MBFWA 2015

Hubba Hubba

Glitter/androgyny/flares - it all happened this year. 

I, along with all of the other common folk, hauled my non VIP behind to the Mercedes Benz fashion Weekend Edition. It was a little bit too edited to target the "everyday" audience but good fun and some gorgeous snippets of this year's lines on display. As for the main event, wayy too many froth worthy designs on and off the runway this year! Here's a little montage of my favourites, the streetstyle highlight was the ever lovely Elle Ferguson in the bassike suit, runway obsession was definitely toni maticevski. On ya straya! 

STREET STYLE

RUNWAY

Images: Popsugar/canberratimes/getty/cocktailrevolution/AFR/chicmanagement

CM x

To the chase

Just a quick pop in loves. Spending this weekend running around and honing some hectic multi-tasking skills. Keeping it light and snappy in this sweet waistcoat (also from my Romwe haul - style drip feed indeed). MBFW fun coming soon!...

CM x

Discovery Day

I've been seeing nothing but white on white in my various social media style feeds. There's no doubt I'll be getting amongst that, but for now grey on grey is my fav flavour of monochrome.

While everyone was at coachella, I (after I was done with sulking and envious insta-stalking of festival fun) went for a wander around our local hood's historic "discovery day" celebrations. Any excuse to whip out a few pieces from my ROMWE haul (finally arrived in the post this week argh). I literally bagged 4 tops, two bottoms, this knit pullover and an overcoat for less than what I paid for my last haircut, what! The quality is a bit hit and miss but it's overall pretty fair for what you pay (ah nothing) and definitely one of those sites you can experiment a few pieces with before shilling out the big bucks on those less budget friendly purchases (hello alexander wang slacks).

CM x

LOVE ON TOP

Ah yes, Sydney siders, we got played by that little diva that is mother nature. 

We were robbed of the best part of the long weekend! Arrivo 4 day break and nothing but rain and grey forcing us to abandon fabulous plans of frolicking about the coast and driving us indoors to play board games and eat tonnes of food to make up for lame weather.

And then - SUNday. 

Hand me that over-sized knit so I can tuck away the evidence of the easter eating toll and otherwise keep everything black, comfortable and flattering. Speaking of, last season's Cameo On Top shorts are still feeling the love, the fabric is quite thick so they are kind of perfect on those "now it's cold, now it's not" days we are having in not so sunny Syd. Bring on the super chilly weather so I can  team these with tights underneath and knee high boots (yep yep I'm being careful of what I wish for).

Stop it Kate

CM x

Rumor has it

Have you ever spotted an item of clothing and instantly had visions of entire looks you'd create with it?

That is exactly what happened when I hastily tried these shorts on in the remaining 5 minutes of my lunch break - - - et voila - - - the perfect accomplice to a demure evening ensemble as well as a breezy bottom half to relaxed weekend wear. These shorts by Rumor are just so versatile and comfortable and at $59.95 I didn't need to break that ever stretched winter wardrobe budget. Am looking forward to teaming these with a slouchy turtle neck sweater - so much wear to be had!

Accessories on rotation: a feline state of mind

I am constantly reaching for these sassy little details as I head out the door each day.

Here are some classics and newbies that I am kind of obsessed with right now. As Palermo says, accessories are the most important part of an outfit as they add a personal touch. I have to say accessorising isn't an intuitive thing for me. I prefer to keep things minimal and understated in that department, mainly due to laziness but also plainly because I don't necessarily think that bolder jewellery or even statement heels suit me. It's usually quite random and I let the accessory kind of jump out at me rather than seek out the perfect pair of sunnies or forever wrist-wear. Laziness often feeds into having a bias for pieces I can wear from office to outings. Putting motives aside (and detracting from the fact that on Palermo's account my personal touch might be "meh" slash "whatever takes up less time to put on and match") allow me to introduce the current five favs.

1. The easy slide sandal.

    These cara espradille slides by Seed are super comfy (leather upper - winning) and super easy to slide into. The leopard print gets along just fine with all of the black in my wardrobe. Best part was that I snapped them up for a stupid price of $19 -  and they are still on sale online - yay!

 2. Mid finger rings

I am for the most part pretty disinterested when it comes to rings but there is something punk and fabulous about having bling on either side of the knuckle. These are some "dirty gold" ones from colette. Slightly lame that they fall off way too easily but at least they look adorable while in action.

3. The Mistress Sunglasses

I love love LOVE these sunnies for winter. They are so demure and purr-worthy and don't make one look like a tool for wearing shades on overcast days! Hot to trot from Sportsgirl at $29.95 - if you're as clumsy and forgetful as me you probably don't fork out hundreds for eyewear that you're going to accidentally leave on the car seat and sit on or casually let drop off your head whenever you bend over.  Anyway, at prices like these you can practically treat them as disposable no?

Here's Kate casually standing around all fabulous with her cat eye pair - you boot scooting effortless minx you.

Image: Popsugar

4.  Slingback loafers - where have you been all of my life?

Granted I am still going though the painful and blistering process of breaking into these babies,  they are a great source of feet pride and strutt-spiration - I take that second one back, currently dying trying to walk normally with these on let alone rocking an amateur catwalk - anyhoo MIMCO definitely got it right - as a "balance between the slightly androgynous and the distinctly feminine" these sling-backs make for perfect professional footwear as well as slick high street tappers.

5. Perfect timing

To save the best for last, here we have the most coveted and loved of all details - the Larsson & Jennings Läder suede and gold-plated watch. There is about a 90% likelihood that this is going to be wrapped around my wrist on any given day i.e. i can't get enough of it - the simple and neat design and the ginormous size of the face. It's elegant without being too dainty and sharp without being too severe..yes I have thought about this watch, alot!

Which little hotties are you crushing on right now?

CM x