COMME DES GARÇONS S/S 2012

March 16, 2012 | patriciablaj

For the ones who have never heard that name before, COMME DES GARÇONS is a Tokyo based fashion label lead by Rei Kawakubo. I have first stumbled upon one of their shops in Harajuku. They have concept stores around Japan and traditional CDG stored opened worldwide.

The concept of their Spring Summer collection of this year is ~White Drama~, focused on important moments in one’s life: a wedding, a funeral and so on.

Throughout the collection there are a lot of princess-ish touched (in my biased mind, at least) so considering my little complex, I’ve been really hyped up about this collection, but lazy regarding my post about it, it’s so late, I’m sorry

One thing that caught my eye is the bow tying the models’ hands in these dresses. A kind, pretty way of being trapped or to have your dreams tied down, maybe? Especially since their eyes are covered also.

Saving the best for the last! This dress has been my favourite from the whole collection. Just look at all those details

Did you like the collection? Would you wear any of these dresses? Thank you for reading!

My Piece of Heaven

March 13, 2012 | patriciablaj

As you have guessed (or maybe not?) this is a post about my room So as soon as you step in you can pretty much guess I have a few ounces too much of originality and creativity and I like weird guys who look like women, haha I also CAN’T, under any circumstance throw things away so my room is filled with a lot of stuff, therefore it looks kind of messy. Going in~

This is the left side of the room, with my bed and dresser. We live in a two-story house, so this is practically part of the attic, that’s why the roof isn’t plain straight. More Japanese-rock artists on the walls. Also, why is my room half pink half purple? Because when I was around ten the walls used to be an annoying shade of cute pink and I had barbie posters over-all so when I reached 13 years old we decided to to a little redecorating. But it was too much of a hassle to move all the furniture so I just painted the roof since it takes up most of the walls anyway.

Where the magic always happens, aha (although now I’m at my office) My lovely bed. There’s also a funny story about the big, dark gazette poster which, as you can see, it’s practically glued over a lot of print outs. I tried to put it on the purple ceiling but as you can see it’s not straight so after almost breaking my back trying to make it stay there, in 10 minutes it fell down. So I took it and put it there.

View from up. As you can see, it’s full of everything everywhere. I’ll explain as the close-ups roll

This is my friend Barni~

The right side of the library~

The left side, too. Here you can see the beautiful painting made in Japan my dad bought me for my birthday. I don’t really have hanging space so I just put it there, but it’s so nice, I wish I could give it a proper place. Also if you look up, above the library you can see a black thing hanging? That’s my Katana

My office right-left~

Also, this is my lovely tea collection I think I’ve got around 40 types of tea in there.

My manga collection and a bit of my makeup and perfumes too. I usually use perfumes by seasons so I keep only the spring ones (now) on the shelves. My makeup collection is stored in drawers but it’s a mess in there right now so I’ll skip it. Maybe I’ll make a sepparate post about it

And here is the magic lamp There’s no genie coming out, but it works perfectly as a hanger when you don’t feel like putting stuff in your closet, neither letting them on the floor.

And windows take up one of my walls. It’s a terrible heat in summer, I have to spend my time in other rooms.

So…do you like it? Should I do a tour of my whole home?

Not your ever striking neon Tokyo

March 1, 2012 | patriciablaj

I’ve got so so so many beautiful pictures and memories to share with you from my trips to Japan, but today I’d like to show you a less visited side of Tokyo: the more or less residential areas. Less noise, neons, people, but still beautiful and Japanese in my opinion. With narrow streets, cute cosy buildings and little shops. Enjoy!

As many of you have noticed, Japan is one of the few modern countries that still hasn’t moved the power lines underground. A lot of people say it’s ugly and messy, but I really like it. Maybe growing up in a country which has them in the air still makes me used to the cluttered sight, but I find it oddly romantic, like out of a Ghibli movie.