Saturday, 30 June 2012

Beachbums

Remember our beautiful freak Chloe here? Well today she had a bummer cause she really trusted the surf forecasts for three feet glassy waves but in fact her homies called her up and let her know that what was really happening was the mere hedious hopeless surf predicament: "FLAT". At first she thought about staying in to watch three seasons of Anthony Bourdain non stop while devouring reese's cups filled with remorse and peanut butter but then she thought what the hell, I'm gonna call up my friend Eleni the cloudline and snap her some photos while she falsely pretends to be a board pro with high heels. 
That Chloe gal is such a sweetheart! I can tell you we really had a "duo of horror tour" and if you don't believe me listen to the song


Wearing: T-shirt, shorts and heels Zara, sunnies Quay, Longboard Paradise
      
                                                                       

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Thursday, 28 June 2012

Bag Partayy

Throw a bag party and you can bet I'll be shaking my booty with joy!! Multiply that (not the booty, the joy) by three different leather goods houses aka Cromia, Alviero Martini Prima Classe and Le Pandorine and you get hobo chic elegance, summery fun combined with Californian sunny state spirit and mythological references all in one day! Now don't expect a bag enthusiast such as myself to come up with a favorite. A mom can't favor one child over her others! I can tell you though, I loved the adorable key chains, it really can't get any cuter than this! My house keys will be super excited to hang out with the owl the piglet and the doggie! What a merry company that will be for me and my imaginary friend Jim the bear. I have that too you know. Imaginary friends and all. 
Now let me get back to being a cordial blogger and thank the lovely Act&React gals (Zoe and Aliki) for the happy day and the super cool bag gift which I'll make sure to glorify during my beach bum surf days! Peace dudes and dudesses.




      
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012

There Are Countless Formulas For Pressing Flowers

There are days that juvenile creative play simply takes over and Barbie dress up seems the ultimate fun under fourty degrees Celcius at the top of a burnt to the ground mountain! While you all were lazily sunbathing with procrastination mode on as waves were splashing up on the wonderful coral reef beaches of Athens, (bahaha) I was chosen by my extremely talented photographer friend Nikolas Tsakris to acquaint my styling mind trips with his creative photographic vision. 
Visually narrating two stories was as a piece of a very hot cake, a steady stream of consciousness developing in an abandoned house and a Burtonesque barren land of solitary stripped trees. As you will see, minus the sunburn, there's an evident abstraction that reflects grunge frustration and a sense of abandonment. Luckily, my compulsion with transporting and absorbing art clicked instantly with the representational perception of the photographer and the two distinct visions connected! 

Thus I proudly give you the editorially subversive Sweet Valley High Lana Del Ray version and a quasi grunge Kurt Cobain fairy. 

With Special thanks to Stathis Samantas for trusting and honouring us to present one of his upcoming Spring Summer shoe pieces.



Photo/edit: Nikolas Tsakris
MakeUpArtist: Vasiliki Nikolopoulou
HairStylist: Michalis Chrisikos
Styling/Wardrobe: Eleni Kostopoulos
Model: Jourdana (X-Ray)
Assistants: Dina Hatzi, Athina Dimitriadou, Panagiotis Jonsson

Looks Details
Lana Del Ray look:
Silk Top and Skirt: Vintage Liana Camba (from my personal collection)
Tennis Dress worn as a skirt: Nike 
Bolero Top: vintage handmade
Shoes: Stathis Samantas Spring Summer '13 collection
Neckpiece: Marni for H&M (from my personal collection)

Grunge look:
Silk dress: American Vintage (courtesy of Act&React)
Cardigan: (vintage from my personal collection)
Shoes: All Star (Nikolas Tsakris personal collection)
Shirt: H&M men collection
sunnies: asos (from my personal collection)



      
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Saturday, 23 June 2012

'The Trails Is Shouting'

"Made off
Don't stray
My kind's your kind 
I'll stay the same"





          Wearing: silk dress American Vintage, wedges Topshop, sunnies Rayban





A very special thanks to act&react for allowing me to rock the perfect summery dress!


       
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Thursday, 21 June 2012

Embrace

Billions of stars flying, taking him away, in His embrace.


  ♫ ♪  song






Image sources: kathrynsora and cloudlinechicflows


                                             
       
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Electric Blue Heaven

Taking too much time reading fashion magazines and watching surfing videos can have this outcome. To make it specific, Lula magazine has this effect on the resplendent horizon of my musings. Also, Dion Agius unleashing on the allegedly world's best wave pool in the "Electric Blue Heaven" video gave birth to a monster. Don't judge. It's my beloved monster.. Like the Eels song! Read how it goes: 

Her name is Chloe. (How surfer of her). She hates winter days and because she's so filthy rich she gets to chase Summer all year round. She has an older brother named Franny (yes I stole that from Franny and Zooey) who is a surfing instructor and that's how she came to love surf in the first place. Plus the fact that she had a huge crash with Body from Point Break since '94. 
All that's pretty and nice but the thing is she hates wetsuits being allergic to neoprene at the point she has filed a report against Hugh Bradner (the inventor of modern wetsuit in '51). I'm telling ya she's a weirdo alright. A true victim of Generation X but in her own ostentatious version never mind the jargon. 
Her grandmother was an art history teacher descendant of a family who owned a huge textile firm in New York hence the love of high fashion. When Chloe surfs, she wears the hauttest of the haute and she don't mind when her Prada earrings are gracefully devoured by the foamy sea. Nor does she care when the normal surfer girls call her names and mock her. 
A true surfer in soul, she sees no restrictions and being a firm believer of Duderonomy she calmly retorts: "Well, that's just your opinion man". 
Now don't expect a punchline of any sort cause I'm sure we're gonna see more of Chloe soon. For now however, to keep the spirit alive, let's enjoy some of the pieces she chose for her surfing trip in Dubai's new Wadi adventure park; and maybe soon we'll find out how she got to meet the love of her life there.. 

Electric Blue Heaven


       
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Friday, 15 June 2012

[imatiοθίki]

I have been reading [imatiοθί<k>i] since the very first day I got to be actively interested in fashion. I could just dream of taking part in this artistic project which aims to reveal and portray people's personal style, space and views. Art and creation welcomed me and my blog through lovely Nileta. She's the ingenius mind and photographer behind this amazing adventure. It was a session where art precipitated communion, humanism and honest friendships. It was also a day that we had genuine fun with Nileta and Jon (the genteel and talented photographer who embarked on a video documentation of our session!) You can see the entire thing here.



       
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Cloudline Chic Flows is a blog about self consciously deconstructed reformist mannered elegance, swings, distant sound of dogs barking at sunset, smell of freshly cut lawn, peaches at dusk, long walks on dusty country streets,perennial drives, cupcakes, pylons, echo of empty classrooms, 1997, the dream, suburbs,treehouses,flying in sleep, ice-cubes, wooden fences at noon,birdies, peoplespotting, cicadas in summer yard, absurd subversive poetry, singing alone, keep self at home, cats and straight highways.