An outfit post

I'm not a huge fan of outfit diary-style blogs—all I can do when I'm scrolling through them quickly is think, 'how embarrassing' or 'how awkward for the person taking the photos'.

That said, going to fashion week these days involves a lot of prepwork: putting outfits together, packing (which I didn't have to do this season, thankfully), and figuring out how long your feet will last in a certain pair of 5-inch heels. Some girls I know even take snapshots of their outfits so that getting dressed for a 9am show is that much more painless, but I generally just enter the week with a few ideas of specific pieces I want to wear and then go from there.

Blah blah blah. Here are a few of my outfits from fashion week, as they appeared on a few sites that cared! (Thank you!)

This photo appeared on Elle.com's London Fashion Week street style slideshow. Exciting! I'm wearing Dries van Noten pants, YSL shoes, an Alexander Wang leather and velvet jacket, a vintage fox fur scarf, and a zebra print Jimmy Choo for H&M clutch. Inside the jacket is a tee from Portobello Market.

 A detail shot of my clutch as it appeared on New York Magazine's The Cut blog.

A friend of mine sent me this download of the Fashion Week Daily newspaper after she saw me in it. I'm the girl wearing a big orange coat (Sportmax) with blue palazzo pants (Zara), a white shirt (Elizabeth & James) and a blue origami sweater (Phillip Lim). That sweater was making a repeat appearance this season—normally a do-not-do at fashion week, but it was the first day, it matched my pants, whatever.

A closeup of this outfit. The yellow bag is by Rebecca Minkoff. This was a fun, happy outfit. 

See my smile? Happy!

And trying to be less happy for Wayne Tippetts. Like this backdrop, though - this is a walkway near the riverfront / back entrance of the Savoy Hotel before Maria Grachvogel's show.

This was another one of my colourful ensembles for fashion week. Apparently, my mantra this season was 'the more colourful, the better'. (Although anyone who knows me would probably say that's the case everyday.) 

This is a Jil Sander skirt (I could NOT believe it when I found this at Holt Renfrew near the end of the season!), an Anthropologie sweatshirt, and a big indigo coat by Ports 1961 (with removable furry scarf). My orange shoes are Louboutins (again, quite old - I remember wearing these in New York in 2009!) and my little felt-bead purse is from Portobello Market. It matches my Hay rug, which I wrote about before here.

This closeup shot appeared (of me trying to stuff something into my too-small-for-fashion-week purse on Vogue.com. A friend of mine recognised me by my tattoo!

The outfit also got me and my friend Mosha noticed by Damien Florebert Cuypers, an illustrator who was doing sketches for the New York Times' T Magazine blog. This is my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE 'street style' snapshot EVER. I also loved his little captions: 

Sunny and peacock-esque! 

This was one of my last outfits—Isabel Marant corduroy jeans, Theyskens Theory tuxedo tee, Lanvin for H&M faux fur coat, Alexander Wang Diego bag, and silver necklace from CoS. The Miu Miu heels just about killed me - I even made a pit stop at home to change into other equally-high-but-much-more-comfortable ankle boots. No one ever goes home to change their shoes here—that's how sore my feet were!

This is later, feeling much happier (with different shoes on) and with a drink or two in me, at the Business of Fashion fifth anniversary party at Le Baron. Mosha (in a great Peter Pilotto dress) and I made sure to reference founder Imran Amed's Canadian roots, and he must have liked it, because this photo later showed up on the site's daily newsletter. 

Favourite outfits? Yays or nays? My orange-and-blue combo apparently inspired a few comments after it was included in a Luisa Via Roma fashion week album on Facebook (one girl said "you have to be Asian to pull this off"—huh?)... any other thoughts that simply *must* be shared?