Category: Party time

Turn on the bright lights

Anna-Maria10 Comments
This weekend consisted of seeing good bands, reckless partying, taking hundreds of photos, laughter, crashing the backstage, hanging out with friends, and finally getting home on Sunday at 6AM from a crazy after party including a topless man and spin the bottle. I’ve also had the pleasure to hang out with the sweet Essi from the Fashion Overdose, as she crashed our pad during the MOP festival which overtook this city from Thursday to Saturday.
Essi and I have talked about fashion and blogging for hours and hours, luckily she didn’t get annoyed about the fact that I tend to become a chatter box when I’m passionate about something. Now my sleep deprived body needs its rest, so I’ll let Friday’s outfit pictures open a window to this busy weekend of mine. More pictures to come in the following posts, so stay tuned!


Pictures by Essi

Dress: Velour
Leather jacket: JSFN
Shoes: Skopunkten
Clutch: Vintage
Snow pea-pod necklace: Ann Demeulemeester

Going with the Flow

Anna-Maria18 Comments
I’m back from Flow festival but so dead beat that my sleep deprived body is saying I should switch off my computer, and get some sleep instead of blogging. Even so, I want to share some pictures from Saturday.

 
Immediately after getting inside the festival area, I saw a familiar face smiling at me, and recognized it to be the ever-so-stylish Essi from the Fashion Overdose. I asked her to join us and soon we really hit it off, talking about music, fashion, Berlin, and of course, blogging. Doesn’t she look so cute?

 
My own outfit for the evening was compiled by taking the weather changes into consideration, and adding some Robert Smith into the mix. The brand new white Docs actually served me extremely well during the evening, though my calves were hurting just a wee a bit this morning (nothing untolerable, for those of you who were asking). I’d give them a few more walks, and they should be just fine.

As for the bands, we ended up seeing Vivian Girls, White Lies, Grace Jones, Juan McLean and my personal favorite of them all, Handsome Furs. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as energetic show as this stylish Canadian couple put together at Flow. I completely fell in love with Alexei’s fringey knit dress, anyone know who it’s by?


Picture by: Sampo Karjalainen


Button-up dress: MTWTFSS
Sweater: Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair
Vest: Two Percent 2%
Jeans: Cheap Monday
Combat Boots: Dr. Martens
Scissor necklace: Ann Demeulemeester
Packbag: Second hand

I also met up with the absolutely fabulous Stella before the festival, and enjoyed some drinks and good company at her place pre-Flow. We also had some business taken care of but more about that later. Now I need to go to sleep…

P.S. My blog’s birthday competition is now closed, I will announce the winner tomorrow!

Blog party

Anna-Maria19 Comments
As important as a party itself, is what you wear to a party. Since I’m a panic dresser when it comes to important events, I usually start planning on the outfit of the evening weeks beforehand. When you’re on a minute schedule on the d-day, everything should be in order because there is no time for mistakes. With a great help from Shini of Park&Cube, I acquired this amazing Rick Owens-like dress from All Saints. The dress had been sold out from the All Saints webstore so I turned to Shini and she was so helpful to assist me in my mission and got it from the London store. Thank you Shini once more, you really saved me from a dress crisis!


Pictures by: Nelliina
Dress: All Saints
Combat boots: Kenkärepo
Tights: DIY
Ring: Marc by Marc Jacobs

The dress came in need, as a month of hard work and anticipation finally paid off last night, when I and about 30 other style bloggers met up in a blog party in my hometown Tampere. Nelliina and I had put this fun event together with an agenda including shopping tour in local boutiques, Finnish fashion designers presentation, a live band, fashion quiz, good food, DJ’s and great sponsors such as Nanso, Nelly.com, and John Freida. Even though there was a couple of draw backs on the way, we succeeded in making a great party – I think we should totally start a company organizing events like this!

 


Thanks everyone for sharing the pics!

The night was so much fun and full of great conversations; it was so nice to see the people behind the blogs you follow on a daily basis. We definitely need to have more of these meetings in the future!

Mesmerize with your eyes now

Anna-Maria16 Comments
Months of anticipation…finally it’s here…tonight Clan of Xymox is playing in my city. IN MY CITY of all the Finnish cities, can you imagine?! For those of you who are not familiar with the band, Clan of Xymox is an old 80’s goth/dark wave band but with rather dancey tunes. I recommend listening to Louise, Muscoviet Mosquito, and Heroes as samples. After the show the goth club Schatten is going to be in action, the same one I have attended a couple of times now.As goes for tonight’s outfit, it’s not hard to guess which collection I was inspired by once again. Ricardo Tisci’s creations for Givenchy’s fall RTW 08 just has that romatic, vampire like goth tone to it which is perfect for tonight. I’m wearing mostly second hand finds; a ruffled shirt I picked up recently from the local second hand store and a year old distressed, high waisted leather skirt which I shortened just couple of hours ago.

Ruffle shirt: Second hand
Leather skirt: Second hand
Sandals: Bronx
Clutch: Vintage
Jewellery: Kalevala Koru & H&M

It’s strange how light it is outside; these pictures were taken at 7 pm and there is still enough light to take pictures (that hasn’t happened since last summer). The thermometer also hit +7 Celcius earlier in the day, so now I can officially say that yes, spring is here. For good, I hope.