Rainy days in CPH

Last time I was in Copenhagen I had my camera with me so I could to take some pictures of my beautiful city. Even though I don't live in Copenhagen, and never have, I still feel strangely at home wandering around in the streets. I imagine that anyone who has ever been to the city feels the same way. 

Now, we haven't exactly been blessed lately when it comes to the weather, but I want to share this little piece of Copenhagen anyway, while promising to take some better pictures another time under sunnier circumstances.

Thanks to the girl on the bike, who was kind enough to pass by in her pretty blue cardigan that matches the pretty blue window frames. 

Fresh pastel-coloured buildings among the many red brick facades. Looks like stacked suburban villas.

This building is located by the area Trianglen and is very mysterious to me. Every time I pass it I wonder what is and what has been inside of the tower. I imagine a small princess-y room with soft drapery or maybe a tiny library packed with dusty books. Well, I will probably never know ...

The old and the new - that is Copenhagen.

That's all for now, hope you're having a great summer!

Can you feel it? Louboutin is coming to town ...

Going on a casual shopping trip to Copenhagen. Just a grey day in the city. Nothing special going on ...

What ... Wait a second! 

This is fantastic because it is the first Christian Louboutin store in Copenhagen.
There is not much to see yet, though. The windows were covered with Louboutin posters, but the door was slightly open so I managed to take a peek. It was fairly dark inside, but I saw some neon lights, shaped like letters I think, and something purple. Well, that is not much of a sneak peak.
I have heard that the architect Eric Clough is creating the shop, which makes it all even more exciting. A couple of years ago Clough turned an apartment on Fifth Avenue into a scavenger hunt (sounds crazy, read about it here). I am curious to see what happens when you mix that kind of unconventional architecture with the universe of Louboutin.
The shop is supposed to open sometime this month and I will probably be camping outside in a tent until then.

It has been a while since my last post, because I had to take a break this week to study for my last exam of the year. It went unexpectedly well and now it is time for summer vacation (and blogging)!
Many things have happened and many things have been purchased while I've been away, but I will be writing about all of that very soon.

Strange lights

Last night the weather turned pretty dramatic after a hot sunny day. We had so much rain our garden looked like Venice after five minutes, and every other second there were immense lightning bolts across the sky. I loved it, and I was so amazed I forgot to take photos while it was still good, but I got a few when the storm had drifted out over the ocean. It takes unbelievable amounts of patience and arm muscle to capture lightning. I think I was standing in the doorway for about thirty minutes clutching my camera and I got no lightning bolts. But I did get some pretty neat ones of mysterious-looking lights. 

Even though there were no actual lightning bolts in my photos I still think they turned out well. They make me think of the beginning of some ancient horror movie. And wouldn't they make awesome prints?

TADAA!

The weather last night was really exciting, that's why I was surprised to wake up to the greyest day of my life this morning. It feels like the entire world woke up with a huge gloomy hangover. *sigh* I need more coffee.

Vice Style goodies

I was recently checking out Vice Style's website and came across this feature, which was made for the 100th issue of Vice Magazine. One hundred girls ... One hundred awesome outfits. I thought I'd post a few of them here:

Left: Christopher Kane T-shirt, amazing, but ridiculously expensive (sorry, but seriously 350 $ for a tank top). 

Right: Baywatch T-shirt from Primark and trousers from Pinko. The shirt is so kitsch you just have to love it, just like Baywatch. I can't find it anywhere though, but if anyone finds it (or something similar) please let me know. Must ... find ... Baywatch t-shirt!

Right, no your other right: Vintage shirt from Mint and Cheap Monday jeans. I guess I have a thing for crazy t-shirts. I have seen a lot of these tie-dyed shirts lately. I have always thought tie-dye was the ultimate ugly, but I am slowly getting used to it now. I like the shirt because of the neat skull/cosmos print, it seems like a funky contrast to the psychedelic tie-dye. 

Left: All vintage. Nice and simple, I kinda like how she's just randomly holding that cup.

Left: Topman blazer, vintage skirt + bow tie and Paul Smith Jeans trousers.

Right: Vintage skirt + jacket and Whyred sweater.

Left: All vintage from Beyond Retro. Probably one of the best jackets ever. Love the pattern.

Right: I chose this one because of the hair, which is obviously amazing! It made me want to dye my own hair instantly (but I didn't, I'm a chicken, I know).

All images from Vice Magazine: 100th ISSUE, 100 GIRLS

something fierce

Lately I have been seeing a lot of people D.I.Y'ing Christian Louboutin's spikey heels, and apparently it is not very difficult, so it made me want to play with some spikes myself. The real thing is of course incredibly expensive, roughly 1000 $ and probably more for the ones I have on my mind. I think most of the Louboutin heels have some sort of caricatural quality that I'm not sure I'm into. Still, I always feel like I am meeting a celebrity in person every time I see a pair of Louboutins.

I just ordered some studs and spikes and I expect them to arrive in a week or so (I found some really awesome ones, I'm dying to get them!). I am going to decorate some suede wedges (my old suede shoes), they look kinda worn but that is only good I think.

Left: Louboutin for Rodarte - These curved claw spikes are super fierce-looking. A nice variation 

of the regular straight spikes and they are in fact pretty cheap and easy to find.

Right: I have seen these in black too, but I couldn't find a picture of those anywhere, so here are the golden

ones. I don't like how these look all fancy and glittery, though. The black ones are so much tougher!

Louboutin spike heels D.I.Y.'ed 

Left: Done by CarlyJCais, tutorial

 Right: Found on Peony Lim

welcome / the first post

Hello, I am Jo, and welcome to my blog! I have had blogging on my mind for a long time and now I am finally getting my act together and writing the first post. First of all, on this blog I'll be writing about different things, one of them being fashion, but it won't only be about fashion. At least that is not the idea, but you'll see. I guess I should say something about myself, so here we go: I am a sort of regular teenage girl, I am very into fashion, art and the usual unconventional thinking you find out there. But the thing is that no one I know understands these things. They all dress the same, they all listen to the same music and so on, I mean, come on, where did all the glorious diversity go?
So, I am hoping to re-discover some of this long-lost diversity by blogging, 'cause I know it's out there - somewhere. (You see how cleverly I managed to include the blogtitle? This will be good, I can feel it.)

I'll be seeing you soon ♥

- Jo