Shoulder pads are coming back into fashion?

Last year we saw Balenciaga bring back some serious attention to the shoulders with the sexy structured shoulder pad enhanced dresses and blouses. And now – it seems – everyone has been following suit.

I don’t know weather to be in awe or gasp!

I’m kidding, of course because I was too young back in the eighties to have a bad after taste from padded shoulder women suits I’m actually embracing this as a fashion challenge!

So even though I hate taking pictures of myself, I’ll try to post of photo or two wearing something with padded shoulders (when I get it – have to hit up my favorite Thrift Shop in Le Marais).

Because, as we all know : Life is for living , and fashion is simply for trying.

William Rast – looks vaguely like patches of Isabel Marant and G Star Raw. Doesn’t it?

Marc Jacobs – makes me think of Amy Winehouse meets Battlestar Galactia.

Oh Donna Karen , sigh – oh how my heart would love to walk out of my favorite resturant on a chilly Saturday date night with the hubby in this.

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I swear I wore this exact outfit last Monday to work! Except I wore gray booties and the top was H&M and the pants Zara – but the styling was dead on!

Since being in Paris I’ve learned an artful appreciation for black on black, being a New York Girl I was always madly in love with colors; from soft pastels to vivid brigts.

Living in Paris has placed my emphasis on style more on being elegantly subtle in a way that is effortless and doesn’t make you stand out.

Attention is placed more on the tailoring and qaullity of your clothes than on its uniqueness, or effect to make you an individual.

It’s interesting how life in Paris as contrast with life in New York , reflects the same thing as Fashion in Paris contrsted with Fashion in New York : Paris is purposefully elegantly slow and suble, while New York is purposlefuly chic fast and bold.

Paris is about bleing in.
New York is about standing out.

My sexy side is really embracing this look. What about you?

I want this skirt! – or is it a dress? Those shoes look uncomfortable as hell, she looks like she’s mad at the photographer.

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