red shoes

Today is red-shoes-day! I don't wear this pair very often because I always find it hard to walk on kitten-heels... but they looked so fine with the red curduroy skirt, that I had to give them a chance for today. I combined them with a soft, black 60s style babydoll coat and black lace tights. I sort of felt like little red riding hood, even though I didn't wear any cap ;)

coat: vintage
skirt: H&M
shirt: inscene / sisley
tights: H&M
shoes: vintage

tunes: sacred cantatas / buxtehude

today's outfit: black and purple

I'm not that much for this strange dots-trend which arose sometime last winter. Neither do I like the silly skull-print clothes you can find anywhere you go. Strange enough, today I found myself wearing a dotty outfit with a scarf, in which you can find pink skulls if you only look hard enough... don't ask me. I felt like dressing up a little darker as it was quite dark in the morning too, which made it hard to take good pictures. So this is the result:


It's a simple combination of an embroidered babydoll dress with a purple longsleeve, a black corduroy skirt, purple knee-highs and a beautiful black pair of Mary Poppins style vintage boots, which I love.

dress: H&M
longsleeve: unknown
skirt: unknown
boots: vintage
scarf: H&M
knee-highs: H&M

boots again!

I love Autumn! Well, it's got its grey sides, it brings rain and unfriendly bunches of clouds are putting this veil on everything, that makes you want to spend the whole day inside. Which is great too! Who doesn't love long, dark evenings with hot chocolate, candles, warm woven socks and a good movie on TV?! The second thing: boots! You can try hard but actually it's no fun to wear boots in summer! So pulling my beloved boots out of the closet after months of negligence is the most lovely welcome-back I can imagine! Today I wear them with a simple curduroy skirt and my fluffy fake-fur-coat I introduced lately...

coat: tokyo
boots: gino ventori
skirt: h&m
tights: canda
bag: unknown

today's outfit

Spending the weekend at a Bavarian village wedding left a lot of positivity inside of me. Even though it's grey outside and raining, I feel sort of joyful and enjoy the day just as much as any sunny Sunday! Well, and the bride and all the lovely wedding decorations inspired me to wear flowers! That's not too inventive now, but maybe I wouldn't have had the strength to dress up against the weather...

I especially love the new grey tights I bought, which are extraordinarily soft and got these nice folky patterns. They fit perfectly with my favourite oxfords...

skirt: H&M
tights: canda
bag: vintage
shoes: vintage

a necessary choice...

And, talking about shoes today: am I right there is no fall collection of Irregular Choice yet?! I can't quite imagine but I didn't find anything on the site. But though I can rarely afford to even buy one single pair, I'm excited to see what autumn will bring for our feet! Here are just 10 reasons to love Irregular Choice and to die of excitement to see the new collection (click to view larger image):

gudrun!

Again, and as always, I just totally loooove the new Gudrun Sjödén Collection for fall. I'm not into designers that much, but there are two or three who always manage to have some really nice ideas. Gudrun is definitely one of them. I just adore her folklore-inspired style, the natural materials and the lovely colours and prints! This time, after she was inspired by Frida Kahlo last year, she chose some Italian Renaissance styles and a dottie-line, too... seems like dots are not only floating H&M worldwide. P.S.: Notice the amazing cushions again, her interior accessories are just as beautiful as her clothes!

ethical footwear

There a a couple of brands, which produce shoes without leather, sweatshop-free and so on. But I wouldn't have expected to find a fashion brand which creates designer shoes on a vegetarian basis! The label Beyond Skin has brought out a lovely new fall collection for this year, these are my favourites:




By the way: look at those gorgeous cushions in the background! Aren't they loveable???