Shopping : Summer at F&F

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Today's shopping post revisits F&F at Daniel's - if you're still unsure what shop this is - it's the line from Tesco that opened late 2014. Summer stock is now fully stocked at F&F and there's quite a selection of bright, colourful clothing and interesting swimwear styles. 

Since it's impossible for me to update you on what's in stock in each and every shop in Malta, what I'm attempting, is a mix of budget and high-end shops, as well as those that are a bit 'newsworthy' ie. either not really well known or recently opened. F&F falls into both the budget and recently opened categories, so I decided it should make my list again this season.

AWithin minutes of walking into the store, a couple of things had already caught my eyes. First of all, there's a whole lot of yellow and by now you should all know how I feel about yellow - basically, it's not just for Tweety. There's also quite a large selection of swimwear and a couple of interesting accessories including bags and hats.

Let's go back to the 'yellow' - they've inserted the colour into the collection paired up with blue and the combo works quite nicely. Yellow is a major trend this summer and at F&F they've got blazers, a-line skirts, trousers, tops - basically, any clothing-item-type you might want to wear. Honestly, they're really leaving no excuse to not buy into the whole 'I will be wearing yellow this summer'. 

If you still think yellow is not for humans, we should sit down and have a chat together, at which I will, of course, wear the brightest shade of yellow known to fabric and attempt to dazzle you into agreeing with me.

 

Of course there's also denim in the store - we haven't left this denim-obsessed century

Now for the swimwear - the selection really is very large, there are cleavage-enhancing bikinis, one-piece suits with magic support, tankinis and lots more. Flick through the slideshow below to get an idea



Menswear is quite well stocked too at F&F, so I thought I'd snap some pics this time round as I'm generally accused by the hubby of neglecting 'his kind' completely.



Last but not least, there are also some really great female accessories.




Happy Shopping !!!

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EVENTS POST : MFWA - GAGLIARDI - MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK MALTA 2014 - DAY6

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I'm embarrassed to say that last night was my first time inside Malta's national Library, I was always under the impression that it wasn't actually open to the public. I've mentioned before that I love libraries. well most of all, I love books, burying myself into a story and allowing myself to be transported somewhere is one of my favourite pastimes. An entire huge room with floor to ceiling (and a massively high ceiling) books is therefore right up my alley. 

There has never ever been a fashion show held in the public library, actually I wold probably think there has never been a show of any kind inside the library. It seemed fitting that Bortex, a long standing Maltese company, would celebrate their 50 year anniversary with a Gagliardi show at such a location,. Gagliardi is their most recent venture and it is the company's first venture into creating a brand from scratch and making it their own. Bortex had always had a reputation for impeccable tailoring, for many years they produced clothes for large, foreign brands and were also the de facto place for a Maltese man to purchase a suit. When Gagliardi was first launched, most people thought that it was another brand that Bortex were making clothes for. The foreign-sounding name and the opening of stores abroad, further enhanced that belief but irrespective of where they thought it was coming from, Maltese men loved it, it offered a fresh approach on formal wear with reasonable prices and I would say that presently Gagliardi is probably dressing 3/4 of the Maltese men.

Yesterday, they presented two collections - the Spring/Summer 2014 one and the Autumn/Winter 2104/2015 one. The Summer collection was fresh with some lovely colours and of course impeccable tailoring. The beautiful suits were a feature and there were some lovely jackets paired with chinos and very interesting shoes, the shoes are theirs too. The fabrics are of a very high quality with fine Italian Wool, high quality cotton and leather all a prominent part of the collection. The collection is inspired by the Amalfi coast and there's an evident emphasis on lightness throughout.

The Winter Collection blew me away ....timeless and classic but with some standout, original pieces that really need to start being available for women. The collection is inspired by wild boar 'Cinghiale' hunting in Tuscany. The collection is quite colourful, warm colours such as mustard, orange and a beautiful green used throughout. There are some standout classical pieces such classic chinos and single breasted waistcoats and chunky knits, plaid made an appearance as did tweed fabric.

My standout piece from the whole show was this paisley jacket....its is DIVINE.

Great show, great venue and beautiful clothes. The styling of the show was also very, very good, everything fit the models perfectly and I really enjoyed seeing the way the different accessories - from pocket squares to mirrored sunglasses - were incorporated into the outfits.

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