The Fad Madness: Colorblock

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10/13/12

Tangerine and Royal Blue

Hello!

After a vintage vibe from my previous look, now here comes a more modernist-approach style. Kinda minimalist with a touch of silvery accessories to add the futuristic mood. I'm so into color-blocking as always and now I'm combining tangerine with one of my favorite color, royal blue. I found this exquisite jacket at Magnolia Store in PIM 2 which is pretty affordable for a proletarian like. I don't visit this store so often since it doesn't represent my personal style a lot, but IDK why that day I stumbled upon this store and found this jacket - FOR SALE (yup, that's the most important thing in shopping law).

I was filled with joyous feeling after buying this jacket, yet, when I got home I just realize one thing: this jacket's fabric is so damn thick. And you don't wear thick fabric clothes a lot here in Jakarta, in this kind of weather. So I wear this jacket rarely. Thank God I have a blog so that I can manifest my desire to wear this jacket in virtual world.

To be honest, my style in the blogosphere vs. in the real world is different from each other, most of the time. Why? Because in real life I have so many constraints to show my real personal style, it can be because of lack of confidence, my mother's opinion, and the "common fashion norms" in the society (and the weather too). Therefore the presence of Blog is very beneficial for someone like me - a person who is sometime too ashamed to express her genuine personality and fashion preferences to the real world. Well, you can say that this blog is actually my alter-ego, perhaps?

And here's one of my favorite look from Pringle of Scotland Resort 2013. I mean look at that royal blue jacket. Very much covetable, no?

9/25/12

Campus Outfit // Vivid Colorblock + Silver Stuffs

Turquoise Cotton Top: Gaudi, Coral Skinny Pants: Forever 21

This is just a quick post, since I couldn't do any proper photo shoot. Please do forgive, this campus life and stuffs are just so damn hegemonic until I almost can't breathe: more and more assignments each week. The 5th semester is like a glimpse of hell; though it sounds exaggerating.

This photos were taken last week, just right before Communication Research Methods class: such an lethal subject for this semester. I always feel this kind of "gloomy" feeling everytime I enter this class. It explains why I chose a vivid, bright color-block outfit. That day I chose to wear my turquoise cotton shirt with the peach skinny pants with some silver accessories to boost up my mood, to brighten up the gloomy day. Actually, it helped (or it was just merely a suggestion?). If you don't feel like studying or even too lazy to go to campus, try wearing and combining bright colors. Perhaps it can be your mood booster.

And FYI, these photos were taken by Putche's iPad. Yes, I'm a gadget-less blogger. I don't even have my own SLR camera. Why? Because in my dad's eyes, I'm such an untrustworthy person. I have lost my cellphone 3 times: yes, I'm a careless, absent-minded, & clumsy human being. But thank God, I have successfully persuaded my dad to buy a SLR camera (after all this time, finally!). Well, let's hope I won't be such a fool to lose it.

Location: Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia

Photographer: Putche

Tiresome, gloomy, lack-of-sleep face.

3/6/12

Colorblock: BLUE & BURGUNDY

Back again and again with a color-block outfit, now it's time for blue & burgundy!

I found this terribly irresistible blue jacket from my Grandma's closet! Yeah I could even called myself "A CLOSET DIGGER" - in particular A MOM & GRANDMA'S CLOSET DIGGER. I never forbid myself from secondhand or vintage clothes as long as it still looks in good quality. And I have to admit, both my Grandma & my mom was a serious fashionistas! I mean, this bright cobalt blue vintage jacket: it has a seriously nice cutting, color & detail (you should pay attention to the BUTTONS!)

Anyway, since I fell in love with this jacket so much I pull off another colorblock-style with it: and it comes to my burgundy pants. And since I think about a more formal & neat style, I paired them with a white bow tie blouse.

Bowler Hat
Vintage Cobalt Blue Jacket - My grandma's
White Bow-Tie Blouse - Unbranded
Burgundy Pants - Unbranded
Black Wedges - A gift from my Auntie
Mustache Ring - Unbranded

Photographer: Putche
Design & Editing: Myself

1/22/12

COLORBLOCK: Green & Red (not for Christmas!)

Hi everyone, back with a new look!

I've been a huge fan of colorblocking and I think this trend will last until along this year, in any season whether it's spring/summer or fall/winter. I've been digging my mom's clothes over and over, and found this Tosca green Medieval-like blouse with the shocking red suede skirt. I found these at Christmas so I thought it would be a great idea to post a look at Christmas Day. But it turned out that I couldn't possibly even blogging at Christmas Day due to tons of church activity - it was so terribly hectic. So I delay this green-red theme look until now.

When we see these color: red & green, we must be directly associate it with Christmas. It is the power of symbol: to associate with something bigger. We associate (for example) Pink with Valentine or other romance feeling, Red and Gold with Chinese New Year or other Chinese theme, etc. Symbol is one of the most powerful medium to communicate something, and even there's a branch of science that specifically study in symbols or signs: Semiotics. I've been so much interested in semiotics lately, especially when it comes to semiotics in movies. I should write about this some other time, after finish reading the book hehe...