The Beautiful people pt. II: the Personal Style blog and the Photography blog

The Personal Style blog:

My take on Zarna... I'm not convinced, but I hope she likes it!

Zarna and her blog, Zarna's Runway, are many things for me. I'll try to tell them without being cheesy but I think it'll be difficult.

First of all Zarna's blog is the only outfit-only blog that is able to inspire me and leave me enthusiastic after each post. Don't misunderstand me, there are also other outfit blogs that I like, but Zarna's really has something special.

The impression that you have when you look at her photos is that she is a real artist of the clothing: her mixes of cheap bargains and expensive items, her amazing sense and use of colors, her ability to use garments and accessories from the Indian tradition in a very glamorous way are all elements that make her stand out from the crowd.

"Jane Aldridge? Who's she??"

Van Gogh would be proud of her...

Zarna is also the kind of beauty that I'd like to be. She's thin, but curvy and her muscles are tonic and healthy. She sports a lot and I bet she eats in a good way (look at her wonderful skin and her hair... You don't have skin and hair like that if you starve).

One of these days I'll paste her photo on the wall on my desk "Be like this in 3 months". Oh Yeah. (mission impossible)

How to rock an old Indian skirt for an elegant dinner... Are you starting to understand what I mean when I tell you she's the queen of color-styling for me??

And, last but not least, Zarna is the first person (my aunt or my best friends aside ahah) that showed me an interest in what I was sharing on my blog. 

She  commented on my video about Japan and it was the first time I thought "Oh wow, so somebody actually reads what I write apart from me checking what I wrote after posting!!".

That is how I discovered her blog.

She's a very nice person, she is totally not full of herself and you can really see that she's doing what she's doing on her blog because she has fun, she likes to play with her clothes and with colors and you can feel this joy when you read her posts.

I am really happy I met her in the blogosphere and I really hope you'll pay her a visit too, your eyes deserve it! :-p

"Bye! And come visit my blog!"

The Photography Blog:

When I stumbled upon her blog, my thoughts that Garance Doré had the most pleasant street-style photography blog were swept away in a second.

Well, to be precise the blog of The Photodiarist (she has two: The Photodiarist is the B&W version and The Photodiarist in Color is the color version) is not ONLY street-style, I would call it more street-LIFE.

She makes such pictures that you feel you are there, living the moment. 

And her subjects are not only well-dressed girls but also a funny man on a street, a piano player in Central Park, a drop of water standing on a  tree branch.

And, mainly, her blog IS New York.

I was following it from several weeks, every day more and more amazed by her photography, since one day she published this picture:

and I felt the need to comment it IMMEDIATELY and tell her how much I liked it. 

The burned out light, the perfect representation of the icy weather and that pink hat just in the middle. Perfection.

She saw the comment and she, very nicely, came to my blog, she told me she liked it a lot and when I read that comment I started to jump all around my place, shouting "She said she likes it!!". 

Tommy thought I hit my head somewhere and then asked me, a bit irritated "But sorry, WHO told you she likes WHAT?"

So I took his hand, brought him at my computer and showed him some of her pictures "SHE said she likes my blog and my drawings!!!". 

He looked at the photos, and he immediately understood why I was so happy.

Now, thanks to her last posts, I also discovered that she is an incredible fashion photographer. 

Her boyfriend got her a ticket for the Luca Luca show at New York fashion week as a Valentine present (this girl is freaking lucky, we should ask her where she found her boyfriend, maybe it is a good place to find guys like that ahaha).

Actually I think that these pictures are the ones where her talent shows the most.

Look at them and then tell me: aren't they some of the best runway pictures you've ever seen?

Check the full A/W 2011-12 Luca Luca runway report here, here and here!

It's really a pity that she could go only to this show, I would love to see the WHOLE New York fashion week report by her... Sigh...

Anyway, it took me two hours to write this post and I really gotta go, I have a styling mission today: one of my male friends asked me to help him shopping for new clothes. I accepted "only if you allow me to go buy new colors to draw at the Schleiper shop and a blush at MAC" ahahah.

It will be fun I think!

I really hope that Zarna and The Photodiarist (I still don't know your name!! What's your name? ahah) and also all of you will like this post, I really love to talk about talented girls like these (there will be more in the future, some of my new illustrator friends should be prepared... ;-) )

Have a very nice week-end, a big kiss!!


Al