French Café opening ! And Garden Party coming ♡

As some of you may already know, I am a part of the Street Fashion Europe team (and very glad to be ♡), currently organizing Enchanted event (yaaay) ! Of course I'm not the only one French-speaking girl within the team, Lunie and Bloody are also working with us. This way, we decided to create French Café : a French-speaking association, affiliated with Street Fashion Europe (maybe we will soon host the next SFE European event, who knows ?!).

Joined by our dear friends and teammates, we are currently working on our first event (you can read more about it at the bottom of the post) ! Belgian, Swiss, French but also all European Harajuku fashions' lovers are welcomed ♡

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French Café, French-speaking side of Street Fashion Europe is finally opening its doors !

French Café aims to be a sharing, helping and entertaining association about Harajuku and all its fashions. Knowing how to live and evolve with all styles and their new trends is one the strengths of French Café.

French speaking members of Enchanted's organizer team decided to bring together Harajuku fashions' enthusiasts within a friendly and joyful community. French Café's team will offer you a delicious menu, full of meet-ups, tea parties and various events and activities !

Please, take a seat outside, all our team, cooks and waiters, will offer you the best service ♡

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Branche francophone et autonome de l’association européenne Street Fashion Europe, 

French Café vous ouvre enfin ses portes !

French Café est une association de partage, d’entraide et de divertissements autour d’Harajuku et de toutes ses tendances vestimentaires. Savoir vivre et évoluer avec tous les styles et leurs nouveautés est l’un des points forts de French Café.

Les membres francophones de l’organisation d'Enchanted ont décidé de regrouper les passionnés autour d’une véritable communauté Harajuku francophone conviviale et dynamique. Dans l’attente du prochain événement Street Fashion Europe, notre équipe vous proposera une délicieuse carte de meetings, Harajuku walks, tea parties, activités diverses et events en tout genre.

N’hésitez pas à venir vous asseoir à notre terrasse, notre équipe, 

qu’elle soit en cuisine ou en salle, vous offrira le meilleur des services ♡

French Café’s team is glad to invite you to its very first Garden Party !

On Monday, 7th of July 2014, we will host you from 1:00pm to 5:00pm in an enchanting domain, an island of greenery very close to Paris (the venue can be easily reached by underground/subway).

Join us for this Harajuku fans gathering! The mood will be friendly, flowery and entertaining. Our staff wants to give you the opportunity to share your passion with a fresh fruity cocktail (with the obligatory cocktail umbrellal), next to our big buffet full of pastries ヽ(｡ゝω・｡)ﾉ

We will get to learn more about each others during this afternoon divided between innovating games and activities, and of course, plenty of prizes and raffles to satisfy all fashion tastes!

We are counting on you to show us your best summer outfits from all over Harajuku (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ Take a spot in front of our ticket office before the sales opening, places are limited !

You can find more informations and subsribe to the event on Facebook !ヽ(*⌒∇⌒*)ﾉ 

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L’équipe de French Café est heureuse de vous convier à sa première Garden Party !

Le lundi 7 juillet 2014, nous vous ouvrirons nos portes de 13h à 17h, dans un domaine enchanteur, une île de verdure facile d’accès en bordure de Paris.

Rejoignez-nous pour une après-midi entre fans de mode Harajuku, dans une ambiance conviviale, fleurie et divertissante ! Notre équipe souhaite vous donner l’occasion de vivre un moment d’échange autour d’un cocktail frais (surmonté de l’indispensable petit parasol !), et de notre grand buffet de gourmandises ヽ(｡ゝω・｡)ﾉ

C'est l'occasion d'apprendre à nous connaître grâce à cet après midi ponctué d’activités et de jeux innovants, et bien sûr de très nombreux lots pour satisfaire tous les goûts !

Nous comptons sur vous pour nous dévoiler les plus belles tenues estivales de tous les styles Harajuku (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ Prenez vite place devant notre guichet avant l'ouverture des ventes, les tickets seront limités !

Vous trouverez de plus amples informations 

et pouvez vous inscrire sur l'événement Facebook ヽ(*⌒∇⌒*)ﾉ !

Thanks to Marie Tuonetar for her adorable illustrations. Isn't she super talented ? She is.

EGL : January and February monthly themes !

Hello dears~ How are you ? I'm having a holiday break and while I was supposed to study, I'm currently not studying at all (yay !), taking time photographing outfits, blogging, watching tv shows, rolling desperately on my floor, some fun stuffs. I swear I'm going to study, starting on Thursday, that's good day for studying.

While usually I don't take part a lot in EGL monthly themes, I feel like the past two months' themes have been very funny to do. January theme is, like usual, wardrobe theme ! I did it last year (with very crappy pictures.) but wasn't really happy about it. I took a looot of time this January, I posted late, but at least I'm happy about it. I'm not going to post it again on my blog since it was already a pain to upload and lay out every pictures on LiveJournal. But if you are curious to watch it, please follow this link (or click on the picture above, because I'm such a talented blog-designer)♡

Let's talk about real business. February's theme was Dress me up !

« We've all had a day (or two, or twenty) where we just can't seem to come up with a perfect coordinate and longed for a lolita stylist. Well, it's time to change that, and let a member of EGL dress you up! Share your closet and wait for one of our fashion-forward members to come up with a stunning coordinate for you. We'll do a big reveal post at the end of the month for all participants to share their amazing coordinates! »

Doesn't it sound fun ? I was paired up with Rie Chan, a lovely classical-gothic lolita from Antwerp (I think so ?). Out respective styles aren't the same, I think it's part of the challenge — and also big part of the fun. I told her it seems difficult to do another style than sweet lolita with a wardrobe like mine, so she came up with a gothic inspired coordination using sweet/classical items ! What a clever idea~ 

I am wearing : Dress : MILK — Blouse : Angelic Pretty 
Headdress, bag, socks : BtssB — Vest : AatP — Shoes : André

What do you think about it ? I haven't thought about putting my vest on a dress ! With the black blouse it's looking like I'm wearing the jacket, I really love the effect. More than a lolita outfit, it makes me feel about a classy-but-cute casual outfit ! 

Rie Chan also suggested a second outfit. Sweeter, it really matched my usual style. I guess she guessed well the feeling of my wardrobe, haha~ It really could be an outfit I could wear casually. Well... I'm even pretty sure I've already worn this outfit, minus the blouse. I have to say the blouse wasn't really matching the whole outfit, but my wardrobe pictures weren't that clear about colours (and the blouse didn't really look like it has princess sleeves on the picture of my wardrobe post).

I now can't wait to see Rie Chan's outfit~ I did my best to match her wardrobe with some kind of classical-royal outfit in all bordeaux x cream colours. I will show you her outfit (or my outfit ? Don't know...) as soon as she posts it (and if she allows me to).

Time for bonus pictures ! Thank you for reading ! I will soon be back with the second part of Frock On's report and with some posts about (not so) mysterious but ultra-cute indie Japanese Brands !

Stay tuned (^_^)ノ

Event : Frock On! (part. 1)

Since reporting the whole event would be way too long (so many things to say !), I cut the main Saturday event in two parts (maybe three ?). I will mainly focus on the fashion show's experience and outfits in this one, if you are more interested into general informations, stalls and activities, please, wait for the other parts (*⌒∇⌒*)

I woke up pretty early on Frock On's day in order to go as soon as possible at the venue with Bloody. Indeed, we had to try on our last outfits that we couldn’t try the evening before. I have to say I was literally amazed when I first saw my Millefleurs’ outfit. It might not be a style that I usually wear but I could only do adore what Millefleurs sent to us. While Marly was in the gold dress, Cordelia in the red one, I wore the flowers’ one: we can say our dress matched us pretty well! More than the dress itself, it was the bonnets I was totally fond of. Look how gorgeous they are!

Marby, Cordelia and I ♡

My second outfit was by the Argentinean brand Chérie Cérise. I was both surprised and happy they picked my application. At first, I thought I couldn’t honour them as I didn’t feel I matched the brand’s feel. Finally I just loved the dress and the whole outfit they picked for me! The bat dress was so cute, detailed and soft that I could’ve wore it all day. The under-fabric was all sparkly and the bat-sleeves were absolute cuteness. Plus, Roxie Sweetheart lent Chérie Cerise jewelleries to match the outfits: might be a detail, but it really put the finishing touches on to the coordinations.

All lolitas waiting for the fashion shows to begin !

Modelling was a little bit stressing, especially that the girls watching us were very near to the catwalk. But all my friends were here to support Bloody and I ! No mistake allowed, haha~ I don’t really know what Millefleurs thought of our performance but Chérie Cerise told me they were very happy they picked me as a model! I couldn’t feel happier when they told me that, my only goal was to proudly represent their brand!

The whole atmosphere in the backstage was really lovely and funny, it was a moment of pure joy and enthusiasm. Everyone was adorable and I really did meet some nice girls ! I also saw people I was dreaming of seeing (do I sound like a fangirl yet ?). I really hope the backstage feeling will be the same at Enchanted, and I'm sure it will be~

Girls ready for the second fashion show

Roxie Sweetheart and the two other models for Chérie Cerise ♡

Beautiful Lyci wearing 4 O'Clock

Models for 4 O'Clock had to walk on those amazing shoes !

I know the biggest part of the attendees went seeing the fashions shows ! What did you think about it ? I hope the walks wasn't too awkward, haha ! It must be told that we are not professional models (well... Except Chokelate. Is that even fair ? She was simply stunning !)

Obviously, I couldn’t watch the catwalk while the girls were modelling (that’s the sad side of modelling during events ;__;) but I think I watched all the pictures and videos of both of the fashion shows, haha~ I picked some of my favourites outfits so you can have an apercu of the designers’ talent!

Lyci and Chokelate for Juliette & Justine

A lovely girl for Baroque. I just love this dress !

Maja and a cute fawn-girl for Haenuli I do adore Maya's dress !

Dear Carmilla and Bloody for Lief

Marby wearing Atelier Pierrot ! Wasn't she fabulously good-looking ?

Harly Quinn and Maya for the second fashion show

Lyci and Chokelate (again, but we love it) for Juliette & Justine

Thank you for reading ! Stay tuned for the other parts coming soonヾ(＾∇＾)