FASHION ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: SPRING VIBES /MODNA ILUSTRACIJA PETKOM : PROLJEĆE JE U ZRAKU

 Hello dear readers! In this post, I'll share a new fashion illustration with you that is all about Spring vibes. In addition, I'll share a spring outfit I wore today. As you can see, the Spring has finally arrived. As Pablo Neruda famously said:  “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

We have enjoyed a warm and sunny day today. Perfect introduction to the weekend. I felt like dressing up so I did just that. As much as I'm down with the whole mini trend, I won't be giving up on my bellow the knee, midi and maxi skirts and dresses. In fact, I might just feel best in midi length. Give me a pencil midi skirt and I'll come up with an outfit that is guaranteed to make me happy. Pairing midi skirts with heels always makes me feel feminine and dressed up.

Perhaps some day we'll come up with an exact mathematics formula for a 'pick me up' outfit. What do you think? Is there such a formula? Maybe it is more an individual one, something we need to develop ourselves.  Different items make different people happy. How do you go about creating an outfit that makes you feel better and more confident? Ideally, an outfit should have an item that fits well, an item that is in our favourite colour and an item that makes us happy. 

Something old, something blue, something gifted and something you made yourself. Perhaps that could be my formula for a happy outfit. Nothing is new about this look. Both the grey blazer and the blue midi skirts were gifts from my sister-in-law (literally second hand). The other items I acquired myself, one way or another. If I recall well the white tunics is from a super old collaboration and the rest is store bought, expect the brooch that is my own creation. I enjoyed strolling Mostar in this (not entirely practical but fun) outfit today. Scroll down to see and read more. 

Pozdrav dragi čitatelji! U ovom postu s vama ću podijeliti novu modnu ilustraciju koja je cijela u proljetnim vibracijama. Uz to, podijelit ću i proljetnu kombinaciju koju sam danas nosila. Kao što vidite, proljeće je konačno stiglo. Kao što je Pablo Neruda slavno rekao: "Možete odrezati svo cvijeće, ali ne možete spriječiti da proljeće dođe."

Danas smo uživali u toplom i sunčanom danu. Savršen uvod u vikend. Došlo mi je da se obučem lijepo pa sam to i učinio. Koliko god mi se sviđa cijeli mini trend, neću odustati od svojih suknji i haljina dužine ispod koljena, midi i dugih (maksi) krojeva. Zapravo, možda se najbolje osjećam u midi dužini. Daj mi pencil midi suknju i smislit ću kombinaciji koji će me zasigurno usrećiti. Spajanje midi suknji s visokim petama uvijek učini da se osjećam ženstveno i dotjerano.

Možda ćemo jednog dana smisliti točnu matematičku formulu za odjevne kombinacije 'za oraspoložavanje'. Što mislite? Postoji li takva formula? Možda je to više individualno, nešto što moramo sami razvijati. Različiti odjevni predmeti čine različite ljude sretnima. Kako vi stvarate odjevne kombinacije u kojima se osjećate bolje i samopouzdanije? U idealnom slučaju, outfit bi trebao imati odjevni predmet koji dobro nam stoji, predmet koji je u našoj omiljenoj boji i predmet koji nas čini sretnima.

Nešto staro, nešto plavo, nešto darovao i nešto što smo sami napravili. Možda bi to mogla biti moja formula za sretnu odjeću. Ništa novo u ovom kombinaciji. Sivi sako i plava midi suknja bili su pokloni moje zaove (doslovno odjeća  iz druge ruke). Ostale stvari sam nabavila sama, na ovaj ili onaj način. Ako se dobro sjećam bijele tunike je iz veoma stare suradnje, a ostalo je kupljeno u trgovini, osim broša koji je moja vlastita kreacija. Danas sam uživala šetati Mostarom u ovoj ne posve praktičnoj ali zato zabavnoj kombinaciji. Pomaknite se prema dolje da vidite i pročitate više.

The medium for this illustration is watercolour pencils on paper.  The design is inspired by Spring. Just a little blue and green dress that came to my mind. I doubt I'll have the time to make it, but it was fun to design it on paper. I imagined the blue part of the dress as being of satin or silk fabric and the green part as being made from sheer materials. There are some other fun details such as applications in the shape of leaves and a satin cord that ties in a big bow on the left shoulder. To finish the look, there's a tiara. It was a fun look to sketch but let's get back to what I have actually worn today. 

THE STORY OF MY OUTFIT- HOW I WORE IT BEFORE? 

THE WHITE RUFFLED TUNICS (worn under blazer)- HERE 8 WAYS TO WEAR

DIY BROOCH - made from recycled fabric

THE STRAW BAG- HERE

THE GREY BLAZER (second hand)- HERE & HERE

THE BLUE MIDI SKIRT (second hand)- HERE

THE LEOPARD HEELS (old)- HERE

HOW I ILLUSTRATED IT BEFORE? I have actually illustrated one item from this outfit in the past. Can you guess which one? If you guessed the grey blazer, you were correct in your guess. I have illustrated this item in another outfit, i.e. the one where I paired it with a black ruffled dress.

Sometimes life imitates art. Have a look at the fashion illustrations below. I have drawn them years ago, but now that I look at them, I see they resemble my outfit. It's a happy. My fashion illustrations inspire my outfits and my outfits inspire my fashion illustrations. 

ONE MORE REASON TO TRY YOUR HAND AT FASHION ILLUSTRATION!

If you are looking for fashion inspiration, why not try your hand at fashion illustration?

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WHAT HAVE WRITERS SAID ABOUT SPRING? A FEW LOVELY QUOTES 

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

 Rainer Maria Rilke

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”

Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”  Mark Twain

“We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.”

 F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ”

William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”  Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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