Too cool for tv: Twiggy’s Frock exchange

Every tuesdaynight at 9 pm GMT (or 10 Central European time) I am completely glued to the TV: BBC that is!

I absolutely love the new programm that is hosted and presented by former model Twiggy: Twiggy’s Frock Exchange. Ingredients: a bunch of women who bring one of their clothes for swapping, some customizers (ehm, a woman who customizes clothes…see video), some celebrities who donate one of their gorgeous high end items to one of the lucky girls on the show, and Twiggy!!!!

I would love to join in that swapping party, or another cool party that has so many cool outfits up for swap…

Queensday 2008

Probably the most popular party day of the year, where Dutch people go out in their orange outfit, and celebrate, originally, the birthday of the Queen’s mother….

I love the outfit of Princess Laurentien, the fuschia dress with short sleeves and A-line skirt, with her matching shoes!!! (third picture, feeding animals)

Also Princess Mabel, the one in black and white with her high heels (fourth picture)

“Are you going on a shopping expedition?

So, the last couple of days I was on a cruise to Newcastle. I made some lovely pictures, which I will post on the blog later this week.

 Oh dear, I was seasick on the way to Newcastle…it was awful and I was really happy when the sickness subsided. In Britain, the Customs officer was really jolly, and asked me “are you going on a shopping expedition?”. Teehee, I answered “Yes, does that show on my face?”

Yeh, my sister in law and I were on a shopping expedition. Ofcourse, I guided her to the Primark and bought some lovely shirts and underwear. The Primark was not as hot as in Liverpool, just 2 floors, but it still had some goodies.

New look was wonderful: I bought a florally painters skirt and a bird-dress…quite funky. I passed upon a couple of peeptoe-boots, because the heels were too English (which means incredibly high).

There was not that much time to shop, and I had to ease my pace in order to let the SIL enjoy herself as well (normally, I am the shopping tornado-fast, destructive, and takes what comes in her path).

I was not too happy with handing in the cheque I got from Hope University (my refund for the deposit of the room) because NatWest did not want to give me money for the cheque, unless I had a British account…the bastards! It was a NatWest cheque!!! Ugh…So I have to contact Hope University about that!

 As I said, it was a lovely trip, and I was glad to be in Great Britain again…

love this coat

This beauty is for sale on ebay. It is definately too small for me, but it looks adorable.

Too bad that most vintage products only come in smaller sizes.

My childhood heroes

I am not the very commercial type…I am not a fan of Valentine, Christmas, and so on.
However, I love the commercialisation of my childhood heroes at one of the supermarkets in Holland:

Hee hee, I already have the female teddy one, which I love, and 5 of the small plastic ones.
So, I would like to add a more fashionably and definately prettier lady from my lovely country: Doutzen Kroes in a Teddy-like fashion shoot…
 

This one reminds me of the film Donnie Darko, with the psycho rabbit. This is more the scary teddy who is going to….(make your own version of this fairytale, but keep the happy and good ending)
 

Visual Images of Red Light Fashion

Amsterdam Fashion week 2008: a new way of displaying the fashion designers in the Red Light District merges the notorious part of Holland with the more sophisticated and lesser known part of the Netherlands (our fashion industry).

I love the hybridity of two binaries, who seem to be completely oppositite, but share some equal points (sexuality, power, attractiveness-both in fashion as prostitution).Enjoy the videos, and do not mind my “norms and values” comments, I was a bit scared in that neigbourhood, LOL.
   

Scarves and glasses

In Holland we have an expression which sounds like “Clothes make the man” (actually, this is a literal translation).

 

(disclaimer: not my kitty and I would never dress up animals like humans)

Looking around, it seems that the Dutch dress up to be very tedious (boring), because there is a lack of expression and colours on our streets comparing to countries like Italy, Spain, the UK, Morocco, Russia, etc.

So, here is the dose of quirky, expressive assessories I found on the net, and would love to have:

space glasses in gold:

Dare to be square-glasses:

These would look cool on my boyfriend: white space glasses

Not many people in Holland would dare to walk around with these glasses (except in a gaybar):

Ohh, I love fashion like this:

Also scarves:

and more scarves:

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Colour, that is what we need!!!

Check for yourself if the Dutch designers are going in the right direction: Amsterdam fashion Week is up this week:

Andy Warhol party (very gaybar dragqueen-esque):

(from: http://360fashion.typepad.com/aifw/)

And, to keep in touch with our National Identity: some designers will exhibit their fashion in the Red Light District (seriously). Designers like Bas Kosters, Jan Taminiau, Daryl van Wouw, Edwin Oudshoorn, Roswitha van Rijn and Mada  Gaans will exhibit something the regular visitor of the red light district shun away from: CLOTHES.

More info on : http://www.redlightfashionamsterdam.com/