ghost tights and the colour wheel

fashion is confusing. yes. i know.

because right now it is the last bits of winter. and some days it even feels almost like maybe the beginning hints of spring. and the magazines are all filled with the springtime fashions. great! but then, those of us who follow such things, are all wrapped up in the future-fall shows, and getting all romantic about winter and it's wear all over again, but, of course, not what we're wearing now in our present-non-romantic-winter... the beautiful amazing can't-wait future-winter. it's exhausting.

but. anyways. fall shows 2011! new york. wish i was there. wish wish wish. style.com-ing instead. look at me! i've spotted a trend.

silver-blue-grey. and. orange!

YES! i love colour opposites and their pop-iness. i'm super pumped on this colour trend. let's look at two shows today! (yes! let's!)

luca luca.

it's all skinny black tree branches covered in hoarfrost, and the bleary-yet-crispness of a REALLY cold morning in edmonton. like, say, when you're getting up to go in to a studio class and listening to tom allen on the cbc in the car and it's barely light out. it's like that. for me. sort of... and the ice blooms on the north saskatchewan river (the tufty dress?! yes.). and hoop skirts. too.

















(and then, for a moment, it's all BAM! with the brightness. the orangeness...)




in my imaginary career, this is what i wear to my imaginary office.














this last dress is the first of a series i will call SMABOO GETS WED! i will be bridesmaiding this coming summer for my lovely abra-friend, and we're to choose our own black dress. and i want long. so. here's an idea. except maybe not in that fabric. what with it will be august. and all.

and now. on to...

vpl.

ghost tights! and. some architectural pieces (or are they chain-mail joan-of-arc-y?). and nuts-and-bolts bracelets! pretty great, no? yes. and of course, orange eyeshadow. right up in the corners. of the eyes. which is like a less evil white-witch-in-narnia. you know? yes. (i was, in general, less in love with this show. less of it made me go 'AAAAAAAAHYYEEEEEEEAAAH!'. but that's okay too. not everything can be my favourite.)

















i kind of hate what's going on on the bottom here, but i do love the top.

all photos from style.com