Style Challenge: skirts – part 2

Continuing with my style challenge I have two more outfits for you. If you missed the first part of this post and have no idea what I’m talking about, read it here. On the second night I opted for a high-waisted tulip skirt and a black blazer. Also, I’m still wondering why I didn’t wear […]

style challenge: skirts – part 1

Bank Holiday weekends are the best. Three days, five skirts (‘packing light’ is a term I am not familiar with) and a mini getaway in Brighton. This year I’ve fallen in love with skirts and have bought many since we two met, it was clearly love at first sight. I still do like to wear […]

on Wednesdays we wear pink (and lots of it)

While I’m longing for spring (and summer) time I managed to score a pretty nice and sunny day for my first ever proper outfit pictures for Breakeven. A beautiful little street near Finchley Road Station with a blossoming almond tree was the perfect backdrop for this outfit, which I aptly named “On Wednesdays we wear […]

Tata Naka AW14 presentation @ The Royal Academy of Art

The focus behind the AW14/15 collection for Tata Naka was prints and appliqué. Designers Tamara and Natasha Surguladze found inpiration in interior design and decorative items in the home such as Persian rugs, Chinoiserie wallpapers, ceramic tiles and porcelain china. The colour palette of blue, white and yellow was played up with the red and pink flower […]

Marques’Almeida AW14 / LFW Day 5

Utopian, free-spirited and struggling were the lives of artists like Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe; and that’s were Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida found inspiration for the Marques’Almeida AW14/15 collection. Through the book ‘Just Kids’, (it has been on my to-read list for a long time) and the Hotel Chelsea which has been home to many suffering, artistic […]