Sending My Love To Japan

I have been deeply saddened by the events in Japan. My thoughts are with all the people in Japan.

I am glad my Japanese host family are not directly affected by the disaster.

 Japan is such a beautiful country and I have very fond memories of my trip there in 2004.

Tarina xx

Girl Of The Moment Julia Frakes

I am in love with Julia Frakes style. I love how she mixes cozy knit wear with Karen Walker shades.

She was also lucky enough to sit front row at Karen Walker's Fall 2011 show.

Aren't her Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony shoes to die for? Love Love Love!

Tarina xx

Photos: Phil Oh

Heartbreak

I haven't updated my blog this week out of respect for Christchurch which had been hit with an earthquake destroying nearly the entire city. Not only do I think it would be wrong to talk about fashion, music and things I like when there are so many more problems in Christchurch, where people are dead and missing. My thoughts are with you Christchurch.

Tarina xx

Photo: Martin De Ruyter

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