Bright Coats

Bright coloured coats are hot this winter over the usual dull colours. Here are some of my favourites from the Autumn/Winter Ready to Wear 2012/2013 runways.

DKNY Autumn/Winter '12 look 32

 Diane Von Furstenberg Autumn/Winter '12 look 30

Diane Von Furstenberg Autumn/Winter '12 look 28 

Calvin Klein Autumn/Winter '12 look 7

Acne Autumn/Winter '12 look 10

 Alberta Ferretti Autumn/Winter '12 look 11

All images from Vogue Australia

Every other winter my coats have been black, camel or grey. This year I'm going for the colours! I've already bought a bright red one and an amazing teal cacoon coat. I'm also eyeing off a berry coloured one which came into store today, hopefully it'll be mine.

Miss Scarlet Red

My red obsession continues. Here's my new little red dress - Sportsgirl sweetheart dress worn with red heels from famous footwear, tomato red nails and bombshell lipstick.

Festival Brights

I spent New Years Day at Summadayze, a music festival here in Melbourne.
It was an amazing day full of great music, friends and hot weather! Bright colours felt suited to the mood of the day.

I'm wearing (on left) Sportsgirl dolly bustier in teal, suzi printed skirt.

 

I bought this red satchel for the festival, it's the perfect size because it holds enough without being too big for the mosh pit! Plus...I have a red obsession at the moment.

 Summadayze, it's all about the colour explosion!

 

Cobalt vs Fuchsia - Runway Looks

Two of the hottest colours for this summer, cobalt and fuchsia. It still only feels like the start of summer here in Melbourne, it has taken a while for the weather to warm up. So these bright colours can help us feel like it's actually summer!

Both shades made appearances on multiple runways for Spring/Summer 2012. Here are some of my favourites.

Elie Saab RTW Spring/Summer 2012 Collection

Look 37                                  Look 38

Look 39                                  Look 40

Look 41                                  Look 42

Look 43                                  Look 44

Look 45                                  Look 46

I seriously love Elie Saab. His designs are amazingly feminine and the bold colour makes them even better. Love the lace detailing, sequins, sheer fabrics and belted waists.

Blake Lively wore this Elie Saab suit (look 37) to an event earlier in the month.



DKNY RTW spring/summer 2012 collection included these pieces in various fuchsia tones.

Look 34                                  Look 35

Look 36                                 Look 37

Alberta Ferretti Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Within the mix of white he used many different colours including one cobalt look and one fuchsia.

Look 11                                Look 24

Vera Wang RTW Spring/Summer 2012 collection

Look 36                                 Look 37

Dries Van Noten RTW Spring/Summer 2012

Look 14                               Look 16

I love this slightly darker shade of fuchsia. If you're not crazy about colour, wearing one bold piece with black and white is a great way to incorporate some brights without it being too intense.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and have an amazing New Year! I hope I have more time for blogging in the New Year. Working in retail around Christmas has been pretty crazy. I want to do an outfit post soon inspired by these cobalt and fuchsia looks.

Colour Bomb

This skirt instantly caught my eye, there's so many colours!

Wearing- sportsgirl colour clash skirt $79.95, dolly bustier in teal $39.95

I recently bought this bustier in the teal, as well as the black. I'm not usually one of those girls who shows her bare belly, so I paired it with this high waisted skirt. I have heaps of high waisted skirts so I should get my use out of the bustiers this summer.

sportsgirl necklace $29.95

also wearing sportsgirl shoes, T bar sandals in black $49.95, mermaid nail polish $4.95, mix of sportsgirl bracelets.

Red Hot

Welcome to my new obsession - red!
I usually go for quite neutral colours or floral prints but recently I bought a couple of red dresses, now I love this shade.

The artwork is by Jody Pratt, a Melbourne illustrator whose website you can view here.

Sportsgirl easy retro dress in red (also comes in black) $89.95

It's a really flattering shape and perfect for girls that are much bigger at the hips and smaller at the waist. The cut out adds a little something to a simple silhouette.

For the last 2 weeks I've also been rocking lots of red nail polish and lippy.
The red really adds that pop of colour to plain outfits.
Wearing bombshell lipstick and tomato nail polish.

I'm sure all of you would know the Emmy's were this past week. Each awards show there may be a couple of ladies in red however this year the amount of red was at least triple.

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Nancy O'Dell, Sofia Vergara in Vera Wang, Kate Winslet in Elie Saab

Kerry Washington in Zuhair Murad, Lea Michele in Marchesa, Adrianne Palicki

Angela Kinsey, Giuliana Rancic in Roberto Cavalli, Sarah Hyland in Christian Siriano

Connie Britton, Nina Dobrev in Donna Karan, Kathy Griffin

Both the Modern Family girls Sarah Hyland and Sofia Vergara worked red with a slight coral shade.

My second red dress has a slight coral tinge. I love lace ofcourse but at the moment I think bright lace is even better. I'm going to do a post on pop coloured lace soon I think.

I wore this outfit to a 21st on Saturday night.

Sportsgirl lady lace dress $99.95

Worn with chandelier necklace in black $29.95