Getting creative, man

This is what I have done to my parka. I know, it is not perfect, but I am still learning, ya know?? I sowed on some buttons and also added an antique-looking silver broche I got when I was a baby. It kinda looks cool, but I guess many people won´t even realize that I have added those things, becaue it is not really big or anything...

This is a picture I have taken sitting at my desk and looking out of the window. Isn´t it beautiful and (tapping my own shoulder) sort of professional looking?? I really like that pic.

I am so excited and I just can´t hide it!

O M G! Guys, this summer I am going to the Beat Patrol Festival - and right now my feeling about it is sort of a mix of anxiety and excitement. I am not a big camper, you know, and I am not really fond of getting raped or quelque chose comme ca.

Still, can´t wait to wear my festival uniform (parka, shorts, colourful lose tops) and dance to the best DJs in the whole world!

http://www.beatpatrol.at/

16 going on... well, what?

Right now, I am eating apricots and thinking about my life. And because of the fact that I have this blog, I will now my share my thoughts with you.
As I am slowly starting to turn into a real woman (if there is such a thing), I am starting to realize what kind of conditions this transformation includes.
Women all over the world struggle with relationships, work, finance, etc and still they find their lives perfect, at least sometimes. Don´t you sometimes catch yourself thinking "Oh, my gosh I am the poorest of them all", which then gives you the impression that you are incredible selfish? I have and I don´t like that feeling.
I am not seeing anyone recently, which should´nt be much of a surprise considering that I am 16. But actually, I sometimes find it unnatural. Of course, there are times (like yesterday night) when I feel free and happy, but to be honest there are also times when I would love to have this significant other who hugs me when I feel bad. But who actually told us that this person has to be there? I know, our society is based on the concept of men meeting women, but isn`t there a better way. I mean, like for the iPhone, there is a better, new version out in the shops: which lets me think of: why shouldn`t there be something like a Love 3 G?
Tonight I am going out with M, which is kind of not what I planned. But still I am fine with it.

Finally, I got the say, that whoever will come along in my life, the one love I´ll always share is: FASHION.

Yours,
the thoughtfull ZiTa

Style inspiration: a parrot

Last night I attended to this prom two which two of Vienna´s most famous schools were hosting.

At first, I didn`t wanna go, because I was soo tired. My Friday included receiving my english mark (A- yayy), rushing to the 5th district and doing an exam for my FCE and finally running through the whole town to get to St. Stevens.

But as I got out of the shower at nine or so, I suddenly wanted to get all glammed up, so I started to do my make-up while I watched the City´s new episode. I was so proud of the result that I took a look into my closet and chose to wear my fuchsia dress with it, then I sort of grapped my green oversize cardi and found myself slipping into my high heels. I only had to phone my friends up and off we went.

At the event, I simply danced my ass off, because the DJ was soooo phenomenous.

Then, V and I did the unspeakable: we walked home (OMG, a SatC quote!!!!). It was pretty dangerous, I can tell ya. First, a guy didn´t stop talking to us and then a little pervert tried to (to put it nicely, ´cause this a decent blog, okay??) touch my friend´s breast. How freaky can someone be???

Hope you had a fab friday night!!!

xoxoxo ZiTa

Cooking in the night

This is me and two of my friends trying to make out how this super-high tec oven my best firend owns works. Well, at last, we found it out and began to fry ham & eggs in the middle of the night. Gosh, it was soooo fun.

Fantastic Five

This is a poster a friend of mine and I did for my best friend. It shows our personality descriptions and pics of all the things we´ve experienced together!

Girls, this thursday: SatC! Finally! Can´t wait! I have to be the first one to see it!

Reveiling my bag closet

I know, this is what you all have been waiting for ;). I want to show you some of my favourite bags, describe how I got and why I like them; Maybe it will get you to think about your own bags and by that you maybe even start thinking about your own history

This is my yellow-mellow H&M bag, I bought last summer. I thought it was a friendly, nice colour and wanted something to lift my outfits to the next level. Actually, I had already (almost) put it aside, because I thought "OMG - fringes, so 2009." Haha, yes, this is the way I am thinking, but I manage to look intelligent while I do. This carry-all has been really my every-day bag. But you know, sometimes, when you wear something all the time, you sort of get tired of it and don´t want to wear it anymore, because you kinda get sick of it. But now I am migrating back to my sweet, lush and big carry-all like a migrating bird and hope that she will forgive me. 

One day, when I wore this bag, I was driving in the bus to go shopping and got out. Suddenly I realized that I had forgotten my favourite cardigan (deep, popping pink - looked crazy, but still matched with the bag)! I never ever found it again - OMG, this is such a sad story... :(  

I will now pronounce this look to "French Riviera"

Munich 2010

Outfit: Mango Tee, skirt, Penneys hairband, shoes from paris, trench zara, bag vintage

Lovely store. I would have loved to bring the grey bag home with me, but it cost 345 euros, which is frankly A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY.

My Munich trip was sooo great - it is really a nice, pleasurable city. It is not very over-the-top, but still kinda chic and elegant. I would love to come back there to shop a bit more. I only bought a nail polish...

Raaaawr

This basically is who I am dreaming about right now.

Overly excited!

OMG! On Thursday I ll be going off to Munich!!!! Yayyy, guys, sooo looking forward to getting away from all the stress and the thoughts that spin around in my head.
Definetly going to shop there - what else to do?? ;)

This is the commercial one great restaurant in Munich is doing. It is called "Schmock" and offers koscher food, which I looooooooooove!

This is a pic from the inside of the luxurious concept store "Milch & Honig" which means milk & honey. Not only the name is delicious, I think the whole setting will be too!

Robert Z. smashing plates and the first love

I am writing this, eating chocolate pudding and listening to the raindrops falling on the roof, which is kind of perfect for the kind of post I want to write.
As you might´ve guessed from my last post, I am thinking about the future a lot. And so, I also got a little more into art and literature - even more than I have already been.
I love this newspaper called "Süddeutsche", because every week it publishes this highly entertaining magazine, which I absolutely adore. I love their "Please don´t say anything" series, in which they photograf peoples reactions on different questions. This week they have done that with a young couple (both my age) and the photos were fantasticly beautiful and romantic.
Today I fell asleep in my english lesson, but before I did, our teacher told us about this weird student he taught about ten years ago, called Robert Z. He used to bring plates (!) to class and smash them after the lessons were over. He smashed them by burding them with books.
He did that for over three months and after he graduated my teacher asked him why he had done that. Robert answered, that he wanted to show how he felt after a long day of people telling him things he didn´t want to hear. And at his graduation ceremony, where the graduates line up to hand shake with the teachers and stuff, he denied the handshake, because he didn´t want to let them think they had done anything for him. In the end, he became a plate painter and went to Texas, USA. It is a true story, and I found it really inspiring.

Celebrating the most important female person in my life (besides Audrey Hepburn)

Yep, there she is - my mom. The peron who taught me to love things as they come and cherish every moment - she is always in my heart, no matter how cheesy that sounds or how many men may get a grip on it (my heart). Mums are incredible people, I think - they´d deserve way more than one day!

At the moment I am really thinking about my future plans - and by that I don´t mean next tuesday or whatever, no I am thinking about what I should studyand stuff. I never want to say it out loud, but there is practically no chance that I will get to live in "The City", right? So, new plans have to be made and I am now on my way to the countryside with all her quietness and nature so that I hope I will find my own way.

Peepz, I am really in a crazy mood right now!!!

Anyway, yesterday night I had a fab dinner with my friend Val at this supersweet marrocan restaurant, which is called "Le Petite Maroc". Gosh, they can cook!!!! I had an incredible aubergine salad and then this super spicy but still great soup which is made from peas and stuff. Mmmmmmmh!

xoxo Zita

Too elegant??

Actually, this is a nail lacquer which I got myself to sort of follow this whole muddy-colour nail polish trend. Because in this f******* city there is no gray, muddy lacquer to find!! Can you believe it?? But as I am having this one for more than two months now, I sort of wonder wether it might be too nude. Does ist look like all those housewives with their perfect manicure - because that is so not what I wanted to! I wanted to make it look modern and maybe a bit edgy. Anyway the nail lacquer is from H&M and its name is Latte 2 Go.

This is the pattern I am totally obsessed with right now. It is the one which is on my skirt/pant, which I got from H&M two weeks ago. I feel that it is a totally akward, fantastic thing because it has eighties, seventies, grandma, wallpaper, grafitti, liberty (which is I guess a very, very french thing - it is a trend which the french love; Ray Bans  Clubmaster, flowery patterns, flats and braids are essential for this look) and everything tacky. It is also kind of controversial, because when I wore the skirt to school on monday, everybody was like "what are you wearing?". Very interesting reactions...

I am definetly no Calvin Klein fan - I dislike too simple things, because in my opinion I am way too young to go to minimalistic. I can do that when I try to impress with something else than my fashion sense. But I really do love this ad from this season. It looks just perfectly undone and I love the wet hair and that it is black and white. PERFECT!

Speaking of perfect, because the City started all over again, I am becoming more and more obsessed with Whitney "Long lean legs" Port. She can turn really tacky, ugly things into perfect, up-town outfits.

For instance, those turquoise pants. They are baggy, the shirt´s too, but still she looks good, because she has overdone hair and make-up and those great shoes. It looks young, fresh. I´d wear it to a gallery opening or something where stylish, creative people meet.

And now, those pants. Well, at first I have to say, I disliked this look, but then - I found myself admiring it! Because she has those super slim legs to wear them and she paired this loose gray pullover and this chanel bag I would die and kill for. I also adore her sunglasses.

This is Whit all glammed up for her Whitney Eve show in Bryant Park in late 2009. She wears her own collection and simply looks fabulous. Do you see her watch? It is a bi-coloured one and I am going to get myself exactly the same on  - yaaayy!

Aaaand, raaaaaaawr. Here is Whits sexy side. Although the clothes look like she borrowed them from her (tending to look a bit sluddy, but still cool-grungy) colleague and friend Roxy, she looks gorgeous. I love the dress paired with the statement necklace and her shoes. Again, I am not so sure about her leggins, because they sort of remind me of prostitutes. But maybe this is just me. Anyway, it is a great look for a very hot first date which should lead to hot action.

Torn Tights meet Sexworld Spartacus

Yep, this is my knee - and no, this was not supposed to be like that. You know how tricky school chairs can be?? But at the end of the day, I even kind of liked it. Although it had sort of this Taylor Momsen kind of vibe which I hate but it also reminded me of some looks the Olsen twins did like two years ago.

I loove Mary-Kates headband by the way - it is a bit like the one Whitney Port used to wear, but more grungy... I wore the then-torn-tights with my light blue jeans hot pants, a loose ruffled black top and a biker-y hoodie. I wore my super-comfortable black-and-white ballet pumps - a girl can´t always wear high heels, you know?!

This is my favourite necklace. It is pure gold and it is a globe. I got it from my mum, who actually inherited it from my great-grandma. It means a lot to me and I literally wear it with everything. I guess that I like to wear it that much, because there is sort of something behind it: it means that I love travelling and my family which it both stands for. Besides travelling and family I also love my friends - which brings us to todays next topic:

My best friend is having her sixteenth birthday in two weeks. And I am overly excited about it, because you know, for me it is like she is my little sister. We quarrel a lot and fall on each others nerves, but I guess that is our weird way of saying "I LOVE YOU". So, when another friend and I were texting what to buy her, we thought that it´d be fun if we got her something from a sexshop - to sort of introduce her in the life of a sensual woman. ;) But then today, she got hold of my phone and saw the textmessage, which kind of threw us back where we started from.Shit, I can tell ya.

Update!

Heeey, just wanted to post this because I am sooo excited about it!
Today my dad came home and he was all mysterious and told me to wait and then he told me that we were going to France this summer!!!! I love France - it is like one of my favourite countries in the world. I love the landscapes, the people (especially the hot guys ;) ) and the food. OMG I am soooooo looking forward!
And btw: in two weeks I´ll be going to Munich, which is a city I am desperate to explore. Although it is really near by, I have never been there and am totally longing to see and feel the Munich vibe.
Gosh, I love travelling. It is the best way to learn, I guess. I stayed in Paris for two weeks and I really fell in love with the language.

Au Revoir! xoxoxo Zita

Wish I´d sit on a silver paillette moon right now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQZhN65vq9E

Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air....
As you may now, I have been to Florence and the Machine two months ago. I am still (!) humming that tune, so it gotta be good.
Right now I am thinking about participating in this writing competition - which I would have to do a bit of work for. So, I am now going to get myself my favourite drink (nooo, not tequila, milk!!!) and some blueberries and get this thing done. Creative work is the hardest of all, really.

REJECTION

Ookay, this is going to be highly philosophical, so sit down and take a deep breath....

A couple of days ago I wrote to several magazines, because I just wanted to contact the world I want to live in, practically. I didn´t expect them to write back, but actually InStyle Germany send me an E-mail telling me what I´d have to do if I wanted to get apprenticeship. I was stunned! I mean, honestly, they were sending me something back! Thex have not just deleted my little crappy e-mail. I am reading this magazine for several years now and so - yes, I am freak, but you should´ve already come across that, right?? - I know some names of the fashion director and so on. And those names appeared in my e-mail. Okay, to normal, sane people this may not be fabulous but for me it is like I am one centimetre away from heaven!! But then I really read the e-mail and found out that I am way to young. They only want people who are already studying - which I am not. Crap!
Yesterday I met this great guy, we didn´t really got to talk, but then in the evening I tried to contact him, but til now he didn´t answer - still, I am really happy that I had the courage to do so.
Rejection is not something you will be safed off, it is something you will have to get used to. Listen to me: if you want to get a Yes someday, you will have to the Nos along the way. OMG I am actually rhyming - how childish...

Have a sneak-peek to my desk!

This is where I mostly pin on my ideas. I love to do new ones for every season - so what you are seeing here is basically the spring moodboard. I will do another one soon (when I finally have the time to - school currently sucks) because I am already bored of this one!

Superwoman

This is an article which was published in the March Issue of Elle America this year - and guess what, it is about the Austrian designer Devi Kroell who really made herself a name in the Big Apple! I am so in awe of her - she really is a role model for me - not that I am actually planning to become a designer and go to NY, but I am definetly planning to become an Austrian succsesfull woman!!! Today is the day of patriotism, my loves!!! ^^

Prom Night ;)

Hope you guys all had a great weekend! On Saturday I went to this reeeally sweet, tacky prom thingy and danced and swinged all night long. It was nice to look at all those fluffy, weird-looking dresses and actually spotting some really well-dressed people.

MISSIONI

Hey, folks!

Tonight I am having this event and as I searched through styling inspiration, I found those really sweet pics from Magherita Missoni and this ad from SS 2010.

She always looks sweet but not sugary and just happy to be where she is (which I´d be too, considered that being able to inherit an enourmous fashion label shouldn´t be that much of a torture).

Tonight I am taking her as my fashion inspiration.

xoxo ZiTa