Style Crush: Geraldine Saglio

 (collages by me)

If I had more jeans/denims, the first collage is likely how I'd style them. It's one of the reasons why I have such a style crush on Vogue Paris' Geraldine Saglio. Second is of course how she wears everything mini and midi. I always did like someone so put together in terms of clothing/styling clothes she wears apart from the slightly disheveled that I often prefer. Also, I love the color palette on here. A lot of dark colors (mostly black! Yay~) but white, lighter shades done right. *insert heart googly eyed emoji here...* 

And what not-so-surprise on my end, she does exude a tad bit of Emmanuelle Alt on the way she dresses...thanks to her being Alt's stylist according to this 2011 fashionista article here...hmn...k.

breaking out from the monotony of black and white and denim

 dress, mixed berry in dumaguete city. denim vest, old navy. boots, vintage.

These were taken minutes before it rained and while there was no power/electricity in the area. I was in the middle of watching some episodes I missed of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid when the power died...yep. Anyway, back to this outfit, I think a lighter wash of the denim vest fits this dress more but I don't have any and it works fine with the dark wash variety so...well...whatever works, works. And yep, I wore these white gathering kamote tops (green leafy vegetable) for the green smoothie I was concocting today that I'd be drinking tomorrow...lunch time or dinner. I'm pretty much back to the green smoothie drinking spree these days which is a good thing. I've been meaning to get back into it since before.

Did I really forget to update on the World Team Trophy in Japan this year? The outcome? Team Japan got the gold!!! Yay! My favorite male figure skater, Uno Shoma, of course retains his number status as a splendid figure skater in Japan and worldwide. Now I'm looking forward to the new grand prix season. Kind of sad that Murakami Kanako has announced her retirement at the World Team Trophy gala as well. A lot of the older, really good skaters seem to be retiring one by one. Last time, it was Takahashi Daisuke then recently, and before Kanako, Asada Mao and now, Kanako. Team Japan still seems as strong as ever, nevertheless so I'm at peace with everything going on in Japan's and the world's figure skating scene, I think. 

skirt on repeat

 tank, bench ph. skirt, ebayed laundry by shelli segal. boots, rubi by cotton on via zalora. clutch, gifted by aunt.

It's long been established I'm a repeat offender. A chronic repeat offender to be exact. At least when it comes to pieces of clothing I get obsessed with or too attached to at some point. This skirt has been on rotation since what...? Last week? I'll retire it sometime this week somehow. Went with this for something simple today while working on the previous post and some other things...

There's not much up today but the final game between Far Eastern University and National University on tv for the UAAP Men's volleyball event. The team that wins this now-5-set game faces off my favorite team of the event. Ateneo de Manila University blue spikers (or eagles? ....whichever works, I guess...) on Saturday for the first game of the finals. And I am highly thrilled for this one. I'm definitely clearing my saturday schedule for this game, gotta cheer for my boys somehow. Their 14-0 sweep of the two elimination rounds of this season shouldn't be all for naught...at all, after all.

 

summer 2017 wishlist

 love lace insert balloon sleeves dress in pink, zalora. sucker punched 2 swing dress in pumpkin spice, rvca. handcuff rhodium bracelet in silver, cast of vices. screw cuff in polished gold, miansai. vogel bangle in silver, elizabeth and james. ultra midi mini titan ring in rosegold, vita fede. chloe mini choker in gold, gorjana. binnie low zip boots, nine west. ariel peep toe boots, baske california. suede detail flap backpack, zalora. fair sling bag, aldo. studded metal tassel crossbody bag, something borrowed.

A few things to note:

1. Pumpkin spice is probably a fall color but I guess it can work for the summer too. I included it in this wishlist because of the easy surf style and I may have been thinking about May 1's beach day with some friends when I looked into this on the RVCA site. 

2.  The boots (I still can't come to terms to calling ankle boots 'booties' somehow...for some reason...) may not be summer appropriate but they would work with dresses, shorts and skirts so I just had to include them in here. Sky high heels on the nine west pair, bandage-y beauty on the baske california pair...yum.

3. The backpack is likely also an idea culled from the impending beach trip on May 1, that's labor day here.  

Would I rock these to the beach? Most likely. 

Anyway, a few more things are up on kgsurdilla1987 on ebay.ph. Auctions are ending pretty soon. 

ribbed coziness

top, forever21. cutoffs, secondhand rue21. boots, rubi by cotton on via zalora. belt, vintage. choker, verano ph via zalora.

This was meant to be yesterday, Saturday's post until I slept on posting it at all last night... Then it became a sunday really early morning post. Yesterday happened to be a bit of a busy blur for reasons so I wasn't able to make any post.

Really upped a notch on the personal, pretty innate weirdness last night...well, basically, I walked in these boots to the nearest 7-11. Catcallers need to die somehow then again, I don't really pay them any mind or something to that extent at all... Experiment done and done, apparently the boots are ok for walking fast and a tad bit long, or rather far. The morning before that...I answered the door to a second package from the grandmum in California in this. Ribbed stuff apparently are pretty cozy I'm beginning to get so used to them, I might end up too dependent on them considering the moment I spotted this in a rack in Fashion Island's Forever21 way, way back later of 2016 (two years ago, basically), I then and there decided to get this in its two colors: white (here) and black. Well, I can now say it was a good decision to. I suppose some things are just meant to be bought in multiples and in every color. This is one, the other is the Bench tank I have in both white and grey...

I'm thinking of getting into the fitted sometimes cropped bandwagon. Loose, slightly oversized and drapey is more my thing most days, however.

max laziest

slip, vintage. clutch, gifted by aunt. boots, zalora. long necklace, forever21. arm bangles, dumaguete city souvenir shop and vintage.

In my max laziest outfit, as in the one type of dress I'd pull on when spending a day at home or coming home from school or work... It's also something I would go out in just with the added blazer like the one in here:

I think it's safe to say that slipdresses can make appropriate roaming-around-outside-during-the-day or -night dresses when done right. The bit of slipdresses I own are getting more use as of late---doesn't matter if it's just for staying home or going out to get stuff at the convenience store close by or some other...

And music for the day...something pretty relaxing and empowering (-ish) in the most introspective way at the same time---somehow I have this song on repeat on my windows media player on some pretty lull, chill days:

white t and ripped jeans

 shirt, h&m. jeans, secondhand. heels, zalora. 

I was this close to getting ice cream by the closest 7-11 in this get-up this afternoon. Thankfully, there's avocado in the fridge... I should probably attempt the former next time.