Loft 82 - Granville St pop up shop

I walked by this pop up shop along Granville - it was next to Brandy & Meville and Spank.  

This particular burgundy jacket caught my eye and I ventured in.  Retails for $188

The employees had a soft opening of the store and the grand opening was the next day.

The store is very fresh and rustic yet modern.  

I love the jewelry in the store.  They were all very dainty.  

I really like the bow necklace on the far left

The dangling jewel necklaces and the tree branch necklace were adorable.  

The necklaces were fairly priced at $15 - 35

Lace and sparkle.  How elegant. 

Cozy knits

I really like the far left riding pants.  Priced at $68.

The store will only be here till sometime in January. 

 I saw so many pieces that I liked and I'll be sure to come back for something.

Blanche Macdonald Annual Fashion Design Show 2012

Intialed and I made our way to the Blanche Macdonald fashion show.  

What I'm wearing:

Forever 21 peplum jacket (similar), Wilfred lace tank, J Brand Agnes jeans (here), Ferragamo flats (here) and Balenciaga giant city bag (here).  For Initialed's outfit, please visit her blog.  

We snacked on cupcakes from Bake Sale Baking Co.  The red velvet was our favorite! 

Blanche Macdonald was offering 25% off their beauty products that night.  

We noticed the beautiful face lace - I think they were stickers or maybe temporary tattoos for your face. 

We mingled with the guests and spotted some familiar faces of some noted Vancouver bloggers.  That's where I bumped into The Starving Stylist.  I love his sense of style.  The photos on his blog are always beautifully taken.  You can tell his photos were methodically taken - even though the photo may be of random accessories are strewn about, the photo looks luxurious and artistic.

The set up of the fashion show was simple and beautiful.  It was a dark runway flanked with rows of clear "ghost chairs"

Photo credits to brentdjc

The collection was created by the 2012 graduates of Blanche Macdonald.  My camera was not very good so I did not have any good photos of the show.  I did manage to take this one.  I love the tattoo placement on the model.  

The following photos are press photos for Blanche Macdonald by Dela Cruz PR

These were my favorites of the show:

 

Vancouver Fashion Week S/S 2013

I went to a Vancouver Fashion Week show a couple months back in September. 

I'm wearing the same outfit as in the Rachel Roy event 

because I went straight to VFW right afterwards.

I attended this event with Style Love and Oh So Vonnie.

It was great seeing some familiar faces in between the breaks of the shows.  I love attending Vancouver Fashion Week for the hectic atmosphere, the creativity of the clothes, the background music, the flashing lights, the media taking your photo (if they considered your outfit was stylish enough), and the  slender models walking the elongated runway.  I feel like I'm in my element.  The essence of a fashion show resonates well with me.  Therefore, I will make the effort to attend VFW at least one day of the week, for a few hours if I have to.  

My outfit for that night:

Forever 21 peplum top (similar) and skort (similar), ASOS clutch (similar), Christian Louboutin heels

My colour combination of mixing neon with black was a hit.  

So much in fact that the colleague of the producer's assistant coincidentally paired neon with black as well.  The two of us had our photo taken together prior to being directed to the seating area. 

I did not take many photos of the collections since my camera does not out put quality photos like a DSLR.  So most of my photos were blurry.  The collections for that Friday was: swimwear, bohemian chic and grudge avante garde.

Don't forget to entire my Annual Blog Giveaway contest for a $100 Visa gift card.  Deadline is Thursday November 22, 2012 at 11:59pm.  More details here.