Fendi Silvana multicolour and the Parka

In the Drawing:

Crocheted Silk Dress - Oscar De La Renta on Net-à-Porter

Hooded Parka - Zara

Studded Leather and Rope wedge sandals - Valentino on Net-à-Porter

Leather bag Silvana - Fendi

Outside drawing from top left, clockwise:

Silk crepe de Chine blouse - Chloè on Net-à-Porter

Necklace - coseAtre

Tokyo mid-rise pants - MIH on Net-à-Porter

Peep toe shoes - ASOS

Leather bag Silvana - Fendi

Bracelet - Missoni on Net-à-Porter

Orange point flats - Jil Sander on Shopbop

Sunglasses - Miu Miu on Net-à-Porter

So yes, actually when yesterday I told you "I am leaving for Paris and until then I've got a lot of work, so I am not going to write here until next week" it was all a big bla bla bla: there was an explosive combination that pushed me to write the last post before the week-end (and then I'll go, I promise).

The above quoted combination was: terrible-day-at-work-to-ultimate-the-presentation/my-brain-is-fried + I saw the multicolour Silvana on Vogue.fr (love at first sight) + yesterday night I had a look at one of my copies of Elle Italia before sleeping.

The first and second reagents of the reaction are easy to understand, but I'll explain you the third: why Elle Italia inspired me a post in which I put a lot of stuff in a collage?

The answer is very easy: Elle Italia's got the nicest shopping editorials I've ever seen, called, easy to guess, Elle Shopping.

In Italy I used to buy Elle every month (I try to do it also here in Belgium, even if it costs a fortune) and as soon as I was stepping out of the newspaper shop it was my tradition to immediately skip forward straight to the shopping editorial. 

After that, I stepped back to the beginning and read the magazine from the first page to the last one (I really really suggest you to buy a copy once, even if you can't read Italian, just for the pics... it's the best magazine together with Vogue.fr and Vogue America in my opinion).

Needless to say it has always been my favourite magazine, for many reasons, and I've always thought "it should be so much fun to create looks like they do in Elle Shopping..." 

Of course I couldn't do it because, as you all could imagine, I don't own a magazine neither I am a whatsoever editor but yesterday night I had the illumination, between the thought of a slide of my presentation and another: "I haven't got my own magazine but I've got my own blog ERGO I finally can do it!"

And here I am, with my Al Shopping ahah!

I had so much fun doing it that I would like to do some more in the future, every time I see a look or a dress or an accessory that inspire me... what do you think? Would you like to see some more or is it boring for you? Not that I am going to post these collages every day but once in a while, to have fun... let me know!

And what do you think about the Silvana? I am totally in love with it... In my opinion it is the It-bag for summer together with the Luggage Shopper of Cèline (did you see the knitted version? I am drooling...)

If only I could buy it... But anyway, that's why we love fashion, because it makes us dream... no?

And the parka... I really gotta have one, I think we'll see it really everywhere this spring (well, actually already in winter...) and I think this one from Zara is super nice (and buy-able for me ahahah)

Ok, now I really go, tomorrow I'll really go to Paris and I'll really see you next week.

Kiss!

Al