1690 Style Avenue

Ideas on how to put your outfits together for every events you might be attending this festive season. a true stylista can never run out of hotness!

I’m very solid and confident in the person that I am but like any other normal person I also have my own nagging self doubt and annoying little insecurities. As we grow we discover a growing void inside of ourselves as women that seems almost impossible to fill and instead of looking within ourselves to find what’s missing we run to the nearest shopping malls for completion. We are so uncomfortable with ourselves despite the fact that we look beautiful on the outside; we struggle to identify ourselves outside our pretty little cocktail dresses and six inch stilettos. Our personalities are constructed, protected and affirmed by our clothes. We live under the shadow of our beautiful clothes because we are in doubt of the person that’s underneath them. There are two types of clothes: clothes that wear us and clothes that we wear. When clothes wear you, you are noticeable yes but not necessarily memorable they conceal you the individual but when you are wearing your cl...

Donna Soulaquarian Mgasha is a freelance fashion stylist and an events coordinator. I absolutely love his style, he is such a gentleman, with traces of sophistication and class. He is definitely my fashion obsession for November

The hottest way to wear the palest hue is top to toe. White has and will always be a spring trend for both men and women, so what can be more effortless and cooling than a crisp, clean all white sexiness.

(Remember those cute love letters that you used to get, that boy that liked you so much that he couldn't help but smile and stutter whenever he spoke to you? how lucky am i to be that girl that gets to be crushed on so sweetly and even get a poem written about me.) Ayanda Dolce. She had the kind of confidence to be mistaken for arrogance, The dimples on her cheeks had me running out of compliments and just by lending an ear to her, I could tell that her mind had travelled continents. The contours on her curves could tell stories on the footprints of old undiscovered jewels and I had planned to tap into this secret chest that holds her gold and maybe, just maybe get a taste of her honey... She is so mystically furnished; her lips are a symbol of fine art... I mean when she speaks! I hear music..... Her legs are the epitome of fine architecture..... I mean when she walks... I see equanimity.... The mysticism of the way her buns take turns in that...

Palesa Mahlaba is a Fashion Editor of True Love magazine, so its really no surprise that she has a closet that any girl and blogger would kill to have. You can take a peek into her life and drool over her outfits on a daily by following her on instagram as SimplyPalesa and also on twitter @SimplyPalesa. She's my Fashion Obsession of the month "simply" because of her edgy yet classic and modernised sophisticated take on fashion. \