do you know dracula? he ate the cullens one time.
glad that is out of the way, on to mina harker. in bram stoker’s original novel, mina was the wife of jonathan harker who was imprisoned in dracula’s castle with three crazy she vampires. eventually, he was able to escape to budapest. mina, his dutiful and angelic lover visits him and the pair marry before returning to england. when they return they find mina’s crazy friend lucy has been killed by a blood sucking beast! dracula. oh no, shit’s getting real. the two join up with van helsing to destroy dracula forever but before they do that, dracula sinks his teeth in to mina and curses her to turn vampire when she dies. ruh-roh.
so, mina and dracula now share this strange psychic and magical connection but eventually the group takes dracula down and mina’s soul is spared. it’s one of my favorite books ever.
1: i’m going to budapest to visit jonathan: dress by oscar de la renta, jacket by dries van noten, shoes by proenza schouler
2: i’m under dracula’s control, fudgeeee: dress and tights by christian dior, coat by viktor and rolf, shoes by balmain
3: i’m free of the spell, booyah! all rodarte and all angelic.
p.s. it’s tumblr tuesday, care to recommend me buddy ol’ pal?
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after the last couture season, i started seeing parallels between pokemon and some of the pieces on the runway-check the post. the resemblances were pretty striking, particularly the givenchy jigglypuff ensemble. anyway, now that fall 2010 couture has ended i present to you the pokemon couture.
couture, i choose you!
1: givenchy and mewtwo: pretty much all of givenchy reminded me of mewtwo and mew. the bone detailing and silhouettes scream legendary and scientifically bred pokemon.
2: valentino and gastly: i hate the ghost pokemon but the tulle layer over this dress reminded me of gastly right away. the model’s eyes look similar to his too. wierd.
3: elie saab and charizard: the bat wing sleeves and print made this an easy choice. charizarrrrddd
4: chanel and bulbasaur: karl lagerfeld skinned an ivysaur and made a dress. boom.
5: christian dior and vileplume: the floral collection galliano sent out had plenty of pokemon references (particularly grass pokemon, duh) but this violet and magenta number shouted vileplume like none other.
till next couture season.
sidenote: i stick with the original 151 pokemon, old school.
despite their evil and greedy intentions, i have a soft spot for the malfoy family…especially for narcissa. she herself was never a full-on death eater but just seem to get caught up in the mix. above all, she was devoted to protecting draco. it wasn’t until voldemort started using draco in his schemes that she began to show her true colors. she was horrified at voldemort’s request that draco kill dumbledore, as such, she made snape swear the unbreakable vow to protect him. her most noble act was sparing the life of harry potter at the battle of hogwarts by lying to lord voldemort. she told him that potter was dead after harry reveals to her that draco is alive and in the castle. this act saves the malfoys from a life in azkaban. way to go narcissa, show voldy who’s boss.
1: a trip to knockturn alley: dress and tights by bottega veneta, coat by christian dior, shoes by celine
2: around malfoy manor: coat by marc jacobs, dress by dries van noten, shoes by lanvin
3: the unbreakable vow: cape by kenzo, dress by fendi, tights and shoes by bottega veneta
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so after bellatrix and fleur last week, i got tons of requests for luna lovegood. quite simply, luna is awesome. a little odd, sure, but everybody knows the odd ones from school turn out to be out of control awesome. so read your quibbler, look out for the nargles and get on the luna train. luna!
1: quibbler? quibbler anyone?: top by tory burch, shorts by chris benz, shoes by moschino
2: it’s to keep away the nargles: dress by stella mccartney, shoes by givenchy, bag by proenza schouler
3: off to slughorn’s party: coat by christian dior, dress by marc jacobs, shoes by balenciaga
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since you guys seemed to enjoy bellatrix, let’s have a go at another favorite character-fleur delacour. we first meet fleur when she’s competing in the tri-wizard tournament at hogwarts as the beauxbatons champion. she was supposedly one of the most beautiful girls, like ever. being part veela, she attracted pretty much every guy at hogwarts especially ron. at first, fleur was annoyed with harry and ron but after harry saves her sister’s life, she comes around. she sticks around as ron’s sister-in-law after marrying his brother bill and aids in the fight against voldemort. all around, a stand up part veela kick ass witch. good for her. go fleur.
1: beauxbatons represent: dress by derek lam, shoes by tracy reese
2: the yule ball: dress by christian dior
3: keeping it fancy at gringotts: dress by proenza schouler, shoes by marc jacobs
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