Fashion | anordinarywoman

04/08/2013

Shopping

Shopping now & then is rather nice., especially if you’re on the hunt for something you need. Otherwise, I find it enjoyable to just to wander around, look, compare & take in things around me. Also, its fun with all the visual exposures of various trademarks & solutions. The way the creativity has been used to inspire us customers.

Sometimes, I have to admit, I don’t always get the idea behind. But if it’s aesthetically pleasing, it works anyway. You don’t sell more just because there are lots of products on the shop floor. It can sometimes be overwhelming. Carefully selected & coordinated range – it has to start there. A desire to inspire!

Colourful design & details / athome

Inspiring visual merchandising / theverden

Swedish design / 10gruppen

Same colour scheme / pinterest.com

Girlie style / google.com

Tie factory / countryliving

Rather new Swedish store / haberdash

For the kitchen / herdofblack.tumblr.com

A day of shopping / google.com

For the connoisseur / melroseandmorgan.com

Coordinated range / butikenhoganas

Window shopping / nestprettythings

From the yearly exhibition fair / stockholmfurniturefair

Inspiring Scandinavian shop in Sydney / nordicfushion.com.au

Mix of things / thedesignfiles.net

Take care / Marie

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Tagged Display window, Fashion, home decoration, Interior design, retail, Shopping, shops, swedish design, Visual merchandising, window shopping

23/07/2013

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Daily inspiration, basic design

I like clothes that have a nice detail & which isn’t directly conspicuous. Just basic design, simple materials, simple cut, classic & timeless. They should be easy to combine too. I liked this solution for its simpleness. Spotted blouse with jeans & the fancy detail with the zipper on the side of the sweater. Sometimes, it need not to be more than this.

/ theyallhateus

Take care / Marie

Tagged blouse, dark blue, details, dots, Fashion, jeans, Shirt, style, sweater, trends

20/07/2013

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Daily inspiration, timeless

Some people has a look & appearance that seems to fit in any situation or time. It can be from hair style, type of clothing or just the face. They never go out of style & you could fit them in which decade you’d like. A classic appearance, simply! My sons has both similar haircuts. They are right now very much, into the preppy-style. It’s the usual jeans or chinos with polo shirts or shirts & thin knitted sweaters with v-neck or round neck. (there’s not much change to this style, when it comes down to it, really). If this photo had been in color instead of black & white, you’d not noticed the difference from then to now. That is, if it had not been James Dean. It could have been any photo, in any magazine today. As I see it, at least.

/ tumblr.com

Take care / Marie

Tagged casual, chinos, Fashion, haircuts, Hairstyle, James Dean, jeans, Polo shirt, preppy style, Shirt

17/07/2013

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Bleak images, maybe

Bleak images does not sound particularly inspiring, do they? I guess some might find these a bit depressing. Is it a suitable description? I just felt that I wanted something less colourful & more dramatic. The lighting, colour selection & props, enhances the atmosphere in each image. I’m aware of that everything doesn’t have to be bright & colourful to be perceived as interesting or exciting.

It feels liberating, for my part, to ignore the otherwise ordinary images that I usually choose. You know, you have your style & your preferences which you sometimes unconsiously bases your choices on. A style whom you have a weak heart for. Well, since some friends said I’m very Scandinavian in my taste, I thought I might try to challenge my self. But just so you know, this type of images are not my cup of tea 🙂

1. Classic chesterfield with details for the right experience & look / sextosenso via Fancy

Magnificent buildings in a thrilling angle / tumblr.com

Staging with character /daniellawitte

Storytelling image /helenaaro

A workshop that then, maybe not felt so exciting but looks incredible today / now&then

Oriental, rustic & mysteries / goetia.tumblr.com

From a bygone era or prepared movie scene / interioralchemy.tumblr

Dramatic fashion industry /sedefisim rok

Dimmed styling / bloodandchampagne.com

Black on black / ohlesjolieschoses.tumblr.com

Back in time / remainsimple.tumblr

Black accessories in a black storage piece / remodelista

poulkjaerholm : fritzhansen PK31 lounge chair Poul kjaerholm, Fritz Hansen PK31 longe chair / googleimages

Colourless bed linen / pinterest.com

fancy.com abandoned There is something about abandoned places that makes you a bit sad, despite the beauty / fancy.com

Take care / Marie

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Tagged architecture, bleak images, buildings, dramatic, Fashion, Fritz Hansen, home ware, Interior design, ordinary images

10/06/2013

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Dark blue

I had a period when I used the dark blue colour almost as much as I use black today, that is to say, always. I felt a hint of that old feeling the other day when I bought two pairs of boots in suede, one black & the other in dark blue. On the way to work last week, I arrived a bit earlier & decided to take a stroll around the shopping centre. I saw a jacket in dark, dark blue. An instant love & from there to todays post, the way is rather short. Since then I have had time to be off couple of weeks to spend time with my sister & her husband, who is on a visit. There has been a lot of traveling to various favorite spots & with it, a lot of stops for shopping. One would think that the dark blue colour would be rather common. But no, not where I was, at least.

Anyway, I found a scarf in thin material but still with rough texture. Very soft in really dark blue shade & a couple of fine-knitted jumpers with stylish fit. One was striped of course. AND with that, I have now completed my shopping need in that blue colour.

Navy blue with accents / projectnursery.com