THE BALANCE

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I must admit, after NYFW I sort of check out. Not that I'm not interested, but I'm usually burnt out from going to shows and then jumping back into work, so I don't really have the energy to keep up with it once it jumps the ocean into Europe. When I get a chance I'll finally sit down and give into the shows, but for now I'll just admire these street style looks. There's this perfect mix of classic + quirk + effortlessness + comfort to all these ladies, and each one still manages to come across feminine, but in the most un-saccharine way. Perfect.

AT THE POST OFFICE

ASOS jumpsuit // Givenchy Necklace // CÉLINE Trio clutch

I actually did a really poor job of documenting my outfits during fashion week. Probably because it was a hectic mess and I was more focused on not sweating than actually looking fashionable. I'll try to post some more looks if I can scrounge some up. This is what I wore to the Theyskens Theory show. The top image is from W Mag and the bottom from The Cut. It's a very strange thing being street style snapped.

When the photographers asked for outfit details, they all gasped when I said my jumpsuit was from ASOS. Or maybe they were just plain shocked I was wearing a wool tweed jumpsuit in 80 degree weather. (There were clouds in the morning, ok?) Either way, you can get it here.

HONOR

Honor cardigan coat // CÉLINE shirt // custom leather shorts // CÉLINE shoes // Brook&Lyn necklace // Leoffler Randall bag

On my first day of NYFW I went to the Honor show and was lucky enough to wear a cardigan coat from their Fall 2012 collection. Wasn't there a tropical tornado you say? Wasn't it in the 90s you ask? Why yes, but I pose you this... when have I ever worn weather-appropriate attire? Sure some show-goers threw some confused looks my way but not as ardently as this passer by. I mean I'm out of focus, but clearly that's not the most important part of the photo. I'd like to think that 2% of those who made this face, were more jealous of my outerwear than concerned I might have a heat stroke. It is, afterall, a beautiful gorgeous wonderful dream of a cardigan. That I may have come very close to stealing. Damn morals!

FW12

I was all prepared to do a recap of FW12 so far (jk I wasn't), but I'm sure you've been desensitized to my laziness for a while now. Unless you're new here, in which case Welcome! and aim low with me! So I'll just tell you that Proenza Schouler was my favorite by a forever to the infinitieth power landslide.

I live for blogging. Don't you?

NYFW

The circus that is fashion week.

NYFW

image via The Cut

Subtle, gentlemen.......real subtle.

THE END

The last of the Fashion Week posts. I usually look at the New York, London, Milan, and Paris schedules beforehand and list what shows I'm going to look up, instead of wasting my time looking through a million photos of brands I don't even like. This means that all the ones on the list are my favorites and the ones I look most forward to seeing, this time around being around 40 shows. You'll notice that I'm not posting about 40 shows and that's because I was waaay underwhelmed this season. Ooooh don't I sound like quite the authority? I had about 15 left from the list to write about after the last fashion week post, and I am only doing two here. You can see why...

CHANEL

WTF RTW. There were 87 looks. EIGHTY SEVEN. That's my first WTF of this show. Here are my others:

-Crystal Renn - please stop repping plus size girls. Unless you're wearing the world's most maximum strength Spanx ever, you are not plus size anymore. Good for you though, you're average now, in fact maybe thinner than average, but please stop trying to be the voice for big girls all over, because you're no longer one of them.

-Below nonsense - I normally get weak-in-the-knees when I see a masculine guy with a baby, but this is not one of those times. This is not ok. Not even in Canada.

-Erin Wasson - this girl doesn't give two shits that this isn't the Rock & Republic show. Whoever the runway director was, he/she had no control over Ms.Wasson's pose game.

-Karl - 87 looks dude. Two of which were Baptiste - which was one two too many. And I wasn't even impressed by your use of Stella, Kristen, Angela, or Ines. Do you see that woman, Karl?

CELINE

YES!!!! My favorite collection with the most brilliant, wearable looks. I could forego every single piece from every single show this season, for just these three looks alone. I would trade 95% of my entire closet for these and could commit to wearing only these everyday for the next year. That's how perfect they are.

Fin.

OH GOD NOT AGAIN

I have this really tiresome part of my personality where if I think to do something, I have to do it no matter how tedious it is. I'll hate it the entire time I'm doing it, but I'll do it anyway. Fashion week feels like forever ago, but here are some of my favorite looks regardless.

BALENCIAGA

I appreciated that Nicholas Ghesquiere cast people off the street. I think the one on the far left is one of them. I'm into the overall look of the show, but I hope he goes back to weird structured things soon.

GARETH PUGH

The crazy foil-y pieces were my favorite! I wonder if your face would get really tan if you walked around in those in the daytime?

BALMAIN

While I do appreciate the aesthetic of the Balmain look, there is no way in ever never ever I would pay the kind of money required to buy the tattered tees even just to buy one of those jackets. Good look, stupid ass price. Unless you're a Vietnamese farmer.

JUNYA WATANABE / GIVENCHY / HAIDER ACKERMANN

The transparent trench is genius, especially with the stripes under.

Clean lines and RAWR with huh? hair.

I'm obsessed lately with bold solids mixed like this. This is favorite outfit #2.

JIL SANDER

One of my favorite collections of all the Fashion Weeks! Everything is so wearable. Below is my favorite look #1 of the mixed solids look. I would hypothetically wear the far right look for my hypothetical wedding - if I were to have one.

RICK OWENS

These would also be suitable alternatives to the wedding dress. Geeez what's on my mind?

ANN DEMEULEMEESTER

Monochromatic outfits any day. Asymmetry any day. Or both.

PRADA

I want these. The green ones.

More to come.