Let The Games Begin

New York Fashion Week starts tomorrow!  Just take a moment and breath that in. I don't know about you, but I have been counting down the days.  Fall Ready To Wear shows are definitely my favorites.  I don't know why, I just feel a tighter connection to fall than spring and the clothing seems more put together.  I wished I lived in New York City and could experience the Fashion Week vibe first hand.  I can just imagine the models in their oh-so-chic off duty looks, the magazine editors and personnel running around to every-which show, and inhaling and exhaling the cool, crisp New York air.  Sadly, I am stuck on the West Coast in the moody weather of California (the forecast predicts rain when its been slightly warm thus far?!).  I guess I'll have to make it work with my Style.com app and I suppose I will be alright because tomorrow I will also be distracted with the fact that I am officially going to be sixteen years-old.  The mere thought of that number frightens me.  However, NYFW starts on February 7 and Julia's birthday is February 7; maybe it was meant to be that one day, maybe one day I will be involved in the industry and too join the crowds attending Fashion Week.  Recently it has been my dream to work at a fashion magazine or get an internship with a company that is involved in fashion and see where it leads me. It is every girls dream to sit front row at a fashion show and I hope that one day my dream will come!

With Love,

     Julia

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2013 schedule

February 07

Nicholas K

Todd Snyder

BCBGMAXAZRIA

Richard Chai Love and Chai Men's

Timo Weiland Women's

Tadashi Shoji

Candela 

David Hart

Sergio Davila

Edun

Concept Korea

Timo Weiland Men's

Kenneth Cole

February 08

Czar by Cesar Galindo

Project Runway

Carmen Marc Valvo

Noon by Noor

Nautica

Monika Chiang

Rebecca Minkoff

Ian Velardi

Tommy Hilfiger

Nichole Miller

Charlotte Ronson 

Academy of Art University

PARKCHOONMOO

February 09

Ruffian

Marissa Webb

Lacoste

Jill Stuart

Second/Layer

Son Jung Wan

Mara Hoffman

Rafael Cennamo

Hervé Léger by Max Azria

Katya Leonovich

Raif Adelberg

Aldon Livne

Monique Lhuillier

Venexian

February 10 

Nina Skarra

Lela Rose

DKNY

Tracy Reese

Trina Turk

Custo Barcelona

Diane Von Furstenberg

Joanna Mastroianni

Y-3

Vivienne Tam

Zac Posen 

David Tlale

Ralph Rucci

Emerson by Jackie Fraser-Swan

February 11

ICB by Prabal Gurung

Mathieu Mirano

Carolina Herrera

Pamella Roland

Donna Karan New York

Hernan Lander

KAUFMANFRANCO

DL1961

Betsey Johnson

Reem Acra

February 12

Tory Burch

J.Crew

Steven Alan

Badgley Mischka

Vera Wang

Jenny Packham

Diesel Black Gold

Adeam

Naeem Khan

Dennis Basso

Elie Tahari

Vantan Toyko

February 13

Bibhu Mohapatra

Brandon Sun

Michael Kors

Nanette Lepore

Rachel Zoe

J. Mendel

Leather Japan

Milly by Michelle Smith

Falguni and Shane Peacock

Anna Sui

Clover Canyon

Zang Toi

Ricardo Seco

B Michael America

February 14

Ralph Lauren

Calvin Klein Collection

blod are the shows I, personally am most looking forward to seeing.  I also hope to see Cara Delevingne breaking through on the American runway and of course Karlie Kloss and Ming Xi!

Crowned Jules

16 is an extremely scary number.  Turning 16 is even more frightening to me; however, my party made me forget it all.  On Saturday, my friends and family helped me celebrate my 16th birthday (my actual birthday is on Thursday, February 7).  We took a limo into the city and toured around San Francisco.  I had never been inside a limo prior to my party and I am going to be completely honest, I felt like I was in Gossip Girl.  All of my friends looked so gorgeous and glamorous with their pretty dresses and Martinelli’s filled champagne glasses.  My parents gave me a Polaroid camera right before we got into the limo so my friends and I snapped loads of pictures with my new favorite accessory!  My Polaroid is my baby and I am absolutely obsessed with it.  I got the Polaroid 300 in black.  It is the cutest little thing and produces that cutest little pictures.  While in the limo, we blasted our music (singing, well rapping along to Thrift Shop was absolutely hilarious) and were pretending to be some hardcore partygoers, even though we are just a bunch of geeky-preparatory-school kids.

I was really excited to wear my new dress from Topshop!  It is a black dress with silver shoulder embellishments.  I fell in love with this dress when I saw it on their website and I knew I had to wear it to my party.  I paired my dress with a pair of new black heels from Guess, to finish off my birthday suit.   

While in San Francisco, we made pit stops at a few of the major tourist attractions before we made our way to our dinner reservations at The Slanted Door in the Ferry Building.  We made out first stop at Treasure Island as we were coming into the city, followed by Twin Peaks, The Palace of Fine Arts Theater, Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square.  As a girl from the bay, I actually had never been to Twin Peaks, Treasure Island, nor The Palace of Fine Arts Theater, so I was so much fun to explore sites right in my backyard.  

looking up at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts Theater 

top of Twin Peaks

Limo Time!

with my favorite girl band

Treasure Island

one of my favorite shots from the day

just a couple of the many polaroids we took

With Love,
     Julia

February Lust List

I cannot believe it is already the second month of two thousand and thirteen (this is actually insane)!  February 2013.  The month I turn sixteen.  I know it sounds silly, but I am absolutely terrified of being old!  I could never imagine myself as a 16 year-old and now that the days are descending, I just wish I were 13 again.  Most people are absolutely thrilled to reach sixteen so that they can get their diver's license and have more freedom and such, but I just want to be forever young.  I am also about 50 hours behind on my driving house so I can predict that I will not be getting my license anytime in the near future.  I don't exactly know why I am so afraid of growing up but I had a mini-panic attack on New Years Day just thinking about being 16 (I know, I'm quite weird). I now have exactly 1 week to live it up and down as a 15 year-old!

I pulled myself together so I could produce my monthly Lust List (this month it is also some-what my birthday list).  I am going to create a Lust List on the 1st of each month, starting with February.  I hope you enjoy and are inspired by some of my finds!

1. TOPSHOP talbot hooded short parka: I've been eyeing military inspired jackets forever now and this one is super cute (it also has leather elbow patches **bonus**)! 

2. LULU'S sunnies: If you are on Tumblr, you will understand my desire to have these sunnies (follow me on Tumblr and ask me questions, I'm très lonely)

3. BCBGENERATION affirmation bracelet: I have seen these BCBGeneration bracelets out for quite a while now and I finally tried one on when I was Christmas shopping with my mother and it literally fit my tinsy wrist perfectly

4. TOPSHOP check zip wrap aline skirt: 1) it is topshop 2) it is preppy

5. ILLAMASQUA nail varnish: Scorn, black in a matte finish (every girl needs a matte finish nail polish) and Viridian, peacock green/metallic finish

6. POLAROID instant camera: I have heard some great things about this cute camera

7. BRANDY MELVILLE rings: I saw these on instagram a while back and I love them so much because at the moment, I love both skulls and crowns (follow me on instagram, crownedjules)

8. TOPSHOP arabel cut out boots: I think the picture is pretty self-explanatory

9. black skinnies: must have for everyone

With Lusts (lot's) of Love,

     Julia

I would also just like to say a MASSIVE HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Harry Styles!  Today is his 19th birthday!  (He is only 3 years my senior; there is most definitely not an age barrier!!)

we have something in common <3

(What do you think of my finds?)