La Belle Et La Bête (The Beauty And The Beast)

GUESS the beast!!!! Its a pity that GUESS should try to copy Yves Saint Laurent's Tribute Platform Sandals and the result should be so disastrous!! Yves Saint Laurent, please ignore this monstrosity and continue to rest in peace.Amen.

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Go Back In Time

Jimmy Choo Sylvia Shoe Boots

Its an inevitable Monday morning and you make your way through the concrete jungle treading wearily towards your office not knowing whether the axe will fall on your head today.There is nothing worse than the constant trepidation of expecting the worse.You suddenly long for the primitive life of hunting and gathering, moving around in herds in the Amazon jungle, where your expectation from life is nothing more than an wild boar or at least it seems so at first.And suddenly you wonder how all the folk and tribal art came into being if gastronomical quests encompassed primitive life, you realise the existence of stone age Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin and then you dream away as to what shoes they would have designed for the hunters and so on and so forth.Dang!!! your reverie is broken by your loudmouthed cubicle mate who jerks you in a manner that you fear a concussion in your head and she is like "Jimmy Choo does folk".While you never really got to the point of caveman Choo's designs, you find yourself staring at a dreamy pair of folk inspired boots from the contemporary Choo!!!

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Colored Shards of Fashion

Polyester Clutches, Emilio Pucci

Emilio Pucci popularly termed as "Prints Charming" is famed for their clothes and accessories in kaleidoscopic geometric prints.One has to take a look at their designs to fully grasp the aesthetics that is possible through their ingeniously designed prints.This clutch is a welcome detour from their prints, and it still maintains the high standards of creativity that one usually associates with a Pucci.Unlike printed fabrics that make many colors work in unison, these clutches are elegant despite being in monochromes.They give the appearance of little asymmetric shards of colored glass stuck together on a clutch, giving the clutch an unique one of a kind look.Usually clutches are associated with a classy elegance associated with formal dinners and cocktail parties and their designs too are mostly of a conservative nature, throwing very few surprises in terms of ingenuity.These clutches are a class apart for they breathe a gush of youthful freshness conveying an air of peppiness and eccentricity all so pleasantly wrapped together.With these clutches you are bound to be noticed for how differently you can carve your place in the niche world of fashion!!!

Make these clutches stand out by contrasting them with light colored silk dresses.

Left:Stella McCartney Tie-Neck Dress

Right:RM by Roland Mouret Kleber Dress

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Roll Pin Under My Shoe

Henry Beguelin brand was born in the eighties, when the pastime of making belts and bags from cowhide and recycled materials, of a group of friends on Elba island(in Italy) took a serious turn.The brand prides itself in creating luxury instead of fashion and their products are timeless and "fad" impermeable.The uniqueness of the brand lies in its "close to nature" designs right from using vegetable dyed leather and wood as raw materials to expertly cutting, stitching and assembling them by hand.The designs stands out in their virgin appeal.

While gladiator shoes are a big fad this season, I couldn't pick one pair that caught my attention from the numerous ones that I have encountered so far until I saw this one.The shoe has no heel as such, though its function is performed by a roll pin on a wooden base.Barring comfort, the shoe has a very oriental appeal reminding one of the Geisha days where style always ruled over comfort.The shoe is teasingly different and requires a lot of spunk and chutzpah on the part of the wearer to carry it around.

The brown parachute shoulder bag on the contrary is elegantly simple with no other detailing except for a ruched handle embellished in gold tone hardware and two thin drawstrings for closure .The brand's signature of a miniature stick figure is embroidered in specialised wax thread at the front and the sides.

The simplicity of the bag contrasting with the freaky style of the shoes makes them a great pair.Grab them and cast an oriental spell on those around you.

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