Giovanna Battaglia is a fan of feminine, ladylike ensembles, and so am I. This past week in Paris, Vogue Gioiello/Pelle‘s Fashion Director stepped out in one of her girliest looks to date. Her nude and black, swiss-dotted and bow-adorned dress, a runway look from Valentino‘s Fall 2011 ready-to-wear collection, is the type of slightly over-the-top, frilly piece that I always gravitate towards but am hesitant to don myself.
Somewhere along the line, I subconsciously decided that short, flouncy skirts were no longer age appropriate for me. That’s not slowing Battaglia down though, who’s a year older than me, so why have I been imposing this made-up, rather unfun rule on myself? The key, it seems, is to edge up overly girly pieces with fierce accessories, as Battaglia did with her stacked arm jewelry, oversized sunglasses and indifferent scowl.
So on that note, I’m breaking the chiffon tutus out again! And perfecting my scowl.
xx, S
[...] I said the other day that I was going to be breaking out the flouncy skirts again – silly, made-up age limitations be damned – and I meant it! Just to show how much, I fished my beloved Erin Fetherston skirt out of the depths of my closet and went on a skipping and dancing spree. Because how could I not, with my flounciest skirt and best crimson heels on? There may or may not have been some leaping action, too, but since I have yet to perfect the model jump you see in Vogue all the time, those photos shall remain un-posted. [...]