Pretty is back!

Hello All,

Been awhile since I've spent some time putting some of my thoughts out into cyber space! So much has happened since I last posted... It seems like a whole season has come and gone! This is actually fundamentally true... Summer has come and is slowly leaving us again...Cant believe how quickly the tans came and went! We had christmas, another new year went by and we are already heading into winter launch. If I look back over my summer, it went by like a crazy roller coaster. The most cliche expression but i really can't better that. It was my first summer holiday working, with very little "holiday" time, in fact 2 weeks to be exact! Very different from the 3 weeks I sent in Thailand last year after graduating. These 2 weeks I spent at home in durban, doing as little as possible with some of the best people. Since then, its just been work work work, not saying that i hate my job because it is virtually impossible to hate designing lingerie, but that's what happens when you grow up and get big I guess. Had some exciting times at work though, had our design brief for autumn/winter 2015! Some truly gorgeous things to get excited for... it looks as though our lingerie trends are going very pretty again. classic. feminine looks are back...its all about being a woman again and looking like one too. For me personally, this is so refreshing. I guess I understand this whole "hipster" trend because lets be honest, the people that pull off the look make it seem seriously cool in their polaroid tumblr pics or instagram snaps. I get it, really. if i could pull it off, I'm guessing I would do it too. But heres where I struggle with it.... I sometimes feel that this look makes it appear as though you are a) trying to hard to be cool or the worse part b) you really need a shower and to give your clothes a good wash. I know this is something you are just not supposed to say, but I feel it necessary. Like I said, there are people that pull off this look so beautifully, many of my friends included, but thats because they know how to combine items together to still look classy. There is a stigma attached to this hipster genre, and I think it is the attitude that is sometimes attached to what should just be a dress sense. Its seemingly become a trend that requires one to become far to cool for anyone that is not on the same wave length. Do not start talking to a hipster about tiger tiger, one direction, selfies, tattoos that say anything to commercial or anything along those lines because you will be made to feel like an absolute idiot with just one raised eye brow. I know I am completely generalizing here but just a thought... I say dress how you like, but lets lose the weird attitude that goes along with it. Just because you're wearing something that came from a box somewhere and someone else is wearing something from TopShop, doesn't make either of you cooler than the other! 

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