Burberry combines Fashion and Music

Music and fashion often collaborate with one another. Most events have music playing in the background and runway shows are no different. Try imagining one without background music. Awkward no? After all some of the public's favourite fashionistas started out in music (Gwen Stefani, Victoria Beckham) and in return there's thousands of blogs, articles and videos dedicated to what artists' wear and how to achieve their looks. So it goes without saying that both contribute to one another
Burberry has joined into the fashion/music showdown with it's newest collection of eyewear. The Summer 2012 line spearheaded by Burberry Creative Director Christopher Bailey, features up-and-coming musical artists Marika Hackman, One Night Only, Life in Film and The Daydream Club. Each recorded a custom-made song and video for the eyewear line while sporting the new glasses. The artists' will be touring with Burberry preforming at different Burberry events throughout the summer.

The eyewear line has both men and women's, and unisex aviator glasses for both sunwear and optical purposes. I especially love The Rose Gold Cat Eye Sunglasses  for women. If you like what you see, stop by The Burberry Website and check out more of their fabulous designs.

So Much To Do, So Little Motivation

Recently I read an article about changes we all want to make, and how we have high hopes for that "one day". You'll hear statements like "'One day' I'm going to afford a Ferrari". "'One day' I'm going to be my own boss". "'One day' I'll stand up to my mother-in-law". These thoughts give us a cheery feeling, a purpose, and a sense of a better tomorrow. It's great to have them around really, but the catch is, tomorrow is not always so far away from the present. After a while you'll notice tomorrow is dawning on you and you don't have anything to show for it.  It's like when you were younger and you were asked "What do you want to do when you grow up?" Suddenly you find yourself all grown up and still have a load of things to tick off your bucket list.

So here's the simple remedy the article recommended:
1:  Clear all distractions, Turn off your TV, radio and phone. Lock your door and go to a quiet place.
2:  Get a pen and paper and set your timer for twenty minutes.
3:  Write down one hundred things you want to do, careers you want to have, people you always wanted to       meet, places you wanted to visit. Write whatever comes on your mind.
4:  Work quickly. Don't give it a second thought, just write. This will turn off your inner editor thats telling you     you're not going to achieve it or you can't do it. Just don't stop until that timer goes off.

Ding! The timer goes off, Get up and leave without looking back or revising your list. Leave it alone for a day and go about your day. The following day, sit down and look at your list, how much of these are accomplishable? Did anything unusual come out in your hurried attempt to jot down those one hundred items in the time limit?

Personally after looking back at my list, I found that, while some of them were really difficult long-term goals, most of them were simpler more attainable goals. So I had an idea. I divided my list into two subgroups: A) Long-term goals and B) Short-term goals. That way while I'm off busting my ass for the longer term ones on those gray unfruitful days, I'll have the success of my short-term goals to give me additional motivation. Victory right?

Have Some Cake

Cake Makers - Marsha P and Anne I make sweet confections for the February edition of Marie Claire  China 

 The pastel designs by Louis Vuitton, Prada and Jean Paul Gaultier serve as inspiration for stylist Guillaume Boulez as the duo enjoy a day of messy cake making. Pastel hair by Yoichi Tomizawa and blue eye shadow by makeup artist David Tibolla. Amazing work shot by Amber Gray

 

These cuffs are just adorable!

Doesn't the pink hair just fit right in?

Getting Up

Does life get any better than this? 

  So there I was watching Wake Up Sid for the upteenth time. A hindi film about a rich carefree kid who has no who has no sense of responsibility or obligation starring the much loved Ranbir Kaboor. I do admire him so to put it in the simplest of terms, but he's not the hero of this post. The hero here or rather heroine here is a young aspiring writer named Aisha Banerjee who just traveled to the big city from a small town in order to pursue a career in writing. She meets Sid and despite their differences and his lay back style become friends.

  What most amazed me was Aisha who I portrayed myself as her in my head. I had this fantasy that I was that struggling young girl armed with nothing but a dream.  It takes a great deal of courage to step out into the world all on your own. I admired her bravery to travel off to some distance land with nobody by her side fighting off the constant bundles thrown her way from finding a apartment to securing a job and no shoulder to cry on when times got tough. All it needed a different language from her own that she had to learn to make the story anymore dramatic really. At least in my head it was.

  I was so excited though, I've found my muse. That girl represented everything I ever though of. I wanted to change to become more like her. I slept that night with the joy in my heart and biggest smile on my face. For tomorrow I was to begin.

  Fast forwarding the epic episodes of my life a year Another late night dwelling in front of the television checking what's on and what's new and Wake Up Sid was just beginning on my only hindi channel. So I started watching it, what's another two hours into the wee hours of morning so watch it I did. Halfway through the movie I remembered I had planned to mature and get my life in order., I was asking myself "What Happened?" ..Oh yeah I got sidetracked with updating my IPod or color coordinating my hair bands or something just as time consuming.

  As I was pondering over my lack of wall and self control, I realized I was more like Sid than Aisha. In fact I was more like Sid than anybody else I knew. I was lazy, just like him. I didn't know how to do anything on my own, just like him and if I ever got a roommate I'd probably leave my things all over the place, just like him  and my idea of a day was hanging around ten feet from the comfort of my bed only getting up when hungry and I most likely wouldn't refuse meals in bed if it was available. I was like him in every sense except maybe my father wouldn't try to bride me with a new car to take part in the family business. He was a Lazy Rich Bum and I was just a Lazy Bum. Basically I lacked any self discipline.

  So now I've developed a just do it attitude. Don't think, Don't ponder, Just go for it. I call it the three D's. Dream, Determination, Dedication.So this is how works.Anytime I get a positive thought, An idea to change a bad habit into a good one, Anytime I just want to change my lifestyle I get up and just do it, Without a second thought.That prevents me from second guessing and talking myself out of it. And so far so good. I've been practicing this for 20 mins so far and that's why I'm typing this in my pjs at 5:53 am after I woke up for my bathroom break.And now I was going to to get back to the comfort of my warm bed for a few hours and hope this level of inspiration last to morning but it's already morning and i'm trying to not sleep in.

   

Yeah Yeah, I'm getting up already.

   

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