I had this outfit as an idea in my head for a while now, but kept postponing it. But I think that it’s finally time to show it to you, before the summer ends.
It’s inspired by the one and only Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City, by an outfit she wore on season 5 creating one of this summer’s biggest trends, colorblocking.
Are you familiar with “Pretty Little Liars”tv show? I started watching it (when it first aired), during the summer break of all the other TV shows I’m currently watching, and to be honest it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. However, it was interesting enough to keep me watching it and I’m glad I did, because it turned out to be a very good one.
The series follow the lives of Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily, four girls whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure using the name “A” who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew (Source).
The show had a four month break after September, and it continued its 1st season on January 3rd. From then, the story got darker, the fashion way better and the characters more interesting. I can describe the show, as a mixture of Sex and the City, in a more teen way (four basic female characters, who are close friends, each with her own style and personality), and Gossip Girl (don’t tell me you don’t see the resemblance between “A” and “Gossip Girl”? They both have a way to know all the dirty secrets and threatening to expose them. Plus, we don’t have a clue of who they really are. And they both have a Queen bee character. For “Pretty Little Liars” it was Alison, and for “Gossip Girl”, the one and only, Blair Waldorf). Furthermore, Pretty Little Liars takes place mostly in a high school, like Gossip Girl did in the first seasons, and its fashion style has evolved a lot. Each character has a unique and very interesting style, which the audience has begun to imitate, as well as Sex & the City’s and Gossip Girl’s.
After the – not-so-successful – Sex and the City 2 movie, we heard that Sex and the City’s prequel, “The Carrie Diaries”, is about to be made into a movie. “The Carrie Diaries” was written by Sex and the City’s author Candace Bushnell, in 2010 but it’s actually a book about Carrie’s early years before she came to NY.
My lovely boyfriend had a little surprise for me the other day. He bought me two amazing books for Valentine’s Day, even though we weren’t going to “celebrate”. He knows that I like fashion and Sex & the City, so he bought me these books:
When it comes to series with amazing fashion, the first one that pops into my head is definitely CW’s Gossip Girl. Not only it has an interesting plot and very good music, it also shows the latest fashion trends. And who’s better to show off these trends, than the young, rich and powerful crème de la crème of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The intro says it all: “Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite”.
