Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Kate Sylvester

Two momentous events happened in my life recently which I actually shared with others. The first was the big screen event “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” in my favourite cinema Embassy. I thought my daughter and I will be ones of the few people. How mistaken I was!
The theatre was overcrowded and not only with elderly ladies but with young girls dressed in a little black piece adorned with pearls. The majority of us were holding a glass with bubbles. Everything in style!
Givenchy outfits were stunning and so was Audrey Hepburn! She was natural! Just like I’m natural wearing pyjamas. She still unites people so different in real life. Well done New Zealand!
The second: I discovered my favourite designer in NZ! How unfair I was when I stated that I probably would wear my existing clothes till the end of time!
On our way to Embassy we passed the store of Kate Sylvester and two days later I entered it and found the most amazing pieces I ever saw for the last two years in NZ. Uncomplicated, effortless, sophisticated, elegant, androgynous, ironic, jazzy. Very down to earth and just stunning. DIAMOND DOGS AW 2010.
I have just seen (in my imagination) me wearing my dad’s woollen coat and jacket with that gorgeous pair of jersey woollen pants, baggy and skinny at the same time. It would go with woollen pair of socks, Italian shoes with laces and Audrey sun glasses. The thing is that the first part is from my student years and the second is today. There is one accessory that I fell in love at once – the shoulder belt, the one to hold the scabbard or a gun. I am going to ask my dad if he still has one of those belts from his army days. I think it’s very Chanel and Earhart. It’s nice to hide lipstick or a powder case in it. Awesome! There was that jazzy silk dress like a cloud! I need to have my hair cut.
I only bought my (first) yummy nail polish (in years) but I’m very much excited about the clothes.
Kate Sylvester is a great personality. Her collections are the philosophy of living a life and what she loves and admires in life. Every piece is like a painting or a story, simple but realistic.
How about pyjamas…