Style crush: Taylor Tomasi

There's just something about Taylor Tomasi Hill. Maybe its her flame red hair or maybe its her choice of accessories, but I'm currently crazy over Marie Claire US' accessories editor.

For lack of a better word, Taylor Tomasi's style is fierce. Her distinctive choice of clothes and accessories such as chunky necklaces and to-die-for heels has got me stalking her style. I love the way she mixes feminine pieces with boyish items like piling a chunky knit sweater over a pencil skirt, or wearing a boyfriend shirt with skinny jeans and skyscraper heels. The fact that she looks so different but not unidentifiable in every photo also proves that one can experiment and dare to be different with your style without losing sight of who you are. Its no wonder that she's always captured on the lenses of street style blogs like The Sartorialist and Stockholm Street Style since she always looks fresh and different from the last time she was spotted on the streets!

Okay, that's enough of rambling. I'll leave you to enjoy the pictures!

♥,
Fal

Streetstyle inspiration

I'm currently being inspired by:

Mini skirts with trains

Cape dresses with boots

Oversized sweaters

Vintage tea dresses

♥,
Fal

Stevie Dance

Stevie Dance first caught my attention with this photo taken by Garance Dore.
She's a gorgeous freelance stylist from Australia who's got a laidback chic that just works. Her style is effortless and she carries herself with such a sexy confidence that I wish I had too. Workwise, her styling for the editorials on Russh magazine is absolutely breathtaking. It's devastating that she's left Russh but I'm sure Stevie will continue to deliver her unique sense of style wherever she goes.

Did I mention that I absolutely adore her name?

♥,
Fir

What I really think about colored skinnies

So colored skinnies seems to be the hot trend now with a plethora of celebrities spotted around town in their brightly colored denims.

Call me boring, but I have never ventured to put on a pair of colorful skinnies, and I never will. And that is for a good reason. While, celebs look fine in it, I think everyday people like myself would probably look like a performer at NDP or Chingay Parade. Most of us do not have legs like Alexa Chung or    Karlie Kloss. Let's face it, celebs and models look good in anything, including a trash bag. So while, colorful skinnies look great on them, I still have my reservations about them mostly because they emphasize areas (like calves or thighs) that might not be so flattering.

And such jeans, when worn on a casual day with a t-shirt or tank top, look like they were just bought from This Fashion. They don't really up your style cred, especially those bright neon colored jeans. Styling, with colored skinnies, has to be spot on.

For now, I'll be sticking to my normal colored jeans, in their normal blue, black and white washes. Colored jeans? Perhaps another day when I'm a bit more adventurous.

♥,
Fal

Orange Fever

I've never liked the color orange to begin with, as I always thought that it was a color that looked hideous on Asian skin.

However, I've recently developed a strange obsession for the color.

I think it all started a year ago, when I visited Amsterdam during the Queen's Day celebrations. During Queen's Day, it is mandatory that everyone deck themselves in orange, the national color of the Dutch. My friends also happily convinced me that the Dutch would throw stuff at me if I wasn't in orange. I put on an orange shirt since I wasn't ready to test that theory. I haven't verified if that's really true till now, but what the heck because that's when I gradually grew to accept the color orange.

Me and my homies soaking up the party atmosphere. Check out my ridiculous orange glasses.






The sea of orange.

Last year, I bought a few orange pieces after my trip to Amsterdam. Then, I went crazy in Korea this year picking out anything and everything in orange (Fir can prove that). Now, my wardrobe looks a little more lively, and I have pieces of clothing in every shade of orange, ranging from amber to tangerine.

I have to say orange isn't such a bad color after all. More in my next post on incorporating orange into your daily outfits and great colors that go with orange.

♥,

Fal

On Scandinavian Style

Mention stylish European capitals and the places that come to mind are Paris, Italy and London. While Scandinavian cities are often overlooked and overshadowed by these fashion giants, my 6 month stay in Denmark has changed my perspective about Scandinavia, and I have been thouroughly inspired (and influenced) by their sense of style.

The Scandinavian style is perhaps similar to their laidback lifestyle and love for simplicity. Minimalistic, understated, effortlessly cool and sleek but also functional - reflective of the clean and simple lines you often see in their designer products; be it furniture or stationery.

Now when I'm back in my motherland, I continue to be inspired by them through these blogs.

Occasionally, I read Hel Looks a street style blog originating from Helsinki, Finland.

For a daily dose of street style and outfit ideas, I turn to Carolines Mode more often referred to as Stockholm Street Style.

Style by Kling, run by Elin Kling, is Scandinavia's largest fashion blog and has won several awards. I often read it to get an insider's peek into the fashionista's life - she is working as Fashion Director at her own fashion magazine STYLEBY and she is also the first fashion-blogger in the world to be launching her own collection for H&M. 

Another personal favorite is The Locals a street style blog featuring photographer Søren Jepsen from the now defunct Copenhagen Street Style blog. As its name suggests, it features locals on the streets of Copenhagen. 

København 2010. Meget kærlighed.

♥,

Fal