Retro Redux -- Prada Navy Cropped Peacoat from Fall Winter 2010

The last bit of green before Winter smears

My beloved Balenciaga Patch Sneaker 

Delicious Eye Candy: Prada Fantasy Look Book of 2010

What more can I say? It's Prada. The heavenly grains on its most coveted Saffiano leather says it all: the history of bold innovation, with nostalgic revisiting of classics. A fancy monogram or a notable logo doesn't even qualify you as a "status symbol", a term only for Prada. It's the spirit of persevering in breaking down and reformation that made Prada Prada. 

I guess there's alway a special place for Prada in everyone of us, a place that admires and appreciates the boldness and the imagination, not necessarily a place that usually impulses us to buy. Many of its collections are just too beautiful for ordinary life. Just like their renowned fantasy look-book, these clothes are made for fairies at wonderland. You'll probably need some pixie dust to pull it off~~ 

The fairies do come down occasionally and let us ordinary people join the party. A wardrobe seemingly retro-inspiried, but since its Prada, it's never real old. Techno fabrics, reinvented proportions, and those big comfy knit collars are only a few tricks get you fascinated... I'm still enchanted, are you? 

The Prada US online store is finally here! Check out their Holiday gift collection :) 

The Summer Stripe - Yigal Azrouel & A.P.C & Marni

It's officially Autumn in DC and I've lined up a whole rack of new outwears for the cool weather. Though not a big fan of Summer but still it's nice to reminisce some Summer special. As obsessed with uniforms as I am, the Yigal Azrouel pants with blue strip is almost exactly as those Fedex guys wear, only cooler.

The Israeli American designer has successfully cultivated the name-sake brand into full blossom. With freestanding boutique opened at Manhattan's Meatpacking district, the brand has caught the attention by Milanese and started international distribution.

His ultra feminine technique of draping in womenswear reminds me a bit of Albert from Lanvin. In his menswear collection though, you can actually feel his ethnic originality. I was wearing an A.P.C strip T-shirt with a Vivienne Westwood Saturn pin. The loafer was from Marni and the material is very-paper like, great for Summer weather.

To browse the full collection of

Yigal Azrouel: Ssense.com; Forwardforward.com; Saks.com