wardrobe stylist sneak peek photos

Kestra the make up artist www.makeupbycalla.com

Samantha the photographer 

Mila the Model from Fayme Agency

I styled a photo shoot last week in Toronto. Here's some shots I took of one of the locations from the shoot. There were three different locations. It was so much fun. I absolutely loved being the wardrobe stylist. Who would not want to dress someone up in three different outfits, wearing my jewellery and accessories that I designed? 

I love this chipped jade necklace I put on Mila for the first location. This outfit was very Mad Men inspired. Samantha has some other work you can check out by clicking here. She was such a great photographer to work with. The make up artist Kestra did a wicked job with Mila's hair and make up. The model, Mila was so lovely, can you believe she's only in grade 12? What a stunner! I'll post more photos once I get the professional ones. Here are the outtakes. 

Have a great weekend! Shop this jewellery look here.  Tip for the weekend, it's all in the accessories! 

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Here's to my first guest blogger, Kendra. Kendra is a gorgeous babe who has her own fashion inspiration blog, which happens to be called Fashinspiration (she's wicked cute like that ha) Check it out here. Thanks Ken for writing such a GREAT post. Enjoy readers :) 

I guess I’ll start off by saying how excited I am to be doing a guest blog post for a very talented fellow fashion blogger and a close friend. I have been interested in fashion for most of my life, with out even realizing it. I recently went through some of my old Barbie dolls to give them away and found all the outfits that I made for them when I was younger. I may have played with Barbies a little longer than I care to admit, but even back then I thought I could make the outfits better than Mattel… I was wrong, but I tried! And for most of my life I have been of the mindset that if I can’t find an item of clothing that I want, I try to make it instead. Then there is the mild obsession with models designer clothing. Needless-to-say, when Hattie emailed me last year and told me she was doing a fashion show to raise money for cystic fibrosis, and she wanted me to be in it, I jumped at the chance.

It was so much fun last summer to get together with a group of awesome girls to practice our model walks. I’ll admit, most of us were terrified with the prospect of putting on heels and strutting down the runway in front of hundreds of people, but we knew we were doing it for a good cause! We walked back and forth across a room while a model coach told us what we were doing wrong. Oh the judgment you have to face everyday as a wannabe model. She taught us how to do proper turns and poses, and we did them – awkwardly at first – but getting better each time. When we finally started going for fittings the week before, it really sunk in how excited I was for this fashion show.

A couple of days before the show, another friend of mine asked me to play a role in an independent film and I agreed (I like to keep myself busy). The film was being shot in an outdoor swimming pool that we did not “technically” have the rights to use. This required some fence hopping, which I’m not proud to say, I was no stranger to. The night before the fashion show, we went to do some filming. I got over the fence ok, but when I was going back over I was consumed with thoughts of a story my friend had told me about someone getting their finger stuck while fence hopping. I jumped prematurely from way too high, and landed flat on both my feet. I felt the pain immediately but hoped it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. We filmed one more scene and then when I went to walk I realized that I couldn’t.

At the doctors the next day my face was raw from crying all night, not from pain, but from disappointment. The doctor even felt the need to ask me if I was suicidal. Seriously! No, not suicidal, but pretty damn stupid to have damaged my feet the night before I was supposed to walk in a fashion show.

I was not able to walk in the show… crutches were not a hot accessory that season. But I went anyway, and hobbled around the crowded space. The show was packed, so much so that I - on crutches - almost couldn’t get a seat! Now that’s a full house. It was an amazing show, and the only good thing about rendering myself unable to walk, was that I got to relax and enjoy seeing my friends on stage during such a wonderful night of fashion (as opposed to freaking out back stage with them.)

I don’t know the details, but it looks like we might be doing it again this year. And having witnessed it once, I can guarantee a great show. Only this time, I’m putting myself on house arrest for the week leading up to the show. However I cannot guarantee that I won’t injure myself on the runway… such is the life of the uncoordinated.

some more models

babes

Anna struttin' her stuff 

work it, work it

Some of the models. Kendra is in the middle

Gypsy Queen

This is the outfit I strutted my stuff down on the red carpet at LG Fashion week (I didn't really strut, although I wish...I'm not even sure if I know how to strut? I might end up looking like a flamingo with a broken foot wearing heels).

I posted the winners for the giveaway yesterday. Incase you didn't read.

Congratulations to Laura for winning the earrings!
Congratulations to Vanessa for winning the Bracelet!

Thanks everybody for participating in the giveaway! Stay tuned for the next one!

P.S. I feel like a gypsy queen in this skirt!

Skirt: Wrap, thrifted from Guelph salvation army 
Shirt: Lace creme dress, thrifted; Chez thrift store
Brown Shrug: CTS (Canadian Thrift Store) on queen
Jacket: Club Monaco
Bracelets: Thrifted, moms and You've Got Hattitude
Ring: Flea Market
Necklace: You've Got Hattitude Jewellery. Click here to get a similar one for Spring! 

LGFW

Winning feels good. So when I won tickets to a fashion show in Toronto during fashion week. It felt good. Going to a fashion show and eating like crazy afterwards so I don't look like the models up on the runway because they look like little twigs with pointy knobs (bones) sticking out in weird positions all over, that if I blew on them, they would crumble in to dust....does not feel good.

They had this booth set up at the show...but seriously come on? What about 'everyone needs a malibu stacy'? not EVERYONE needs a ken, some people might want a malibu stacey.

And when did Ken and Barbie ever break up? Back together again? They are the iconic couple, how did I miss them splitting up?

some clothing line, incorporating vacuums, perhaps advocating that you can clean in their clothes as well as go out on date night?

Trying to snap a photo

trying to snap photos of her, she was my favourite dressed

Women in their older years, adore fashion too

Fashion week

My partner in crime

Jewellery Designer...

The Fashion show was weird. I had no idea models were THAT skinny. It did not make me want to buy those clothes....because I do NOT want to look like those models.  I like my bones under my skin where no one can see them...no popping out at weird angles because I have zero fat to cover anything up. I thought we got out of the age where models had to be super thin? Maybe it was just the show I was at?

13 awesome killer ladies and me are planning our 2nd annual Fashion Show fundraising event. Our show was out of this world last year (we raised over $40,000)...and this year stands to be even better.

We were hoping to catch some inspiration from the fashion show ...maybe there was another venue, but I found the whole experience rather odd. The models were extremely thin, the atmosphere cavernous and echoy, and the seats uncomfortable on my boney butt. ha

Real Raw Righteous Beauty

This is a really powerful trailer for a movie coming out. I think the finished documentary will be stunning.

We look up to, we embrace, we copy, we admire, celebrities and models. We tend to forget about beauty and perhaps our perception of beautiful has become warped, from magazines, movies and television ads.

Ladies and Gentleman...the Documentary : On Beauty.