It’s Spring and a girl’s heart turns to…well, shoes. Flutter it will at these frou-frou frolickers from Monsieur Louboutin. Love at first sight, n’est pas? Shoe porn at every angle. The only thing better? A purse to match. Natch! All photos from www.christianlouboutin.com.

March 30th, 2009
Categories: Accessories, Shoes . Tags: Christian Louboutin, evening bags, exshoesme, frou frou, Jyotika Malhotra, purses, Shoes, Spring Summer 09, stiletto . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Before there was Dsquared2, and before Milan, there were two Canadian boys who designed for a then-Canadian based conservative fashion house, called Ports International (now reincarnated as the fashion forward Ports 1961 label based in China). As a young girl, I purchased this Ports International skirt, a label designed by Dean and Dan Caten at [...]

March 29th, 2009
Categories: City Style, Déjà Vu, Inspiration . Tags: Black Watch, Classics, Dean and Dan Caten, Dsquared2, Equestrian, exshoesme, Fall Winter 2006, Jyotika Malhotra, Milan, Ports 1961, Ports International, Tartan . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

This world can be a crazy place. Sometimes, life – and people – can drain you. If I’ve learned anything in this cosmic consciousness, it is that you are your own superhero! Better dress for it… Cue’s Slick Super-woman by Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna AW09     Cue image source.  Source  – remaining images.

March 28th, 2009
Categories: City Style, Collections, Fall Winter 2009, India Fashion Week, Inspiration . Tags: desi fashion, Fall Winter 2009, India fashion, Indian fashion, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Fall Winter 09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Flipping through Fall fashion week photos from Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, I had another déjà vu. The vivid dresses from Pankaj and Nidhi Ahuja’s AW09 collection  pay homage to…                       …Alexander McQueen’s patchwork coat from his SS04 Collection…     …which pays homage to… [...]

March 26th, 2009
Categories: Déjà Vu, India Fashion Week, Inspiration . Tags: Alexander McQueen, desi fashion, India fashion, Indian fashion, Pankaj & Nidhi Ahuja, Spring Summer 2004, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Fall Winter 09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

An unpleasant retail experience is enough to ruin a girl’s evening. I left Best Buy the other night talking to myself, upset at the foolishness of retailers like this one not getting the basic tenets of customer service in this day and age. I won’t pollute the blogosphere with the details, but the gist is [...]

March 25th, 2009
Categories: City Style, Retailers . Tags: Best Buy, exshoesme, George Corbo Presents, Jyotika Malhotra, Maison de la Presse, retail, Toronto style, Vogue India, Yorkville . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

We know that colours are vibrant this Spring, echoing everything from the pastels of ice cream flavours to the much preferred jewel and spice tones. Also flowing this season is the maximum length dress. It’s a little less casual now, and a lot more worldly.   Drama delivered at Gucci Breezing Easy at Gucci     [...]

March 24th, 2009
Categories: Collections, Spring Summer 2009 . Tags: Gucci, Halston, Hermes, Jean Paul Gaultier, JPG, Spring Summer 09, SS 09, Wills Lifestyle Indian Fashion Week Spring Summer 09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Is it me or do the sunny sandals from Ritu Kumar’s recent Fall 2009 show at Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week echo the Pucci prancers from Spring 2004? Pucci à la SS 04 Kumar original  image source. Pucci image source.  

March 22nd, 2009
Categories: Déjà Vu, Inspiration . Tags: Fall Winter 2009, Pucci, Ritu Kumar, Spring Summer 09, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Fall Winter 09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week AW 09 continues in New Delhi. Devi-ji, we aren’t in Kolkatta anymore… Ashima & Leena’s Modern Mother India Mumtaz is modern, now. Modern goddess at Gaurav Gupta And Papa? Well, he’s joined the new model army… Where do I enlist? All images courtesy of Yahoo! India. Modernity, courtesy of the [...]

March 22nd, 2009
Categories: Collections, Fall Winter 2009, India Fashion Week . Tags: Ashima & Leena, Collections, Cue, desi fashion, Fall Winter 2009, Gaurav Gupta, India fashion, Indian fashion, Rahul Khanna, Rohit Gandhi, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Fall Winter 09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

It is precisely moments like these that make me love fashion as much as I do. In the constant barage of images and the homogeny of one fashion week to the next, it happens. Something new emerges – but not for the mere sake of being new. Sometimes a simultaneous moment from the past and [...]

March 19th, 2009
Categories: Collections, Fall Winter 2009, India Fashion Week . Tags: chappal, Collections, desi fashion, exshoesme, exshoesme.com, Fall Winter 2009, harem pants, India, India fashion, Indian fashion, jewel tones, jodhpurs, jutti, Jyotika Malhotra, Kiran Uttam Ghosh, layering, maharajah, modern, mughal, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Fall Winter 09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

It’s Fashion Week again. This time, in India with Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 09. While you may not think of India as the hub of fashion, it’s a market to watch, with talent galore and 34 shows in total . Here are my faves from Day One on the ramp, as the desis call it. [...]

March 19th, 2009
Categories: Collections, Fall Winter 2009, India Fashion Week . Tags: Bal Chauhan, desi fashion, exshoesme, exshoesme.com, Fall Winter 09, India fashion, Indian fashion, Jyotika Malhotra, Kiran Uttam Ghosh, Ritu Kumar, Rocky S, Satya Paul, Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Fall Winter 09, WLIFW AW09, wLIFW FW09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Just got the latest feed from L.A. Weekly’s Style Council Blog. First déjà vu is their blog’s name. We’ll thank the Modfather for that one. Second déja vu: the obvious adoration by Skingraft of one Mr. McQ.  You be the judge… McQueen image source. Skingraft image source.

March 16th, 2009
Categories: Collections, Déjà Vu, Fall Winter 2009, Inspiration . Tags: Alexander McQueen, BOXeight Fashion Week, Collections, exshoesme, exshoesme.com, Jyotika Malhotra, LA Fashion Week, Los Angeles, Modfather, Skingraft, Style Council . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Spotted on Bloor Street this sunny Saturday was none other than Food Network Celeb Chef, David Rocco and his wife, Nina. David and I must travel in the same circles (except when he’s in Firenze of course – because sadly, that life has yet to find me). I’ve seen him around this city on a [...]

March 15th, 2009
Categories: City Style . Tags: Amy Verner, Bloor Street, David Rocco, Dolce Vita, exshoesme, exshoesme.com, Globe and Mail, Jyotika Malhotra, Toronto style, Twitter . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Is it me or was everyone inspired by German Expressionism this season? The Dancer Anita Berber by Otto Dix, 1925 Victoria Beckham Fall 09 Yohji Yamamoto Fall 09 Haider Ackerman Fall 09 Alexander McQueen Pre-Fall 09 Collection images from Style.com. Otto Dix image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

March 15th, 2009
Categories: Collections, Fall Winter 2009, Fashion and Art History, Inspiration, Pre Fall 2009 . Tags: Alexander McQueen, Collections, Evening dresses, exshoesme, exshoesme.com, Fall Winter 2009, German Expressionism, German Expressionists, Haider Ackerman, Jyotika Malhotra, Otto Dix, Pre Fall 2009, Red, The Dancer Anita Berber, Victoria Beckham, Yohji Yamamoto . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

It’s Holi , the Indian festival of Spring and Indians the world over are putting on their whites. The white garb provides a blank canvas upon which their friends and neighbours will smear coloured powder, in every shade imaginable. Holi is all about the arrival of Spring – and gorgeous colour! After a season of wearing mostly [...]

March 11th, 2009
Categories: Collections, India Fashion Week, Spring Summer 2009 . Tags: Alberta Ferretti, Ann Demeulemeester, Bottega Veneta, cayenne, Collection of Michael Scott, colour, colourful clothes, curry, exshoesme.com, Halston, Holi, Holi hai!, ice cream shades, Indian festival of colour, jewels, Lanvin, Light and stone, pink tourmaline, ROM, ruby, saffron, Shantanu and Nikhil, spice, Spring Summer 09, SS09, turmeric, Wills Lifestyle Indian Fashion Week Spring Summer 09 . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment

Who knew houndstooth and hummingbirds could hum? I think I just wept. Riveting red. Brilliant black. Gorgeous gothicism. Analysis once I recover, but here it is for your senses, as well. Is it possible to sleep after this? Alas, the dreams will be divine. Thanks to Little Juan for the first glimpse.

March 10th, 2009
Categories: Collections, Fall Winter 2009 . Tags: Alexander McQueen, Drama, exshoesme.com, Fall Winter 2009, FW09, gothic, Jyotika Malhotra, moulin rouge, Red and black, Victorian . Author: Jyotika Malhotra . Comments: Leave a Comment