Showing posts with label Street style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Street style. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2016



Tis the season for bouquets that will make your heart flutter, gourmet chocolates and teary eyed proposals. Cupid’s annual big day is tomorrow. Romance is in the air and you have absolutely no reason not to love up on your partner or heck on yourself :D.

Americans alone purchase fifty eight million pounds of ice cream on Valentines weekend, so if you find yourself with no valentine, be a part of the ice cream buying crew regardless and enjoy a date with your ice cream. Oh and there's always good ole Netflix or Lifetime, hehe. Have fun. 

What are you indulging in this V-Day? The darkest of Belgian chocolates? Pure decadence! Dinner at that restaurant where you both had your first date? Couples massage? An intimate candle lit dinner at home, serving all kinds of yummy delights and staying very close to the bedroom? Hehe. The whole shebang? Why not? Relax and enjoy the whole hoopla, we only get one day out of 365 dedicated to romance even though true love should really be celebrated by making everyday special.  

If you follow fashion closely you’d remember this Celine camel high waist pants that made the waves in 2014 and had gals all over drooling. I too indulged back then and have styled it many different ways. What I love the most about it is the length. It's not your regular floor grazing length and not too short either. The high waist totally highlights my midsection. The stylish flare leg features buttons down the hem. Gosh how I love that detail! I paired it with of all things a red top. Red is one hue that I am so not drawn to but hey, it’s Valentines and nothing would enhance your ‘hauteness' quite like a red and camel combo - I’m in love!!!

 Back to front shirt is my trend du jour (batting my false lashes). I styled one here paired with a skirt and today I'm showing another way to style it. Pony, leopard and lace ankle boots, 2 dozen long stem red roses and Christian Louboutin goodies tied it all together. 

That hair though! I know, I know. Like I stated here, some readers on my Facebook page have been asking me to switch things up and sport a different hair style. I’ve loved and worn my pixie cut for the longest time. It’s my signature, period. It takes a strong face to pull off hair as short as mine and baby I think I got what it takes, ;). I said I’d work on it and this is me working on it.

 My neice Chisara the 24 year old vlogger of Afrolegalise who believes bright colors and bold hairstyles are reflective of her personality made it happen. It felt weird initially but it’s starting to grow on me. I hope you like it cos it may be around for a minute. As in, I’ll be switching between the short and the long.

The weather has been amazing lately but sadly busy times are not letting up. On a lighter note one of my parents at work walked up to me on Thursday and said, “you have more soul in your shoes than James Brown had in his whole body”. You know I laughed long and hard. 

How was your week? 

Happy Valentines weekend darlings!

Your thoughts on this look?


Deets
Shirt - Halston
Pants - Celine
Belt - Chanel
Heels - Christian Louboutin

Thanks for stopping by, keep thinking the purple thoughts, :). Xo..
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Saturday, January 30, 2016



Trends trends trends, can’t live with them, can’t live without them. I’ve had statement making' sleeves on rotation for a minute. Styled one on the blog here and showing another look today. They add interest and def. make a look stand out more. 

I’m pretty sure you’ve seen this cool trend of extra long sleeves everywhere. They extend far below the regular length and come flared or even poufy sometimes. Street style has been abuzz with it and most 'it' girls are already on board. How about you? Sported one lately? No? Oh c’mon! You'll love it, I promise.

A slit that extends far above the regular allowed for practicality using my hands without an element of clumsiness while wearing this one. I paired it with black layered print cuff tapered pants and accessorized with a gold plate and chain belt, buckle top heels, a faux fox fur stole, a red bag (my new favorite clutch, I keep reaching for it, lol) for some color pop and was ready to burst a move. I have to admit I looked effortlessly stylish. 

Hello FI readers!
What are your thoughts on this simplistic chic look? 

On my Facebook fan page, (please like if you haven’t), I’m celebrating 100K fans this week (dancing emoji) and the messages I receive the most are to show my work looks and a different hair style. What better way to celebrate this milestone than to give my wonderful readers what they have asked for? I'll start a new 'Work Flow’ series and every so often I’ll post my work look. I hope you enjoy this new series. Ummm, I’ll also work on the hair style, hehe.




Deets
Shirt - Omelya (here)
Pants - Gianni Versace (Similar here)
Bag - Saint Laurent (here)
Sunnies - Quay Australia (here)

Thank you for stopping by, keep thinking the purple thoughts, Xo.
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Trend Forward Sleeves

Saturday, November 21, 2015


Dear week, 
You were awfully busy! We're over you and we're leaving you for the weekend! Deal with it.
Love,
Idu
xx

Roksanda Ilincic

Saturday, October 17, 2015


Well hello from sunny California! 
 I'm assuming you had a great week. I did too. Service for Gary on Tuesday was amazing. If I wasn't 100% convinced of my good fortune to have worked with one of the few good men on earth, I am now. Beautiful celebration of a beautiful soul. A gentle giant that planned out his own funeral service down to the pastor that'd preach, names on program, time /length of service etc. Even though the tears still flow freely, the service was an initial very little baby step towards healing. His son shared that the very last words his dad spoke to him before he passed on were 'God's got this'. Pretty powerful you'd agree. So I echo Gary. In any and every situation. God's got this. 

If you’re like me then snagging up and adding cute RTW runway pieces to your arsenal is your darn thang too. I'm totally giving this one bonus points for being so cute, so flirty, so feminine, so fun : all the things we gals naturally gravitate towards in an outfit and of course so Fall. I love the playful pleat detail. For me it was one of those 'Omg I want this so bad' looks from the Alexander Wang SS 14 collection (video at the bottom).

Even though it's making it's debut on FI today, I've worn it a couple times prior and styled it differently each time. This time I paired my perfect neutral color dress with a pair of purple calf hair pumps and a structured puff style sleeve black blazer cos It's Fall Y'all. After all grey is the perfect neutral, the color of compromise when you can't decide between black/white and one that truly represents the young three week old season aka Fall.

While I'm heralding the arrival of Fall with it's rich and beautiful oranges, reds and yellows, and literally squealing with sheer delight (Does it show? Can you tell?) at the thought of shopping for new Fall/Winter staples, I am by no means done with my brightly hued summer clothes, hehe. Transitions always take me forever. In other words, I'm not a fan of in between seasons. So roll not your eyes when you see I'm still in brights come November haha. You? Still holding on to Summer? For how much longer? I am, for as long as possible, :))). Or are you pulling out those fun layering pieces already?

Oh and you guessed it. I am wearing my Christian Louboutin lipstick Eton Moi reviewed here. It's that time of the year for dark vampy lippies.

Your thoughts?

Thank you for all the love for my hot off the oven new column 'Fab on a Dime'. My gosh I received a lot of messages from last week's post. I guess we all love looking fab on a  fashionista 'frugalista' budget, haha. If I haven't replied your message please bear with me, I'll surely get to them all. It's been a crazy past two weeks. But all the product links are on that post though, :)).


Deets
Dress By Alexander Wang (here) (here)
Blazer By Yves Saint Laurent (old)
Shoes By Brian Atwood (here)

Thank you for stopping by and keep thinking the purple thoughts, Xo..

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It's Fall Y'all