The marine!

I spent half of July and the end of August in Sankt-Petersbourg, Russia, with my boyfriend.

The city, although it's not really a seaside one, is very much into sailors, ships and all things nautical. The Neva river is buzzing with ships, and the so called "white nights" (when it practically doesn't get dark at night) are oh so beautiful. And a part of the Gulf of Finland is there, so I guess SPB can be called a nautical city.

Therefore, I had a perfect opportunity to go very nautical myself and strut my stuff in my Whistles dress and Carvela open-toed ankle boots (and please do not judge the face on the picture).

Whistles dress

Dorothy Perkins vest

Carvela boots

Visit this city. It's a Russian Venice.     

"The tree is taller than the woman. But the tree does not have the sequin bag."

Before I saw the French Conenction spring/summer 2010 campaign, I had never really paid this brand's ads much attention. Or at least not as much as they deserve. But when I saw "The woman is knowing we are looking" and bunny ears on the manliest of manly models I fell in love with that campaign.

This season's concept has not been disapponting either. The quirky sayings in charmingly incorrect "Frenched-up" English are genius. Look at the full collection here.

"The woman riders her trousers down the staircase."

"Do you start from watch or brogue?"

"The dress makes the silly men walk funny."

"Feel like wolf."

"Jacket. Waxed. Like moustache."

Make sure you watch the short movies of this campaign, too. They are ever so cute.

Photos: www.frenchconnection.com.

Meet my friend Nat. She's eclectic, lovely and in love with Travis Barker.

The Fashion Bible and It's Icons

I'm always fascinated by Vogue. Who isn't? It's this one great - not just magazine - one great brainstorm of fashion inspiration that all fashionistas consider and follow in some ways (even if they try to deny it).

And even more fascinating are the Vogue covers. The cover of the very first Russian Vogue features a famous singer Alla Pugacheva. Some may think her too corny and cliche but to me she's one great icon of the Russian music world. The woman has rocked the eighties with her phenomenal voice and ginger hair. This Vogue issue made her plain dark style look very very chic. Very Vogue.

(un)INSPIRED

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm officially STUCK in my old wardrobe.

I am visiting London right now, and this was meant to be a great shopping marathon, yet I seem to fail to find any inspiration. I got hold of a March edition of British Vogue, the new edition of ELLE, looked through some catwalk shows, trends, alternative trends, tried to find something fresh to love... Yet there's practically NOTHING new out there that makes me go "Ooh, that's a something". What's wrong with the upcoming fashion season?

It just feels that we have already seen it all. The wooden heels, the tiny bags, the big bags, the sportswear, the animal prints, the complicated cuts, the white shirts. When I went out shopping today, I somehow got lost in what I loved, what I needed and what I should have bought. Despte all the magazines' suggestions and personal need to shock and impress, I seem to veer towards the good old leggings, bomber jackets, ginger leather bags and white tees. That's it! Boring, old, yet the only things that seem appropriate!

Well, actually, the only personal innovation that I brought myself to buy today was a juicy red lipstick. I did it at last (after weeks of hesitation)! Oh, and I got a fringe now.

Has the catwalk failed to inspire this spring or is it just me? I am desperate for inspiration. What is it that has that oomph for you this spring, girls and guys?

Summer Autumn Winter

A brief summary of what I was up since the end of July.

July

Pretty self-explanatory

Got to my beloved Starbucks

Bought a pair Office pumps

August

Went to St Petersbourgh from Kyiv by train (23 hours!)

Reached the age of 18 =)

Saw the beautiful city of Moscow

Partied like a party tiger

September

Threw a limousine party for my girls

Made this photo especially for the blog. Veronica and her posh ways =)

Strutted my stuff in a tee which read "Ready to be with anyone, if he is the best" by X'U

October

Had a friendly lollipop shoot

Went to see a show by Kanevsky at the Ukrainian Fashion Week

November

Decided that red lipstick makes me look older

Had a shoot with one of my favourite girls. Yulia, <3

Had a bit too much rum with this lady here =)

Tried an outfit with over-the-knees for the first (!) time

It's been four and a half months since my last post. I've had my blogging break but it was necessary to make me undersand how much I've missed it.

There is no need to explain why I had that sudden stop with CHICLASH. Does that really matter? We all know that sometimes we just get too full of our laptop screens, too fed up with writing, we realise that we don't have the time note a thought or two on our pages. And that's when a blog starts to seem like a burden. It's as if you cannot stop because you'll loose readers, but you can't go on because you may loose yourself and the point in blogging. That, I believe, comes in cycles.

And now I'm happy to be back on my page to share whatever I can with the rest of you, my lovely readers and bloggers.

Many things have happened in the last few months. This means that this blog is a lot to catch up on. Gosh, I love the excitement of planning posts, there is beauty in that!

It took me a while to get the guts to start writing again. And it is like everything is usually - you think about what you are goin to write, select the right words but when it comes to the actual post, you may get lost for words. So I'll just begin thus:

I'm glad to be back, darlings! <3