fashion week essentials

photo by Rachel Kara

Polaroid Camera // Diptyque Philosykos // Invitations! // Wooster And Prince Emery Boards // Celine Trio // Chanel Nail Varnish in June // NARS Lip treatment in Greta // Aesop Ginger Flight Therapy

We are well-ensconced in our room at the Cambridge Hotel (eating ice cream and giggling in bed watching The Voice), we have mapped out our schedules and steam-pressed our garments ready for tomorrow. Our little team - myself, Rachel and Talisa - are definitely ready for fashion week. Here are a few of my essentials: a lip balm, a fresh scent, and a polaroid camera, all neatly fitting inside my Celine trio. Keep checking back here, on their blogs and also on instagram (@hannahroserose) for our coverage from the week, backstage and behind the scenes, on the breakfast table (you gotta get your energy up, you know!) and beyond. The dream team.

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a little bit fancy

Celine Trio // Tome Tunic from My Chameleon // RMK heels

Outfit planning for my Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week with Talisa and Rachel. This one is a little bit fancy - I don't normally wear heels but fashion week seems as good a time as any. These ones are just little baby heels though, and they're easy and comfortable. A nice change from my signature sandals!

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found

1-2, 5, 7 - pages from MUJI Found, 3 - Byredo Perfume Dispenser, 4 - TOME tunic from My Chameleon, 6 - Celine Aviators, 8 - Dieppa Restrepo loafers from My Chameleon and Porselli ballet flats

 

This book is one of my favourite buys from Tokyo. I picked it up from the MUJI flagship store in Marounouchi (the one with a restaurant, oh be still my heart!) but only got the chance to have a proper flick through it once I got back to Sydney. "Rather than just making things, MUJI has always taken the stance of "searching and finding" a lifestyle," the first page says. "We search throughout the world for items that have long been used in daily life without ever going out of fashion, improve on them a little to fit changing lifestyles, culture and customs and reproduce them at a reasonable price." I have always loved Muji's retail philosophy, but this book has really reinforced all the conceptions that I had about the brand. Filled with low-fi, analogue images of everything from bamboo chopsticks and plastic wrapping from China to naan bread dishes from India and - my favourite section, of course - the classical beauty of Paris ("France is always a model for Japan, in fact, it is a model for the world"), the book celebrates everyday life as it is distilled in the objects that litter our existence. It is minimal and simple, a fete of paper napkins and handwriting as well as hand-embroidery and the particular elegance of Parisian streets. Of Paris, the book says "Streets of stone, bridges of stone. A city created to never change". 

 

The idea has struck me recently as I unpacked my bags and set about resuming Sydney life. I have long searched for a wardrobe that is built to last, created to never change. As I add - and subtract - from the bits and pieces hanging up, folded down, stacked in boxes and piled in their dustbags above and below, I have always been moving slowly yet steadily towards that end goal. Some of the items that I have found along the way are odd - yellow suede ballet flats, flashy aviators with a horn trim - but that is all part of the fun. Style is as much about the idiosyncrasies and the outliers as it is about the standard. I think what I love most is how comfortable I am about my standard now. I know instantly, sensorily, the first touch of a murky brown cotton twill tunic, the first feel of my toes in a pair of loafers, the first sight of those Parisian streets. It has something to do with growing up, I think, but also to do with where I am in my life at the moment. I know what I'm doing. And that, inextricably, yet undeniably, helps with what I'm wearing.

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blush

 purple

 I always love the sets at the Celine fashion shows. Often - thought not always - held at the Tennis Club, they tend to run along that fine line of graphic minimalism, with organic materials, modernistic seating and something dynamic to hold it all together. The ceiling display this year is what really caught my eye. The opaque lightboxes were beautifully rendered, and those long, slightly haphazard stretches of blush and white paint. The white - splodgy and impatiently daubed on with the air of something done not for posterity but for convenience - reminds me of the stores, with their exposed wiring and waxed floors, so low-fi that when I first went into the Celine store on Madison Ave in New York I thought it hadn't been finished yet (faux pas). But it's the blush that is best. That beautiful, rosy-cheeked pink hue, that reminds me of all those lovely Benah bags from a couple of seasons ago, that reminds of me of Talisa and her paintings last year, that reminds me of being young and sweet, so unlike Celine, which makes it very like Celine indeed. That pink - with its white blemishes throughout - is the perfect reflection.

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effortless

purple diary

"Nobody does it better, makes me feel sad for the rest." Phoebe, nobody does it quite as good as you. There are imitators, oh yes, they populate the other brands, they've infiltrated the high street, they think they dictate the trends and blaze the trail but the fact, the sad, sad fact, is that they've got nothing on you. They can't cut a coat the way you can, cropped and swingy, sitting with the lapels closed just at the right spot, or hanging low from the shoulders, flaring at the back, cinching in fold after wonderful, wonderful fold with an oversized belt-tie. They can't conceive of a skirt the way you can, fitted at the waist and darting out, softly, with feminine grace and elegance, from the hips, curving at the hem with the sophistication of a ballet dancer. They can't reclaim the turtleneck like you can, not harsh and severe but reserved, beautiful, a winter's morning in an Impressionist painting, a lovers' farewell at a train station. They can't put it all together the way you can; the unstudied tucked-in ponytail, the non-existent makeup, the gold choker with the oversized bead, the handbags clutched against the side like a shopping list or a bag of groceries. You make it seem so easy, Phoebe. A lover and a fighter, a mother and a designer, everything all at once. Other designers make it look like such hard work, but Phoebe, well, you make it look like glorious, glorious play.

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cafe de flore

Vogue Es

This is the dream. Coffee and Le Figaro, morning sun and a different Celine bag for every day. I know this is a bit of Paris overload (and I haven't even left the country yet!). But you won't catch me saying sorry. Nope. This is the dream.

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again and again and again

jak and jil // stockholm streetstyle // the selby // me

In the never-ending rotation of handbag musical chairs (wants and needs and haves and have-nots) you can sometimes forget the things you've had the longest and the things that have stuck by you through the thick and thin. The ones you struggled so hard to get your hands on, the ones who've been your constant companion at morning brunches and on evening dates and at fancy birthday dinners with fancy birthday friends. But then, like all good things that are so, so good, you just forget about them. A newer model comes in, something else catches your eye, and that old favourite gets wrapped up in its dustbag and sent to the back of the wardrobe. It's silly, really, but it does take a reminder to jolt you back to your senses. It might be the glimpse of a picture from Paris, bag tucked casually under the arm. Or the sight of it, perched resiliently in its place, begging for the chance to be given another moment in the sun. Or, much more shallow, yet infinitely more true, the sight of it on a streetstyle blog. How has it come to this? Rather than all those good times and all of those happy memories the thing that makes you want something the most is seeing it on the arms of some fashionista? Well there you have it. We are, all of us, completely and irrevocably human.

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something for the weekend

Stine Goya leather jacket from My Chameleon, Rag & Bone sweater, Linda Farrow x The Row sunglasses from My Chameleon, Me & Ro bangle, Saskia Diez bracelet, Mociun bracelet, Araks bra, Byredo La Tulipe, Araks knickers, Dieppa Restrepo loafers from My Chameleon, Van Rycke necklace from My Chameleon, Nars lipstick in Bianca, Golden Goose jeans, Celine phantom bag

If only all weekends looked like this. 

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