NYFW FALL 2013 STREET STYLE

these are some of my favourite looks from New York Fashion Week. looks like over sized coats and brights are in! take a look here:

images: Vogue US & ELLE US

The King B continued

The King B: Beyonce's photoshoot for Vogue US

Beyonce looked as amazing as ever in the March 2013 issue of Vogue US. In the interview Bey speaks about her lipsyncing dilemma, Superbowl performance and her new HBO documentary; Beyonce: Life is but a Dream. check out her stunning photoshoot here:

life as a Marie Claire Beauty Intern

Over the December holidays i worked (and still working) as a beauty intern at Marie Claire Magazine in Joburg. i got to meet different and interesting people and also get to experience life in the fashion industry. its honestly the best job I've ever had. the best part was my boss asking me to model for the new Chanel beauty shoot.

The Chanel store was opened and revamped in Sandton City and it was only natural for the Marie Claire Beauty Editor and boss, Mathahle Stofile, to do a feature on the new store. it was all incredible to learn the origins of the fashion house, the fragrances as well as the make up.

the amazing staff at Chanel showed us how to get the perfect Chanel smokey eye.

check the video out below:

video by Joanna Imrie

Rihanna - Stay

Rihanna's latest video, Stay ft Mikky Ekko is something ive never seen from her before. it tells so much yet its so simple. i think anyone can relate to this. watch it here:

latest obsession: Cara Delevingne

This 19 year old British dame is currently the new face of Burberry, the fashion house which also boosted the names of Lily Donaldson and Rose Huntington-Whiteley. She’s recently walked the runway for the industry’s biggest fashion houses which include Jason Wu, Oscar de la Renta, Burberry, and Dolce & Gabbana. Her feline features, heavy thick eyebrows and “just got out of bed” hair is gaining the interest of many designers and adds a bit of edge to any elegant ball gown.

Cara is shorter than the average model (only a petite 5’11), “but, what she lacks in inches, she makes up for in confidence” says Vogue fashion bookings editor, Rosie Vogel. Her sense of humour, bright personality and versatility is what makes her stand out the most, which shows that she also adds something different besides her striking looks.

Cara is set to appear in the 2012 film, Anna Karenina, as Princess Sorokina, alongside Keira Knightely and Jude Law. She is also the cover girl for the latest issue of British Vogue, who also described her as the star face of the season for Autumn/Winter 2012-2013.

With her edgy looks, talent and spunk she adds to the industry, it’s safe to say that Cara Delevingne is well on her way to becoming one of the biggest models in fashion.

Paradise

nobody speaks to me better than Lana Del Rey. just wanted to share this amazing intro to one of her latest songs, Ride from her EP, Paradise.

I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell asleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour, and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times. I was a singer, not a very popular one. I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn’t really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been living, they asked me why. But there’s no use in talking to people who have a home. They have no idea what it’s like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lay your head.

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul. No moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality. Just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. And if I said I didn’t plan for it to turn out this way I’d be lying, because I was born to be the other woman. I belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn’t even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people. And finally I did, on the open road. We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art. Live fast, die young, be wild and have fun.

I believe in the country America used to be. I believe in the person I want to become. I believe in the freedom of the open road. And that motto is the same as ever: “I believe in the kindness of strangers, and when I’m at war with myself, I ride, I just ride.”

Who are you? Are you in touch with all your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.

- Lana Del Rey