Buckles&Belts: Your style. Your belt.

Walking around like everybody else? For most of us, this doesn’t sound too appealing, that’s why we like to add a different touch to our appearances or seek unique accessories that can be customized if needed. Buckles&Belts, a fairly young Swiss company , specialises in the most popular accessory: the belt. A range of 80 different belts in high quality materials such as calf or python leather and 170 buckles allow 5000 different combinations! Needles to say that with 4 collections a year their variety never disappoints.

At Buckles&Belts everybody can create their customized belt which is measured and prepared at the store right in front of the customer. They developped a simple yet innovative button system which allows the customer to exchange the buckle easily for another. Isn’t it a great idea to personalise your belts to make a unique fashion statement or to match them for a special occasion?

The belt section: different colors, leathers and widths don't make the decision easy but the staff is very helpful.

The buckle section: silver or gold metal buckles from bold to minimal.

Recently they also began to make leather key pendants.

Our own customized belts.

Click here to find Buckles&Belts' store locator.

Sunday's Inspiration

We're well aware that there aren't as many updates as usual but while we're trying to get back into a routine to post more regularly, you can have a look at what's going on in Milan right now. With the fashion week being in town for a couple more days, the streets are filled with fashionable people having a break inbetween shows. These photos belong to fellow blogger Elif, on whose blog you can find many more.

There were more than SIX, I am sure!

Rachael Cassar SIX, 2010 Ecouture Collection.

"Gothic Hijinx" photographed & transformed by Kent Johnson.

I have met Rachael a few times now and she is every bit as charming and lovely as her 'new' Couture Collection or Ecouture as she calls it. I think the E is for Eco as all the fabrics are from deconstructed garments which is also why I wrote new as 'new'. Although the garments have never been seen before the fabrics have had a past life and what beautiful rare and exquisite fabrics they are. I first came across Rachael's vintage inspired (and vintage fabric) creations shooting the Alices Dreamtime fashion story. Thanks to Estelle & Klaus from Design Fed for the heads up and collabo opportunity again. Love you guys. Oh and I am guessing here but I suspect the SIX is Rachael's sixth range. I am sure there will be many many more.

Behind the scenes shots,










Parade,










Design Federation on Flickr, the complete 20 shots from the show.
Rachael Cassar

Design Federation

And LASTLY! Hope that all caps word grabbed your attention... I am guest blogging for To-Be-Revealed 'A perfect spring weekend' October 23-24 1010. SOooo if you have an event of any kind you would like Street Fashion Sydney to support or attend over said weekend please email me kent@artcommunication.com.au, should be lots of fun and great exposure on a great Aussie Artz'n'Kulture blog.

Cheers from Street Fashion Sydney.

Sunday's Inspiration

Source: froufrouu

Big clutches!

This example above really makes me want to carry a clutch bag!

And I love the fact that she's carrying it in the daytime..this makes it even more interesting!

"get a dog up ya!"

I have no idea at all as to why I decided to title this blog "get a dog up ya" other than on occasion I do become a little sentimental about times past. Yes sadly the day when I was just about the only cyclist on the streets is long long gone. Such was the novelty in those by-gone-(non-PC)-days that when a motorist came across a cyclist winding their way passively along our great city's pot holed roads that they would routinely sing out a greeting like "get a dog up ya", or "get off the bloody road." Of course now everyone has a bike and an awful lot of those people have actually taken to riding them.

Along with the popularity of cycling has come the popularity of dedicated cycling clothing. Now while I did not see any Lycra clad art patrons at China Heights last Friday night I did spot a number of people sporting that classic piece of two wheeled accoutrement, the Cycling Cap.

It does seem mildly perverse that after my last blog on attending an opening at China Heights was about hats that this blog too is about fashion you can wear on your head. But there was not a single Fedora in sight & indeed my Stetson Open Road was resting on my bed post at home as I too had cycled to the event. Even one of Terence Chin's large format photographs had a cycling cap in it and although the show is titled "The Beauty Of The Banal" I am sure he is not making any statements at all regarding the nature of Cycling Caps. In fact I do believe Terence may very well be a cyclist himself which may go some way to explaining the caps other than inner city Hipsterism.

Well with the absence of Woolen Beanies, Fedoras or any hats at all I suppose it is safe to say 'Spring has Sprung', its time to get on your bike & get a dog up ya !~)

And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don't.

Source: we heart it, an overflow of words

Thursday's Inspiration

Source: knight cat, stockholm streestyle, columbine smille

Leo prints, vibrant colors, gray tones..

From hot Seoul to mild Zurich! I'm really looking forward to fall styles!

The air is so heavy it could drown a butterfly

One of my favorite things to do is to meet up friends for coffee and talk about everything under the sun. Yesterday was a bit more special than your average coffee party though: my cousin and I went to a cozy little café/restaurant called 5.Kat (literally 5th floor) where we went to exactly one year ago. It became like a new ritual to welcome September on the roof top admiring the view just before sunset…

Top and skirt: secondhand

Belt: mexx

Ring: from a shop in Istanbul