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In New York Paris Tomorrow
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Fashion has always had the power to transform. Consider: The little red riding hood made the girl who wore it look good enough to eat. A glass slipper and a ball gown dramatically improved frowzy Cinderella’s socioeconomic standing, while the emperor’s new clothes did the opposite.
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Louboutin, Big Old Lines, Neiman Marcus and Love

 Just another designer showing at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills? I think not!!! That 2pm - 4pm signing?  It looked like the line at Studio 54 back when Bianca and Halston were dancing and ...

04 feb 12

A Poetic Steampunk Hand Made Dress

Sometimes its just one poetic dress that matters. This one, one of many Jenny Eve lives with sold under the name of Madame Chic de France, link here.Her description ..."Black rayon/viscose fabric...

12 jan 12

Dancing Not Fashion, Perhaps A Myth Or A Fairy Tale

Sometimes its not about fashion, its about dancing. Or fishing. Always music. Archetypes, fairy tales and myths that touch our collective unconscious before morphing, but have mattered. Reaching thro...

12 jan 12

"Polka Dots Are A Way To Infinity" Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama. Avant-garde artist, fashion designer, writer, woman and now beginning a collaboration with Marc Jacobs that will be in shop in July 12. Clothing, accessories, bags ... art and commerce ...

11 jan 12

The Extravagants Of The Market: A Diana Vreeland Memo

Memo fromDiana VreelandFebruary 24, 1969Ithink that the most completely constructive thing that Vogue can do for itsreaders is when we show a group of inexpensive clothes for summer — we do agroup of...

10 jan 12

Forever David Bowie

David Bowies 65th birthday, Elvis Presleys 77th birthday and while its not Mick Jaggers birthday, he is a hardy 68 years old.Forever young ... but actually getting older. Azzedine Alaia, Rae Kawakubo...

08 jan 12

Cloudy Moody Skewed Beauty

Slightly ominous, cloudy dark beach days skew the light and the images are removed from anything banal. A plastic camera leaking light, a Holga or a Diana, with oversized square images shattering the...

08 jan 12

Lovely Aesthetic Ghosts

"... everyone needs aesthetic ghosts in order to live. " YSLRopes of pearls, little black dresses, white gloves, ruby red lips, Shalimar perfume, khaki and plain white Ts, corsets, ballet fla...

08 jan 12

Popovers ... Really

Neiman Marcus popovers are served hot from the oven, risen maybe 4" and accompanied by the most decadent amount of butter whipped with fresh strawberry preserves. Sumptuous, decadent and so satis...

20 nov 11

The Exoticism of Rifat Ozbek

“Four or five years ago, if you were lucky enough to meet Robert Forrest, the marketing director for Rifat Ozbek, he would give you a ticket to see the fashions of the Turkish-born designer. The smal...

30 oct 11

Campbell Soup Company: Lessons About Copyright And Art

That was then ... its very hard to understand fashion designers policy regarding copyrighted material being loosely woven into a work of art. Louis Vuitton sued, twice, a Danish art student, Nadia Pl...

30 oct 11 1 person likes this

In Which Chanel Diversifies: Holland & Holland

Chanel. Designer guns? Well actually yes. Chanel purchased the worlds finest, most expensive gun house in 1996. The kind of rifles and shotguns that can and do come in at over 100,000.00. Sport guns,...

30 oct 11 1 person likes this

the Haute Couture Silk Flowers & Feathers Of Legeron

Long ago, in the era prior to WWII, there were as many small houses in Paris serving the Haute Couture as there were crafts. There could have been several hundred small ateliers crafting hand-made fl...

30 oct 11 1 person likes this

Searching For Photographs Is Better When Youre Quite Organized ..

Artifacts ... the hubris of jpegs in iPhoto not categorized, lost amongst doubles and triples. The Antonio Lopez illustrations were stolen, the Missoni pillows Rosita sent one long ago Christmas wash...

29 oct 11

The Art Of Hogan McLaughlin

Hogan McLaughlin ... Large scale and sometimes not, finely detailed ink drawings. Very large scale, very fine. Extraordinary work.1. Dead Queen (8 feet by 6 feet)2. Insomniac Olympics (5 feet by 3 fe...

29 oct 11

Where Have All Their Names Gone? And Could They PLEASE Have Them Back?

Seriously, I dont remember, maybe I never knew, what happened at Romeo Gigli. One season my former husband and I were happily buying a collection that was just so good, the Milan showroom  bustl...

23 oct 11

Dear Levi Strauss, Time To Come Home To America

Alas. On May 9, 2002, Levi Strauss moved all production to China which sort of ends its American dream. Vintage Levis labelled Made In America come with premium prices, available at very expensive bo...

23 oct 11 1 person likes this

Wondering About The Impossibly Elegant Long Legs

a Salvador Dali imageMan Ray, Ingres ViolinThere was a moment that I flirted with having a tattoo, maybe a flower anklet that would peek past the bottom of black leggings. I couldnt decide on a color...

20 oct 11 1 person likes this

It Was A Very Good Year, It Really Was

These amazing images are from Franca Sozzanas first Italian Vogue in 1988. I loved the clothes that year. It was sublime and madly beautiful, intrinsically valued. Dolce & Gabbanas Sicilian Merry...

11 oct 11 1 person likes this

Charley Gallay At Bleicher Project Space

Bleicher Project Space presents for the month of October:Foto! Ray-Gun! Mambo!Photographic works by Charley GallayOctober 2nd – 31stOpening Reception: October 15th, 2011 5pmBleicher Project SpaceBlei...

09 oct 11 1 person likes this

The Incredibe Happiness Of VaVaVoom and Todd Oldham

A Todd Oldham moment? Well, maybe much more than that. Yes, the first thing you do is smile, break out into a tapping foot and then you stop. Va-va-voom but when did these happy, sexy, vibrant pieces...

09 oct 11 1 person likes this

Charles James, Halston, Diana Vreeland: A Little Known History Of Then

This was NOT what I expected. After watching the trailer for the Halston movie, I wanted to find photos of what I remember from my first buying trip: Charles James half-hidden by a newspaper, trails ...

08 oct 11 1 person likes this

Thinking About Dresses, In A Shop

Welcome to my inbox ... multiply this by the square root of a lot more and thats archived, tucked away, some with labels like Fashion or Taxes. An unlikely pairing but this is 2011 and anything goes....

04 oct 11

No Photography Please At Tom Ford

"I dont get the need for this immediacy. In fact, I think its bad," Ford said. "The way the system works now, you see the clothes, within an hour or so theyre online, the world sees ...

20 sep 11

Hogan McLaughlin, Artist/Designer

Hogan McLaughlin, artist/designer. In the extreme banality of this moment in fashion, while storefronts remain empty and fashion is priced by the pound, an underground of molten creativity has b...

14 sep 11

Fashion, The Front Row, Bloggeratti And Delicious Shops

Why a seditious Banksy? Seductive, pretty, familiar and dangerous? Perhaps a good old-fashioned twisted iconic image that is quasi-reflective of fashion sitting in the very front row.Lights, cameras,...

11 sep 11

I Love You New York

Free live streaming by UstreamI wish this were just another lame blockbuster of impeding doom. Go away, Irene, get lost. If you cannot take your pets with you - and they are very welcome at all ...

27 aug 11

The 411 On AA+ And Global Ping Pong

Double As are better suited to bra sizes, maybe shoe widths, than to Americas S&P rating. Denmark has a triple A rating and universal health care; the USA has lost its AAA and doesnt have univers...

07 aug 11

Amy Winehouse: Rehab and What You Must Know

Amy Winehouse is trending on Twitter because she is dead. Gutted, horrified, angry, sad, tragic .. the language of loss. A dozen songs or so that will live forever, while all hope for her is gone for...

23 jul 11

It Gets Better

I was just thinking that the hot days of summer, the rancor in Washington that doesnt end, the debates about health care and the days of guns and gold that have become ceaseless. Languid summery days...

23 jul 11

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