Swiss Miss 2010

YES. my favorite time of year. the time to adjust my style for the oncoming season. Oh the joy i get from making up my new identity and naming it. Template names of winters past included “Hunting the Stang 2007” (inspired by the Equestrian lifestyles of the adventurous french countrymen)… “Crayola Box 2008” and "Marie Antoinette 2009"… Even though the looks didn’t really work (frilly corsets and silkengloves don't really mesh well with the daily tasks of contemporary living)… its still always a theme name that gets me juiced about creating my seasonal look.

Oh how I long for the days where me and my knights of the fashion round table would sit around and discuss the visions of our seasonal styles, and continue to poorly execute them in the cold Bay Area weather which defaulted all our planned templates into “North Face Berkeley girl”… now im all alone out here in Oakland, CA without Oona or Maxine to inspire me with ideas. Thank god I have my partner in imaginary fashionista crime Moi aka BFF. and i know, just know, that our season naming passion is going strong all the way down the California coast.

This winter 2010 has been inspired by my new love for anything euro alps. it starts with the soul of a swiss milkmaid, singing in her countrywear while churning butter with her cows. drinking frothy hot cocoa by the fireside thinking of loves lost and more to come. an innocent but strong young milkmaid; she is adventurous and brave but is bound by her family destiny of the farm life. how she longs to break free and see the world!!!!!! ok im going too far again...

Seeing as i have been making most of my own clothes these days, this has been the easiest look to bring to life. my new bangs go great with this, though OMG i am hella feinin some bleach blonde hair right about now...(can u said heidi?) aaaaaaand of course lets not forget massive french braids of all sorts for flair. throw in some vintage notebooks, pens, ricolas and swiss army knife in the leather satchel, layers of various stockings and socks, and always a homemade baked good somewhere close by. here you have ladies and gentlemen, the new me. Swiss Miss Winter 2010.

Wait theres more. thats just the soul. Swiss missy of course gets a little high fashion too. shes not all hardboiled eggs and bread pudding. she likes to sneak away and ski on the weekends... shop in the slopeside boutiques with her millionaire lovah... and of course enjoy a nice scotch on the rocks fireside on the bearskin. you know how i do....