the mini.

i'm very much feeling the mini dress for june... short, sweet, sexy.
here are some of my favorites:

the CITY.

well well, where to start... the biggest event in the fashion and entertainment industries at the moment is the Cannes International Film Festival. without a doubt, the most adorable person to make an appearance in the South of France was Michelle Williams. what with her cute short/blond hair, and a dress and wedges that exude both a sexy&cute vibe. oh, and I can't forget to mention the fact that she has my dream man, Ryan Gosling, on her arm. other stunners on the Cannes red carpet were Eva Longoria in Emilio Pucci, Camilla Belle in Gucci, and Kate Beckinsale in Marchesa.

another event I only wish I could have been in attendance for this spring was Coachella [in California] - a weekend of cool people tenting out and partying to amazing house, hiphop and electro acts... deadmau5, mgmt, david guetta, benny benassi, lcd soundsystem, jay-z, gossip, and kaskade to simply name a few. based on all of the celeb sightings, the atmosphere was full of plenty of ripped jean shorts and hippie-esque floppy hats.

so I made a bold choice recently, and went for full out, edgy bangs, and I must say - I am loving them!! I felt the need to do something new, and taking a cue from my style icon, Nicole Richie, I followed her lead [just wondering when I'm going to find the sexy, tattooed dj to go with it]. i've also been carrying a very glamorous/hippie tote from Anthropologie, which has more color in it than I've ever worn in my life and I am in love. some other spring faves are a new pair of light brown Aldo wedges [reminiscent of Cynthia Vincent's latest style], and an Aritzia fullpiece, chambray jumpsuit.

the show that has been taking over my condo lately is The Price of Beauty with Jessica Simpson. it's pretty fabulous to see just how different fashion and beauty can be all over the world. it's wild the things we, women, put ourselves through for beauty, and I really have been enjoying Jessica's innocent, take on things. she's equally naive, and refreshingly real and endearing all at the same time.

i must get back to watching the CITY and working on my Fashion Promotion assignment [the use of sex in advertisements & entertainment - is it really necessary in the fashion world?].

only eight days until the Sex & the City 2 premiere, hope you've all pre-ordered your tickets online!

sammy xx

the MET: spring 2010.

the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute's held a fabulous party in NYC last night titled, "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity". i'm still a bit confused as to where my invite got lost?.........regardless, I sit here with my eyes glued to the screen and salivate in a way only a jealous and burgeoning fashionista could do. my 5 best dressed ladies are:

nicole richie in marc jacobs

kate bosworth in valentino

blake lively in marchesa

emma watson in burberry

camilla belle in jason wu

my choice for best dressed couple also includes the woman i would choose as best dressed overall. the shoes; the dress; the beauty of sienna and jude.

sienna miller in emillio pucci and jude law

SEX and the CITY 2.

you can only imagine my excitment... that the Sex and The City 2 movie premieres in little over a month!! this is a day that will soon require a precise countdown for all of us urban, downtown, fashionista, carrie/samantha/miranda/charlotte-loving ladies.... we can start dreaming about the shoes, the dresses, the headwraps (that seem to be making many an appearance atop carrie's pretty curly head- much to my satisfaction, being the hair accessories lover that I am), the gorgeous men, aiden's re-appearance, the styling, the desert scenes in sandy Abu Dhabi, the cocktails, the fabulousness of each and every one of the girls and lastly, new york city.

SKYY vodka has jumped on the trend, and for the first time in the history of the vodka brand, they have done a collaboration with Patricia Field (the SATC stylist). she has designed a gorgeous cityscape for the iconic royal blue bottle, and I'm sure many well-heeled ladies will be planning a visit, make that a sprint, to their nearest LCBO.

sarah jessica parker's newest perfume, SJP NYC, hit the shelves just in time for the release of the new film. the packaging dressed in style that even carrie bradshaw would approve of, is hot pink with splashes of zebra, paisley, feathers and the like. I went for a little sniff-test today (after I learned many useful facts on perfumes & scents in my cosmetics class), and I must say... my nose was happy! i'm sure the scent will be making an appearance in my condo soon enough.

SJP appeared beautifully on the cover of Vogue this month, how fitting. all six seasons of the dvd's have been re-released with new covers (i already have the pink velvet collection, so I guess I'm okay, for now, or at least until the discs are entirely worn out). a new book will reach our fingertips within mere days, titled, The Carrie Diaries... candace bushnell takes us back in time so we can see just how carrie became a writer, met the girls, and found herself in NYC.

my friends and I have already been planning events for the big night. cosmo's, sexy dresses and stiletto's, anyone? we'll have to keep our eyes open for early bird tickets, make sure our nails are manicured, our hair perfectly coiffed, and our outfits planned far in advance, of course. I'll be drinking my cosmo atop my balcony with some of my best girlfriends on the eve of May 28th....where will you be?

sammy xx

"it's been two years and in two years, amazing things can happen... things you think would never happen in a million years... just when you think you have seen it all - it hits you - you haven't seen anything yet! sometimes, you just have to get away with the girls".

LG fashion week.

it's been a long, long time my friends... i'm a busy lady- fashion never stops! however, i must make a post about my fashion week experiences:

• Sunday, March 28: night I met up with Katrina Tuttle [my amazing designer friend from home in Halifax] at her hotel to peruse the pieces from her Fall/Winter 2010 "In Plane View" Collection. I helped her and a stylist to sort out which order the outfits would go down the runway, etc... then I went home for an in-home hair appointment with my lovely friend Tracy, who did a big hair change for me - BANGS! - and some fresh color, while also styling my roommate and my boyfriend's hair as well.


• Monday, March 29th: my best friend Brittany Chappell arrives for a weeklong visit, and we do some fashion week shopping in Yorkville, get our brows done, go for mani/pedi's, and pick up some pizza and wine to settle in on the couch for some quality girl-time.


• Tuesday, March 30th: I go for a Starbucks and a walk thru the Fashion District (Queen W) to browse my favorite boutiques - Charlie [where I purchased a cute white bracelet, white bandeau and a fabulous navy, silk, braided-back Aako dress], and Leigh&Harlow [where I found a white cotton, poufy floral accented one shoulder top]... then again, I head to Katrina Tuttle's hotel [with my best fashion friend Amanda, and my lovely roommate Katrina] to do final inspection on the runway looks, go over the accessories, shoes, etc. I met some of the models from Halifax, and went over all the chaos that would happen backstage the next day.
  
  



• Wednesday, March 31st: SHOW TIME. I primp in the morning with Kat & Amanda, we go pick up some redbulls, and head to the LG Fashion Week location - the Allstream Centre. For the next few hours I steam garments, cut loose threads, fix hems, become a last minute hair model for the girls who'd be walking in Miss Tuttle's show, watch all of the celebrities of the Heart & Stroke Foundation show strutting around backstage (Joannie Rochette, the Canadian Olympic princess; Jessica Lowndes of 90210; comedian Caroline Rhea; and Tanya Kim of eTalk to name a few), follow Katrina Tuttle around as her shadow and try to take in as much as I can. When it's time for the show, we go backstage with the dressers to make sure everything goes seamlessly- dressing models, taping them in their garments, fixing their hair, putting on their accessories, lining them up, changing them into new outfits, yelling at the dressers to not zip or button anything (one decided to go ahead and zip, broke said zipper and we had to cover the model in a jacket last minute for her first runway look, then rip her dress off of her to get her in runway look two...crisis averted, phew), taping more, reassuring models they are stunning and not to be nervous, basically....running off pure adrenalin. A 17 minute long show, seemed like a short 2 minutes because there was literally no time to think. When all was said and done, the show was fantastic, Katrina got great reviews, and we were all happy :) Then I joined my best friends in the tents where we posed on glimmering gold couches, sat underneath of disco balls, watching the fashion elite of Canada wander around, drinking glass upon glass of white wine, getting our hair done at the L'oreal station, and having the time of our lives.




• Thursday, April 1st: had a good group of girlfriends over to my condo for beyond sufficient quantities of wine, before heading to the Front Row @ Betsey Johnson show, at Liberty Grand. Suffice to say, we sat around getting pretty, drinking and chatting for too long and by the time we arrived, we had missed the main event. We danced for awhile, then went to Branthouse to meet up with some out-of-town MTV friends.

I had an amazing Spring 2010 Fashion Week experience! It was pretty surreal to be the Head Stylist for the Katrina Tuttle show, and I will be forever indebted to her for the opportunity.

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In other fashion news, my studies at Humber are going fantastically, and I will be more than busy this month with 5 major projects, presentations, and final exams. In the next 2 weeks I will be choosing my courses for the Summer semester, which is quite exciting. You can catch me this upcoming Spring/Summer doing my assignments by the pool......sunnies on, drink in hand, working on my tan, and working on my future career ;)

xx sammy

spring.

could lauren conrad look any more ready for spring? so sweet.

terrific toronto.

this was a big week for fashion in toronto.

case in point:

-Jeanne Beker aka "The Most Important Woman in the Canadian Fashion World" interviewed Kelly Cutrone aka "The Bitchiest/Most Amazingly Fearless Woman in the PR Fashion World" at Indigo for her book release.

turns out Jeanne and Kelly are actually great friends.. they had some very lovely things to say about one another, and frankly, to hear Kelly speak so lovingly about someone else was precious. Ms Cutrone explained to us fashionistas in the North, how we should take advantage of having such a wonderful woman like Jeanne in our city.... she also enlightened the audience with quite candid tales of her life and how she made it into the industry, from explaining how she's not really a bitch in the office, "If I'm training girls for a fashion job and I say, 'you're not doing that right, fix it and get back to me', I equal a bitch...but for a man, well, let's make this Canadian... if you're a male hockey coach and you tell a player on your team, 'Suck it up and get the freaking puck in the net or you're on the bench!", he equals a good coach. How is that okay? I'm not a bitch, I'm just helping prepare them for their job".

She also had wise words for those wanting to break into the industry, and advised us all [whether we could afford it or not], to take all the unpaid internships we can get our hands on and to work at a bar or become a nanny on the weekends until we reach our career dreams. Hmmm, I've been in the bar scene for 6 years now, I'm ready for my career already!!!

Kelly waxed poetic when describing her personal life and style, "I believed in brands; in wearing clothes to look sexy, to attract a mate. I believed in marriage and in making babies; being a good cook and a whore in the bedroom, but now I'm 44 and I don't need a husband. My job is there for me everyday and gives me abundance, it doesn't cheat on me. I think now I look better with less makeup. It's more about self-image. Wear the clothes, but do not let the clothes wear you". Oh how I adore this woman.

last words, Kelly?

"I highly recommend sleeping with a lot of rock stars and just having a lot of sex. Oh, and do a lot of drugs". Amen.

-My idol slash the Most Fashionable Woman alive aka Sarah Jessica Parker was here on a visit to promote the Halston Heritage collection, for which she is the new creative director.

yes, SJP graced our city with her loveliness, and a big win for the Bay over Holts... Sarah Jessica promoted her new line for Halston Heritage, which will be carried at the Bay, and a few very lucky people got to have meet-and-greets with my icon. she wore 4inch Ferragamo heels and a long black, strong-shouldered Marchesa jacket over a purple Halston mini (but, of course). sadly, this budding fashionista was nowhere near her idol, SJP, but the fact that she made an appearance in Toronto was still exciting all the same

speaking of people who got noticed from a little tv showed called, The City, comes Olivia Palermo promoting her first celebrity fashion venture. the beautiful, posh and sometimes-snobby NYC socialite is debuting her partnership with New York jewelry designer, Roberta Freymann. The capsule collection is going to feature necklaces in the $175-$300 range, and quite honestly, they're very pretty.

i've always loved Olivia's style, as she's pulled together in only a way that screams "my hair and makeup stylists showed up at 5am to make me appear effortless, and naturally beautiful", or "my outfit cost $5000, could you pull this off?". regardless, she always looks stunning and while I probably won't be purchasing any of the sparkly creations, I'm sure she'll find success in this journey down jewelry- lane.