Pink puzzle

My pink week is over and it is time for me to evaluate...

It has actually been more challenging to dress in pink everyday, than I thought it would be. Bright pink is difficult to dress down with other colours and if you don't, you end up looking Barbie-like - not a good look for the office :-)
Also I'm used to choosing my daily outfit according to my mindset in the morning, and not being able to freely choose a 'colour of the day' has been a bit strange.

Well, here are my outfits this week:

Wednesday:

Shirt: Forever21

Cardigan: H&M

Skirt: Day

Tights: asos.com

Shoes: Topshop (Christmas present):

...

Thursday:

Cardigan: Ganni

Dress: Monsoon

Tights: Sneaky Fox

Shoes: Topshop

Belt: asos.com

...

Friday:

Cardigan: Day

Dress: thrifted

Shoes: Topshop

...

All week:

Coat: Max & Co.

Boots: Bronx

Beret: Accessorize - customized

Gloves: Oasis

Scarf: gift

So that was my result. Hope you liked it. Next week my challenge will be to wear TARTAN Monday-Friday.

My lucky day :-)

Yesterday was the best day this year so far!

I've been jobhunting since January, and I was about to reach my breaking point with boredom and the uncertaincy of my future.
Well, Monday I got a call from a place I had sent an application. I had to call back Tuesday as I was about to enter the cinema. Tuesday we had a small talk by phone, and I was asked to come for an interview Wednesday. The interview went really well, and I got a call the same day for a second interview Thursday. This was more a short recap of the interview the day before, and it was soon revealed, that I got the position!! Hooorayyy!
I start my new life as a hardworking Marketing Coordinator Monday, wish me luck! :-)

My luck had not run out with the job offer. Thursday evening the Fisk Redesign Competition took place and my team won!!
It was all in the name of recycling and charity, and in my team we had chosen to use men's wear for all three outfits.
We had a dress made out of a suit, a coat made of two jackets and a tie dress go down the runway. My sister, Vala, is working the suit-dress.
And what a success! The celebrity / fashion-wise judges had some really nice comments and the crowd cheered us on (led by my mom, my sister Laura, my BF and my friends Nana and Laura - thank you all!!)

Our minicollection is listed below. Behold! :-)

FISK Re-design Fashionshow

This spring I've been teaming up with a bunch of creative and very sweet girls (you know who you are) once a week to re-design second hand clothes for a charity shop in Copenhagen called FISK (Fish in Danish). And all of our work resulted in a fashion show in May. It has been so much fun to be free to do whatever you wanted with the clothes, and here are my results (Thanks again to the models):

The lovely young lady posing here is my littlesister :-) Good job Vala!

I haven't made all of thesse clothes, but some of them are my "design" or re-design, that is...
The blue dotted top used to be a big square top and the jumpsuit was once a velvet dress. The nude sundress has a former life as a very matron-like dress, and I just fell in love with the small print of flowerpots on it.
(I cannot take credit for the capri pants, the vintage see-through jacket or the well crafted vest).

The blue dress is made out of a mens shirt and tie and the glitter vest was originally a very funky jacket, but someone had already removed the sleeves when I found it (the orange skirt is not my work).

I hope I can find time to meet up with the girls during the summer to get more fun clothes done. Once we're finished with the items, they go on sale in the shop to raise funds for various charity projects.

Ooooh if I were a hat...

... then I would probably be from the Danish hairband/hat designer Muggie Moscow. She makes the funniest accessories, and I have been staring at them everyday at the showroom, where I work, and giggeling in my quiet mind.

I tried some of the styles on the other day and here is the result :-) I love the cartoonish look! You can tell how amused I am on the pictures, couldn't help smiling.

The blue blouse is my latest fix of polka dots bought on sale in Monsoon.

And thus the week of polka dotting ends with a bang!

To polka or not to polka...?

Okay, now I have officially declared this The First Week of Polka!

These two dresses are some favorites of mine (yes I do have a few...). The red one I bought in a thrift shop here in Copenhagen and the orange one is from a street market on New York's Lower West Side (The lady I bought it from said it was from a Oscar de la Renta sub-line, but as there is no tag in it, your guess is as good as mine).

Both dresses have polka dots on them, and for some reason that just triggers my attention. I have styles the orange dress with a clip-on bowtie I once found in a charity shop, that makes it even more Minnie Mouse-like.

I tried to upload a picture of the tights I wore with the red dress, but now I can see that the picture is very blurry... it's surposed to be hearts on the back of the tights. I bought them on sale on asos some time ago.

Fun fact: The first time I wore the red dress my sister said I looked like a secretary version of this Danish 70s cartoon caracter:

I found the picture here, thank you :-)

She is called Cirkeline and lives in a matchbox on an artist's desk.

I'll take the comment as a compliment :-) Most Danish girls loved Cirkeline growing up.

Keeping up appearances

We had a press conference on my work last friday presenting two new facial care products. It was my first experience being "hostess" of an event like this, and therefore I really wanted to make a good first impression :-)

I chose to wear a light blue vintage dress, which I found in a favorite shop of mine - Beacon's Closet in Brooklyn, New York - I have only been there once, when I was visiting my sister in NY, but I cannot wait to come back someday.




I really felt like I pulled it off looking fresh and clean as if I use a lot of beauty products every day, until a lady with an ultrasound scanner told me that my skin was twice my age!! Shock!! I know I have fair skin and that it does not have much resistance towards stress and sun, but come on! (I just hope I do not look forty on the outside as well) :-)
Don't you just love it when the carpet is pulled away from you?

Oh yes, back to the dress... I really like the embroidery and the colors of the flowers and also the crisp look it has, oh, and the matching belt.

What I wore today...

After dressing up as a secretary for my first two days of work, I felt like wearing a dress today... (to be honest I simply couldn't be bothered to put together an entire outfit this morning).
I love this green dress It has saved me in many wardrobe meltdowns!

It reminds me of Olive Oyl from the Popeye cartoons, and as I am a sucker for both bows, Peter Pan collars and buttons, I had to have this, when I saw it in a charity shop outside of Copenhagen - and just my luck it was dead cheap! Hoorrraayy!

PS: I don't know why the pictures got so blurry... will try to find some better lighting...

Work work work

I’m starting a new job tomorrow in the Danish fashion industry, and I have been at my wits end trying to figure out what to wear. The other girls at the office are all dressed to the nines, so I have my work cut out for me…

I think I have it down now.

I’ll be starting out with a secretary look this week – pencil skirts and high heels – combined with small humoristic details. Later I will sneak in some a-line skirts, dresses and cardigans, which is kind of my uniform normally, but right now it’s all about first impressions and convincing myself, that I belong in an office.
Well, behold:

and some detail shots:

I love tights, and these jigsaw ones tickles my funny bone big time. The shoes are from Miss L Fire - they make some to die for retro shoes!

The shirt with the bib used to belong to my grandmother, who i suspect was more fashion forward in her days than i'll ever be.