems to entirely catch on in high street stores. It's the luxe, that high street stores seem to miss out on, legging and beanies aside (yes I'm a culprit). Colin has put a new surface to sports luxe with mixing different fabrics and keeping the sports element fresh with bursts of orange or blue but keeping it uniform and slick basing it on a monochromatic theme.
Colin's inspo for the collection was from the film The Place Beyond the Pines, he explains
''I was drawn to the character Romina and her struggle to move on in life by herself. Rebuilding and reinforcing the open areas that are constantly left raw leaves pain as she tries to remain strong''. This explanation transfers poignantly and beautifully in Colin's collection.
Colin Horgan is currently studying a BA in Fashion Design in the Limerick School of Art and Design. He has interned with Johanna Pihl in Stockholm, and has worked with Danish designer David Andersen in Copenhagen. Colin Horgan is a menswear and womenswear fashion label, with awards like the KFW One to Watch 2013 among others to his name. His menswear was triumphantly introduced at the Vodafone DIT Fashion Show, where it made the final 10 out of of 43 other designers being the only menswear to make it to the final.
To find out more about Colin Horgan click here, for his facebook page click here, or for his twitter click here.
Sunday 8 September 2013
New Blog Problems
Finally, my act has been gathered together and I've finally found the time to launch a new blog.. rather tediously may I add (the design features on blogger do not come under the category of practical or pretty, but that's a whole other blog post).
I've always been interested in the fashion game. Cliché statement if you ask me, isn't every girl? I like to describe my ''passion for fashion'' (yuck, another cliché statement) as semi- religious. I cannot get out of the bed in the morning without checking my emails from Business of Fashion,or skimming twitter to see if Henry Holland has had his morning coffee to awaken his fashion inspo for the day. Call it sad, but I call it life.
I've had previous blogs on blogger before that I gave up on either because I was too busy with trying to trudge through the Leaving Cert. (let's not go there) or just wasn't half arsed with the whole having to blog using a computer. Now, with Leaving Cert behind me, and armed with a laptop.. I've never been so carefree and portable to take on this fashion blogging thingymabob.
Let's give this thing a go.
Jen
I've always been interested in the fashion game. Cliché statement if you ask me, isn't every girl? I like to describe my ''passion for fashion'' (yuck, another cliché statement) as semi- religious. I cannot get out of the bed in the morning without checking my emails from Business of Fashion,or skimming twitter to see if Henry Holland has had his morning coffee to awaken his fashion inspo for the day. Call it sad, but I call it life.
I've had previous blogs on blogger before that I gave up on either because I was too busy with trying to trudge through the Leaving Cert. (let's not go there) or just wasn't half arsed with the whole having to blog using a computer. Now, with Leaving Cert behind me, and armed with a laptop.. I've never been so carefree and portable to take on this fashion blogging thingymabob.
Let's give this thing a go.
Jen
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