January 15, 2012

Last summer I went to party island Ibiza, Spain. A week full of the greatest parties I’ve ever been to. But I didn’t only danced my ass of in the finest clubs on the music from the greatest DJ’s, I also went to Ibiza City (Eivissa) for some ‘culture’. Ibiza has their great little boutiques full with the Ibiza kinda hippie, bohemian clothing style. Think about an long white dress with the leather Ibiza boots a straw hat and the aviator glasses of ray ban. but also…

ALLSAINTS, a great shop with great clothes. Not only the clothes are nice even the store is great. It looks like an old underground factory, with these characteristic elements, such as old sewing machines. Every item in the store looks hand-made with a rough, edgy rock style.. I wanted to buy the whole store! unfortunately I could not afford to do that. So I bought a simple top, just to have something. ALLsaints launched a partnership with Not for sale, an anti-human trafficking group. So the greatest news of all, they cell fair clothing!

Do you remember the time playing in the attic, dressing like a princes with your mother’s clothes? putting on high heels, beautiful dresses and a big fur coat. This is possible again! So run upstairs go raid your mom’s closet and breathe life into those old clothes by dressing like her ‘mini me’!

What’s new? A new survey has been revealed. Young people are being hit in the pocket, it forces them to raiding their parents’ wardrobes. But here’s the good news, dressing like your mother is no longer an embarrassment like it used to be! This survey comes from online retailer isme.com, they concluded that young women rather raiding their mother’ wardrobe than spending money on new trends. I personally think THIS is a trend, a new one! The retro fashion even extends to the beautiful wedding dresses from their mother. It’s the new ‘something borrowed’. The survey also said, one in the three moms said they love shopping with their daughters for inspiration and style advice.

‘Young women appreciate role models who have learnt how to dress and look good. That takes style and life experience.’ – Ruth Start (spokeswoman, isme.com)

Why is it cool? What’s nicer than spending time with your daughter and inspire each other! I found this trend very cool because this way mom and daughter got the same tasted in fashion, so it saves money and daughter and mother getting to spend time together. So from now on every daughter and mother got their personal style adviser, each other!