Sneaker of the day: Lanvin Embroidery High Trainer Sneakers

This pair of kicks is one of the item in my this year wish list. This expensive, Italian-made embroidered high trainer sneakers has round toe with rubber toe cap and serrated edging, reinforced metal eyelets and come with multi color beading and sequins on sides. Also come with quilted ribbing with beige suede edging along back of heel at top line. The upper is made up of calf skin leather. The insole is also leather with embossed logo of Lanvin.











So do you think about this sneaker worth the price?

Eco Fashion: Sanuk Launches Eco-Friendly Project - Rasta

In tandem with surf champion and Sanük team member Dave "Rasta" Rastovich, and echoing the Rastafarian ethos of natural living (no real connection here, just a cool coincidence), Sanük is rolling out a new line of environmentally friendly sandals that might make Bob Marley himself smile. As the leading edge of the brand’s Spring 2010 collection, its innovative RASTA Project (Recycled And Sustainable Trade Alliance) hopes to spark "One Love" among all peoples of the world, inspire a wave of "Jamming" and affirm its corporate mantra, "No Stiff Shoes, No Cry."















Some of the materials used in the RASTA line include:



· Sustainable latex and cork molded foot bed, featuring jute inlay detail

· Layered hemp upper, providing maximum comfort, with RASTA labeling

· Recycled tire outsole, gathered from neighboring factories

· Super-soft, recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) liner and toe post

· Completely vegan and vegetarian

Amanda's Fashion Picks.......My Favourite Fashion Pieces

My favourite fashion collections are always couture and resort. Couture always thinks outside the box and resort always gives me the warm, fuzzy feeling that you get when the snow starts to melt and the sun starts to shine. With the constant snow fall that has been going on lately this is the perfect pick-me-up to the cold grey weather.

Elie Saab

Mighty Aphrodite! This couture collection is beyond beautiful. The soft colours mixed with shots of yellow and sparkles create a soft, floaty collection that makes me want to be a part of Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream. Ahhh! What a nice breath of fresh, couture air!

Chanel Couture

This show is just pastels, creamy white and delicious all over! It reminds me of cupcakes and confections with the styling conjuring up memories of Sofia Coppolla's Marie Antoinette. The big hair, bows, layers and ruffles are fit for a lady who wears her femininity on her sleeve.

3.1 Philip Lim

This resort collection is fresh, clean and modern, just the way I like it. The large eyelet fabric combined with the whites, greys and blacks adds a sophisticated sexiness that is perfect for day and good for night.

Amanda

Go Canada Go!

Just incase you haven't had enough of the Olympics, (Canada has won 15 medals thus far, woo-hoo!) then you must purchase this adorable t-shirt designed by Marc Jacobs in support of Canada.

It's available at Holt Renfrew for $65. Show your love!

Amanda

Backwards and on ice skates

Congratulations to Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the young Canadians who won the gold medal in ice-dancing on Monday night...

I think they're just adorable--classy and elegant in a sport that is not necessarily known for those qualities, with a beautiful rapport while skating. The commentators made a big deal about this being the first time that a North American team has won the gold medal in ice-dancing, but the funny thing is that Virtue and Moir's skating seems to epitomize old-world European romanticism. I mean, they look like they should be gliding on the frozen Neva River through old St. Petersburg... meanwhile, the actual Russian team, who won the bronze medal, were the tackiest skaters in the competition!

I even found myself thinking of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers while watching Virtue and Moir skate. Partly because Tessa Virtue's costume reminded me of the gown Ginger wore for the "Never Gonna Dance" number in Swing Time: white, backless, with a low v-neck, criss-cross rhinestone straps, and floaty skirt.



I think this is my all-time favorite Rogers costume... and "Never Gonna Dance" is definitely my favorite Astaire-Rogers dance number. In fact, I semi-facetiously say that I am ill-equipped to deal with real life because I watched Swing Time too often at an impressionable age. I was obsessed with it when I was three, four, five years old. And somehow it made me believe that that was what adult life would be like: nightclubs with sparkling lacquer floors, gorgeous evening gowns every night of the week, gentlemen in tuxedos confessing that they loved me--sometimes with the easy grace of "Just the Way You Look Tonight," sometimes with the heartbreaking pathos of "Never Gonna Dance." And it's been a long, slow process to divest myself of those childish illusions.

And now, I bet that all across North America, little girls are forming unrealistic ideals of romance and beauty and grace after watching Virtue and Moir's ice-dancing performance. Lord love 'em for it.

For the Love of Film - Film Preservation Blogathon - The Wrap Up

A time to celebrate! Clara is happy we all love film!

The final tally is IN, the blogathon raised $12,135.00. How awesome is that?

Last minute donations kicked the totals up.

The Siren's wrap up post is here

A hearty thank you to The Self Styled Siren and Ferdy on Films for organizing such a wonderful event.

Man Fashion News: McQueen's Death hurts Fashion World

Yes, there are other big names: Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and Paul Smith come to mind. But the sudden death of Alexander McQueen leaves a gaping hole at the center of London as well as the world fashion universe.



McQueen was Britain's shooting star, a man who helped make London cool again in the 1990s. And his personal history helped inspire others.



The son of a London cabbie, the youngest of six siblings, McQueen was a product of the streets, not a posh dilettante with a wealthy family to back his fashion whims.



Now he is gone, due to an apparent suicide that has not been confirmed by his family or the police. And fashion insiders don't see any heir apparent to the enfant terrible who turned catwalk shows into memorable works of performance art.



So what left behind was two unseen collections: one to be shown at Paris Fashion Week and one that was meant to be presented on the day of his death announcement, for his secondary line McQ.

Sideways

I miss stalking her on Cobrasnake!

(tfs)

Amanda N.

(tfs)

Looking for certain material -- Recycling

Good evening, 

I thought I would tell you guys that I am now accepting

most any type of  material, but I'll be telling the ones I need most.

I'm always on the look out for material to work with.

and since it's winter, there are no flea markets open, and the church basements are

getting rare in my neighborhoods. so I thought I would ask you my readers to help me

get some material your are not using anymore.

If you send me what you don,t use and I'll certainly be willing to make it worth your while.

Ex: a Tea wallet from vintage fabric, a pair of earrings from buttons.

here is a list of what I always need:

-vintage & fun  buttons, cabochon buttons

-vintage cotton fabric

-vintage jewelry and beads, broken chains, any kind of charms that you won,t use .

-old ribbons & laces

-anything computer, circuitry, key, 

-calculator parts

If you have any questions about any other stuff you might want to donate, please contact me and I'll let you know.  It's very important not to throw away anything, and if I can use it in something then, please ship it to me, and I'll create something for you in return.

Thanks for thinking about this and giving the earth a chance.

Another way of getting a Recupefashion creation.

Humiliation no more

Have you ever heard of a game called "Humiliation"? Evidently, the author David Lodge invented it in his novel Changing Places. It's a party game to be played at gatherings of the snobbish and overeducated: everyone goes around the room naming the title of the book they are most embarrassed that they have never read. The person with the most humiliating admission is declared the winner.

Thinking that I might one day find myself a participant in a game of Humiliation, I got my answer ready: I would say that, to my great chagrin, I had neither seen nor read Chekhov's Three Sisters.

But now I'll have to think of a new answer, because I finally corrected this embarrassing gap in my knowledge, and I'm so glad I did. I don't know what took me this long. I mean, it would be one thing if I didn't like Chekhov. (Yes, there are people who have that opinion... even if I find it inexplicable.) But I love his three other plays! I wrote a research paper on him and Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theater when I was in high school! And yet I had never read Three Sisters. Perhaps I was unconsciously trying to preserve it, knowing that Chekhov wrote so few plays, and that once I read Three Sisters I would never again experience the thrill of reading a major Chekhov play for the first time.

So, this probably isn't news to any of you, but Three Sisters is a gorgeous play, and the passage where Tuzenbach and Vershinin debate what life will be like in 200 years might be my favorite thing Chekhov ever wrote. The play so perfectly balances joy and despair... where The Seagull is all about unrequited love, the sadness of Three Sisters is offset by our knowledge that no matter what happens to them, the sisters will always love and support each other. It's the kind of play where the characters declare that they're happy, and it breaks your heart.

And yet, it's funny, too. I made a friend of mine read the Tuzenbach/Vershinin dialogue I mentioned above, and her first reaction was "It's funny," and I could have kissed her for that, because so many people don't see the humor in Chekhov, and she did, right off the bat. Then she said "But you realize that people these days don't care about this kind of thing. They all want to see, like, The Matrix."

Maybe. But I remain hopeful that, as Tuzenbach says, "Life won't change. It will still be hard and happy and mysterious. Three hundred years from now, people will still go around complaining 'Oh, life is so hard,' and they will still be afraid to die, the same as they are now." And if that holds true, then there will always be a place for Chekhov.

Le denim

(knightcat)

Long Winter Hats

Good day,

Today I'm listing some awesome long winter hats

You'll look super fab in these.

They'll remind you of your younger days.

These are made of a sweater sleeve, and with a part of the border rib I made the edge of the hat.

And to top it off, I added a pretty pompom.

It adds the finishing touch.

The size is one size fits all.

These little beauties are selling for $15.00

Shipping $14.95 for a total of $29.95

Great piece of art.

Long winter hat  with pompom  Checkered Brown & off white

This long winter hat is adorable. Completely re purposed.
That's what we use to wear when we were kids. Remember?.
Made from sweater sleeves and other sweater parts, that's what I call recycling.
The hat measures: 26 inches in length without the pompom.
The circumference for the head measures: 16in. and stretches to 20in.Give or take.
This hat is a real head turner. It is really comfortable.
IF you have any questions about this or any other item please convo me.
Thanks for looking at my shop.

 

 

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Long winter hat with pompom in Teal

This long winter hat is so adorable. Completely re purposed and eco.
I remember wearing those when I was a kid.
Made from sweater sleeves and other sweater parts, that's what I call recycling.
The hat measures: 22 inches in length without the pompom.
The circumference for the head measures: 19in. and stretches to 22in.Give or take.

If you have any questions about this or any other items , please convo me.
Thanks for looking at my shop.

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Long winter hat with pompom in black and white

This great looking long winter hat with it's classic colors is a must for winter and it's cold weather.

Completely recycled. Made from sweater sleeves and other sweater parts, now that's what I call recycling.

You'll look jazzy in this hat.
The length of this hat without the pompom is: 29in.
The circumference of the head is: 19in and will stretch to 22in.


If you have any questions about this or any other items, please convo me.
Thanks for looking at my shop.

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Long winter hat with pompom,  in Moss

You"ll look great with this one of a kind long winter hat..
Then you'll be ready for the cold weather of winter.
Completely recycled.
Made from sweater sleeves and other sweater parts. Now that's what I call recuperation.

The length measures without the pompom: 25.5in
The circumference of the head measures 20 and will stretch to 22in.

If you have any questions about this or any other items, please convo me.

Thanks for looking at my shop.

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Long winter hat with pompom in brown and blue.

Why not dare to look a bit different this winter and stay warm doing it?

By wearing this beautiful long winter hat?
Completely recycled, and outrageously different.
Made from sweater sleeves and sweater parts, now that's what I call recycling.

The length of the tuque without the pompom is: 25in
The circumference measures 17in and will stretch to 22in.
So create a new fashion with these great looking tuques.

If you have any questions about htis or any other item, please convo me.
Thanks for looking at my shop.