Tshirt Love, Closet Candy Interns, AND WHEN THE HECK IS IT GOING TO COLD UP IN THIS BIZNATCH?

Ok so the usual fashion banter will follow, but for a moment can ANYONE ANYWHERE tell us when we are going to be able to rock fur lined boots, country tweed blazers and ethnic-inspired chunky knits? ITS LIKE a FREAKIN 100 DEGREES OUT IN DECEMBER!

>sigh< Can we just turn up the AC everywhere and act like it's winter time...? The other day we spotted the coolest mango coat, you know the one we talking about the two tone camel coat? It's beautiful, but at almost 60 KWD (200bucks) we were like um whats the POINT?! We are going to wear it what, TWICE this winter? Someone promise us it will get cold so we can click the buy now tab.

In other news we can still wear TSHIRTS! And tshirts from Closet Candy! WOOHOO! We will be posting up some information about the fact that Closet Candy is in search for an Intern! If you dont know what Closet Candy is, or who the CEO of Closet Candy is then get edjamacated, trick. It's an awesome store, with gargantuan staying power that promises it's intern a part time job (paid) that will be a step into the fashion world assisting in everything from styling, buying to blogging!! And you get to work with one of highstreetq8's fav people @danakay_ so there. ( I mean who ELSE quotes Khalil Gibran on fashion spread layouts?)

email: info@shopclosetcandy.com if your interested!

Twitter Love, or how to not live up to your twitter nickname.

As the world get's smaller and smaller, our connections with people become easier to make. The fact that almost 8 months ago we didnt know half the people we know now through blogging & tweeting makes us go "huh...interesting".

Love this beautiful twitter buddy's pics from @clearmess, I've never met her, never seen her in my life but I like sorting through the pieces of random things I do know through her tweets & style pics and constructing what I think this girl's story is like.

Her pieces are basic, yet put together in a unique, cosmopolitan and very edgy sort of way. Just goes to show you, that a striped shirt can always be MORE then just a striped shirt, and though cool people wear "I heart NY" shirts, cooler people know that a "NY HEARTS ME" garment says it much better!

  striped shirt from mango

 skirt from h&m.

suede booties - random boutique in paris

  Pants - unknown.

"NY HEARTS ME"t-shirt - New York

Eyeglasses:Matte raybans.

Blazer River Island.

Boots: Patent black Doc Martens

Ring: YSL Arty Dots

 Bag: Chanel Quilted Classic

Turbans & More

Hands down our favorite two hair accessory trends for this winter are turbans and bowler hats. This was a follower send in from a beautiful girl who lives in London. She works at a super casual office and finds that wrapping her mother's vintage green silk scarf around her head ala Lawrence seriously ups her coolness factor all the while banishing bad hair days to seasons far away which are devoid of hair accessories!

We absolutely looove this and are going to be raiding our mother's collection of Hermes scarves (you remember when they use to sell Hermes scarves on airplanes in the 90's? hehe thankfully fathers always leave gift buying to the last minute so we are sure your mother has a stack hidden somewhere also!)



 

  Belt: Versace 

Necklace bvulgari 

 Dress: Zara it was onsale! She cant believe no one bought it.

Tank top and Lace Top:  TOPSHOP <3 

 Sweats: Zara london

shoes: found  in a local store in london!

Black dress - Topshop London

 Studded Vest - Forever 21

necklace: Topshop 

 Belt: Escada vintage belongs to mama ,

Shoes - Loubutin

bag - Moschino

Winter Dishdasha TIME!

Nothing says winter time like a beautifully tailored winter dishdaaaaasha! It's like the final word on whether winter is here yet or not, you spot it and you suddenly feel colder, you remember snuggling up in garden tents with chestnuts roasting on the charcoal , not fainting everytime you get into your car (EVEN AT NOOON!) and in general just a fun time around these parts!

Winter we welcome thee!

 p.s to my boy readers, is it true that men shouldnt wear the winter dishdasha until they see the Emir doing it? Kind of like a no white shoes after labour day rule for westerners?

Awesome tailoring on this dishdasha Mr.Man we love the cuffs and the cufflinks!

Cufflinks: Debenhams
Watch: Tag
Dishdasha: Blockat Family Tailor.

Camel Cape

Hi...how are you all? Did you miss us? We missed you. But now, if you reading this dont walk RUN and go get yourself a camel hued cape. WE are obsessed with cape trend, and getting it in an ever so fashionable neutral like camel will make it a super functional peice. The fab thing is you can totally mix and match it with just about anything, when your central peice is in this color. Camel is awesome, camel is strong, camel can totally take you above and beyond. YAY camel...we heart you and this beautiful girl with the awesome sense of mixing highstreet items (this cape) with stolen high end from her mom...teehee.



                                               
Shirt: Donna Karen (her mom's a little big so she belted it...)
Belt:  Zara
Cape: Zara

WINNERS!

Dear Lovies!


WE have announced the winners for highstreetq8's H&M + Lanvin Competition!
And it is our LOVELY lady S from Saudi with a whopping 67 VOTES for her winning "Fringed Up" Congrads baby GIRL!  Also for the ONLY male participant Mr. YT from Kuwait with his awesome look that we are finally posting above! You have both won some awesome Lanvin for H&M pieces! LADY S and YT CONGRADS!

Highstreetq8 will be contacting you via your email to get shipping details! Please send us pictures of the prizes as styled by you!

 
YT's Look
jacket:H&M

marc jacob : sunglasses and jeans

alexander wang :Tee-shirt and boots

bag : louis vuitton

VOTING DONE

Dear ALL!

Thank you for voting on our competition! Voting is officially over and we are announcing the winners tomorrow along with what they won! Seeing as the H&M Lanvin collection has been completely WIPED out from the face of the planet betcha wish you had sent us pictures ey?
In any case for all our readers thanks for putting up with the fact that we didn't blog about anything else while voting was happening.
Regular blogging will also commence tomorrow! With a shopping guide to Tokyo along with a few cool pictures!

PICTURES ARE UP

HEY KIDDIES!
Highstreetq8 is in the most amazing city right now staring at the most AMAZING view! But just because we are on VAYCAY (HAY HAAAAY) don't mean we cant post our AMAZING H&M PICTURE SUBMISSIONS!

Here are the finalists below! Check to make sure the image has the "H&M LOOK" title and vote for your favorite looks by clicking the facebook "like" tab/button near the post title! You can vote for as many as you like but remember you can only vote for each picture once! Good luck to the WINNER!
p.s tsk tsk men we only got ONE freaking picture from the boys, so congrads Mr.YT you won your picture will be posted at the end of the Competition!

MWA MISS YOU LOADS!

H&M LOOK- Hippie Chic

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK PLEASE VOTE BY CLICKING THE LIKE BUTTON!

DRESS H&M


SWEATER FOREVER21

BELT RANDOM

BOOTS VINTAGE FROM BEACONS CLOSET NY

BAG RANDOM

H&M LOOK-Accent Piece!

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK PLEASE VOTE BY CLICKING THE LIKE BUTTON!

top: BCBG
Pants: Zara
Scarf: H&M

H&M LOOK-HEAD TO TOE H&M

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK PLEASE VOTE BY CLICKING THE LIKE BUTTON!

Head to Toe H&M!

H&M LOOK-STUDZELLA

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK PLEASE VOTE BY CLICKING THE LIKE BUTTON!

Outfit#3
Skirt : H&M " fall/winter collection "
Top : Zara
Vest : forever 21
Shoes : Topshop
Bag : Miu Miu
Belt : Zara

H&M LOOK-FRINGED UP

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK PLEASE VOTE BY CLICKING THE LIKE BUTTON!

 
Outfit#2
Leather jacket : H&M " fall/winter collection "
t-shirt : Mango
Skirt : Zara
Shoes : Topshop
Bag : Zara
Belt: Topshop

H&M LOOK-Jingle Shells

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK PLEASE PRESS THE LIKE BUTTON TO VOTE! 

Outfit #1
Harem Pants : H&M " fall/winter collection "
Shirt : Oasis
Necklace : H&M
Clutch: River Island
Shoes : Zara

H&M LOOK-Ripped Jeans!

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK PLEASE PRESS THE LIKE BUTTON TO VOTE! 

Top: H&M
Neckless: Random Purchase America
Denim: Current/Elliot Boyfriend shredded
Heels: Topshop
Belt: Massimo dutti
Ring: Urban Outfitters

H&M LOOK-Rocking Muhajaba!

IF YOU LIKE THIS LOOK  PLEASE PRESS THE LIKE BUTTON TO VOTE! 

jacket: HnM
t-shirt: Random
pants: Zara high waists
boots: Prada
purse: LV
head scarf: Zara
squared ring: Juicy couture
2 set of rings : Uterque
spiky ring: forgot brand name, was from net-a-porter
bracelet : bottega
watch: mom's

H&M competition

Due to the LARGE amount of highstreetq8 pictures we have recieved over the weekends and the requests from all of you to extend competition to Sunday, we shall be posting all pictures of the competition by Monday night! The pictures are AMAZING so get ready for some serious voting boys and girls!

Woohoo!

Hey kiddies! A main member of our highstreetq8 teamster is going to the MOST AMAZING CITY in the whole world (after Kuwait City OF COURSE.loool) to celebrate our take on street style from a Kuwaiti perspective!
We are also giving you up till THIS SUNDAY to give us more pics of your H&M street style competition in order to win the chance to get a piece of the Lanvin + H&M collection! (click here for details)

We shall be blogging from our trip so they will be short and sweet but with tonnes of PICS!

In the meantime we got these awesome pics from a twitter bud of ours! AWESOME:





Pants Bel Air

Cardi From Ma3rath
Shoes L.K.Bennett

All Closet Candy (we love closet candy)
Bracelet: Cartier Love Bracelet
Bracelet: Live Love Laugh Bracelet

 Dress and Belt: H&M

Love you all and shall miss you !!!
-highstreetq8!

Sorry about the less the enthusiastic blogging going on in the past day, loads of pictures to sort through for our competition, plus traveling plus being sick made it hard for us to take loads of pics this weekend. So here is a pretty little dress we forgot about at our dear friend's Shurooq Amins exhibit. Custom made dress by the person wearing it! What do you all think?

H&M Competition Reminder

Ok Kids!!

You all need to send your pics to highstreetq8 ASAP! Last day to submit is the 11th so this is your last weekend to assemble your outfit. You can honestly use any H&M item you have purchased in the last few months in Kuwait or anywhere else, pair it with some fun stuff snap and send!
Alternatively you can even just pop into a local H&M and snap away in the dressing room to fulfil your fashion look of the season!

Don't Forget there is going to be a separate prize for the woman winner, and male winner, so snap away ASAP!!!!!

Houndstooth Thursday

We are fully aware that crucial members of highstreetq8 team (i.e me) have turned completely insane. It has become SO normal for us to just SNAP pictures of RANDOM people, that we have lost the ability to gage how it may be a little creepy to some. Spotted this AMAZING houndstooth cropped jacket on this gorgeous lady at a local Starbucks in Kuwait, we actually just stopped talking and snapped the picture. After people pointing out how utterly WEIRD that was, I went up introduced myself and why I was snapping away like a stalker. She sent us these detail shots, thank god she didn't think we were TOOOO weird (what you don't know, cant hurt you).
Top to toe high street fant-abolousness, this girl rocks the fashion Kasbah.
In other news, I want to introduce a new word into everyones vernacular (sorry toons)
It's called WADDLES and it stands for AWESOMENESS.

teehee.


Jacket: H&M
Pants: H&M
Top: Zara
Shoes: Steve Madden
Belt: Accessorize

How to Accessorize your WRIST

BAAAASICERY*
We feel like the WRIST for men is a VASTLY under appreciated part of their body, yet it is the one that gets the most accessories at work , the cuff, the cuff links and the watch. Whilst most men focus on their ties/shirt/blazer combination you would be surprised at what a well done "wrist" says about you...
This is a perfect wrist for us, color coordinating the face of the watch with the lapis cuff link is awesome and classy, while the cuff itself brings a bit of funkiness to the mix!

Shirt: Paul Smith
Lapis Cuff links: Saks Fifth Avenue (New York)
Watch: Tag * we loooove the color*

* we decided we wanted to do this post in Japanese-y english, but then decided it was WAY to early for that much effort...teehee.

Aziz Al Mudhaf Part. 2

Look at this face above! Memorize it, because seriously if your not lucky enough to have met this amazing human being now is your chance! What fascinates us about him is this, JUST look at his face, look at the genuine sweetness that exudes from this young genius' smile and then look at his hauntingly brilliant art. Mr. Al Mudhaf, we are proud to know you, be part of your creative insanity and to enjoy your first solo exhibit. So proud in fact we are going to steal your Zana Bayne harness, as um memorabilia...not because we are going to um...wear it.
meow.

Harness: Zana Bayne
(p.s Also spotted a simpler version at Topshop Kuwait 3 weeks ago)

Belt: Four Boutique

Shoes: Vintage

Shirt: Zara Rolled up tapered pants and shoes: H&M

Leather Dress and Leggings (not shown) : Maison Martin Margiela

Dress: Reiss

Aziz Al Mudhaf Part.1

Is it just us, or is Kuwait turning very artsy fartsy on us? OH OH OH dont get us wrong, we COULDNT be freakin happier! This whole week has been a gallery opening this, Nuqat that, solo exhibit BONANZA! Makes us feel alive and proud to be part of a growing community of individuals who are expressing themselves in such poignant ways.
Aziz Al Mudhaf's art is larger then life, haunting and wildly personal without being obnoxiously narcissistic! We wish you all the best you gorgeous boy you!
So other then the art, the highlight of the next two posts is as follows, the insane amount of Loubis, Maison Martin Margiela, Zana Bayne harnesses and Helmut Lang jewelry. Oh and our favorite fashion part of the evening? We asked a great boy in some tapered trousers where he got them from and he said "Hennes & Mauritz !!!" NOT H&M! AHHAHAHAHA AJEEB! And guess what, no matter what you call it it goes to show you...it's not the amount of money you spend it's how you wear it!

Shoes: Louboutins

Bags: Hermes
Shoes: Custom splattered by worn by one of our favorite local designers Aziz Al Nasrallah!

Shoesie Sunday!

YAYAYA time for Shoesy Sunday. But we have to be honest, after this Halloween weekend, it's like we sort of feel "meh" about regular clothes. Halloween is THE BEST FREAKING HOLIDAY IN THE WORLD. The fact that for one day you can wear whatever you WANT is just...insanely amazing. We propose that we make a monthly costume day, rather then "casual Friday" it should be "dress-up-like-a-pumpkin-if-you-want- to -Friday"! Oh how beautiful and colorful your day would be if rather then wearing slacks to work you put on furry pants and bunny ears. How much more productive if on the day of a cut throat meeting, you dressed up like a ninja assassin...and handed out your cards as if they were ninja stars. Can someone tell us WHY we dont do this, really just one good reason?

>sigh<

Well in conclusion here are so cute boots, shoes and a vintage clutch. That'll brighten up your day!

Aldo Boots

Random purchase LA

Zara shoes

LV bag

* Dior vintage clutch from @danaHT