Accessories Accede: What’s In My Sonia Rykiel Sac?

Q&A in Espoo, Finland

What’s the most recent purchase for your sac?

It’s quite dry in Finland no matter which season, so it must be this L’Occitane pivoine flora hand cream, and 10ml is an easy size to carry on.

What’s your essential item in your sac?

My leather pochette, since I almost never use a thick wallet for my bank notes or cards.

✔My first Sonia Rykiel lambskin bag, which I consider it quite a long while until it became a clearance sale item. I especially adore the horizontally stitching lines representing Sonia Rykiel’s classic stripe design. 

✔See By Chloé pastel purple leather pochette is just a perfect size for bank notes and my credit cards, coupons and ID. One thing needs to be a bit concerned is that the golden chain avoided with the metal clash. 

✔Marc By Marc Jacobs key pouches, both 100% cow leather, are just yet another sale season hunts. The navy blue one is for keys and baby blue one is great for the bus card, coins and MBMJ heart-shaped earrings. 

✔Chanel Rouge Coco INA #450 is my new favourite for shopping or work occasions. Its moisturizing formula is also performing as a first-aid lip balm. 

Now I prefer carrying double bags while going out: petite one for those essentials and large one for gloves, scarf or cardigans. In Finland the weather changes swiftly, so it never goes wrong preparing one more bag! 

See By Chloé

 Sonia Rykiel

L’Occitane

Fashion Fun: May Layers To Be The Look!

Springtime has come! Though the climate is unpredictable always, while it looks sunny bright but windy chilly still, therefore, layering outfit suits May the best!

I like to collect silk tank tops as my basic wear, which can be worn as underwear during wintertime and outwear in summer days. This 100% silk pastel leopard print tank top is from Hungarian brand Nanushka, my new discovery at my Budapest trip. The second and third layers are Guess? 100% navy blue silk blouse and 99% cotton+ 1% spandex denim shirt. Guess Marciano may be too wild for me, but Guess? lingerie and denim are mostly made in Italy or Tunisia with sophisticated details, such as buttons are carved with Guess? logos or studded with a micro crystal. As a bargain hunter, I never mind purchasing a sample, as long as it fits me well, and at fashionstore.fi outlet I always can find several perfect Guess? items with super good prices.

The final layer is my 2013 birthday present, Zara lambskin biker jacket, its 100% cotton linen, shoulder patted and sleeves cuffs are a plus. The tip of wearing layers is not only mix and match the colours, but the materials as importantly to prevent the uneven visual look (such as poppy red polyester jacket with evergreen knitted turtleneck will become a walking Christmas tree). The bottom I wear is snakeskin effect 80% nylon+20% elastane American Apparel leggings, and completed with 100% polyethylene Zara flats. 

I am wearing Stella McCartney sunglasses, Nanushka top, Guess? blouses, American Apparel leggings, Zara leather jacket & flats, sonia Rykiel sac and Marc by Marc Jacobs scarf. A 75% silk+25% cotton Marc by Marc Jacobs scarf is my convenient spring accessory, since the rumour of its discontinuous production has leaked, perhaps 2015 is the last season to hoard the MMJ amazing design. Sonia Rykiel lambskin shoulder bag is a good company for the neighbourhood walk. What’s In My Sac will revel more stories soon, but let’s go for a sushi lunch first!

Special Thanks: JMH

Marc by Marc Jacobs

American Apparel

Stella McCartney

Sonia Rykiel

Magazine Madness: Interview 2015—Sia, Face Off

Interview April 2015

Who has ever seen Sia’s music video ‘Chandelier’ would be amazed by how talented of the choreography is, let alone the 11-year-old solo dancer, Maddie Ziegler, wows the crowds for her impromptu modern moves. Interview April 2015 issue scores Sia’s forth interview, about her interest on movie project and insecurities under public gazes.

Turning 39 years old in 2015, Sia projects her blond bob style onto Maddie the dancer in short films. She would like to “be able to make great pop music for another 20 years”, while still contributing songs for other artists, Sia would like to save the favourites for herself. Take ‘Chandelier’ for example, the original plan was to give it away, but it had to come out on a major label, and RCA doesn’t want to make it as freebie, so Sia took the song and directed the music video. ‘Chandelier’ has been playing on social media at every corner, and several months later, Sia won 2014 MTV The Best Choreography Music Video.

Sia continues the contract with RCA under her own deal: no promo, no touring, no appearances in any music videos. Because she would like to try to have some control of her image, “I am just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. But I’m not willing to give up my actual self” (Wiig, 137). Through Photographer Gregory Harris’ lens, the fashion campaign in Los Angeles, Sia is wearing Victor & Rolf or Junya Watanabi floral dresses, Alexander Wang killing-high heels, and either a reserved salad-bowl or a bird-nest blond wigs, with bare smiles. The shooting location is at an abandon carwash with shattering glasses on the ground, or at an old street corner with dying flower petals. From the front cover to the fashion pages, the hue layers are from light burgundy, pale white to neo blue, with a touch of industrial declined city view. The atmosphere of the shooting is echoing Sia’s music videos, dusty, vague and melancholic.

This is the reason why I keep collection Andy Warhol’s publication. Perhaps that’s also why Sia would be willing to take interview with Interview.

www.interviewmagazine.com

Magazine madness: Emma Stone by Diane Keaton

Interview May 2015

First I noticed Emma Stone is from Easy A, then ever since my gazes are very severely harsh away from this Hollywood bombshell. Photography by Craig McDean, the cover image of Interview May 2015 issue is having a sense of nostalgia and vintage. Emma’s face is taking over half size of the front cover, her reddish mid-length hair shielding part of her left eye, the exposes of her facial pores showing it’s not too much photoshop post-production.

With 12 pages of fashion campaign shoots, Emma portraits her sex appeal, in a rather sensual, natural poses. The soft focus and zooming techniques enhance an alternative voyeurism toward Stone, which she is not whimsically witty, such as her famous lip-synching at Jimmy Fallon Show, but sexually elegant. Her gleeful ready-and-willingness doesn't come from desperation, nor plead for approval.

One of the reason that makes Interview magazine such an interesting read is that those interviews between superstars seems so raw, so fragmental, and so real, as if we are listening to some girl-next-door small talks. The conversation between Emma and Diane is no exception:

Diane Keaton: So, Emma…..

Emma Stone: Yes…..[laughs] Well, you know what? What’s strange about the way my brain functions is that the only thing that has ever made me feel calm is knowing clearly what I want. You don’t admit to yourself what you want?

Diane Keaton: Well, I tried not to because I felt really guilty about wanting them.

From feeling no guilty on her ambitions, Stone is growing up in Arizona, appreciating the varieties in the deserts. She especially falls in love with Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights (1931), definitely did know that she liked to perform, and remains this kind of obsession to this day. About her poetic boyfriend Andrew Garfield, she describes him Wordsworth, and Stone doesn’t feel any different from anyone, so she is not hurry having several groupies following her all around the world. 

Reading Interview is as if your neighbor sitting next to you, babbling some trifle but yet consisting of wisdom, and usually, the inspiration comes out with that inadvertently moment. 

Works Cited & Photography

www.interviewmagazine.com

For more photography from Craig McDean, please visit:

http://www.artandcommerce.com/artists/photographers/craig-mcdean