Hakaniemi, Helsinki
Hakaniemi is surrounded with several oriental supermarkets and the red brick market hall, contributing as an ideal area to do food shopping and fashion photography. After Chinese lunch, before grocery trip, stop over, strike a post to make the vintage silk robe flow, nothing is more fun to celebrate the sunny afternoon in June.
Quite some friends of mine know I love High End plus High Street mix and match my outfit of the day; I embrace both fast fashion and luxurious French couture; hence, I usually take a quick look at fast fashion trends after work, and quite often pay a visit to flea markets or vintage store on the days off, indeed, I find bargains a lot, such as this YVES SAINT LAURENT 100% silk shining robe.
According to the design of the label, this Made in France long robe delivers the style of 1970’s epoch—flapping, smoothly touch, together with the thick, huge, attached shoulder pads. At the first trial, its size 42 makes me wonder to take it or leave it, still, the length of the sleeves are proper enough to be my yet another pseudo but modern kimono, eventually YSL vintage is coming home with me. Under the silk robe, I match with this 1970’s Yves Saint Laurent 100% cotton corset, which, is perhaps the prototype piece, due to the buttons are not engraved any YSL logo. I found the corset at Helsinki Fashion Taivas in 2014 with paying merely 17 EUR, definitely my proudest bargain vintage I possess.
Seldom a leopard-print fan I am, until I spot this pointed flats at Boutique NINA’S summer sale in Helsinki. The Italian luxury footwear brand AQUAZZURA was co-founded by Edgardo Osorio in Florence, 2011. The colourful designs with uncompromising comfort and craftsmanship have made this Italian house an instantly recognizable household name, the pineapple logo is playful on every detail of it’s footwear collection. The style of my pointed leopard flats, with the leather strings and mini pineapple logo at the outer soles, are trendy together with leggings or fitted slim jeans, to make the whole silhouette clean-cut and elegant. Since the YSL corset and silk robe are basic black, the Gina Tricot jeans is going for washed blue denim.
For accessories, I definitely go for CHANEL 2017 cruise collection mini flap bag, its navy blue and evergreen hues mix with leopard print for an alternative vintage feel. The sun is shining warmly to reflect the golden patterns embroidered on the YSL robe, while the wind blows occasionally for the flow of the soft garment.
Special Thanks: Erica
TOP TIP 1: Pointed shoes are elegant together with leggings or slim jeans to elongate the silhouette
TOP TIP 2: Leopard prints are good with pure black, washed denim blue or baby pink, try to avoid red or peach hues
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