Friday, April 29, 2011

The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton







It was truly a fairytale wedding, and if you could only see me now: a messy nest of red hair, bleary eyed and delirious as I drag my sleepy self back to bed because I had some crazy idea to stay up all night and watch the Royal Wedding (which was super fun by the way). Despite currently speaking only gibberish because my tongue is fast asleep, I still have some magic energy left in my excited fingers to write and post some amazing photos of today's epic occasion, courtesy of Dailymail UK and People.com. What we now know? Alexander McQueen's Sarah Burton is the official designer of Kate Middleton's absolutely beautiful lace Grace Kelly inspired dress, the worst crimes of fashion today were committed by Royal cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and their aunt Princess Anne, Victoria Beckham's 10 inch heels could've been a tad higher, the PM's wife Samantha Cameron wore Burberry and her HAT was apparently out sick, Prince Harry is absolutely charming and adorably disheveled, and Prince William never looked handsomer than when he kissed his bride twice on the Royal balcony...
William to Kate: "You look beautiful"
Modern and perfect: Royal dress by Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton
HRH Queen Elizabeth is regal and on-trend in buttery yellow
Mother of the bride Carole Middleton
The handsome Princes. PS. love the trouser stripes

Best dressed couple Prince Charles and Camilla
Maid of Honor (and '80's eyeliner devotee) Philippa Middleton and bridesmaids
Crimes of Fashion: Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice.
One angry grasshopper and one big turkey landing on their heads...
First Lady Samantha Cameron in Burberry. Apparently Hat is out sick
Zara Phillips

David and Victoria Beckham. Hunny you're pregnant, and a pair of ludicrous Louboutins will still not make you as tall as the Archbishop...
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson sports enormous blue vagina headwear.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and his stunning wife Miriam Gonzalez
There were loads of HATS.....
Guy Ritchie...Madonna's punching a wall right about now in her best British accent...
Elton John and David Furnish leave their bling at home
Prince Albert of Monaco and fiancee Charlene Wittstock
  My boyfriend Prince Felipe of Spain (please lose the beard) flanked by his mother Queen Sofia and his Liliputian wife Letizia, looking dusty in rose tones and sporting one very depressed looking hat

@RedPoppy_ Is Live Tweeting the Royal Wedding!

Please please please follow @RedPoppy_ on Twitter as I LIVE TWEET every single exciting detail of the Royal Wedding starting VEEERY EARLYYY at 1.30am PST time tomorrow April 29th. Who will Kate be wearing? Is Victoria Beckham giving a royal smile? Did Prince Harry bring a royal date? And much more! You'll laugh and cry, or at most you'll be pleasantly humored....And then stay tuned tomorrow as I post some amazing photos!! xoxo RP

Image via Yahoo.com

Thursday, April 28, 2011

"I Royally Do"

Unless you're still hibernating deep in the forest of winter or you live in a time capsule beneath the earth's surface, you are most likely holding your breath for the most anticipated Royal nuptials of the decade taking place this very Friday! Yes, the countdown is almost over for British balding royal Prince William and fresh-faced commoner Kate Middleton who will say their 'I Royally Do's' at Westminster Abbey on April 29th. The U.K. is in fact my own royal birthplace, and anglophile is high on my list of character descriptions. As a wee girl I fondly remember watching the original Royal wedding on my grandmother's telly, mesmerized, as Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles' royal coach made its crowd besieged way from St. Paul's Cathedral. William and Kate's big day is definitely the stuff of pomp and excitement, I mean you could just swoon with envy over the long and tender love story of these two college sweethearts; and you could cry your eyes out in bitter jealousy for the very same reason. Most amazing to me, however, is just how besotted we Americans have become with British wedding fever, from the never ending coverage of who designed Kate's wedding dress, to those lucky beasts who made the exclusive guest list, to what flavour of biscuits (US=cookies) Wills has commissioned for the big occasion... And what about all those sweet ladies who will be watching the big day from their television sets, wearing nothing but an enormous flowered Hat? In fact at the end of the day it could all just make one feel a little vomitous, so I'm thankful for Lydia Leith's Official Wedding Sick Bags...for those of us who've had it up to our nasal passages with Royal wedding chatter.  
You'll want to keep one handy on April 29th....!

-Above image via Zimbio.com

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Magdalena Frackowiak is Redhead For A Day

A normally dirty blonde Magdalena Frackowiak is vampy, campy, scary, AND REDHEAD in the 'Lipstick Issue' of Exhibition Magazine...

Images courtesy of trendhunter.com

Monday, April 25, 2011

Anthropologie in Spring

Here are some very pretty stills from one of my favorites-Anthropologie's Spring collection...

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Spring 2011 by Jil Sander

The bold color palette and graphic silhouettes of Jil Sander's Spring 2011 collection was a massive hit when it featured on the runways last September. In fact practically every Spring fashion spread features a color blocked ensemble by the label's Belgian designer, Raf Simons, and it's safe to say the collection remains unequivocally the essence of the colorful Spring season...
Images courtesy of style.com