The Angels Have Spoken

This Thursday a brand-spanking-new Victoria’s Secret opened in my local mall. As per tradition, the store was opened by a Victoria’s Secret Angel, and out of all the girls they could have sent, they sent my personal favourite, South African bombshell Candice Swanepoel! During the meet and greet portion of the grand opening I got just over a minute to talk with her (the amount of time it took her to sign “Victoria, Lots of love, Candice”;). First of all, might I just say; she is as perfect in real life as she is in photos. Honestly, who looks like that? Anyways, here is the basic dialog of my short, but wonderful, conversation with Ms. Swanepoel:

Candice:Hey!

Victoria: HI! I was just wondering, what is your best beauty secret? Or like, tip?

Candice: Hmmm, I guess I’d say, clean your face really well, like even when I was younger, I’d always wash my face before bed. Never go to bed with make-up on. Oh! And moisturize head-to-toe.

Victoria: Thanks so much! Happy Birthday by the way [that day happened to be her 23rd birthday] what are you doing to celebrate?

Candice: Just hanging out at home I think, I fly back [to New York] tonight, and then I’ll party this weekend, like Friday, and Saturday, ha-ha!




Well you heard the woman! This beauty advice straight from lips of an angel must be followed!
-Victoria Gallagher-Morton

Lady Gaga X-Mas Tree

This Christmas I spiced things up. I made a Christmas tree from recycled materials, and then topped it with a Barbie that I turned into Lady Gaga. Here is the final result:



Barbie, pre-make over



Her shoe, modeled after Alexander McQueen!





Lady Gaga!



Hair bow, and then a hair bow inspired thing behind her.



The tree pre-paint. I basically cut up bottles, and arranged them with glue. Underneath is a lampshade from Goodwill.



Closer Look



Painted it green, then splashed lighter green to give it an abstract look. I found these little pink flowers in my house, so I put them on. After all that, I threw some glitter on, and bam! I'm done!


Peace Out!
Victoria

We Day 2010!!

Toronto, are you ready!?

WE DAY is almost here! In less than 48 hours, Free the Children as well as 18,000 youth and educators and 700 volunteers (including me!) will pack the ACC, to be inspired into action. This year we're bringing acts like K'naan, cast of Degrassi and The Buried Life, as well as Hedley! If you can't make it in person, CTV is covering the entire day and broadcasting it live (see it HERE tomorrow). I'll give you all a full report once I get back!

This is how pumped I am, decked out in my crowd pumping volunteer swag:

Peace Out!

Victoria

Fancy Me!

I am just going to share an experience I had today, with all of you.

I enjoy dressing up, and I especially enjoy faking rich. So I was at Yorkdale Mall today, looking a tad more expensive than most fellow shoppers. But the trick is, it was very possible that I spend less on my clothing than they had! So I digress. I did the regular route that included the regular stores, such as American Apparel. Then, just for kicks, I walked in to a high class store. This particular one was Louis Vuitton, but the racks dropped many other big names as Prada and Nicole Miller. These stores get about 95% window shoppers and 4% guilty splurges (who really didn’t have the money) or the savers (who had saved for months for a pair of socks). The last one percent was what I was mistaken for. The last 1% was saved for the most elite shoppers. They were the lucky ones who shopped there on a casual Saturday afternoon for the following week’s classy dinners and press conferences. Yes, I was seen as one of them. I know I was because I had multiple staff acting as though I was the only one in the room and asking me if I needed anything. Whilst I got the attention they were giving nothing more than a simple greeting to the, apparently less fortunate, other 99% of people.

I made my way over to the beauty section. I looked for Channel no.5; because that is the only one I really knew anything about. But very quickly I was whisked away to “the new Burberrys scent that was all the rage”. Normally they have a pile of those little paper sticks by the bottle, or maybe a sales clerk handing them out. But that would not do for the elite. No, I had an Italian-looking man take me around the store. He picked out the new Burberry scent, and sprayed twice on two different specific places on my right arm. Then he took those paper sticks and wafted the scent around for about a minute, maybe more. I really don’t know. He went through the ingredients, and explained how each one was judiciously planned to create the scene that “you now smell, before you”. It did smell good; really good. In fact, it was so good, that I continued to sniff it for the next three hours or so. But before that could happen he told me the prices. Around $80 for the small one, but the regular size was about $130. I replied saying “ Woops, I forgot my credit cards at home, and only have about $70 on me, but I’ll be sure to drop by next week or so!”. Then I briskly walked left, but don’t you worry, I’ll be back into the high life in a few years!

Exclusive Interview!

After the Elle Canada Spring Style Lounge presentation was over, The Fashion Facet Report caught up with ELLE Canada associate fashion editor, Anthony Mitropoulos to ask him a couple of questions.


FF: I have never seen ELLE do anything like this before. Are [mall presentations] new?

Anthony: Yes it is new. This is our first time and we are testing it with this. It is a raw tour. First Lady Gaga and now ELLE!

FF: Haha! That’s great, so, how many will there be?

Anthony: We are doing four malls and multiple shows at each.

FF: I noticed Chanel wasn’t mentioned at all during the show. Would you say that their designs are becoming repeated, and not adapting to the latest trends? Or even go as far as to say they are in a rut?

Anthony: No, they change their designs slightly, and make tiny changes. It is subtle. They are different in that they don’t go over board. But in doing that, it may come off unnoticed. I love Karl Lagerfeld [head designer of Chanel]!

FF: Well Thank you so much, this has been great!

Anthony: No problem!

Anthony and I