Fashion saves a lot more lives then doctors – Ms Bruno Baby

Fashion is and always will be a passionate lover of mine. It picks me up when I am down, it is a creative outlet for my ego and is the ultimate daily art form.

The 15 Fashion Questions Tag has been floating around the web for a little while so I thought I’d spend the time to have a little think about my own style (who am I kidding? – I love overanaylsing myself).

1. What is your favourite style to wear?

So sweet and girly!

I am and always will be a girl’s girl when it comes to clothing. I adore dresses – floral and fifties style, vintage romantic silk slips and short, sharp black numbers.  I love pretty and romantic clothing with ruffles, interesting details and lace. I am a distressed jeans addict and believe that every wardrobe needs a skinny pair of black jeans. I feel my most comfortable in heels and don’t own any flats… It kills me to invest in runners (but hey that happens every five years).

I wear jeans to work, dresses to play, leggings to chill and vintage style slips to sleep.

2. Who is your fashion role model?

Rachel Bilson

This depends on my mood. I used to really like Jessica Simpson’s cheesy style when she was married to Nick Lachey but then something went disastrously wrong… so forget that!

In no particular order Rachel Bilson, Carine Roitfeld (Editor of French Vogue), Chloe Sevigny, Kate Moss and Drew Barrymore (on a good day!).

Carrie Bradshaw inspires me to take risks but I am well aware that she is a cleverly constructed fashion character created by Patricia Fields.

I think Nicole Kidman is extremely daggy (I have not used the word since primary school) because her red carpet look is so designer constructed Prada, Dior or Chanel. (How horribly unAustralian of me to think this!)

My earings

My real role models are the super creative real people on blogs all over the world styling up vintage dresses, maximizing their wardobes and looking pretty immaculate with chipped nail polish.

3. What do you always have on?

My Swarovski "Angelic" studs, tinted moisturiser and whatever lipgloss I can find in my bag.

4. What are your favourite jeans?

I have always wished to be a Bettina Liano Ace purchaser but they just don’t flatter me. My favourite pair of jeans is actually from the Tommy Hilfiger Denim Range of 07. I first spotted them in Munich whilst on holidays but I walked away and left them (idiot!). My heart ached for the one that got away so I scoured all of Singapore a few months later and luckily found them. I am loving Jeans West skinny jeans at the moment and won’t knock back high-waisted Sportsgirl jeans on sale either.

Jeans West

5. What are your favourite sunglasses?

The super cheapo funky ones that channel any fashionista. I got carried away in Venice and succumbed to a pair of Diors… lets just say that they are probably sitting underneath my car seat scratched and out of shape because I just don’t care enough about the 200 euro that they cost me.

6. What are your favourite shoes?

I have two and surprisingly they are very similar. Pink high heels with bows. They are both from Mollini (may the label RIP) and just divine. The first (and probably most loved) pale pink heels have never been worn – yes you read write I love them so much that they have been sitting in pristine condition wrapped in tissue paper for sevennnnnn years! Everytime I have considered wearing them and bought them out for show and tell to a girlfriend the response has always been the same, “Are you sure you want to do this?” I might just have to save them for my funeral!

The second hot Barbie pink pair never fail to receive compliments. I had a 60 plus year old man on the street say, “Darling they are beautiful” (and yes I am sure he was looking at my size 36 and a half feet!) They deserve a feature blog of their own!

7. Who influenced you to write about fashion?

My absolute obsession with magazines, my friend Dee, my need for a creative outlet and the hope that my Media Studies degree was not done in vain considering I work in a completely unrelated industry where fashion is the least of my concerns!

8. What is your favourite store?

Alannah Hill

As the years go by oh how the answer to this has evolved… once upon a time I would ohhh and ahhh at everything in Witchery and Country Road (stalk their websites on a daily basis even)… and an even longer time ago when dinosaurs were around I loved Dangerfield. Now not so much….

My favourite stores are Alannah Hill, Cue, Camilla and Marc, Forever New and this cheap Asian shop with racks of $8 clothing at my local shopping centre.

9. What is your favourite fashion blog?

Way too many to mention. Of course little o by wolfbrother and Lady Melbourne. I avidly stalk all the streetstyle and vintage loving girls/women around the world. I am not a fan of those who splash their designer label belts, shoes and bags and think that’s style.

10 What is your favourite fabric?

Silk and lace – the perfect camisole combination.

11. Who is your favourite model?

I don’t really have one… genetic perfection is luck of the draw so models just don’t inspire me. Having said that I reserve a special place for the original supermodels of the 80s/90s (Claudia, Elle, Kate, Christy etc) because of their staying power.

12. If you had $5000 to spend on one item what would it be?

I just couldn’t justify one purchase for this amount! But if I must – a quilted Chanel bag. I  already have a vintage one that God blessed upon me and she is one classy lady.

13. Heels or flats?

Heels!!!!!!!! I don’t own any flats. Okay I will rephrase that I don’t want to own any flats. Something Victoria Beckham and I have in common.

Betsey Johnson

14. What type of purse do you currently use? 

A sexy Betsey Johnson black, leather, studded and frilled purse. A purchase made in Hawaii this year. Betsey Johnson is on the same wave length as Alannah Hill but based in the USA. I just found out last night whilst watching Fashion Police that Kelly Osbourne is in love with her too.

15. Is fashion in your blood or your jeans?

Your jeans… you have to work it! Having said that I have a few of my mum’s vintage dresses from the 70s in my closet and they are simply gorgeous!