Fashion's Night In - LIVE BLOG (Vogue.com UK)

Fashion's Night In - LIVE BLOG (Vogue.com UK): "Vogue.com's Fashion's Night In 1 November 2010"

Thanks to my fellow IFB blogger burntheblonde.blogspot.com I will not miss out on Fashion Night in tomorrow!!! I'm super excited because it's: 1. online which means I can access it from anywhere and 2.one of my favorite UK stores: ASOS will be debuting 2 new colletions.

The Fashion extravaganza begins at 5pm until 12am, there will be live blogging, skyping with designers, sales, deals, new collections, and it's all in the comfort of my own home, meaning I get to come home from work and kick off the heels and get online to look at more, a girl's dream come true!

Let me know if you see anything interesting, send me a message.

Fabric Necklace

One trend I have been noticing a lot are Fabric Necklaces, they can be creative and easy to make. In admitting that I not only like reality TV shows, in particular Keeping up with the Kardashian's. Last weekend while watching an episode I noticed Kris Jenner wearing a beautiful black, sequence, fabric necklace. I was immediately prompted to run out and buy the material to make my own.

What do you think? I used African Fabric to create the flower and gold sequence for the rest. I also made a bracelet using a different African fabric.

Stay tuned because there will be more. I'm really liking the amount of creativity that comes with designing one's own jewelry.

K-DASH: Kardashian Sister's Plus Size Clothing Line

After going to the QVC website to checkout K-DASH the plus size clothing line created by the Kardashian sister's I must say I'm a little disappointed. The clothing line; initiated by the eldest sister Kourtney, who's style I seem to actually like and was hoping would be incorporated in the design process, obviously was not. I can only say that I hope the choice of apparel improves within the near future, maybe the spring collection will be better.

The sizes appear to go up to a 3X (26-28). Unfortunately,other than a few wardrobe accents there is not a lot to choose from. Let's hope Gabrielle Union's anticipated Plus Size line: Love and Blessings won't disappoint, especially since she actually has a plus size sister who assisted her in the design process.

NYC Fashion Week First Ever Plus Size Show

Just as I was about to give up on OneStopPlus.com they debut in the Fall 2010 NYC fashion week. Last November (2009) I ordered a pair of knee high kitten heeled boots from them and although I like the boots they are slightly big in the calf.

After buying the boots I would often go the site and browse through the clothes, unfortunately I never came across anything eye catching BUT! their 2011 Spring collection is changing my mind. I saw more than one thing I would love to wear. I'm glad their plus size selection has improved and I'm even happier that a full-figured line has finally debuted in NYC Fashion Week. Maybe next year we will see more plus size designers added to the line-up.

What do you think of the OneStopPlus Spring 2011 collection? Post your thoughts in the comments section.

Missphit

In celebration of my 29th new year/birthday my cousin invited me to attend Shecky's Girls Night Out in Washington, DC. It turned out to be a really nice, relaxing event filled with lots of vendors, and very fashionable females everywhere. I got a lot of style different ideas and saw a great deal of boots.

There were kitten heel, high heel, flat,thigh high, black, brown, gray, purple, buckled... you name it, boots were definitely the preferred shoe attire for this event. I chose a pair of sexy stilettos with skinny jeans.

I became overly excited when I saw Boutique Hush there with a Missphit (Missphit.com) wrap that I had discussed only hours earlier with a co-worker who also had their eye on it, little did I know it would be at this event waiting for me to try it on, needless to say I had to try it on.

This wrap fit beautifully and would go well with a lovely black pencil skirt, white collar button-up w/a nice piece of black jewelry, preferably necklace, and a pair of gray, black stilettos (or red), boots, or booties (my vision of course). This is truly a nice compliment to any wardrobe!

Be sure to check out BoutiqueHush.com for other great plus size pieces!

Great Buy!

OK, so I have another great buy. Thanks to my dear friend and fellow fashionista Talcur I have expanded my shopping resources,and begun to rummage at Ross, and AJ Wright more often. What used to be casual stroll's once every month or so have slowly taken the place of early Saturday morning's that used to be filled with Law and Order.

I must admit that I have never liked the idea of rummaging for anything, why you ask? I do not like pushing through large crowds and dealing with rude shoppers. Fortunately enough for myself I have learned and recently accepted that this is the only way I can successfully stay within budget, so bring on the fellow shoppers. This great buy is the result of a family road trip to Pennsylvania, Sunday morning, my younger sister,Ross, and not so many rude shoppers in the shoe section.

There were so many shoes to choose from: functional, fashionable, trendy, and the list goes on...

Since I wanted a pair of booties and liked the style, heel, color and most importantly, the price...I chose fashionable.

This great buy is from Ross via Nine West and purchased for: $23.99 (compliments of my wonderful husband).