DIY: Pearl Embellished Jeans! Easy as 1,2,3!

SO, every once in awhile I get into an arts and crafts projects. I kept seeing denim embellished jeans (mostly pearl) all over Insta "Influencers" & contemporary brands pages's. I start browsing around for embellished jeans that won't break the bank*. As someone that has worked in denim industry, I know that the more embellishments, the more rips, the more destroyed, higher the price. A lot of people think that since the jeans are ripped it is cheaper, however, those type of jeans need to spend more time in the wash and in pre production, therefore price goes up.

Left to Right: Current Elliot $375  Paige Denim $359  Grlfrnd $328

Eventually, I think to myself, "this looks easy enough to do myself" and I def have some jeans I never wear or that are a bit less expensive (Free People makes great jeans are they're usually around $68). I start doing some research on Pinterest and ShopStyle and noticed some of the jeans have pearls everywhere, some just on one leg, and some only at the bottom.

I decided to do just one side similar to:

Anyone that knows me knows how much i LOVE Amazon, I was able to get everything needed (minus the jeans) for under $20 on Amazon.com

You can even make a girls night of it with wine and holiday movies in the background!

What you need:

A pair of jeans:  obv -I recommend a less expensive one that you won't be upset if it doesn't come out how you thought. Mine I got at Free People Tweezers or a Jewel Setter: like this one Fabric Glue: I chose fabric glue cause I'm not the best sewer! I found this one worked great Flat Back Pearls of various sizes: Since I'm glueing the pearls on, I need the flat back, shop them here! If you want to add a little more pizazz check these out!

Now Let's Get to It

Step by Step

1.  Lay out your design. 

When you lay out the design before you glue, you can see if it's to extra, or if you want to do a pattern.

2. Glue Glue Glue

As you can see the glue dries clear. Wait at least 24 hours before trying them on and 7-10 days before washing!

3. Make your style statement!

Button up: Splendid Cami: Zara Jeans: Free People x From Where Sarah Stands Sandals: Raye Bag: Gucci

* a side note- i'm very petite, the contemporary brands that fit me best are Frame, J Brand Jeans, and Rag & Bone.

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NY Fashion Week: Spring 2018- Part 2

This NYFW and its crazy to see how the world of runway fashion has changed.  Designers are making their fashion show, I feel, more about the atmosphere and extremity of it, then the actual clothes themselves. The two that stand out most to me that have gone a bit "extra" are Phillipp Plein and Rihanna. Phillipp Plein always puts on a crazy theme runway show, that is more of a spectacle that anything. However, it is always jam packed with celebrities both on the runway and off. He is at the top of his game right now with 3 lables: Phillip Plein, Plein Sport, and Billionaires club along with dressing Mayweather for the fight.

Phillipp Plein has always been known to go over the top, with good reasoning, he explained to Fashionista.com: "...that he puts on such spectacles so that his independent namesake label can stand up against its more established luxury-brand competitors." For example, last year he showed in Milan right after Gucci, the year before that he showed after Chanel. 

1. Phillipp Plein- For his Spring 2018 collection he "hosted" his show at 1OAK with basically a full blown concert to match featuring Future, Nicki Minaj, and Teyana Taylor (who gave a runway "walk" that can't be topped).  He also had rappers like Rich the Kid, Swae Lee of Rae Srummerd, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin walking the runway for his mens collection

From left to right: 21 Savage, Rich the Kid, Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, Future (with Phillip Plein)

Fashion wise, Vogue Runway didn't have the nicest review, and is also semi funny.

 "Plein showed women’s and men’s concurrently, under the theme “Good Gone Bad.” His recurrent logo was a ball-gagged and bonded Alice in Wonderland character (or was it Elsa from Frozen?). Some T-shirts read Plein Fairytale Crew. Was it a fairy tale? No. And cheaply glamorizing that logo and idea was icky, but some other pieces were brief flashes of, let’s say, decent dreams—the kind that flicker through the night quickly and might be hard to remember come morning, but still appeared all the same"

In my opinion, the mens shoes were sick, however the bondage them was a bit tacky and extra. The women's hair was done like ruponzel, which was probably influenced by Nicki Minaj as she is always wearing hair down to her knees. He did go out with a bang with Teyana Taylor's catwalk moment.

2. Fenty x Puma (Rihanna)- Rihanna moved her Fenty X Puma show back to New York, she had set up the runway as if you were dirt biking thru mountains as her collection was a bit X Games inspired.

Rihanna pull up game strong

And once again we are seeing some of the trends, fuschia color, trash/plastic bag type material, bra tops, and the cross shoulder fanny pack - which trend was brought back from brands like Goyard and Gucci.

3. Alexander Wang- Now, Aleander Wang did not have an over the top show, however he did have the top models wearing headbands bascially, that read, "Wangover", "Party Animal" "After After Party". At the same time he was keeping on trend with blazers, bra tops, and capes. At the end of the day, the show was played very safe but I still LOVE it.

Overall, it will be interesting if the European fashion houses do something similar.

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Put on Your Freakum Dress Cause it's Queen B's BDAY...

...and we're taking a trip down memory lane, lemonade and all!

Happy Birthday to the Queen, Beyonce! In honor of her birthday lets take a look back at some of my fave style moments where she brought new meaning to the word SLAY.

From red carpet moments, clippers games, and twinning with Blue Ivy- Beyonce never seizes to amaze me. I mean they don't call her Queen for nothing!

Met Gala Moments

From left to right. 2011 Custom Emilio Pucci, 2015 Givenchy, 2012 Givenchy

Red Carpet Award Show Moments

From left to right 2005 Versace 77th Academy Awards, 2007 Dolce & Gabanna BET Awards, 2014 Custom Michael Costello VMA's

Street Style Moments

From left to right. 2015 in Romeo Hunte, 2017 Stella Jean, 2016 in Oliver Peoples The Row Sunnies, 2015 backstage at Adidas x Kanye Show

Gucci Moments

2016 Gucci White Jumpsuit, 2017 at Clippers Game, 2017 rocking the Gucci Puff Sleeve straight from the Gucci Runway at the Made In America Festival (and her birthday)

Twinning Moments with Blue Ivy

One of my FAVORITE moments, 2016 VMA awards Blue Ivy wearing: Mischka Aoki dress and Giuseppe Zanotti sneakers, Lorraine Schwartz Diamonds Beyonce in: Francesco Scognamiglio Couture gown and Jimmy Choo Shoes

2017 with Bey and Blue Ivy in Gucci

Beyonce and Jay-Z are basically Hollywood royalty, (sorry Kardashian Fam) yes they have their moments aka Becky With the Good hair- but doesn't every family! 

I can't wait to see how stlyish the new born twins, Rumi and Sir, will be! Talk about real twinning (x2). 

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