STYLE WATCH: RYAN GOSLING

Ryan Gosling, the man everybody is talking about / watching at the moment, is sporting the tortoise shell round eye frame in the most handsome manner. Even if you can't get the life and fame of one of the hottest actors at the moment, you can certainly get his look with these new beauties from Jeff Banks. Comes in tortoise shell and black. Good luck!

AUCKLAND STYLE SPOTTING: LITTLE BLACK ONES

Found this amazing style space in Britomart during my last weekend in Auckland;
New Zealand Fashion Museum. Fabulous!

The space showcased the various black's in fashion - and Im not talking about The All Blacks now... or am I? The exhibition seem to investigate - or highlight - the possibility that the colour black goes beyond fashion for New Zealanders, a symbol of the pride of the nation. As I'm not a well educated sportsgirl, I did a little search on Wikipedia and found that "the New Zealand men's national rugby union team's early uniforms consisted of a black jersey with a silver fern and white knickerbockers. By their 1905 tour New Zealand were wearing all black, except for the silver fern, and their All Black name dates from this time." So it almost sounds like a coincidence or perhaps a subconscious liking of the colour black among the early team members? :-)

Wherever the truth lies, the exhibition was enjoyable and included costumes from the early 1900s, when the colour black was the thing to wear when mourning someone lost - with a whole set of rules to go with it - to the LBD for various formal, fashionable occasions in the later 1900s.

Ps. Despite my lack of knowledge and enthusiasm for sport, we did enjoy a beautiful meal at Kermadec while watching the All Blacks on the big screen, beating France - and I was immensely impressed with the Haka:)









Here's my favorite little black ones to complete the look....

Stack of sparkling little black frames from Alex Perry; from top, AP 07, AP 10, Ap 09.

AP 06 in a gorgeous feminine shape and black onyx imitations on the sides.

Retro style in two-tone acetate in crystal and black. Osiris A 08

One of my favorites, Red or Dead 63...

Black on the outside, black tortoiseshell on the inside; "Mitch" by Specsavers


Great sun frame in black with white edges... (25179552)

Perfect black sunnies, double bridge and bold shape. As worn by Alex perry in the TV ad for Specsavers... (25179576)

... and last but not least, "Lee" in retro style with visible pins, keyhole bridge and rounder shape.

SWEET SEVENTIES

I just have to share with you all that I got soooo inspired the last two nights while watching the series Paper Giants - the birth of Cleo - at ABC. It not only gave me a huge desire to travel back in time to the seventies and frock up in all of these A-MA-ZING outfits; enjoy an era of change and optimism and revolutionize a little bit - it also gave me a fantastic insight to the Australian media history (being fairly new to this country and all..:-). I mean, what an extraordinary story, extraordinary people and even more extraordinarily exciting opportunities and battles between the media dynasty's.. And wow, Ita Buttrose - I am soo super impressed. What an extraordinary woman. I want to be like her. As you can probably read between the lines... I am quite overwhelmed and filled with inspiration. 5 stars from me to the production, the styling and especially Asher Keddie who gave an amazing portrait of Ita.

Ps. Also, a little cute thing... the sweet lady next to Asher / Ita in the photo above (can't remember the name of the character) - anyway, she looks just like my little mum looked in the seventies... Mamma - kan du inte skicka mig en bild pa lilla sota dig nar du hade luggen. Sa himlans gulligt och jag saknade dig extra mycket framfor TVn.... stor kraaaam

Anyway - a little treat for the day, as I've given it a 70s theme... classic 70s styled sunnies:


Sunglasses (Sun RX suitable for prescription lenses) from Specsavers.

MILANO STYLE WATCH - PART 2

Me standing with lovely Sam from inspecs outside the super-cool Animal-caravan that was driven all the way from the UK to Milan.. Loving his outfit, the tie and the glasses combo, always a big fan of your style Sam!


Bryan (Everything I do, I do it for you....) Adams was in Milan and Mido to launch a new range of Titanium Eyewear so I took the opportunity to snuggle up with him... my mother-in law loves him so I had to at least get the picture:-)





Lovely Stig, buyer at Specsavers, is always looking so good with cool glasses and outfit. Maybee it's because he's Danish..:-)







Mr Lam from OKIA. Loving the checked glasses and jacket combo topped with a red scarfe! Nice!


Check out the inside of this guy's glasses - its the same colour as his sweater. Good matching-points there!



O, this lovely guy I was standing talking to for about 10 min's in English before we realized we were both Swedish..ha ha

Om du laser detta, snalla kan du mejla mig for jag har tappat bort min notebook med ditt namn, din mejl-address och allt intressant jag skrev ner.... tusen tack och kram fran Pernilla:-)


Sofia & Lin, really nice - and Swedish - ladies and glasses designers from EGO Optiska.

MILANO STYLE WATCH

Some stylish people I spotted in Milan and at MIDO (The big European Eyewear trade show). Sorry it's taken so long... Its been non-stop super hectic since i got back. Anyway, here they are and I've got more to come. Particularly love this first guy's hair, fur and 80s style gold-glasses combo... cool!