Ordinary People Looking Extraordinary #8
The best part of Amsterdam International Fashion Week is checking out all the visitors watching the catwalk shows. Fashion Week is the Superbowl of style and the national championship of extravaganza. After all, how credible is a catwalk show without any fashionable spectactors? For a country where it’s quite unusual to use the streets as a catwalk, there is a lot of eye candy for the style hungry during Amsterdam International Fashion Week. Yoga already showed you a few well styled people at AIFW in this post, and here are the people I came across. (..more)
Amsterdam International Fashion Week Day 5 – Elsien Gringhuis
Elsien Gringhuis, winner of the Green Fashion Competition, showed her Fall/Winter 2011 collection ‘One of these days’ this Sunday. The collection is named after a song by Pink Floyd and was inspired by typical Dutch landscapes with their endless grasslands and constant windiness. The show started with the fragile sound of flowing wind over a short film featuring a typical Dutch beauty with green eyebrows. A perfect way to grow the public's desire for the catwalk show to begin. (..more)
Vintage shopping at Trash & Treasures 2 year anniversary
Fashionistas, be aware! Block upcoming Saturday night because Trash & Treasures is celebrating its two year anniversary. Trash&Treasures is a garage sale extraordinary with music, booze, art and a lot of shopping. Shop-a-holics with packed closets sell their excess clothing and young brands sell samples and old stock, all for a pocket friendly price. If you’re not blessed with a well-developed nose for vintage finds, Trash & Treasures is definitely a must. You don’t have to search too hard to find beautiful items in these piles, and if you like the style of a seller, you know you've struck potential gold. (..more)
