The ilusion of being skinny

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Being one of those girls that has been showing an interest in fashion since their early age, I as well as many others passed through many and many of the infinite amount of fashion bloggers sites. As my 12 years old chubby (ehm, maybe more than chubby) self, I used to admire the world those girls lived in and their sweet little lifes. They were all so beautiful, so skinny, so stylish and they could eat and drink almost literally everything and could stay still the same - charming with an amazing figure. That time it was a great wonder for me but just a few years later when I gained a better perspective, I have started to quietly call this phenomen for myself the ilusion of being skinny.



Let me explain. When you are young (and I don't necessarily mean very young but fairly the whole time your are in your teenage years) you are very easily influenced by what you read and what you see, mainly when it comes from those you look up to. Firstly, I get the feeling that as well as them, also I can eat everything I want and be the same size as they are. And yeah, you guessed it, it didn't work for me.  Than I came across those who workouts regularly and eats pretty much (or very much) healthy, and I thought how easy it's gonna be to have this lifestyle as well. You might know it from your experience, it is not easy at all.

The thing with having a blog or actually posting anything on the Internet is that you get to choose what you post. Would you share all the aspect of your life with the rest of the world? Certainly not. And I'm not saying that is wrong - it is neccessary to have a privacy. However, what many people do is creating a fairytale. Many times you don't get to know about what kind of struggle is to life healthy and be skinny or just simply has the type of body you want to have. Yes, they are those lucky ones that look like how they want to no matter what they do, nevertheless, the rest of us unlucky ones may must try hard in order to get what we want. And sometimes the virtual world doesn not help. Because many times you don't get to know about all the ups and downs an how many times the particular person had to start over again, and you may feel demotivated and frustrated with your own inability to don't fall off the wagon.

So what do I mean with the ilusion? I mean the Wonderland in what is an incredibly easy to be who they are. To always look as they want to withoun any struggle and with many photos of their delicious meals, cakes, coctails, chocolate and wine. To always be so perfect with a great amount of social life and a huge amount of clothes. 

With a bowl of some delicious fruit,






P.S. From someone who has been trying to lose weight and make a lifestyle change. Sometimes you fall of the wagon for months. Sometimes you tell yourself you’re gonna start fresh on Monday and by Wednesday you’ve already fallen back off. There will be times where you mess up. If it’s only one meal, one day or a weekend or even a week or an entire month. Sometimes you have to restart a 100 times and it’s frustrating. It will happen. That’s okay and it will be okay. Learn to get back on track. And get used to it. Because the secret is to learn to forgive yourself and start over again. Just get up and leave the unhealthy habits behind you- over and over again. Every. Single. Day. You can do this. One day at a time. 

Please note: I am not saying that everyone is like that, I am just explaining a trend I noticed on an amount of blogs as well as I am not saying that you should want to be skinny and that is wrong if you are not, it is just something I want to be. Also I am not blaiming anybody for my problems, I am just talking about issues I experienced. 

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Prague Fahion Week

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Last week the capital city of the Czech Republic came alive with fashion during the biggest fashion event of the year - Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Compared to the other fashion weeks all over the world, the Czech one is really quite small. Yes, there is something going on during the whole week - conferences, exhibitions, parties, some shop-openings - nevertheless, the shows themselves took place only for three days and presented only 19 Czech and Slovakian brands and designers.


As I have already been in this world for quite a while, I must honestly say, I did not have very high expectations from Czech designers. They are not bad but they have never had the qualities of the world's leaders. There is a diametral difference when it comes to details and the whole attitude. Czechs and Slovaks are talented without a shadow of doubt, nevertheless, in the final presentation on the runway there is always something that is missing. Sometimes the styling, sometimes details and sometimes the inconsistence of the whole collection.

However, maybe because I did not expect much, I was very positively surprised. Designers like Tomáš Macháček and Lukáš Linder introduced very consistent and modern collections when they were following actual trends including very smooth overlap of unisex and femininity. Additionally, Tomáš Macháček also should be praised for dark and gloomy presentation achieved by great styling - what is not something you could see very often in the Czechoslovakia area.




Tomáš Macháček model styling - extreme make up

There is actually much more to write about each designer and I do not really want to get that deep. Nevertheless, last thing I want to mention when it comes to designers is the inspiration. Because, sometimes, it really seems that there has happened quite more. When you follow fashion weeks all over the world and you really keep yourself up to date with collections of renowned designers than you can see things, and I mean things. A few times while I was watching the runway, it came across to my mind that I already saw this somewhere - and it could be either just the iconic design or the object itself. I saw Dior's Haute Couture S/S15 shoes, Kenzo, Alexander Wang, Dior sunglasses or Christian Louboutin sparkling wedding Stilletoes.

If you can see shoes from Dior's S/S 2015
Haute Couture than you've got a point
And hello Kenzo, is that you?

Aside of the creative side of the fashion week, let's talk about the organisation for a bit. I cannot complain about the choice of spaces - ZIBA in the street Na Příkopě in the heart of the city centre was a wonderful combination of etheric architecture and modern settings, and the skatepark at the island Štvanice was an ingenious idea. Nonetheless, the management was in one word a mess. It seemed like that no one actually expects to come people who hadn't bought tickets because, honestly, if you were dressed certain way the security or staff wouldn't bother to ask you for any accreditation. The most I saw from any kind of checking was when I came to usherette asking about seats. And seats, man,  seats are other story.

First to understand is that if you weren't invited than you could buy two types of tickets, either for standing for 700Czk (around 25 euro) or so called VIP for 10,000Czk for one (370 euro) or 15,000Czk for two (that's 555 euro) when you had access to two more shows, one extra party and you were assured to always have a seat. Are you starting to see the problem here? Probably not when it comes to the normal ticket, I also have none with that one but those VIPs. You know, when you buy two tickets that cost you such an amount of money than you expect to get some kind of service like being seated first and not standing in a crowd of people while waiting for the beginning of the show. And let me tell you, you are not getting it. The price of those tickets are just so ridiculously high compared to the treatment that you really want to cry, and I'm not even exaggerate here. If you came a little before the show started than it could happen to you that you didn't have a seat anymore, if you came on time for the show than you could spent even 20 minutes crammed in a crowd before they let you in. Yeah people, totally not worth it.

My shoes finally getting the attention they deserve - Jeremy Scott for Adidas (by welling.com)
As a last word to the MBPWF I must say that I liked it. It may sounds weird after the amount of criticism I've given out here, yet it is necessary to understand that this is still very young event going for only 5 years. It wasn't perfect - neither organisation, collections, models, styling nor settings, nevertheless, I didn't expect none of those to be and I was very nicely surprised quite a few times. The designers are getting better, the locations are more cleverly chosen and some are not scared to experiment with styling and make up. In addition, you could see the highest concentration of originally and well dressed people than ever before and that is always something to look forward to. Because to really see a style in Czech, you really have to search. But about Czech street fashion later, there's too much to talk about.
With a lots of love,


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How could a welcome look like?

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Is there anything you could actually say when you are starting a blog? Has it ever crossed your mind? Well, now when I am trying to (yes, let's stick with the try thing) begin my virtual journey, I kinda have no idea. What's the proper way, any outline at all? If I would be a little nerdy here, I could try to compare it to an essay writing. As I was always taught, proper introduction is the base of anything you write and I guess that with blog it is the same thing. You should tell any potential reader what you will be doing here the whole time. Nevertheless, what if you don't know? 

I, for instance, have just a little hazy idea of what I want this blog to be. Yes, it will be my little virtual world of my non-virtual world (I like how this sentence sounds). The portrait of the reality. The tiny wonderland of fashion, creativity, intellectuality, health and secrets. Because what would be life without those things we all keep for ourselves? 

With a cup of some delicious Italian cappuccino,
V.


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