Trends

Hi,

So Luke kept you up to date with some trends from Vogue and I would like to take the advantage of this by giving my view on the trends that I suspect will be major this season.

A-symmetrie is a trend you might spot a lot this summer. Not only gives it a nice touch to every outfit, but it’s also a very applicable trend, even for an everyday outfit. For example choose a split up or one- shoulder dress, it just gives that dress the spark it will need this summer.

If you want to be utterly fashionable with that dress then make sure you accessorize it with some fringes, really east-western style but oh so hot. Seen with Roberto Cavalli and Ralph Lauren. And choose for a blue toned dress, every blue is this season great but I would recommend dark blue like Armani did, this is in big contrast with all the white we tend to like to see in summer. Be different, that’s so great about fashion!

Another MAJOR trend is the seventies flared trousers, go for it and don’t be affraid to look hideous because you won’t! Style it up with a silk shirt which is tucked in your high waisted trousers. Finish it up with some big bold- look- at- me glasses and some shining jewelry.

This summer it’s not only white that’s fashionable, but also colorblocking. Choose colours which don’t match at all like Jill Sander did.

As boring as it sounds but flowers will do this summer. A lot of flowers were spotted at D&G fashionshow this spring, but also at Erdem and other British, Italian, Parisian brands.

Love,

Milou

Homespun craft

I was taking a look at the trends for this season at voque.co.uk, the British site of the well know fashion magazine Voque, and spotted a very nice trend; 'Homespun Craft'. This means that this season we are able to walk arround in clothes that seem like we made them ourselves. Or even better: which we really made ourselves.
Beige, camel and pastel colours seem to appear a lot in those 'home-crafted' clothes and since nude seems to be totally in this season as well (when is it not?), you'll catch two flies at the same time if you combine the trends (which is easily done. Most of the shops sell 'nude home-crafted' clothes).
The picture you see at your right, I also got from voque.co.uk

New Beginnings

Now I really have the right to say: long time, no see! And it's all my fault. I was being busy with myself and everything about me, but from now on, I don't want to talk about that anymore. For things like that I have my dairy and for things like the meaning of life, art and philosophy, you can click on this link: http://fridaynightbites.wordpress.com/
Let's go on with more important things, for example; Emma Watsons 'new' haircut. Before you are going to protest; I know it's not so new anymore, but since this blog is not at all up to date, I want to pay a little attention to it.
I admit I had to get used to it, BUT it didn't take long and I really liked it (when I recovered from the first shock). In think it's a good thing she has done this. It distinguishes her more from Hermoine and it makes her look all new, young and happy. It suites her and the start of her new life. And because of this, I want to post a picture in this 100th blog (happy twotimes-birthday Milou!) of Emma and her 'new' hair and dedicate it to new beginnings:

99th

So this is already our 99th post! Almost going to hit the 100th! When and how, we will see soon!

This is going to be a short post, because I've to get back to work but I just wanted to show you some love and share the newest trailer of Harry Potter and the deahtly hallows Part 1:



So exciting isn't it? Can't wait until it's finaly november and it will hit the big screens.
But october is going to be excited, to me, as well since I'm going to Amsterdam the 21th to visit a press agency ánd to buy my beloved Chanel.

Lots of love,

Milou

Chanel knowledge

Bonjour,



So last post I told ya about my obsession with Chanel. And since I love Chanel so much I’ve learned a lot about the bags. I thought to myself 'why not share your knowledge with readers of Twotimes?' So here we go:

-Chanel is commonly known for her Classic flap bags. Probably you’ve seen these before with the Chanel CC lock.

- These classic flapbags are available in different sizes:

Mini
East/West flap (E/W)
Small
Medium/Large (M/L)
Jumbo
Maxi

-The bags are produced out of caviar or lambskin leather. Lambskin is more expensive and is very soft, but will also be faster damaged.

-You can choose between SH or GH. These stand for Silver Hardware and Gold Hardware.

-There’re a lot of colours, like black or bright pink. The classic bags also have a lot of limited editions. For example the newest Soho collection, to celebrate the reopening of the Soho Chanel store. For these kind of limited edition bags are long, very long, waiting lists.

-Chanel has besides the Classic flap bags also the WOC (Wallet on chain), PST (Petite Shopper Tote), GST (Grand Shopper Tote) and even more models.

-Chanel bags are the cheapest à Paris (Rue cambon) and most expensive in London.



-The classic flap bag is also known as: Chanel 2.55. Ever wondered why it was named like that? Simple: Coco Chanel created this bag in february (2) 1955 (’55). The bag got reintroduced in 2005 as the Chanel reissue and it became one of the it-bags of all time!

-Chanel bags are always made in Paris or Italy. If not? Then you’ve a fake one!

-A Chanel is recognized by it’s quilted diamond structured material. Coco Chanel was best known for her quilting techniques. She loved and was inspired by horse racing. These jockey’s wore quilted jackets.

-Some flap bags have a single flap others double flaps. Double flaps are more expensive. The same is true for back pockets.

-Your lovely Chanel can of course be accessorized with some charms, available at your nearest Chanel shop.

As soon as I’ve my Chanel bag I’ll show it you guys!

Love,

Milou

And there we were again!

Hi,


And then we were a few months, two months to be exact, furthur without any news from both of us! So time to update Twotimes!

Well my life (Milou) is rather ‘easy’. Just relax and work. No school, no study. But it’s kinda odd, I just can’t find satisfaction in it. So probably I need to find a hobby or something.

But my life isn’t that boring as it sounds. For my work I get every single day an invitation. I already got invitations for events like make-up and book presentations, fashionshows like Burberry Prorsum during London Fashionweek and Milan Fashionweek and also a formal ball in Milan. So exciting! Unfortunately, because of my fears and stuff, I was unable to visit most of these things. But I'm planning on going to the famous 'Press days' in Amsterdam, sponsored by the Public Relations agencies.

So I already got my first cold this season, hopefully I’m done for this year ;-)! Yesterday I felt a lot better, thanks to the great weather. It was about 20 degreece! But since my last post, where I told that it was so hot, we had some terrible weather this summer! It was d-r-e-a-d-f-u-l!

My buddy Luke started her study Journalism in Utrecht. And that’s why I don’t see her that much anymore, I feel very sorry about that. I hope I’ll see her soon, miss her like crazy! *No I’m not obsessed*. Perhaps she will tell you soon about her experiences in her ‘new’ life.

Talking about obsessions: I do have an obsession. I’m crazy about getting myself a Chanel E/W flap. I saved up for it and I’m finaly able to get it! It’ll be in black with Silver Hardware. Can’t wait to go to Amsterdam and get my hands on the beloved bag.

Do I forgot something important to tell? Hm, I don’t come up with it right now... So I’m going to watch Gossip Girl.

xoxo,

Milou

Warm

Hi,

How are you?! I’m good, but god what’s it warm! It’s about 30 degreece and I’m melting I’m ‘death’ serious. So while it was friday very warm outside, I decided to get inside to read the Vogue with a fresh glass of water, and the Vogue is amazing thank you Luke once again! Anyways when it was 4 o’ clock everyone in The Netherlands knew what was going to happen: Netherlands against Brazil in the quarters of the WC 2010! And... we won! Amazing, isn’t it?! And in the beginning, Brazil scored after 7 minutes and then it was like... Allright nice try but we’re never gonna win. But we did and I’m proud on the team, they did an extremely good job on beating these egocentric Brazilians!
And while on the other side of the world people are throwing fireworks to Dutch people, we’re celebrating this with the famous vuvuzelas and some traditional cheese.

As you might have seen, Luke changed the sidebar, because we both graduated! And we’re both going to college. Luke is going to study journalism, I am going to study Media, information and communication. We’re thinking about getting a room together and some other girls in Utrecht which is very central for us. We might had found something but I got an message that the room wasn’t quit what we wanted, so the searching will go on but I’ll keep you posted.
The future is near, popped just in my head. I mean it seems like yesterday that I was young and going for the first day to high school. I was very small with a huge backpack and tried to make my way into high school world, I felt then like I was becoming adult but right now it feels like a time where I was young and fresh, right now I feel like becoming old. Offcourse this seems odd, I mean 18 years old- young- isn’t the time to think about these things but yet again sometimes it’s good to be thankfull to be happy and young and stuff because it makes you graceful.

Enough serious stuff. I wanted to share one last thing. Yesterday evening I also watched the cliffhanger of GTST which is a soap and this was the cliffhanger and it was so bad, omg what happend with this serie. For those who want to see, here it’s:



Love