there are no words and there doesn’t need to be any.
“I’m interested in designing for posterity. People who buy McQueen are going to hand the clothes down to their children, and that’s very rare today.”
—Alexander McQueen (Harper’s Bazaar)
images taken from nytimes.com
Filed under: fashion, how i met your mother | Tags: elvis; mary kate olsen, inspirations; how i met your mother; billie piper; rachel zoe; vogue
Filed under: elle magazine, fashion, other blogs/sources | Tags: elle uk; natalie portman;
natalie portman is featured in the febuary issue of Elle UK and she looks simply gorgeous. i hate that sophisticated magazines (and by sophisticated, i mean magazines that serve a higher purpose than celebrities without makeup and this omgz! teen talk that so many magazines are falling prey to) are focused on celebs but at least mags like Elle (and her international sister editions) are featuring actresses with talent, a brain and that reflect an traditional ideology of what it means to be a performer and a woman. These women are not flash-in-the-pan crap actors. They are not featured in OK! or any brand of American trash mags.
And the interview/writing skills of the Elle staff members are admirable and (aside from the giddy writer that interviewed Alec Baldwin a couple of months ago) intelligent. They don’t go all “OMGZ! NATALIE!” in gaudy font and they don’t harass about diet routines or drama…they treat the celebrity interview like any other journalistic piece–with respect.
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Filed under: elle magazine, fashion, shoes | Tags: elle italia; liya kebede; fashion; fashion editorials; elle magaine
new year. new approach to design, femininity, and accessories.
liya kebede, elle italia. the third image is my favorite because of it’s tiny glimpse of a rollerblade underneath her gown. art with a surprise. to me, this is what fashion editorials should accomplish. it should be more than the dress, the price, the model; rather, it should be artistic all the way around—what do i look at first, the model, the dress, the shoes, the background, etc? Hidden surprises would keep readers guessing/assuming/analyzing and make fashion a more approachable yet continually stylized art form.
Filed under: commentary, elle magazine, fashion, harper's bazaar magazine | Tags: commentary; fashion; elle magazine; fashion journalism; harper's bazaar magazine; new york magazine; tavi
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about Tavi, the 13 year old who stormed the blog world with her weird outlook on fashion. I’m not a fan of “let’s throw every pattern together” and call it fashion and just because a young girl picks up a couple of fashion magazines and looks at pictures of runway shows online doesn’t mean she’s a fashion journalist. 
i know the same good be said about me, but i’m not applying to elle or bazaar. (more…)
Filed under: chanel, fashion | Tags: art; fashion; chanel; christian dior; grace kelley; victoria and albert museum; glamour; yves saint laurent
There’s to be a glorious (and I am sure glamorous) style icon Grace Kelly exhibition in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum in April 2010. Called, appropriately, “Grace Kelly: Style Icon”, the exhibition will feature garments and accessories modeled by the actress when she was a Hollywood starlet as well as after she married Prince Rainier of Monaco. The collection will feature both public and private pieces; pieces fans and fashion devotees will recognize as well as private memorabilia.
Fifty outfits in total. Fifty beautiful amazing pieces. I only ever hope to have a collection one day when fifty of my own pieces can be considered style-icon worthy. There’s this gorgeous black chiffon from Rear Window and the gown she wore to the 1955 Oscars, where she won Best Actress.
Also in the collection are pieces by Branell of New York, her civil marriage wedding outfit, the “original Hermes Kelly bag, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, etc.
The collection is on loan from Monaco.
Yes, I will except tickets at any time.
http://boxwish.com/US/profiles/blogs/grace-kelly-exhibition-coming-in-the-new-year
Filed under: art, fashion, shoes, stella mccartney | Tags: shoes; fashion; stella mccartney
Oh Stella, Stella, Stella.
Stella McCartney is a dream. Ultra feminine and delicate, she defines female grace and elegance in a way I don’t personally see many designers doing. Maybe it’s my WGS background, but there is something about a female designer designing for the female body that I am more naturally drawn to.
Here are pictures from her 2010 ready-to-wear accessory collection (more…)
Filed under: art, fashion, shoes | Tags: art; shoes; Blahnik; shoes; fashion
I stumbled across this Vogue.com (UK) article/interview about Manolo Blahnik’s 2009/2010 shoe collection a few days across and I immediately bookmarked it. I don’t see an immediate future where I will be able to walk in, let alone buy, these shoes, but they are just so gorgeous to look at. These shoes are sexy, feminine, and classy even if women like me could only stand still in them. I’d like a Blahnik in my home one day, a mantel piece decoration. “Have you seen my latest Blahnik?” I suppose it appeals to the Carrie Bradshaw in all of us…ya know, if Bradshaw were still cool, less whiney, and would find a man that actually gave a shit about her.
All photos taken from http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/091016-manolo-blahnik-interview.aspx
