En route to Montreal

Currently on the train going to Montreal for my cousin's wedding this long weekend. It's actually my first time on via rail! Really enjoying the complimentary wifi...

My cousin, Steph, and her fiance, Adrian, will be married this Sunday in a beautiful Chinese inspired wedding. We're doing the whole works, tea ceremony, door games, dragon dance...it's going to be lots of fun! Not to mention the entire family will be altogether, a rarity these days! The above photo albums are the engagement photos they took in Guang Zhou. I absolutely adore some of the empress like costumes Steph got to wear in her 8 costume changes over 5 full days!

Spent a lot of time catching up with my sis over the past 2 weeks. I love spending time with her; she's my bestie (am I too old to be using that word?). We had to concrete our relationship by purchasing another string bracelet to add to the collection. On sale for $9 at Holts people. Cha ching.

Finally...I must send some associated love to my future hubby's country. This Italian jersey was bought by my gf, Jen, for me when she went to the Euro Cup in 2008 long before I ever knew I would be marrying one of their own :). Forza Italia! or in Chinese, ga yau E-da-leee!!!

iPhone Snapped

I'm in Toronto! Got here last week and it has been a whirlwind of events ever since. I'm here to attend several bridal events (for my beautiful cousin and gf) and a wedding. It has been ridiculously hot the last couple days with temps hitting 43 degrees with humidity! Welcome change to London.

It was my baby sister's convocation a couple days ago and we all couldn't be more proud. I will post clearer pics from my camera a bit later but in the interim, here are a couple pics snapped from my iPhone. I wore a vintage Celine dress. Almost everything I buy, I alter. I'm quite particular about the fit of things, so I prefer to buy a size bigger and then adjust it accordingly. This dress was a 38 (I usually wear 36) but I tucked it in on the sides and the top and it now fits like a glove. Classic tailoring of Celine will never go wrong. I love this dress for the details, like the boning down the corset and the pink underlay beneath the grey.

We had a classy graduation lunch to celebrate. Dress paired with Kurt Geiger pumps, Tom Ford sunnies and Chanel purse. My sister was wearing my Balenciaga dress and some Anne Klein bow pumps. Please join me in congratulating my beautiful sister in her milestone accomplishment.

New Collection AW 12/13- Catwalk Preview

Hej Wam!

Minął dokładnie miesiąc od pokazu mojej najnowszej kolekcji na sezon Jesień/Zima 2012/13, o którym wspomniałem w poprzednim poście. 

Poniżej przedstawiam zatem kilka ujęć z wybiegu. Jak Wam się podoba kolekcja, macie jakąś outfitową faworytkę/ta? :>

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XOXO Bollo

Elin Kling for Marciano

I have often mentioned who my ultimate style icon is. Ranges from ADR to Caroline Issa (whom I saw at the Wolesley a couple weeks ago!). Without a doubt though, my favourite blogger / stylist is Elin Kling. She's from Sweden, owns her own fashion mag, clothing line, been on Dancing with the Stars, was the first blogger to collaborate with H&M, and the list goes on. She just announced her newest collaboration with Guess by Marciano. To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of Guess, nothing in there really stands out to me in either quality or appearance. However, because Elin will be doing a line, I will definitely go in and take a look.

That's the blogger impact.

Shoe shelves

For those of you not living in GB, this weekend marks the 60th anniversary of the Queen's throne. The practical effect of this monumental occasion is the country gets two additional days off to their weekend. Many people have left London for sunnier pastures but the people who remain will be partying (in the rain) all weekend to Pimms, festivals of all kind including food and music and the Union Jack. For the rest of us...it is the MOST depressing time of the year. Penultimate weekend of the potential last exams ever in our lives, we have 3 more to write in this neverending love affair with becoming a lawyer. When I'm not at the library, I'm at home...waiting for the opportunity to wear these again...

I actually don't have many pairs of shoes (as I thought I did), so we used the shelf as a pseudo book case as well.

Far away from the bottom so guests cannot judge our book selection...

I had a lot of stuff I didn't want to put on display but needed a place for, i.e. flip flops / guest slippers / belts etc. so I used my favourite British brand to store them. They make the best picnic baskets ever and lucky for us, they sell these baskets separately too. We used a mixture of both their champagne cases (the Tiffany blue ones) for our hats and scarves and the baskets for other odd bits and ends. We even use their biggest baskets for our laundry.

So...that's it! What do you think?