Category Archives: Toronto Fashion Week

FREE YOUR MIND

Lucky you, I am posting twice this week lol, although 99% of you know I post only on Thursday’s (if that, yah … I know!!) – but this week is different – mostly because I am posting daily on MasterCard Stylicity Blog (YAY me!!), and I thought – huh – maybe I should post more often on my own blog this week, seeing as it makes zero sense to ask you to go here, and here – to see what I’m up to on Stylicity for MasterCard Fashion Week – and not post at least two outfit posts!

So here I am. Wearing my mum’s 80′s plaid and the cheapest skirt ever – really. Oh, and the ears – yah – they are amazeballs!!! $20 from Fashion Crimes on Queen St … but you’ll have to stick around to see what else I’ve purchased through Stylicity’s great savings program!!

EARS: Bad Bunny | Fashion Crimes
SHIRT :80′s Plaid | Thrifted from my Mum
SKIRT: Black Pleated Pleather | F21
SHOES: Suade Penny Loafters | Dolce Vita

En Vouge / Free Your Mind

I’M NOT JUST A BLOGGER

I took a mini break from this hear blog – sorry about that. The break wasn’t because I wanted to, more because I had to, but it gave me some down time to really think about WTF I am doing with my blog. I mean, for me – my blog is just a diary of my tangents regarding thrifted treasures, vintage from my gran and another pair of $500 shoes I probably can’t really afford, and I like my blog that way – people have weighed in on my blog stating that I reveal too much, that my grammar is poor (no kidding – I write the way I speak not the way you want me to), and recently – I’ve had a few quips about my photography (which, by the way, I take myself and take pride in that, I don’t want a photographer), but alas it’s easy for me to brush it off, as I still maintain that I blog for me. I think my next post will be about just that.

Until then, life has been insane (will fill you all in), but in the same capacity, the good comes with the bad. I have been asked to represent MasterCard in their Stylicity program again for Toronto Fashion Week. So be sure to look for that – I am as excited as they seem to be to have me back – which is such a pleasure!

This outfit is what I wore to Thanksgiving last weekend with my grandparents – just a small casual dinner with the most delicious Turkey on earth. I really am spoiled to have a family who loves to cook! Safe to say my food coma lasted me the entire weekend up north. The trees are all turning and the crisp air made sleeping that much better. I had copious amounts of wine, had a blast with my boyfriends family hiking up Blue Mountain and loved the fact that I hardly touched my cell phone.

I hope all my Canadian friends had a chance to disconnect and re-connect with your adoring families. Until next week.

Marvin Grey / Heard It Through The Grape Vine – Dubstep Remix

QUEEN OF NOTHING

I clearly took to much allergy medication today.

hello!! today is thirsty thursday (actually it’s wednesday, but I am not hitting the “publish” button until tomorrow, so really – when YOU are reading this, it is thursday, unless you have super powers aka time travel abilities and today is yesterday).

GOD – what-did-i-take? my allergies have been so incredibly unbearably bad. does that happen to you? around your birthday? you try and eat right, work out, cleanse your face – (brush your teeth) .. daily – to make sure you look somewhat presentable for an evening and things go well, you know – you feel and look great … until you wake up with snot everywhere and you sneezing 100 times a day with people asking you if you have the cold, or worse – the plague.

I don’t have the plague – and if I did, I wouldn’t give it to you – it would be vintage – and I like vintage, so I’d keep it to myself. (seriously though – what am I on?)

in OTHER news, if you’re not my immediate family (hi mom!) or my friend in real life, I recently celebrated my twenty-fifth birthday! woo! it was glorious, fun and full of laughter, all of what a twenty-fifth should be. I shopped, ate, drank and sipped tea. I am a grown up now, I sip tea.

This dress, lets chat about this dress – you know those stories your mum tells you from her past, she nonchalantly gives up information from her past regarding something she did or did not do properly lol, apparently this dress, her man friends lovvvved - lol – I can see why now – this dress moves so swiftly, and is extremely flirty – not to mention made of 100% cotton .. aka the most comfortable thing ever.

thanks mom! my man friend hates it – but it’s not gonna stop me, because I dress for me.

yes. as previously posted – all of my blog titles are lyrics from songs – so now I am going to inspire you. ready? purchase first aid kit // the lions roar.

BLUE JEANS

This is my “omg it’s spring” face. lol. I am so happy the warm weather is here – and although the weather man keeps saying it may be temporary, this Canadian girl is happy with anything that doesn’t resemble white falling flakes from the embarking sky.

This coming weekend marks my twenty fifth birthday, and I plan to do what I always do on the weekends – relax, see my man friend, friends, eat delicious food, spend time with family and drink lots of wine. Doesn’t that sound fantastic? gah … so excited.

This outfit took me awhile to find – more specifically the pants did anyway. You know when you think of something fantastic but the item you want is nowhere to be found (but in your imagination!) – whelp! I had been on the hunt for light mint pants for awhile, and one random Saturday I stumbled upon these half cotton pair! I was in a state of euphoria when I picked them up, they are insanely soft, and the perfect colour for my skin tone.

This top is one of the best finds I have found in awhile – it’s a vintage silk blouse, worn backwards – from my favorite vintage shop in Toronto. I suppose there is no real rhyme or reason I didn’t put the back detail on here [which is pretty], silly me – but I love re-working clothing that doesn’t fit me properly by turning it backwards, upside down, you name it – the shirt is just one of the many things I have re-worked on my blog.

SHIRT: Cream Silk Button Down // 69 Vintage
BELT: Braided Rope // Thrifted from my Mum
PANTS: Cotton Mint // Joe’s Jeans
SHOES: Nude Pointe Pumps // Zara

song title : blue jeans // lana del ray

WILD THING, I THINK I LOVE YOU

My mum used to call me wild thing, it was my pet name from her – I was always the little girl in the prettiest dresses, frolicking around in the mud with messy hair (but at least it had a bow in it!). As much as I feel more grown up then that time in my life, it still seems the same. I can not wear white – ever – for I always seem to spill something on myself, and I always need to bring a hairbrush or comb with me … my hair gets tangled and matted by the end of the day.

I wouldn’t necessarily say I am the biggest trend person, true – I sport trends, but I usually sport them with a vintage twist - sequins, mint, leather, cashmere, satchels – these are all things I have worn on this here blog that were either my Grans, thrifted or vintage finds … but these here floral pants, well – they were love at first {trend} sight.

I wore this outfit to the tents last Thursday for MasterCard Fashion Week here in Toronto. I had a ton of fun blogging for MasterCard’s Stylicity program, where I got to shop til I dropped with Queen West merchants – some of my favorite hidden gems in Toronto.

Head on over to the Stylicity blog to covet {and buy!!} some of the items I scoured!

FREE FALLIN

HAT: Knitted Beanie // Aldo
BLOUSE: Thrifted
SKIRT: Chiffon Skirt // Jacob
SOCKS: Neon Pinks // Top Shop
SHOES: Nine West

I spy, with my little eye – something that is … PINK!

This could be one of my favorite outfits ever, although when this was shot – it was frigid-effing-cold out, so it was an inappropriate outfit for that particular day. I just couldn’t help but be inspired by the mass amounts of sunshine that has been glowing as we slowly exit winter.

I feel as though this rather odd and wacky outfit really depicts me well – ha! The blouse is a thrifted treasure – I literally clapped and jumped up-and-down in the store. The bold colour, and seemingly random pattern (animal print, chains, floral, golden goodness? what the?) – I just had to snatch it – even if it was six sizes too big. Meh.

So I had an impulsive urge last week to purchase something - just an itch, a tick if you will – and what did I end up purchasing? neon pink sockets. Oh lord. At least I managed to work them into the post, otherwise the $9.98 would of been completely useless – considering I only wear black socks.

Beyond that, the Marketing Magazine conference was amazing – I learned a lot, networked and was told our panel was great! Since then I have been asked to blog as part of a trio, tripod for World MasterCard Fashion Week here in Toronto. The trio includes myself, the seemingly gorgeous Marta from WithLoveGabrielle.com and the most stylish man candy, Spiro from ItsAllStyleToMe.com. So keep a look out, we will be tweeting, blogging and pinning for MasterCard – also I will be including tid-bits here on the new stylicity tab at the top of my blog, this will feature my wild adventure around Queen Street West – and West of the wicked West…

Thanks for all the love, and I hope you enjoy the ride…

KendallDonaldson

Love is where I am found.