La La is that You ?

Cassie starting a trend now huh ? I've been watching Charm School envying Lala's beautiful hair, but now THIS? Goodness...

The Simplicity of Love

Earlier this morning my mom and my sisters were watching an episode of Unsung: Minnie Ripperton. I didn't feel at all like sitting and joining their family bonding time because I'm just anti all of that. So, I stayed in my kitchen and watched what I could of the episode. Firstly, I grew up on this song. I remember singing this song with my mom when I was much more younger and cuter and lovable . Lol. Thanks to youtube, the Unsung episode wasn't the first time I witnessed this actual video, but it gave me a reminder about the bliss Minnie sang about. I mean, I'm young... I've never experienced this blind trusting love that she emphasizes about. Terms like "soul", "love", "making love" and being so "in love" that your moved to ad-lib to the like 8th octaval? Nope. All those words are empty meanings to me. I have NO idea what that's about. But damn, I really hope this beauty of love still exists. I hope its just my naivety. I hope its just that I'm still youthful and not that the world has altered, generations have changed the concept of "love", because Minnie's idea of "love" is the one I want to be in. Not having sex, but making love. But what can you do? I mean, my ipod has songs about "making love", songs that I do enjoy listening to, but to me, I feel as though concept of LOVE has changed. For instance, right now I'm listening to Cadillac Love by Lloyd, I love this song, its sweet, its soft, its 'lusty' but is that the best way he can express making love? "Hittin" this shawty up in the back of the caddy? So, now I'm thinking, well is this how R&B and Hip Hop artists choose to portray their idea of making love?

1.) When We Make Love- Ginuwine
2.) Make Good Love- Avant
3.) I need Love- Robin Thicke

Okay, so all these songs have the same smooth sounding lyrics and maintain a more beautiful conception of "love". I simply searched the word "LOVE" in my iTunes library and found these. Now sex...

1.) I want Sex - Lil Boosie
2.) Sex in The Kitchen - R.Kelly
3.) Sex in The Daytime- Pretty Willie

Lol, this is just so funny to me. The lyrics of the "making love" search are SO different from the "sex" search, but yet these terms are supposed to be equivalent? In the latter choice, sex sounds so... figurative and not beautiful. Like something you just HAVE to do. Like its a job that just needs to get done, time is an element, location is an element, things just need to get...done. I don't know how I feel about that. Its also ironic how all these songs are by men, sure songs by female artists came up in my search, but from them, "Love" was a "dangerous" and "wreckless" force. Lord, I don't even know what my point is, I wasn't intending to talk about the birds and the bees, but shit.

A couple of days ago I was watching The Temptations movie with my friend and I told him that I wish I lived back in those days. Where men genuinely appreciated women and expressed their appreciation in a more poignant and satisfying way. He then challenged me and said, well if their was a man who was talking to you like that and had that whole mindset and then there was me, who would you choose. I was stuck in a pickle, but I said, "Well that's not fair... I mean, I would choose you, but I would want him to be my bestfriend." Never liked the "nice guy" thing, it just isn't appealing to me. I need a man who could make me feel like a woman, I'm aggresive but he should be the aggressor. I hate the feeling of being able to push someones buttons and have complete control over them. But there is something so complimentary and soothing about the "Temptations man", the Good guy, the breath of fresh air that makes me dance between my two ideas of what a man should be. Anyways this whole entry is FAR from my original point, so excuse the condescending and scattered thoughts. I just hope that the love that is easy because of the beauty in love still exists, somewhere out in this world, and I hope that I will be able to find it from a man who is in touch with his feelings but can still be my man.
(To be continued... a lot of unfinished thoughts...)

TRANSFORMERS.

Transformers, Transformers, Transformers. It's the talk of the town, city, state, country. Why? I don't know. I have yet to see the first movie, clearly it was splendid enough to have such a respected sequel/part 2. Who knows.

I really like the poster of the movie though. It's pretty cool. Reminds me of like Alexander McQueen's Fall 2009 geometric pattern. As for Megan Fox, I think she's really pretty , even though anyone could be pretty with hair extensions and a few stops in the surgeons chair. Don't know much about her, but I feel like I her attitude (as corny as that sounds). She looks super classy in this black Herve Leroux dress though. Not much to say about poor Shia. He looks really gruffy , bad posture for both of them. Whatevs. And why are both of their outfits dirtied? Smh.

Source: Rotten Tomato

LC on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"

Sometime last week LC was on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" . I absolutely loveeee LC. I'm a faithful Hills fan and I just love LC's boss , "HBIC" attitude (vapid description, I know). I feel like myself and many others have watched her grow, from Laguna Beach to The Hills and she's grown into such an ambitious and succesful woman, like I'm proud of her, for being about hers. I love this look on LC, I think it works for her 100%. She's wearing a Luisa Beccaria Fall'09 dress. I like her look a lot better than the way it did on the runway, the bubble skirt makes it look a lot more casual . I also wouldn't be surprised if Michelle Obama owned this dress...

Anyways, as the world must know, she had written her first novel, L.A. Candy, I'm so excited for her. I can't wait to buy the book. Unfortunately she's not coming out to Boston for her tour, I guess I'll live.

LUISA BECCARIA FALL 2009

Source: NBC, Style

Gimme, Gimme More !

DEAL.

$40 Nine West

WHY NOT ?

$107 Top Shop

SUPER SPLURGE !$150 Nine West

Ahh, So I have a crazy shoe fetish...it's been getting kind of lethal (to my wallet) lately. I rarely buy clothes anymore, I spend all of my money trying to increase my pump game. My mother has a plethora of pumps. Most of them pointy toe, browns, blacks, neutral colors. Nothing dazzling and spectacular. Somehow, I have emulated her heel style, always reverting to browns and blacks. Now, I spend about 80$ on a good pair of heels most of the time, but there all the same color! So I figure if I'm going to be dropping that much on a shoe, I might as well purchase something unique in its own way. I don't know what it is about heels that get to me. That boost of 4inches and finely crafted secured leather around my feet, my exposed boldly colored toenails, the colorway against my brownskin...man I don't know, I just love my heels. I've never really been a "sneakerhead"... and its hard because most girls my age are still into sneakers and the whole what's trendy in the urban community phase, which has NEVER been me. I own sneakers, yeah yeah, but it was never me. I love and appreciate sneakers though, I have tons of respect for them, I can have an erudite sneaker conversation, but when it comes down to wearing them, I always feel like ... I don't know... every other teenage girl. My mom has always told me that real girls where heels and to never let the heels where you. She's taught me how to walk in confidence with them and I even remeber back in the day walking around in heels with like 3 law books on my head...Lol. Anywho, that's all besides the point, I really like all three of these shoes and even though the first Nine West pair is probably the most friendly to my financial situation, I'm down with the Top Shop shoe because, ah its brill, I love the color, zipper , suede. Its like perriwinkle, I don't think I've ever seen a shoe that color! " I gotta haveeeeee it" Max B. Voice. :)

She's Got Those Jimmy Choos !

" DREAMS ARE REAL , ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS JUST BELIEVE. "
Haha, Love it. Can't wait. Come November '09.

Expose My Devotion

Karmaloop

$30 ( I think)

Urbanoutfitters

$58

$38.00

$88.00

Forever21

$17.80

$24.80

My weekend would be complete if I had these in my closet! They're pretty simple pieces; staples for the summer . Lately I've been buying a lot of skirts...really tight body hugging skirts. So, the black skirt will definitely be suitable for my closet- though I have about 4 skirts like it (one being in black already). Whatever. Now, the leather skirt I definitely need to get my hands on. I love leather anything!...Well not anything - but most things. I like how the skirt isn't extremely fitted, which would be borderline impossible for leather. Now, the body-con blue, white and black dress would definitely be in my closet...I don't know why it is not...yet. I haven't seen the dress in Forever yet, but then again that store overwhelms and stresses me, I almost always end up throwing my items back on the racks...after waiting 15minutes in a line, usually entertained by a frustrated customer complaining about the lame return policy of only getting store credit on returns... I digress! So this floral corset number, its not really me, but I really want a casual corset thats not exuding with the sex vixen look. I'm not too crazy about the flowers but I feel like it sort of balances the sexy, which is cool. Jean dress is just cute a simple variation to my usual tight party dresses and jean material always makes me thing of summertime :) Earrings & Sandals are just casual pieces to me, but have potential to add minor edge to any outfit. So there! Just a couple of things that I would not mind seeing when I open up my closet door.


TUNES:
1.) Boss Lady - Rick Ross ft. Ne-Yo
This song is so summer . I love Rick Ross' whole style and Ne-Yo on it makes it that much better. When I first heard this song I was ridin' around my girls around Boston, windows down, music blastin', wind in our hair. Heyy! Lol, love it.
2.) Flight School- T. Pain ft Kanye West
Mellow. Sounds like it should be on 808 and Heartbreak a little bit. Don't understand the whole concept, kind of corny, the whole "fly" term. Songs a tad bit outdated also...not really for summer but whatever, that's what came on my shuffle:)
3.) Invented Sex - Trey Songz ft. Drake
Trey Songz just does it for me. Song concept is corny and cliche, but I'm over that. Miss this guy, his voice and he put Drake on the map in my eyes. So I'm def. all for this song. Feels good to listen to it.

You Give Me Butterflies...

Spring 2009 RTW: Diane von Furstenberg, Badgley Mischka, Collette Dinnigan, Tibi

An ethereal and delicate motif for the warm weather. I'm not too crazy about butterflies, they have always been a tad bit tacky to me, Mariah Carey sort of jaded the whole concept for me...I don't see myself in any of these pieces either. But, I did get a little experimental in the past couple of weeks: I sewed my first skirt. Major accomplishment for me though! It incorporates the butterfly detail and the African/tribal print trend that is making its way around the runway.


I got really lazy making this skirt, but it took only about 3 days to do it (spending about 3hrs a day). I'm a neophyte to the whole sewing thing, but my goal is to get out that category this summer and stitch up some skirts. It covers my knee when worn on my hips, but I prefer it higher up with my little cinch Marc Jacobs belt.

Source: Thefashionspot

C'est Chic: Sleek Pony Tails

Sienna Miller graces the cover of the July 2009 VOGUE issue, rocking a sleek neatly pulled back pony tail. I've always loved this look, its easy its sophisticated, c'est chic! Hopefully it reigns for fall .

Source: Vogue

Who's That Girl: Aminata Niaria

As I was browsing through Isaac Mizrahi's Fall 2009 RTW Collection, I spotted this beautiful African girl, Aminata Niaria. She's Senegalese and appears to have a lot of personality...she seems fun. Her skin is so rich!

Source: NYFashion.com, Style.com

Give Me The...Red Light ?

Carlos Miele Fall 2009 RTW



Prada Fall 2009
Donna Karan Fall 2009
Jonathan Saunders Fall 2009

Red seems to be a prominent color of many designers' Fall 2009 RTW Collections. Red, Blacks and Browns. Structured pieces, padded shoulders, faux furs and opaque tights.

Source: Style.com

She Want's That Old Thang Back

Jesus Ibarra

Kamilo Alamanza
Diego Rivera

So in my last semester in my Spanish IV class, we studied Mexico and its art. Every day I would loose focus from googling Mexican art in class till my teacher gave me a book of Mexican Art. I wish I had that book now, but in it there absolutely beautiful pictures of elaborate Aztec sculptures, masks, jewelery and the whole shebang. I just remember telling myself, "Amara you have to save these images. Major inspiration..." So I saved some of the names of the artist, but none of them are in this post. But these paintings do reiterate what I was telling myself. Might have to make a stop to the MFA soon...


Source: tribesgallery.com , aztec-indians.com

Badgley Mischka Spring 2009

This collection is absolutely stunning. It's a pastiche of chic with a hint of Easter and girly colors. I love the towering frills detail on the dress pieces and the mix of lace and flower patterns with all the pastels. I really like all of these but I think my favorites are the first dress, with lilac and yellow and the off-white shorter dress...but actually, I love them all . Yummm.

Source: NY Mag.com

You're My Bestfriend

This picture of LC and Whitney makes me so happy. There is nothing better than a good friendship and summer days and nights. I can't wait for the sun to come out over here in Boston so I can kickoff this summer with all my girls :)

Alexander Wang Resort 2010

This collection looks so lax. Super nonchalant but still really clean and prim. I love the grey jumpsuit and the cream lace-ish jumpsuit. I want it all !

Source: Style.com

Crispy Cream

Love this Hervé Léger (Spring 2009) swimsuit. It must look fabulous on the brown skinned sisters. Hoping to find a piece like this with similar cutouts...


Source: Net -A-Porter.com

Rachel Roy

Fell in love with her Fall 2009 Collection. It's very Jazz Era flapper meets sultry bad mamma jamma. She herself is a very conserved woman, whenever I see her in pictures from events, she is always wearing long layers, but I love the versatility of her pieces and the balance between exposure and conservation. Yes Rachel Roy, Yes.

Source: New York Fashion Search