Zara is coming!!

So i've obviously been living under a rock, but I only found out about 2 weeks ago that the Spanish mega brand Zara will be opening in Australia!! Even better, the first store will be in Sydney's brand new re-vamped Westfield in Pitt Street mall! Not only will it be amazing but it's going to be 3 levels of amazing, predicting to be one level for each women's, men's and kids stuff, with homewares hopefully crammed in there somewhere.

I jumped the gun a little and have been anticipating shopping expeditions at Zara before Christmas but was sadly disappointed to find out that Zara is expected to open in the second stage of the new Westfield due in April.

I'm sure that waiting an extra four Zara free months won't kill me but it sure does hurt walking past that giant 'Zara coming soon!" sign in the space where Zara will soon occupy.

For all of you unfamiliar with Zara, it's a little like Witchery with a dash of Country Road but so much cooler and loads more fashion forward. Classic, cool and cutting edge all at the time! Zara's design ethos is; runway to store floor in only 2 weeks! So it's all fresh new lines and pieces constantly, not to mention the affordability and quality of their clothing and accessories! Get excited, as i'm sure once Zara hits it will spread like wild fire - but you might just like it so much that you don't want to tell anyone, I understand!

You can start your love affair with Zara right now by jumping on the website and checking out the latest collection.

www.zara.com

On another note Hennes and Mauritz otherwise known as H&M is currently scouting for the perfect spot to launch H&M in Australia, I just knew it was on the cards!

H&M - I heart you!

So there was a serious lack of updates here for the past 4 months, my apologies - I was just having the time of my life driving all over Europe with my Danny in a little Peugeot 207 named Claudia - Seeing amazing things, eating delicious new foods, shopping in new stores, meeting friends both new and old - it was all too good to be true! And while I wish that it could have lasted the rest of my lifetime - here I am back in Sydney back to my boring old life, suffering from post holiday depression. Every now and then I have these flashbacks ... riding my bike through little backstreets in Paris, riding a camel named Shareef through the Saharan desert in Morocco, eating ice-cream on a pier in Barcelona - the list goes on.

However one of my favourite memories in Europe is falling head over heels in love with H&M, now for those of you who are unfamiliar with H&M. It is a Swedish clothing store that caters to men, women and children. They have all the latest styles and pieces at amazingly cheap prices! Think the wonderfulness of Ikea but relate it all to fashion.

I quite literally couldn't resist slipping into H&M where ever I happened to be, it didn't help my credit card that H&M has shops in almost every country in Europe either, but what's a girl to do? And at such reasonable prices, my baggage seemed to be growing at an alarming rate every with city I visited.

So not only do they have amazingly up to date fashion at very reasonable prices, they are sure to kit you out starting from your underwear right through to finishing touches like the shoes bags and accessories, they really haven't missed a beat!

But wait, I haven't even mentioned the best part, with H&M reaching such a large market of women and men all over the world top designers are literally fighting to design tweaked and affordable collections that are ready and good to go. Need names? Try Karl Lagerfeld, Jimmy Choo, Stella McCartney, Viktor and Rolf just to name a few.

But why am I rubbing this in? With H&M in over 37 countries and rapidly expanding - there's bound to be one in the works for Australia along the line somewhere - so get excited!

They are currently updating the website and have just introduced online shopping, however only shipping to the UK (big sad face!) but I can only imagine that it will soon spread and hopefully down under to our corner of the world -fingers crossed!

In the meantime go and check out their latest collection online!

www.hm.com

Enjoy!