Katie McGrath Style Guide

Hello)))

I'm MIA again - having Internet troubles at home and way too much work to post anything from office. But I'm working on it))

Meanwhile I'd like to invite all of you to visit and follow my other project -

Katie McGrath Style Guide.

You can read and follow it here or on tumblr - those both communities are official mirrors to the first style guide I've started at diary.ru.

Katie McGrath Style at tumblr

I think these communitites will be interesting not just for people, who love Katie and admire her style, but for other fashion lovers too, because we have posts on lots of fashion statement pieces.

Tell Me About Yourself

Wonderful Jill from Everything Just So gave me the “Tell Me About Yourself” award. So I've been asked to tell seven random facts about herself. Here we go)))

1. I'm a classic geek) Honestly, I am. I love Doctor Who, Torchwood, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, I adore Naomi Novik's Temeraire series...

And I'm friends with lots of geek girls too. Each time we have a girls night out, we dress in some cute dresses, go to some restaurant, drink wine and talk about something like Being Human or Misfits. Yeah, that's how modern geeks look like))

2. I'm a pescaterian for something like 6,5 years. I don't eat meat or chicken, but i do occasionally eat fish and sea food.

3. I currently have three jobs: I work at advertising and events by day, and also freelance as a translator for two studios - I translate lots of movies (the last one was Mamma Mia - we have to translate it again when a new TV-channel buys the rights to show it), TV-shows, documentaries etc.

4. I'm not into sweets and cakes, at all. When eating out I don't usually order dessert. But if i do, it's usually cheesecake))

5. Everyone in my family wears glasses, except for me (but I feel like I need to check my eyes soon - they get pretty tired because I work on computer too much)

6. If I'd have to name one accessory I can't live without, I'd have to choose belts. I belt everything - dresses, shirts, cardigans, jackets, coats, even my winter parka's))

7. My favorite girls is young Irish actress Katie McGrath - I love her style, her sence of humor and the fact that she's also a geek)) I think we'd talk about Firefly and Nathan Fillion for hours) (Also check out my Katie McGrath style blog))

I have to pass this award on, but I still can't caught up on my reading list, so I don't know, who have it already((
Thank you so much, Jill. That was fun)))

Friend Friday: Inspiration

Such a great topic this week))

1. Which celebrity (celebrities) do you look to for fashion inspiration?

I wrote about this once or twice - I adore Irish actress Katie McGrath. I love her style, I love her approach to outfits and mixing vintage, designer and high-street pieces of clothing together. And also I find her incredibly beautiful, so yeah, Katie is the first. I even own an online community for her fans. 

I also like Rachel Weisz, Zoe Deshanel and Natalie Dormer a lot. And the funniest things - I have no admiration for acting talents of Sienna Miller, Keira Knightley or Rachel Bilson whatsoever, but I love their styles a lot)

2. When it comes to your own personal style, what inspires you?

My biggest inspirations now are all of the fashion blogs I follow. They are inspiring me to take risks, to dress up more, to find inspiration in different epochs.

3. How do you hope to inspire your readers?

That's the tough one. I don't actually know. I've started blogging more to challenge myself - to write more, to dress up more, to communicate more. If I'm inspiring anyone in any way, I am really honored.

4. Outside the realm of fashion who/what inspires you?

I've been inpired by my late grandma for all of my life. She was a great woman - really strong and independent, a doctor, a pediatrician. When she was a young girl, barely on the third year of medical university, she signed up to the army and went to the battlefield to save lives. She was immediatelly signed to the battle of Kursk - it's still remains the largest series of armored clashes. She went all the way to Berlin and saved hundreds of soldiers from gangrene. When the War ended, she went back to university and became PhD. Some people still recognize my mum on the streets and greet her with the words: "Oh, you're the daughter of the doctor lady! She saved my son...".

My grandma is my all time inspiration. And she also inspires me in terms of fashion - I wear a lot of her shawls and jewelry, and have a few of her beautiful dresses that need some altering.

5. And since Idol is ending… Which songs inspire you?

I don't know whether music inspires me in terms of fashion, but I love jazz - it always makes me feel more beautiful and feminine. I love almost all types of music, but jazz is that special style I always listen before going out with my friends or going on the date.

Check out Modly Chic for more Friend Friday posts.

Westwood love

Two pairs of Vivienne Westwood's boots I'd really-really (really-really-really) like to have.

I wrote about her pirate boots before, but I need to write about my love for them once again. They are amazing! I love the color on Katie's boots, but I'd love to have them in chocolate brown.

And gorgeous bondage boots - I doubt that I can pull them off on a daily basis, but they are great for going out. Love-love-love them.

So now I'm really hoping that my friend Luda would get into hre doctoral program in London. Because then she I'll be able to buy it on e-bay on her adress, so yay, no need to pay for long distance shipping!

Monday fashion inspirations - 70-s

My friends left yesterday, but I'm even busier now - I have to catch up with work (and I've got a lot of translations now), I need to fix my laptop and I need to work on my crochet earings for sale.

So this week's inspirations will be really short((

I heart 70-s, I really do. As an 80-s child, I'm still trying hard to find enormous shoulder pads, crazy hair and lots of blue eye-shadow amusing, but 70-s are my love. Just like 60-s, 50-s, 40-s...)))

But seriously, 70-s rocked full time. And rescently I've had an oppotunity to remember my admiration of this time - there's an article about my favorite girl Katie McGrath and a gorgeous photoshoot 'Swing Time' in the new issue of InStyle Magazine UK.

Pirate boots by Vivienne Westwood

I fell in love with this boots a long time ago. They seem to be comfy and I like the fact that they look amazing with everything - jeans, and shorts of almost any kind, beautiful dresses.

I'm hunting (I really am, there's no better word to explain what I'm doing) them on e-bay, but no luck so far. And it's not even the matter of price - I've found some pretty good deals on them, and they would've been a nice motivation for taking a new translation project (and even work once in a while). But none of the sellers is shipping to Ukraine. And that's a huge problem.

I'm still hunting though - I'm optimistic, so I hope they'll get a little cheaper when I find my perfect pair (I know that they'd probably become some kind a collectors item and will cost a fortune, but girl can hope).

 

Sienna Miller looks great in pirate boots 

Katie McGrath

I don't think that I could possibly love Katie more than I do now.

She's really beautiful, she likes vintage dresses and thrifting, she likes knitwear (and all of her cute scarfs and mittens are knitted by her mom). She usually buys one handbag and uses it till it’s dead.

And this diamond earring ritual! Oh my!

You can read her interview to Sunday Express if you click through.