Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: Happy Friday! Celine Resort 2011.

Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic

The daily chronicle of a fashion-and-beauty obsessed, style-writing, pseudo-Angeleno who made her way from the Great White North to La-La Land -- otherwise known as Los Angeles, California -- and back again. Till the next big city calls out her name, that is.

: Name: Haute Hippie; Location: Everywhere and anywhere

I'm a Vancouverite who moonlighted as an Angeleno. My momma is the best in the entire world, and I'll argue you hoarse on that one. I've been in love only once in my life. The East Coast calls me but the West Coast is in my blood. Social butterflies -- and party animals -- are a great species. Fashion and writing will be the death of me, but what a way to go. Carine Roitfeld is fabulous. I would die a painful death if art, design, photography, fashion, music and dancing did not exist. Always kind of wondered why Smurfette was the only girl in town. I can't draw. Absolutely believe everything happens for a reason. I feel so lucky to have the girlfriends that I do. I'm a total sun baby. Think I might be a workaholic. I may have slight road rage. Ice cream and hockey are religions. I buy too many glossy magazines. Nothing beats someone with a killer sense of humor. Chivalry is really not dead. I'm a victim of minor vertigo and a serious lead foot. Always up for meeting people from paths different than mine and crossing paths with old friends. At the very end of it all, I want to be able to look back and say: Yeah, I sure lived a damn good life.

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Happy Friday! Celine Resort 2011.

It didn't take long for Phoebe Philo to re-enter the fashion world and to create pieces that will stand the test of trend time.

She's streamlined the already-minimalist Celine fashion house even more in both apparel and accessories, and to great effect. Even when Philo incorporates print and bold color, everything she does is classic, chic, clean and covetable.

Her '70s-tinged Resort 2011 collection is -- dare I say! -- yet even better than her last round. The presentation showed brass metal accents around the models' necks, and sometimes around the wrists, and the monochrome tunics (which came in white and in brown) covered the body, save for elbows to fingertips, and still managed to look sexy.

Less is more apparently, to Ms. Philo.

Happy Friday!

Besos,
Haute Hippie

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