tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86878412973044318292024-03-08T11:32:10.429+00:00AlphaStyleKit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-16432317297690165732012-03-26T21:50:00.001+01:002012-03-26T21:50:16.920+01:00Come with me!Just a reminder that i'm no longer blogging here & can now be found at www.alphastylecat.wordpress.com<br />
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<br />Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-12321831079149573022012-03-06T17:58:00.001+00:002012-03-06T18:00:03.833+00:00New HomeI've moved!!<br />
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In amongst changing names and whatnot, i've also made a move to another blog address.<br />
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Please pop over and say hi and follow through Bloglovin' to keep up to date on new posts. There's some exciting things coming up, including collaborations and some exciting projects.<br />
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I won't be posting on this site anymore so please update your blog readers and blogrolls - thanks so much for your support to date. You're all pretty awesome.<br />
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<br />Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-24365490999773871622012-02-28T22:45:00.001+00:002012-02-28T22:45:18.401+00:00Updatin' on the old Bloglovin'<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/3529841/alphastyle?claim=5pbd43hhn4t">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-46386089664578668992012-02-28T22:41:00.002+00:002012-02-28T22:41:48.992+00:00Charlotte Gainsbourg for Balenciaga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks for your help and the messages I received privately also assisting in the name change. It was a long time coming.<br />
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If any of you have me listed in your blog rolls could I ask you to kindly change the link from KitCatKittyCat to AlphaStyle?<br />
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Thanks for all your support and let's get cracking! xKit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-85708532907124190552012-02-27T19:46:00.003+00:002012-02-27T19:46:44.613+00:00Make Life More ColourfulI love this video for Uniqlo's ankle length skinnies, featuring Tavi Gevinson and Cyndi Lauper amongst a heap of regular Joe's like you and I.<br />
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Bill has a column with the New York Times entitled On The Street where he photographs people and fashions and reports on trends as he sees them from the streets.<br />
Anna Wintour exclaims how herself & her fellow magazine editor friends are often shocked when a trend bypasses them and even the fashion designers themselves and is picked up by Bill through the photographs he takes on the street.<br />
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A former milliner, he has an eye for design and structure. But what excites him and spurs him on to photograph people is the creativity in their sartorial choices. As he says in the film whilst choosing a photo of an unknown woman in a stylish dress over a photo of a celebrity in a designer gown "that's not a model, that's a private person that bought their own clothes".<br />
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With the increase street style photography and whole blogs dedicated to them, it was inevitable that being papped by a well known street style photographer would become a mission for some. Prior to the recent fashion weeks I saw a few blogs detailing how to get noticed by the photographers. The main advice seemed to be to stick to a certain uniform du jour or be Alexa Chung.<br />
Of course wearing head to toe Isabel Marant won't always guarantee you a spot on the street style blogs and there will always be the Anna Dello Russo's or Iris Apfel's that don't dress by trends or what's "in" and simply stick their own veritable mishmash style. According to Bill "a lot of people have taste, but they don't have the daring to be creative".<br />
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Whilst I still look to street style photos over magazines or runway trends for inspiration, what I find interesting about his comments and observations is that modern street style photography, or certainly street style blogs, seem to focus in on the same tired trends. Stylish they may be, but exciting and new? Most likely not. Sometimes you'll often see the same person featured in more than 1 street style piece, out of thousands of people roaming the streets at any one time. Surely this demonstrates just how there is a specific "look" that is appreciated by street photographers. Not so much with Bill Cunningham.<br />
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He leads what some might see as a somewhat lonely life, living in a small apartment filled with filing cabinets of his work, with no bathroom or kitchen and his bed a simple plank of wood held up on crates. A very private man, even those closest to him don't seem to know a whole lot about his background or family. And nor do they want to. It's very reflective of his own view of the people that he photographs every day & his disinterest in celebrities or where people are from in the photographs that he takes.<br />
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There's a few other interesting personalities featured in the documentary, aside from Anna Wintour and Iris Apfel, there's his longtime neighbour & well-known artist Editta Sherman. Their nonchalant chats about Andy Warhol give a glimpse into a possible past life. Also featured was the very interesting former UN diplomat from Nepal, Shail Upadhya, who used to wear conservative suits during the day at work in the UN and outfits made from various materials, including his couch, at night.<br />
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As I constantly seem to go through a wardrobe panic and often spend hours obsessing over expensive items that I can't afford, watching this made me appreciate fashion and style at it's most fundamental. Aside from the obvious, that we wear clothes to protect our modesty, we wear clothes as an extension of who we are, or sometimes as armour to show who we want to be.<br />
Here is a man who could wear clothes from probably every designer under the sun if he so wished, but instead he opts for a $20 janitor's coat from a hardware department due to it's functionality.<br />
He tapes up his rain poncho rather than buying a new one.<br />
And he photograph's people because they <b>look good </b>in what they wear, rather than <b>because of what</b> they're wearing.<br />
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I loved this film/documentary on a humanist level as a great insight into a fascinating person from an era gone-by, an era of camera film developing and manners. And an insight into being creative and having creative relationships with people who admire your work.<br />
But it's also made me appreciate more that some trends are just that, trends. A passing fad that mightn't necessarily be flattering to everyone. So, can I finally hold my hands up high and say I think JC Lita's look like orthopedic shoes for someone with a club foot? Or is that not very PC? Ah, send the PC brigade to me if need be, i'll already be fighting off the rest of the fashion blogger brigade for speaking out against Lita's!Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-52751647816327722692012-02-22T21:27:00.001+00:002012-02-22T21:27:02.155+00:00Such a clichéI'm in love with Zara. I pass by a fairly large Zara store every day on my way to & from work. Some days I go in & get annoyed with everything in the shop, other days, like today, I go in and fall in love with everything.<br />
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Like these boots. Now, tell me what these wouldn't go with in an Irish summer?<br />
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One thing that i've found online & not yet in the shop is this poncho tshirt. But i'll persevere until I find it (or buy online). </div>
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As well as dipped hem skirts & dresses, there are scarf print blazers, beautiful fitted macs, parkas and leather jackets. But it was the vast selection of blouses & tops that got me really excited. </div>
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Ever a magpie for things of a tacky nature, this dress sang out to me. I fully expected it to be a tenner at least, so I was delighted to be told it was only €3! BARGAIN.<br />
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I pulled it out of the pile fully and was quite disappointed to see it was quite large. But for €3 it was definitely worth chancing a bit of a DIY project.<br />
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First I chopped off the underskirt. And I was left with a lovely, tacky gold & black oversized top. My initial plan was to just wear this over pleather skinny trousers, but it was so oversized that it just looked like a sack of potatoes.<br />
Next I cut the arms off at the seam. At this stage I tried it on again and was disappointed that the "shift dress" I was hoping for was, again, just a sack of potatoes.<br />
I felt slightly defeated and threw it in a pile of clothes to be customised, vowing to take it in with a sewing machine at some point to make it less...voluminous.<br />
And then I had a brainwave. The most obvious of brainwaves and Gok Wan's favourite piece of style advice - I added a belt.<br />
And voila! Here is my €3 dress.<br />
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Already way over my baggage limit, I parted with just 2 items - a grey, baby soft hoody (which i'm wearing right now and is still as soft as when I first bought it a year ago) and a soft knit, striped, oversized top. I have since lost the top and I sometimes cry myself to sleep when I think about it. Sob.<br />
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Whilst it won't win any awards for fashion forward styling, it is value and comfort in everyday pieces. I mean, if we could all afford to, i'm sure we'd be buying our white tshirts in from Alexander Wang, right?<br />
But these are recessionary times (sorry!) and as much as American Apparel was hailed as the second coming of Christ when it arrived on our shores, I just can't justify the prices for a plain white tee.<br />
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<br />Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-8372291145765192212012-01-21T21:26:00.001+00:002012-01-21T21:26:27.067+00:00"thrash it out"I'm a bit gobsmacked. I've read blog posts from well known bloggers in the past about bloggers being taken advantage of (stop saying "blogger" in here). I guess because I've never regarded this blog anything other than a hobby it's never really affected me in anyway.<br />
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And then today I saw a 'competition' for bloggers to become an ambassador for an online brand. In order to enter you must write a blog post about an item from their website & send it to them. Fair enough. A good way to see if the blogger entrants have a grasp on writing a structured and balanced review on something.<br />
But it was the next part that blew me away. After the finalists are chosen from their entries they are then invited to "thrash it out" on Twitter and/or Facebook to gain the most votes.<br />
So basically, he/she who has the most friends/family/followers, wins.<br />
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Of course, ultimately a brand would want to reach the widest number of people as possible, and whilst the reward of "ambassador" is a generous one, with a nominal amount to be spent each month on the brand's website, at the end of the day isn't it all just a popularity competition?<br />
Are bloggers throwing away any chance of their blogs being taken seriously by happily canvassing for votes rather than letting their talent and work do the talking for them?<br />
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Perhaps, as I said, because I see this currently as little more than a hobby, I'm just not grasping the whole "blogging" thing completely.<br />
I think i'd rather keep the free monthly "payment" from a brand in return for a review than compete for votes that have little to nothing to do with my ability to write and review.<br />
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As a not-so-slight aside, there are a few blogs that I follow that currently have this position for this brand, and I <b>AM</b> a fan of their blogs and their writing. I guess we should just hope that the finalists are all up to scratch so that whoever triumphs as most popular will still give balanced and trustworthy reviews, rather than biased and greedy.<br />
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<br />Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-13693012207493483102012-01-17T21:52:00.000+00:002012-01-23T20:01:54.985+00:00"don't be jealous"That's what i'd say to my friends if I owned this coat. The perfect colour for spring for someone whose wardrobe mainly consists of black? That's me that is.<br />
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<br />Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-30544414556223023232011-12-14T19:59:00.002+00:002012-01-23T20:02:41.313+00:00DENIMDoes denim do it for you? Apart from still being obsessed with skinny jeans, I've recently found an affinity for denim shirts. Grungey, basic old denim shirts.<br />
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Anyway, my reactions when I saw this Vogue Paris cover were mixed. It's an amazing homage to Ziggy Stardust and, well, I shouldn't be surprised if Kate is a fan. But I just felt a bit jealous, I guess. Like, who else is she gonna dig her claws into. Stop being mates with and looking up to the people that I like, Kate. God.<br />
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This is a look i'll be recreating over & over during the colder months. Hello 200 denier tights from Primark!!<br />
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<br />Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-50511045345810160632011-11-13T10:30:00.000+00:002012-01-23T20:03:35.531+00:00The Silver FactoryThe Silver Factory is currently a range of tshirts designed & printed by homegrown talent, 16yr old Cameron Cavaliere.<br />
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Working closely with the amazing Blanaid from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shutterbugshop?sk=wall">Shutterbug</a> (seriously, do check out the great vintage pieces for sale through their facebook) he first started selling the tshirts through the Shutterbug shop in Kilkenny and online through facebook. Now known in his own right, one of his tshirts was recently worn by a dancer in Rihanna's video for We Found Love. Not bad for a 16yr old from Kilkenny, right?!</div>
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The tshirts come in at a bargain price of only €20 and the A/W collection has just been released. Who wouldn't want to support local talent at that price? </div>
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Help me decide which one to get! Here's a few of my favourites and you can check the rest out online <a href="http://www.shopsilverfactory.com/category/t-shirts?page=2">here.</a></div>
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<br />Kit-Cat-Kitty-Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106491405900385231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8687841297304431829.post-4564908707176566412011-11-10T16:53:00.001+00:002012-01-23T20:04:05.551+00:00There's another Moss on the scene..Kate's 13yr old sister to be exact. Yes, THIRTEEN. She makes her modelling debut after gaining attention at Kate's wedding earlier in the year. Though i'm sure it was always on the cards.<br />
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