SUNNY.

I saw a friend's post today morning on facebook complaining about the cold and rainy weather in Brussels. Poor thing! I'm really lucky as here in Budapest the sunny days have finally arrived! We have a long weekend ahead of us with pretty promising temperature (almost 30 degrees on Sunday) and lots of sun!
With the warm weather downtown Budapest turns into a mini festival scene, the open air places become crowded and nothing is nicer than sip on an ice cold pink rose spritzer on a terrace after a hard day at work.
And I do have some hard days at the office this week so to beat the higher tension and pressure, I'm riding my bike every day and I'm always wearing something that cheers me up. Haha, I fight the stress with vintage clothes!
These flower print trousers are the comfiest ones ever, the fabric is super soft, it actually feels like wearing nothing!

This is what I'm wearing: vintage flower print trousers, Divided top, lace socks, Asos flats & sunglasses.

I'm off to the office early this morning as I have way too much things to do but I promise I'll be back with pretty surprises this weekend!

Happy sunny day!
xoxo,
k.

POLKA DOT DRESS.

Ladies, I'm so in love with the new spring and summer dresses in the garderobe, I cannot wait to show all of them to you! It's always hard to let all these pretty dresses go, but now I'm getting sort of used to it, especially when receiving lovely feedback on how happy you are with your new treasures!
But this dress, I'm still not sure if I will ever be able to say goodbye to it. The light, cotton fabric and the lovely polka dot print makes it the perfect spring dress. Not to mention the adorable collar and the 3 front buttons.
I paired it with my new Marni for H&M heels. I really loved how the wood and deep green leather of the sandals matched the dress.
I hope you'll love the outfit too!
xoxo,
k.

THE AZTEC PRINT.

Hey ladies, as promised earlier today, here is today's outfit post, a brief one, as I'm literally braindead, sorry. I've been very busy with many different things lately and I'm so happy that many pretty vintage dresses have found new owners already! Tomorrow the garderobe will be open for a few hours in the early evening, I'm really excited about the whole gig. The dresses are all clean and ironed, waiting for you on the standers, it will be pretty hard to say goodbye to some of them!
Here is one of my favourite ones, the aztec print dress. I love the colours and the shape of the dress so much! I really felt Coachella inspired this morning so I paired it with white crochet socks and my brown leather flats. I cannot wait for the festival season to begin!
Have a good night ladies, hope to see some of you tomorrow! <3
xoxo,
k.

THE YSL SILKINESS.

WOW. In capitals. Not only the nanushka SS12 & FW12-23 fashion show was a bliss but it has also been announced that some real, bald, badly dressed and serious investor guys finally see potential in a fashion brand and nanushka gets real money. It's a turning point, not only in the brand's life but with this capital injection the first Hungarian fashion brand may carve its way to international success.

The show was a big success, the clothes were chic & comfy as always and Hungarian supermodel, Reka Ebergenyi made the investor guys' first fashion show unforgettable with her perfect breasts peeping under translucent tops.
After the announcement the audience gazed with hope & happy faces, it's really a big time for a small country like us. I wish nanushka the very best to take the whole business to a next level. Check out the SS12 collection for lovely, warm colour, savannah style outfits.

It was an extraordinary night as you see so I couldn't resist to wear something very special. Picking something nanushka would have been too obvious so I finally decided to go for something very classy.
Ladies, let me introduce you one of the most precious items of the garderobe, the YSL silky velvet dress.
It's a vintage 2-piece set and it has the softest and silkiest fabric I have ever touched.
I paired it with a lovely vintage fur jacket and my Mimco bag.

Hope you're happy about the happy news, too!

xoxo,
k.

THE SKIRT DRESS.

With my growing love for vintage clothes, I've become a dress lady. It's funny how rarely I wear jeans or trousers these days, my garderobe is flooded with dresses and skirts. Someone said jeans are the perfect outfit for the lazy ones, ohho, I have to seriously disagree. A nice dress is the simplest outfit of all, you have the top and the bottom, nothing to mix or match, you just need a few pretty accessories to cheer it up and pair of lovely heels or comfy flats. When I'm late or having a morning nervous breakdown in front of the mirror, I'm always picking a pretty dress. Now clearly seeing this undeniable competitive advantage of them, I have many, the elegant ones, the romantic ones, the cool&edgy ones, the simple ones, the glamfunsequinpuffsleeves ones, surely one to fit my changing mood and the weather each and every day.
Today I went for this lovely vintage shirt dress, I love the blue shades and the checked print, the comfy cotton fabric and the front buttons. I wore it with vintage lace shoes, a neon orange belt from divided and an old camera necklace I found at the bottom of my jewellery box.
Go ladies, wear dresses!
I'm off to soak in the bath, I need to recharge my batteries.
Have a lovely night!
xoxo,
k.

BONJOUR LES FILLES!

I remember how I instantly fell in love with the French language. It was high school, I was 15, not really excited about the whole French as a second language thing at all and then she walked in, Fanny (with y), the new French teacher. She was not only the most extravagant woman in the whole teachers' board but the way she spoke French made me fall in love with the whole culture at once! Long story short, I learned the language, won a competition and my first trip to Paris, fell in love with a French guy, even spent a summer in a wineyard in Bordeaux. I admire French women, I totally love Paris, my biggest regret is not being a parisienne, myself. To counterbalance that I read French novels in orginal, Morbier, Tomme de Savoie and Comte are the most welcome in my fridge and from time to time I feel like dressing up as if I was one of them, les filles parisiennes.

In this very French mood of mine, this is what I'm wearing today:
Vintage knitted gilet, striped top from divided, vintage Levi's shorts and boots.
And the official soundtrack for today is 'La cigarette' from Mélanie Pain. Enjoy!

Bonne journée, les filles!
bisous,
k

CAN I STILL BE CHIC WHEN I'M SICK?

Hey, ladies, I got this terrible flu and I've been grounded for the whole weekend. Yep, I lay sick in front of a SATC marathon drinking hot tea and that's all. The last thing I did and is worth mentioning was last Thursday when I went to an exhibition opening. Ív & Candie is an amazing and very inspiring photographer duo, Trash-Kitsch-Hunters, according to them. Check out their blog for some true one-of-a-kind-shots and if you have time, visit the exhibition @ Liget gallery. I was a proud pug mom, seeing Lulu up on the wall, thanks so much, Ív & Candie:)!
This is what I was wearing: a retro print vintage dress, a small black hat from divided and my asos wedges.

Since then only flannel pyjamas, soft scarves around my neck, wollen knitted socks. Being sick sucks.
I remember my friend, Anna doing a lovely chic-sick mix'n match set on polyvore.com. I wish I could find it to show it to you, it was so cute! Anna, if you read this post and you can track that back, please do and share:)!

xoxo,
k.

WEARING THE JC LANAS.

If you asked me which shoes I've been craving the most last year, the answer would be so easy! The Jeffrey Campbell Litas! Perfectly designed platform heels totally revamping any outfit they are accompanying! When I bumped into the irresistable black friday sales on solestruck.com back in November, a true dream came true (cheesy, I know), a pair of gorgeous JC Lanas landed in my virtual basket. Then I had the accident and the Siberian weather, so the girls had to wait in their lovely box for weeks, but today I could officially show them off! Yepp, ladies, let me introduce you my beloved Lanas.
Hope you'll love the first mixnmatch they inspired, I couldn't resist to pair them with this quirky, sunny yellow!
Spring is here soon, ladies, long live the JC and his incredible shoes!

This is what I'm wearing: Mickey Mouse tee - Urban Outfitters, denim pencil skirt & fur coat - vintage, JC Lanas.

xoxo,
k.

HIGHSCHOOL SWEETHEARTS.

Yesterday I found true teenage inspiration all around the web. First, I ran into this irresistible moodboard on Kate's Closet @ asos blog, with amazing outfits from this season's Meadham & Kirchoff show! God, ladies, if you haven't checked it out yet, it's truly a must see! I remember standing at the Marie Claire fashion show with my friend, Anna, we were soo bored with the overwhelming blacks, greys, plain dresses without something crossing the line. We were standing there and instead of watching the live fashion show we were browsing through our fave shows on style.com. That's where I first ran into the outrageous show. Now the novelty outfits are back on KC's inspiration moodboard and I couldn't agree more! I would love to wear any of them this season!!! I will copy some of my favourites here!
Then, having some serious work to do, I plugged my ears and I was listening to a playlist called 'Highschool Sweethearts' on rookiemag.
Awww, I wish I was a teenager again.

Here is yesterday's outfit and a surprise gif made with my new moquu app, who said your feel-age wasn't your true age:)?

MY FIRST GIF.

Here is what I'm wearing: vintage polka dot denim skirt, divided tee, vintage silk scarf wore as a headband.

have a lovely day, ladies!
xoxo
k.

THE TOPSHOP BACKPACK.

I really can't get enough of it's striking colour, the lovely golden heart on the front, it's perfect size and the fact that it's daring shape and colour makes it the perfect bag for the upcoming season. Yepp, mes belles, please meet my new Topshop bag.
Today I'm pairing it with some lovely colour accessories and deep black. Cannot wait to leave the tights part. Weatherman says spring is here in 2 weeks, I'm so excited! So many new darlings in the garderobe to show off!

This is today's outfit: vintage Levi's denim shorts, Asos boots, Divided blouse & cardigan aaaand the Topshop backpack!

xoxo,
katika

THE USA GILET.

Hey-yoo, mes belles, it's been a long long time since my last post, I'm really sorry but I was a bit overwhelmed with work, I had to visit the new HQ in London and I have to disappoint you there was no fancy shopping and cruising around downtown involved, I spent 2 entire days in the Camden office from early morning till late night and the only freetime I had was a 30 minute lunch break. Yepp, things have been busy around here! However, I have some gorgeous and funky new items added to the vintage garderobe, which I will be more than happy to share with you in tons of upcoming posts! Hooray, kTika is back in town:)!

On this snowy winter day I'm feeling very glamrock and I'm wearing this funky knitted vintage gilet. It's so D&G!!! Oh, and I will have to post a close up of the funny broche I got from David for our 6th (!!!) anniversary! It says 'excellent employee' and it was given as a reward in the communist era. Yepp, it's vintage:)!
xoxo

YOGA.

2 good things about today:
1) I have accomplished a wohole list of things I have been procrastinating for a while now, I felt like a hero of the day, hooray!
2) I'm back to yoga! A fascinating evening class with incredible streching poses and I feel like a newborn, not sleepy at all, though it's already midnight.

Yepp, mes belles, working out a bit can be very rewarding!

Here is today's outfit: a candy pink vintage silk blouse with my fave high waist Asos red shorts.

Night, night! <3

COLOUR BLOCKING.

I was not planning on writing a long post on these lovely photos, I was thinking I would let the colours speak. Really. Me, the back in two years absolutely monochrome girl having all these colours in my wardrobe? It truly makes me smile. The other day I was having an evening rendez-vous with sis and she couldn't help gasping when seeing my outfit. I was wearing colours. Bright blue, ruby red, mesmerizing fuchsia and orange. With gold, oh, tons of gold accessories. I might have overdone it a bit but since being back from Asia I'm missing those vibrant colours so so much so I have to use my own weapons to fight the Budapest grey.

So here is another loud and proud colour combination for you, mes belles. I'm wearing a vivid green vintage skirt with lovely front pleats and golden buttons, a pink top from H&M, an old cotton blazer and my Asos wedges.

xoxo,
katika