WHAT DOES STYLE MEAN TO YOU....

To me it's that certain something that can't be described..an ineffible quality....an effortless cool...like the girl above...heartbreakingly stylish, but she so doesn't have to try -just like my favourite city NYC! it's just cool because its being itself! I love that you can totally get the vibe of someone, their personality and what inspires them, by how they put themselves together, by what they adoren their body with...that is so cool!

I've always said 'Clothes are a fabulous form of self expression, our message to the world without words".....I so believe that and I love that what we wear can totally speak for us....it's such a great way to communicate...and thats my ultimate goal with Love Chile - to speak through my brand, to send a message through the clothing that women can identify with - a brand with a voice....

What would you like to say today?

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TRUST Sometimes on my daily walks I pass an old guy wearing a blue cap with the word TRUST written bang smack in the middle - most of the time its really when I need to see it most and he always walks past me in exacly the same spot! It's like he's been put there for me.

I don't know about you but I believe in angels and I swear I see weird little signs like this quite often. I like to think it's a message from the winged ones telling me all is ok. Yesterday when I bumped out a negative thought from my mind and refused to indulge it I was rewarded the very next minute. When I went to put money in the parking meter - there was a ticket poking out of the machine paid in full for the next hour and a half!! I looked around to see if it was a trick or there was a camera....nothing! I just giggled, accepted and placed it on my dash (it had half an hour to go when i returned so I made sure I left it there for the next person - pay that shit forward i say !)

My god life can test us sometimes, I had one of those days today and I had to reach really deep to find my trust in the universe (even after my lucky parking ticket yesterday!) This was a tough one to trust - but that is exactly the point it is just another challenge from the universe to see how much you do trust. All I can say is - you have to keep trusting. Things feel shitty - trust! Someone let you down - trust. You dream of the world but all you see right now is a big fat nothing - trust. Trust - there is always a reason.

Trust that you may just see the man in the blue cap -

Trust!

xx

'NIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLY'- MY FIRST COLLECTION MOODBOARD!

So this is where it all began. One rainy weekend I sat on my loungeroom floor, incense and candles burning, magazines, pictures and album covers at my feet - Led Zeppelin on the stereo and my beloved Soho (my 10 year old Beagle snoring by my side) and I began to create my collection. My passion for 70's music in particular Led Zeppelin resonated as it always does in my heart, this is a band that beyond inspires me - sexy, soulful and hearbreakingly cool - I knew that rock n roll would always be at the centre of the Love Chile aesthetic. I've been on a diet of 60's/7o's music since I was a little girl - my parents shared all the greats with me. The Stones, Hendrix, Cream, Free, Marvin, Curtis, Hathaway! Love love love!

It was until after the collection that I made the following choice though - to explore a new culture with every collection - the rock aesthetic is always fused with a culture, a new place, a new energy. My first colletion had to be with the American Indian culture - I am obssessed with them. They are such a beautiful dichotomy, a cool contradiction. The live simply, beautifully and in harmony with nature but what they wear - their traditional costumes and jewellery are magnificently detailed and dripping with rich symbolism. Music to my ears!

So as I began to arrange my pictures on my moodboard the story of the collection unfolded. There will always be a Love Chile that results from each collection - a beautiful blend of the rock and the place -be it India, Tokyo, Mexico, North America, Egypt. A fusion of 70's rock and cultural style. This collection was to be the 70's rock and the Native American culture.

I decided that a 70's rock god meets a Butterfly Maiden (an iconic spiritual figure from the Native Hopi tribe) and they have a Love Chile. Since both elements - the 70's rock and the American Indian thrive on Freedom - I knew that would be the driving force behind the clothes - the collection is about a night to be free, and the pieces are what that love chile might wear - cool rock with an Indian ethos. Super sexy, fun and unique - like any good Love Chile should be!

The Original Love Chile! My Mumma Nadia circa London 1960's - think she's about 17! Even though she looks 10! I m hoping her amazing Polish genes will rub off on me and I will continue to look younger than I am!

I adore this photo and it inspired the launch of my label Love Chile. I see so much dichotomy, contradiction in her eyes. Hope/uncertainty, naivety/awareness innoncence/strength, sadness/freedom, a searching - so much in those young little lamb like eyes!

I feel this photo says alot about how we all can feel in life..I know I sure do go through those range of emotions and sometimes in an hour! What can I say I am a passionate being! But seriously I feel that's a big part of the love chile girl..she is a girl full of passion - love and light but not afraid to admit that sometimes there are clouds, challenges, obstacles..stuff to work through. The Love Chile girl has depth, a story and believes in and loves herself for who she is.
Thats all part of the journey. My Mumma has been through her fair share and thats why she is such an inspiration to me..despite her life challenges she has so much love in her heart, she will give you the shirt off her back, invite you in for tea and be your friend. Even if you've only just met - if she feels it, she feels it and she'll tell you either way. My Mumma keeps it real!
Happy with the simple things in life, she finds beauty in everything - her glorious home grown garden, a sunny day, a good conversation or a back breaking hug!
(But she totally loves the fine stuff too - don't you worry! She'll never shy away from a vintage bottle of something bubbly!)

She is gifted, honest, kind, thoughtful, creative, elegant, outrageously fun to be around, the life of the party, an amazing cook and oh that one of a kind laugh! She is THE Love Chile! She is my brand and I am so proud she chose me to be her daughter.

I love you Mumma

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Ladies and Gentleman Mr Robert Plant!!!
The ultimate Rock God and frontman of Led Zeppelin....could he be any hotter!! A constant source of inspiration for me....amazing

BORN OF FREE LOVE!

Welcome to my new blog...Love Chile Style. My name is Faye De Lanty

Love Chile is my label www.lovechile.com.au it's all about freedom, fun and self expression. It's a womens label dedicated to inspiring and encouraging women to chase their wildest dreams.
Fashion is a fabulous form of self expression. It's our message to the world without words. I can't think of a better way to say what you feel through what you put on your body.
Do you speak fashion? I am fluent!!

My dream with my blog is to share my message, my story, my journey. I want to share the creative process of building a brand, designing collections, being creative and revealing what inspires me, excites me, ignites me. Revealing what's in my heart and my thoughts, to be real! To be me!
I also look so forward to capturing your story and finding wonderful tales from all walks of life. To discover what you have to say.

So shall we begin?!!

Well the title of this first post says it all...I am born of free love. I am a Love Chile. Born in London in 1976 to fashion free spirits! There could have been no more perfect name for my label Love Chile. I chose to spell Child with a E because Chile is a 70's slang word for Child - a term used alot in 70's rock n roll - ie. Jimmi Hendrix "Voodoo Chile"

I couldnt love 70's rock more if I tried...in particular Led Zeppelin - ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Don't get me started...anyway let's take this slow...I dont want to tell you everything in one hit...perhaps I'll just leave you with the Love Chile verse

"Born of free love
She dances to her own beat
A free spirit
Brave enough to be who she really wants to be
Precious Love Chile
She is fearless, she is free
Join the dance dear one and
Run Wild My Love Chile"

xxxx