A Fashionista's Afternoon Tea

England is very famous with its high tea tradition, we can have an afternoon tea at noon or past almost in all British restaurants. The Berkeley Hotel serves an afternoon tea with a twist; cakes, mousse, all the sweet delicacies inspired by fashion's high end brands collection, based on seasons. So as promised, the photos from afternoon tea last May. And not just a usual English afternoon tea, it's a fashionista's one.

Prada Geisha like white chocolate and Grand Marnier oversized coat embellished with red poppies

Alexander McQueen whimsical yellow honeycomb cream oversized dress topped with marsipan bee

Jason Wu coconut "Carolyn" hatbox shape cake bag sandwiched in retro leopard print chocolate

Balenciaga modern monochrome dark and white chocolate mousse dress set on a pecan nut brownie topped with flamenco ruffles

Oscar de la Renta playful high waisted peach-pink bavarois shorts embellished with strawberry compote rosettes

Manolo Blahnik's slingback chocolate biscuit heel with baby blue icing topped with timeless pearl

Dolce & Gabbana Sicilian chic pistachio green and vanilla striped pannacotta dress topped with chocolate ring

And we even got a 'goodie bag' when we went home!

The cakes, pannacotta, mousse, were delish and the Posh Pomelo & Melon tea was just absolutely amazing.  I made most of my 2 hours there (the time slot that was usually given per table) unlike my first visit which was rushed because I needed to go to the airport right after. This high tea venture was definitely recommended, especially if you call yourself a fashionista ;)

Ciao

Shoooeeess

I'm not a shoe person, let me tell you. But, as much as not-a-shoe-person that I am, I j'adore creative, artsy shoes. Red soles on you? I wouldn't be amazed, even if you have a hundred pairs of em. However, these shoes, got my heart racing.

 Fendi

These Fendi shoes are gorgeous to the core. Every colour works, clish-clashing materials subtly but they complemented each other, with or without thin buckles. Perfection. Been eyeing for these since last year!

Givenchy

Now I'd say, stunning heels. Just, stunning. If you don't wear em. Look at those toes spread all over the front! Even models' toes could look ugly, and these pics that I chose were better than the rest of the pack. But still, stunning heels.

 Alexander McQueen

Again, magnificent heels. Not too fond of the top part. I'm not liking the glitter nor the patent leather. If there's one leather I dislike the most, it's patent. Most of the time they look cheap, especially in white.

 Balenciaga

Oxford shoes brought up to the next level. Yes. This is what I'm talking about. They looked painful, but ah, what the heck right. They look preppy pretty slash tough pretty with all the blocks (cut or not).

Overall, my favorite is still Fendi. They're all from the Spring 2013 RTW collection. I cannot wait for Spring by the way. The fashion style always gets so much better after the kinda-dull winter.

I actually want to feature Dolce & Gabbana's as well but cannot get the right picture of the heels that I was interested in. The heels were wooden/bamboo-ish and very skeleton-lookalike but at the same time looked like the bottom part of a bamboo bench that I used to sit on when I was in Indonesia. Maybe they had the same benches in Italy?

Well, from this post I, myself, learnt that the most interesting part of a shoe might be the heels. Because looking at the pictures above, and some several others like my Nicholas Kirkwood x Keith Haring post, the heels are always been the major focus of the shoes. But still, you know, however gorgeous the heels might be, if the top isn't that great, I woudn't want to buy it. I don't want only the heels, I want the whole package.

Ciao.