I happened to be watching a Rick Steves show on Denmark and in the show they were describing a way of living that they had. It was called hyggelig (hoo.gl.ee). This hyggelig meant you always have a drink, some food, and at the very least a candle between you and your company. It meant feeling cozy at the very base translation of the word but actually much more, it was your surroundings without anything that would make you feel ill at ease or emotionally overwhelmed. It was actually the pursuit of serenity, of comfy, of homey, of anything that brought that warm fuzzy to your soul.

My jaw dropped at this Danish discovery of self. That one single word summed up the pursuit of my entire life. Hyggelig!!! This blog is about just that, all the things that make me feel hyggelig. My only hope is that they inspire you to find your own hyggelig too. Imagine a world full of hyggelig, just imagine...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Good bye blogger hello hyggelig me!

It's official! With great amounts of help and work from my Honey www.hyggelig.me is up and running. So, I say goodbye to blogger and thank it for starting me on my blogging path. Thanks to all of you who encouraged me to start blogging which lead me to a wonderful outlet for all my hyggelig thoughts. If you'd still like to follow me come on over to hyggelig.me which has a store, all my latest twitter tweets, and is much easier to use, comment, and navigate!

I hope to see you there!
Angelique

http://hyggelig.me/

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

New Blog Coming Soon!

It's been a bit slow with me posting lately. It's because my Honey decided that he loved my blog so much that he wanted to buy me my own domain. So he did and we are working on it right now! It's very similar to this one in looks but will be a bit more advanced and much more fun for you all to visit. It even has a place to show my latest twitter tweets (I just started to tweet!).

After the basics are built and all set up (hopefully in about a week) I will be excitedly sharing it's web link with you. I hope you will like it as much as blogger if not more. This weeks blog posts are all going to my new site and will be revealed soon!

It feels lonely over there without you guys.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Something Besides Animal Fever

Oh, alright even though I think this fall is about 90% leather and fur I will give you some of the fun trends I'm seeing that I'm looking forward to wearing myself.

Trend #1 Go girly and wear socks with almost anything including leather overalls, skirts, dresses, and best of all cropped pants! A great way to take your summer favs into the cooler months.

United Bamboo (cropped cuffed trousers are big for fall!)
House of Holland (imagine this in your fav colors)

Gary Graham

Karen Walker 
Marc by Marc Jacobs


Steven Alan

Richard Chai Love
Vivienne Westwood


Trend #2 silky pants. Just imagine lounging in these! How to be lux, comfy, and chic all in one!
Tsumori Chisato
Roksanda LLincic 
Jenni Kayne

Sunday, March 6, 2011

It's All Lux

Everyday a new slew of fashion shows come out and everyday I look at every single thing that comes down the runway. We aren't over with the fall 2011 ready to wear shows yet, there are still lots more to come. Although, I don't need another show to see that this fall is about luxury. Sure I've spotted some fun trends I'll be posting about but the most overwhelming theme in just about every show has been fur, leather, gorgeousness, and lux to the max.

This isn't Hollywood glam so don't get confused here. It's not about the "it" bag or the "it" anything. This is about WOMAN and the woman is sophisticated. She knows exactly what she wants and its not to show off to all her friends the latest trendy nonsense. The woman of fall 2011 is a powerful suggestion to us all about turning a blind eye on what is politically correct. She doesn't care what you think. She is done with that. This time it's all for herself and as I applaud this monumental turn I'm also thinking as a woman it's about time!

Lux...

Norma Kamali

Christian Dior

Chris Benz

Junya Watanabe

Trussardi 1911

Loewe


Just Cavalli


 I feel like we are finally realizing that we can be powerful, even a feminist if you like, but we don't have to prove it anymore through our wardrobe. I keep thinking of that Cake song short skirt/long jacket. It's the perfect soundtrack to the season.

Be powerful, be gorgeous, be lux, be anything you want to be but always WOMAN.