The Grammy Awards 2011 Winners and Losers

The Grammys were very interesting this year. Many strange outfits and unexpected winners. One of the shock winners this year definitely has to be Jazz singer Esperanza Spalding winning the Best New Artist Award. She had lots of competition with the likes of Justin Bieber and Florence & The Machine. After Esperanza won the award all the crazy Bieber fans started tweeting terrible things about her on twitter and they also tampered with her Wikipedia page. I think the Justin Bieber fans should just grow up, wait aren't they all little tween girls, so yeah that explains everything. Personally I would have liked to see Florence & The Machine win. Florence Welch is such an awesome singer. She's not just someone that sounds good recorded she can sing live. One of the other big winners on the night was Lady Gaga who went home with three Grammys.

I was so happy that Train won their Grammy for Hey, Soul Sister for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals.

Muse went home with their Grammy for Best Rock Album for The Resistance which made my bf very happy.

This has to be the biggest upset of the night with Arcade Fire winning Album Of The Year for The Suburbs. I like many other people thought Lady Gaga would win for The Fame Monster. Anyways this was my coverage of The Grammys and I will be posting later on the fashion. There were some hideous outfits but this is The Grammys afterall so it's not that unexpected.

Tarina xx

Photos: grammy.com

Karen's North

Karen Walker showed her Fall 2011 collection today at NYFW. To be honest I'm not going to lie because I am a huge fan of Karen Walker's clothes, this collection was a bit of a let down to me. I felt like the collection wasn't cohesive enough. It was just a bit all over the place. However I do like the jackets and brogues. The jackets look very cosy for winter. Maybe I have misunderstood this entire collection because I don't understand her references to The Dexys Midnight Runner's album, Searching for the Young Rebels. Maybe I should hunt down the album and have a good listen.

Tarina xx

Photos: Getty

Tree Girl 4 My Valentine

Karen Walker T-Shirt, Karen Walker Skirt, Miu Miu Bag and Vivienne Westwood + Melissa Flats.

I had a wonderful Valentine's dinner with my bf and I didn't want to overdress so I kept it cute and simple. So excited to finally wear my Karen Walker tulip skirt and taking my Miu Miu bag out too. I hope everyone else had a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Tarina xx

Happy Valentine's Day!

I just want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day.


Tarina xx


Photo: Net-A-Porter 

This is not a love story. This is a story about love.

Tomorrow is going to be a day filled with mushy couples going out to dinner, gift giving and huge rose sales. I will be going out to dinner with my bf to an Italian restaurant. I really am looking forward to it.

What I don't like about Valentine's Day is the cheesy romantic comedies that are showing at the cinema. The current favourite would be No Strings Attached starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman. It looks like a terrible movie. Maybe it's because I really don't like Ashton Kutcher.

A movie I can recommend would be (500) Days of Summer. I first saw this movie on the plane last year to Melbourne and it instantly become my favourite movie. As for romantic comedies go, this is would be on the lower end of the scale. Marc Webb the director describes the movie as more of a "coming of age" story than a "rom-com". I have watched it with my bf and he enjoyed it. I don't really want to talk about the movie because I don't want to spoil it for anyone. Oh and the music in the movie is really good. It was definitely Regina Spektor's "Us" at the beginning of the movie that hooked me instantly. Check out the soundtrack which has awesome tunes by The Smiths, Feist etc.

Tarina xx