Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!

I thank you for reading my blog, and I hope that you will subscribe to it and keep reading my work in 2011.

I intend to have certain types of articles. Every month I will release a Fashion is… article, expressing my own varying opinions about what fashion is in a modern day society.

You can read my December article on what fashion is here.

I’ll also take a more traditional fashion-blogging style at times and comment on recent lines from designers, plus predicting and commenting on the key trends of the coming seasons.

Thanks again.

Love Abby Mia.

Dressing for Christmas Eve

Sure doesn’t feel like Christmas Eve. Apart from the obvious fact I’m sitting wrapping presents at the last minute, which I always do. And I just watched Elf with my brother, which I love.

Obviously, Christmas is about being with family and friends, and celebrating the birth of Jesus. And presents and chocolate and turkey, obviously. But I also feel that Christmas is definitely a time for clothes. And I don’t just mean giving or receiving them. I’ve planned what I’ll wear tomorrow and on Boxing Day too.

I do this because around the Christmas period is when I will be with ALL my main family. Lots of photos will be taken and memories will be made, as always. So you don’t want these memories and photos to feature yourself wearing casual, yet terrible clothing, do you? I’ll be wearing the outfit from a couple of posts back, but altered.

My Live Writer should post a blog tomorrow morning wishing you a Merry Christmas, but in case it doesn’t, I hope you have a perfect day!

Love from Mia Moda ♥

Fashion is… everywhere.

So fashion is something which all people encounter every day of their lives. As her Royal Highness Queen of Style put it:

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

Coco Chanel was right.

Whether or not a person inhabiting the ever-developing 21st century world likes it or not, fashion is everywhere and we all contribute to the fashion industry in some way.

Even by hating, detesting and showing profound abomination for the fashion industry, a person is providing essential inspiration to some designers, fuelling their creative vision. It's obvious why. If you know that there are people in the world who dislike your work, your ultimate ambition is to reverse that; prove them wrong.

If you're looking for a psychology student, you're reading the wrong blog, but I know that all people on this Earth feel and experience emotions. Everyone has something in their life which makes them feel positive emotions, or negative emotions. Human beings feel emotion until their last breath has escaped them.

So even if a person dresses in a paper bag every day, wandering around aimlessly preaching their hatred for the fashion industry (which I highly doubt anyone actually does anyway), I bet you my favourite vintage necklace that they're still feeling some sort of emotions.

My point is that emotions fuel the fashion industry.

Designers are inspired solely by emotions. You may think this dress has been designed based on the designer seeing the ocean. But for that designer to even BOTHER reaching for a pencil to sketch a single hemline, they must have experienced some emotion for that ocean. Love, hatred, longing, joy, or even remembering. Memories then consequently trigger emotions.

People inspire fashion designers every day, whether intentional or not.

A hater of fashion may think they can avoid it their whole life, calling it "shallow" or "pointless". But it's everywhere.

Fashion isn't just inspired by emotions.

Fashion is an emotion...

If you’re gonna go into space, you may as well go to the moon.

My point is that if you desire to do something, then you really shouldn’t do it half heartedly, without any effort. You should put your heart and soul into it and make it BOOM.
So that’s what I did today when it came to dressing my mannequin Zarabella. In all the fashion and teen magazines at the moment, there are gorgeously shot outdoorsy photo stories of the “country look”. Obviously, with the recent snow outbursts, this look looks a little out of place. So I decided to adapt the look by adding in lace (my favourite material currently). And when I “adapt” a look, I really do it.

• Grey sweater dress  - Pilot
• Floral cardigan – Innocence @ New Look
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• Checked skirt – Atmosphere @ Primark
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• Purple formal dress (worn as skirt) – Vero Moda
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• Gold leaf pendant – Pilot
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• Beaded necklace – Created by Abby Mia (largest beads from a necklace from New Look)
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• Pink lace (worn as belt) – Top Stitch
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• Eiffel tower, statue of liberty & I♥NY brooches –
• Accessorize
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• Organza, lace and chain necklace (worn as belt) – Created by
• Abby Mia
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• Lace flower – Created by Abby Mia
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• Ballerina brooch (worn on lace flower)  is a vintage item.
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• Gold twisted chain (worn as belt) is a vintage item.
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Only five days until Christmas day! If I don't post before (which I will) then I hope everyone has a brilliant festive season!


With love, Abby Mia 

♥

Boo

If you're reading this...big kiss!

So... I decided to write a new fashion blog, since my old one was too...pink. I want to write this blog because I enjoy fashion journalism, and I want to know what people think of my view of the world.

So... please leave comments, positive or negative, for me to check out! I appreciate it!