Shopping day! @HTNK one day shop

Me with fashion designer and friend Bas Kosters, I am wearing: Mango knit, H&M Maison Martin Margiela jeans and bag, vintage shoes

Bas Kosters sweater 'Hell O' available here

Bas Kosters sweat pants and sweater 'Heineken 1956'

Charlotte Kan shorts

Charlotte Kan shorts silk

Shoes: Local AMS

Necklace: Martine Viergever

Cat Ring: Naked Design

Yesterday I had a great time at the HTNK one day shop at Trouw! The one day shop organised by HTNK is held twice per year, remember I was there 6 months ago? I spend the whole afternoon shopping with a friend, looking for great sales of great designers. Bas Kosters is always one of my favourite designers at this day. A few weeks ago he also opened a shop in the 9 straatjes! His shop is in Le Souk, Wolvenstraat 5, Amsterdam. I bought some Bas Kosters items yesterday as shown above. Furthermore I bought 3 items of Charlotte Kan. Recently I did a collaboration with her, so stay tuned for next weeks post!

I found these warm and very comfy shoes of local design Locals AMS, these will definitely will keep me warm this winter! Accessories that I bought: a cute necklace of Martine Viergever, and a cat ring by Naked Design, which will glow in the dark. The lovely designer of Naked Design let me know that the profits of the rings she sells go to animal shelters, meow! 

 

A Round of Applause for HMMMM

Shirt, necklace, bag, heels: Maison Martin Margiela for H&M

Legging: Uncivilized

How about the Maison Martin Margiela collection for H&M! I love it! I always love oversized and odd shapes. This shirt is one of the many things I bought last week. I love the round shape of the blouse. I love the different years of MMM collections they represented! So I give the Maison Martin Margiela for H&M collection a round of applause!

There are still things left online, so hurry!

Movember

Shirt: Eleven Paris, buy it here

Scarf: Araisara

Jeans and heels: H&M

I do not like November. I think it is the ugliest month of the year. I never know what to wear in November. I bought tons of winter clothes but November is not cold enough for wool and too cool for one layer of cotton. November is the month I always get ill. I did get ill this week. And while being ill at home I did not pay attention while cutting bread, hence the bandaged finger. 

After that incident I am even more done with November. I can't grow a moustache to make it a cool and groovy Movember, so I'm giving the finger to November! A bandaged finger! And what better way to grow a fake moustache...

Photography: Marc Deurloo

If I was a Parisienne part I

dress: vintage

blouse: Zara

sweater, jacket, collar: H&M

socks: Marni for H&M

shoes: Copenhagen

 

Last month I visited Paris. Oh, how I love Paris! The next blogs I will be dedicating to my favourite city to visit (Amsterdam still stays first though). If I was a Parisienne, I would:

- Eat a croissant everyday

- Have bare legs more often

- Visit one museum per week 

- Wear sporty chic outfits likes this more often

What would you do when you would be a Parisienne?

Open casting call Free People in Amsterdam!

I have some good news for fashionistas in Amsterdam! This Saturday the 29th of September the Philadelphia based brand Free People (founding father of Urban Outfitters) will hold an open casting call.

Each month Free People travels to a different location around the world to shoot its catalogue, and now they are coming to Amsterdam. For this shoot they have no set model for the book, but instead, they are going to be holding open castings on September 29.

Free People is looking for women ages 18-45 with a cool style to come out and show their faces. Fifty contestants will be chosen to appear in their January catalogue themed, "girls on bikes," with photographer Guy Aroch.
The shoot will take place October 20-26, so models will have to be
available one of these days. A select few will be featured on their Bldg 25 blog.

For more details on the casting call stay tuned on my Facebook and twitter... 

 

Vintage Nails

I found something new with a vintage look for my nails. Isn't this cute?

My week: Antoine Peters 'Hope', Bas Kosters show at Valtifest and Weekday Opening in Amsterdam

Antoine Peters 'Hope'

Antoine

Marc Deurloo, my boyfriend, photographer for Antoine Peters 'Hope'

Me in Antoine Peters with Bas Kosters

In the back: me in Antoine Peters SS12

Bas Kosters show at Valtifest

All outfits made by Bas Kosters

In case you didn't notice; on the left is me in Bas Kosters outfit

Me rocking the Valtifest main stage in Bas Kosters

Getting my nails done at the Weekday opening

Weekday also sells designer clothes, this is one of my faourite dresses by Back

Sweater I bought with Weekday giftcard, thanks Weekday!

This week I had a fashionable week! It started on the 30th of August with the literally thundering opening of Weekday. While it was raining and thundering outside, inside it was warm, cosy and fashionable with chocolat bites, wine, georgeous looking clothes and friendly nail artists. Weekday knows what a girl (and boys) wants! As a daughter of H&M, selling different brands and designer collaborations I am an immediate fan. (I already was a fan since I spotted Weekday in Copenhagen, but now closer to home is even better!) You will defintely spot me in some Weekday outfits in coming blogs.

2 days later I had the chance to visit Valtifest for the third time. It is THE dress up festival in Amsterdam making it a very good last festival of the season. The theme of this year was 'Next to Uranus'. I took it literally by wearing my penis legging of Bas Kosters. And I had the whole Milky Way on my head by wearing a carton of milk, very Anna dello Russo-ish. Later that night I had the chance to take part in a performance of Bas Kosters in a Bas Kosters outfit. (Do you recognize me?) Well, that really was a cherry on the festival cake! The shows of Bas Kosters were phenomenal as always. He did three shows during the day, all in different Bas Kosters outfits, creating different Bas Kosters creatures. 

The last event (but not least) I went to was the presentation of the latest project of Antoine Peters, 'Hope'. A very fun and hopeful project in collaboration with Marc Deurloo (my boyfriend, who made all the photographs) The 'dress/ jumpsuit' presented in the pictures is an oily dress with just legs, no arms or head. The dancer who took part in the project shaped the dress in many angles with different attributes, it looked interesting and funny at the same time. By changing shapes Antoine tried to capture a new world, for if the end of the world would be near. The project shows how we treat each other, how we treat the world, and the hope that comes from this. Keep the hope up!