The New Era of Fashion Fitness

It dawned on me the other day as I was on Polyvore lusting over the Roshe Run's in every color that I've never been more into sneakers than I am now. I mean I can remember in high school the only nikes I had to my name were my cheerleading shoes and 2 years ago I bought a pair of Free Trainer Fits to workout in but that was it. When it came to where my money was being spent, it was always on everything but athletic wear...with the exception of yoga pants and sports bras for the gym. So with my recent sneaker obsession, I went and bought a pair of basic black and white Free Runs for my birthday and I've never loved a sneaker so much. When having a conversation with some close friends of mine, one of them mentioned how they hated the Free Runs to run and train in and at that point I interrupted her- although I do workout on a weekly basis (shout-out to P90X!) I told her these shoes were strictly for athletic functional fashion--fashion fitness! Of course they thought I was crazy, but obviously they don't see the movement thats going on right now with athletic gear taking an extremely fashion forward approach. You can't browse through any fashion blog right now without seeing sneakers paired with skirts, leather joggers, white tees and even adidas soccer pants with open toe strappy sandals- and I'm all here for it.

 Classic: Chuck Taylor Classic | Free Run 5.0+ | Roshe Run | NB 410 | Air Max 1 | Roshe Run


New Wave Color-Way: Air Max 90 | Combined Sneaker | Combo Running | Roshe Run | Roshe Run | Running Shoe

*I do not own any of these photos*

The Pink Coat - Essential Fall 2013

Within my fashion collection the thing I own the most of other than jewelry would have to be outerwear, my closet alone holds just coats and jackets- and the coveted pink coat this season has my name written all over it. So if you're looking for the winters "it-girl" piece of outerwear, heres a few splurge steals....if you're looking for the steal, check out J. Crew! 

Splurge: Moschino $1410 | Carven $1190 | Rochas $1528

Steal: J. Crew $350 (all three)

And Le Midi Skirt

Hope you guys have a fabulous Wednesday, in honor of the "midi" of the week!

Sweater: H&M | Skirt: Forever 21 | Shoes: Nine West (Vintage) | Sunnies: Forever 21(Similar) | Ring: Valou Dupe (Similar) | Nails: Essie "Adore-a-ball"  

FURgalicious

Pants: Forever 21 | Plaid Shirt: Thrifted | Fur Vest: Forever 21 | Cowboy Shoeties: Thrifted | Bracelet: BCBG

Et fini New York!

Teen Vogue Fashion University: My AMAZING Experience! (Day 3)

Before listening to the incredible Eve MacSweeney and Phyllis Posnick we were given a special viewing of the documentary 'The Editor's Eye' an insiders look into the lives of the editors at Vogue. 

 Day three was bittersweet for me, it was the last day of FashionU aka graduation. It truly felt as if these girls and guys were my real classmates. The first day we arrived it seemed like we had entered an amazing realm of fashion orientation. I was beginning to put people's faces to their facebook profiles and trying to remember names of those I had interacted with online. Every morning I would wake up to an amazing view of 34th and 3rd and the beautiful skyline of the city of which I was learning to navigate on my own. The scents of street food, perfume, trash and city air all became too familiar almost like it was home. I never wanted to leave. 

Teen Vogue Fashion University: My AMAZING Experience! (Day 2)

Day two was extremely long and informative not to mention fun! We were introduced to Amy Astley (as well as some other Teen Vogue editors) by Jason Wagenheim!

Bulgari reps were there with the chance to win one of their fabulous rings, I should have entered the contest more than once so I had a better chance haha. 

Pantene styling booth with stylists there to add cute braids and new styles to our hair while we waited!

My hair seemed to be doing this Miley Cyrus thing and I loved it haha. What I wore: 

Vintage Necklace (Dannijo Inspired) | Mac 'Ruby Woo' Lipstick | My Mom's Oversized Sweater | Vintage Pendleton Wool Skirt/Kilt | Jeffrey Campbell 'Clinic' Wedge 

And for the big event- Amy Astley and the editors, Dannijo, Thakoon, Christian Siriano, Coco Rocha, Into The Gloss writers and The Coveteur writers! 

Couldn't keep my eyes off of Amy Astley's Prada heels...sold out everywhere!

As I waited to go in to see Christian Siriano speak, my friend spotted him sitting outside the Conde Nast building and my heart started beating 500000000 miles a min. I was so lucky to get the chance to meet him personally (without a huge frantic crowd) and he even signed my Teen Vogue Handbook!

The entire day I was struggling to walk since the sole of my shoe started to come off as soon as I stepped foot in Times Square. These were my very first pair of Jeffrey Campbells I bought myself when I was about 18 or 19 so me being 22, it was probably about time for them to be re-soled.

To be in the building you only dream to work in was so inspiring, this entire weekend was a boatload of inspiration. It's nice to know I'm on the right track to success in this field. After all the seminars, we headed directly to Soho on the subway for the Topshop shopping party!

There were so many goodies being served to us- mini macaroons, ice-cream with a plethora of toppings, mini donuts and delish mocktails. Every guy serving food was either a model or an actor of some sort and believe me they were absolutely gorgeous. The Soho location had four floors and I almost couldn't grasp it all. All purchases for us TVFU students were 20% off but Topshop wasn't exactly in my budget if you know what I mean. I saw so may things but put them back for the sake of my bank account. I also ordered cutout boots from Topshop online a few weeks ago (since I'm from Virginia and our closest Topshop is this one the event was at in NY) and they were too small, so I should have exchanged them in store when I had the chance...BTW it's actually cheaper to buy from Topshop online than it is in store. The shoes I ordered retailed about $140 in person but online I got them for $80, weird but I'm not complaining!