La vie en rose

La vie en rose by laradudek featuring post earrings

H M short dress
£30 - hm.com

Mango strapless maxi dress
£80 - mango.com

Mango long sleeve top
£45 - mango.com

Wedding clutch
$30 - dsw.com

Tarina Tarantino post earrings
$38 - zappos.com

Valentino Garavani square silk scarve
$270 - forzieri.com

Anna Sui Nail Color N - Glitter Gold - One Size
$15 - urbanoutfitters.com

Product Detail | H&M RU
€2,95 - hm.com

Product Detail | H&M US
€7,95 - hm.com

Styling: Retro Flower & Fruit Picknick Girl

At the beginning of this summer we did a photo-shoot in a little beautiful orchard with 4 different variations on the retro-summer-look.

 Flowergirl

Photographer & Art Director: Pascale Vanschoonbeek
Make Up & Hair by Lise Verbrigghe
Styling & Flower Arrangements by Lara Dudek
Art Director & Model: Lara Dudek
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Dress: vintage

Red wedges: Shoe Girls 
Tablecloth with poppy flowers-print: vintage

I made the flower crown myself, I was inspired by the flowerprint of the dress and wild cornfields with poppies.

 I used different kinds of fresh wheat to weave the crown, artificial flowers and ribbon.

For the make-up we chose sun kissed skin with bronze powder, poppy-red accent on the lips & nails and the eyes in the natural colortones of wheat.

I bought hairextensions to have more volume to make the braid.

Cherry-girl

Dress: Lovely Mariquita  (www.lovelymariquita.be)

Wedges: Cecil 

I customized the basket with plastic cherries and ribbon.

Basket: Réserve naturelle  (www.reserve-naturelle.com)

Plastic cherries: Van Uytsel  (www.vanuytsel.be)

Cherry necklace worn as bracelet: Sparkleyes on Etsy  (www.etsy.com)

BB Pin up

This look is inspired by Brigitte Bardot; her signature hairdo, make up(smokey eyes) and gingham-pattern.

White strapless dress: AP by Bruphils  (www.bruphils.com)

Cherry belt: New Look  (www.newlook.com)

Red hairband: Veritas  (www.veritas.eu)

Gingham bag: Sac d'Anvers  (www.sacdanvers.be)

Gingham wedges: 3Suisses  (www.3suisses.com)

Fruit picknick-girl

Dress: Lovely Mariquita  (www.lovelymariquita.be) 

Gingham wedges: 3Suisses  (www.3suisses.com)

Basket & little picknick tablecloth: Van Uytsel  (www.vanuytsel.be)

Big picknick tablecloth: vintage

I made the fruit-diadem myself, I attached to a plain diadem plastic cherries, strawberries, other different kind of berries, artificial flowers and ribbon.

(Veritas, VanUytsel, Creatine)

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Lara

oo look: princess-dress!

With this dress almost every girl will feel like a princess!

 Dress with tule: NafNaf FallCollection 2011  (www.nafnaf.com)

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Total Look: My inner feline

I never tought I would wear a leopard-print. But I find this dress so cute! You see, never say never! Also having 3 cats, must be I was a feline in a past life :)

I styled the whole look fifties pin up, that is the look that works for me the best!
Cat Eye sunglasses, patent leather bag and high heels with red soles  to match the red lips.

Dress: Vive Maria  (www.vivemaria.nl)
Bag: Etam  (www.etam.com)
Shoes: Cecile
Sunglasses: www.gowild.be

No need for lot of jewelry, I attached a kitty-charm to the belt of the dress.

Charm: (from a keychain) I am

Nailpolish: Bourjois So Laque Rouge Escarpin  (www.bourjois.com)

I based the hair on this tutorial from Kandee Johnson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hln-UEvhJN0 
instead of a bandana I used a scarf and didn't cover up my whole head, it did get a little 'flat' in the front, it was very windy that day! ;)

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Lara

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Styling: Soft Nude Magnolia

Photography by Pascale Vanschoonbeek
Make Up & Hair by Lise Verbrigghe
Styling by Lara Dudek
Art Director & Model Lara Dudek
thanks to the National Botanic garden of Belgium
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The inspiration came directly from the clothing I bought, the delicate colours and materials reminded me of magnolia-flowers.

     I wanted to bring back that romantic, dreamy, fragile flower into the pictures. 

 The clothing: 

body, skirt and necklace: Mango (www.mango.com)
shoes: 3 Suisses (www.3suisses.com)

The make-up:  
Lise,the make up-artist & I chose for a soft glow and peach blush on the cheeks.
Nude lips.
Eyeshadow that matches the pink-oranje rose of the necklace and a warm metallic color on the moving eyelid for lightreflection. 

This is Lise her blog: www.liseverbrigghe.blogspot.com

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Lara

Total Look & Happy Shopping: Steps Special Dresses Night spring summer 2011

This time the Special Dresses Night was also in the  Belgian shops, so I went to the shop in Leuven. Of course I'm wearing something from Steps! :)

My *TOTAL LOOK*ROSES*

With a romantic roses-print on the tunic, I've chosen to toughen it up with a (fake)leather jacket in the same grey of the belt and trim of the tunic.  Also leggings,shoes and bag in grey-shades to keep the focus on the roses!                             
Tunic: Steps  (www.steps.nl)
Jacket: Vila Clothes  (www.vila.dk)

Bracelets and flowers in the same colourshades of the print as finishing touches.

Flowers: Steps  (www.steps.nl)

Bracelets: 3 Suisses  (www.3suisses.com)

Bag: Sfera  (www.sfera.com)














 The shoes are in a satin fabric such as the tunic.
Shoes: Nada

*HAPPY SHOPPING*

 The lovely Valencia dress that I would combine with the soft golden butterfly-necklace.
(http://www.stepswebshop.nl/product/744/valencia_dress.aspx)

Cute T-shirt.

                                 The embroidery on this jacket is very beautiful!

                                           Flowers in all the colours of the rainbow, I love those!
                                Also this colourfull dress!
                               (http://www.stepswebshop.nl/product/535/violeta_dress.aspx)

This dress can be worn at different occasions depending how it 's styled.

Sure was a happy shopping again! :)   

















*These are my favorites of the summer-collection*

http://www.stepswebshop.nl/product/762/sirena_dress.aspx

http://www.stepswebshop.nl/product/713/rosita_dress.aspx

http://www.stepswebshop.nl/product/771/seirra_dress.aspx

Lets go hot latina with flowers and polkadots!


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Lara