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Analogue Chic
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I'm a stylist and designer with a subversive streak. Fashion should be fun and fortifying, not mean or oppressive. I write about fashion, textiles, sustainability, social responsibility, and body image.
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Style Inspiration: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

…for the Elderly and Beautiful. You know who you are. This was my reward for the end of my first year at fashion design school. Once again, Hubby and I were by far the youngest people in the th...

15 may 12

What I wore: Freedom!

It was my first moment of freedom since starting fashion design classes last September — literally, since I had just finished my last exam online for Fashion History that morning. Can you see t...

13 may 12

Let’s hang out!

Friends at Deauville, photo by the Seeberger brothers, 1930s. Sizzling upcoming events in the Danbury area – hope to see you there!

10 apr 12

Finally: New York City’s Easter Parade

Its not just an expression or a song lyric– the Easter Parade is real! Ive been talking about the NYC Easter Parade for years– witness this post from 2009 which did not survive the trip t...

10 apr 12

Peep this trend: The Peplum

Please welcome my newest guest writer, Bethany! – Allie   Fashion: Sometimes new, sometimes old, often reinvented, it’s ever-changing. A current trend that is showing up on red carpe...

09 apr 12

Fashion Smackdown

I mentioned in my school-related blog the annual fashion face-off that is Fusion. Take a peek at my photos from the show!   Ugh, sorry that is a Flash slideshow. If it doesnt work for you, you c...

14 mar 12

Street Style: NYC Outerwear

I had a chance to go to New York City for purely social reasons (rather than school) a couple of Saturdays ago. I got tickets to Fusion, which is the annual Parsons vs. FIT fashion show competition (...

13 mar 12

Printemps a Rochefort – Spring in Rochefort

I recently watched Les Demoiselles de Rochefort – The Girls of Rochefort, an adorable 1967 French musical starring Catherine Deneuve and her sister Francoise Dorleac as twin sisters with song a...

12 mar 12

Style Liberator: Iris Apfel

Golly, is fashion having an Iris Apfel moment, or what? (You can read my tribute to her style verve here. And more background here.) She launched her jewelry line on the Home Shopping Network last ye...

17 jan 12

Street Style: Oil Change

Totally inspiring decor in the waiting room at Rapid Lube on South Street in Danbury. Such a very pleasing combination of colors, grounded by the black cabinet.   Image via Color Collective. ...

10 jan 12

School Daze

Want to see what Ive been up to at Parsons? Take a peek at my school-specific blog, fAAShion Student, updated randomly, and pretty much not at all from midterms to finals… ;)

10 jan 12

What I wore– for cocktails and white tie.

For my friend Geoffs birthday party. On the left: before I left the house. On the right: at the party. Im wearing : a very mini halter dress by Babooshka Boutique : a pleated tulle A-line skirt, acqu...

25 sep 11

Street Style: Sweet, tart*.

*As in, sour/tangy, not the euphemism for a promiscuous woman…   Acid yellow-green with deep plummy purple.   This color combo was being rocked hard by South Asian girls this week. Th...

24 sep 11

Retrospective: Lorraine Budny, RIF*

*Rest in fashion. Last month saw the passing of New York fashion institution and Kent, CT resident Lorraine Budny. Mrs. Budny was raised in New England and became involved in the New York fashion ind...

19 sep 11

Twitter: the busy woman’s blog

Bird as shoe as bird illustration by Charrow - check her out! Are you missing the bygone days of juice, fashiony Analogue Blogue? Yeah, me too. Did you know you can get more Analogue chic-ness via Tw...

16 aug 11

Photoshopping the way to “perfection”

              Ralph Lauren ad, 2009 via Psychology Today Airbrushing. False advertising. Negative body image. The Barbie Effect. We are all too fa...

04 aug 11

Skirt power!

Via Advanced Style.   You all may recall my experiment with skirts and dresses earlier this year. Around that time I had a chat with a reader who wanted to re-incorporate skirts into her wardrob...

02 aug 11

Street Style: Shannon as Earth Goddess

I met up with Shannon again last week, and she was rockin the earthy vibes with this amazing embroidered tunic. I also love how she pinned a Celtic knot brooch to her jeans. The jeans: perfectly cuff...

27 jul 11

Guest Writers!

And the award for bestest blog readers goes to… Image via Marquis & Camus … Mary Helen and Lydia, for valor and bravery in heeding the distress call of a frazzled blogger/wage slave/s...

26 jul 11

Street Style: Blue and White Porcelain

I went into Office Max the other day, looking for a very specific kind of binder clip. Of course they didn’t have what I was looking for, nor did they have a couple of other things I was lookin...

20 jul 11

How to see the McQueen exhibit

Or, how to be a museum ninja. NOTE: This article was also picked up by The Mercurial. Thanks Amanda! 1. Plan your visit for a weekday, preferably early in the week. Weekends are definitely a bad idea...

19 jul 11

The Ballet-Fashion Connection: It will never die.

You thought the hubbub over ballet-fashion-body image-shoes was over, now that Black Swan has been out of theaters for a while. Well, apparently Im going to rub your nose in it again…   Yo...

13 jul 11

Street Style: Wallpaper

Ch. 1 This building greeted me and Hubz as we pulled off the highway into Philadelphia last weekend. It’s located on Vine Street, just north of Chinatown. I can’t tell if it’s actua...

06 jul 11

How Not to Dress Like an Old Lady…

…even if you are one. Here is interior decorator and NYC social fixture Iris Apfel, photographed by Roger Davies for the June 2011 issue of Architectural Digest. “…Someone for whom ...

06 jul 11

What happened to the Analogue Chic Amazon Shop?

They dont wanna play with us anymore. Here is the actual letter I received regarding the end– just for Connecticut residents– of the Amazon Affiliate program .   Hello, Me: O hai. Fo...

06 jul 11

The Analogue Chic Guide* to Philadelphia

*Not at all exhaustive.   Thanks to my husband’s employer, my vacation this year was a  long weekend in Philadelphia. That is not a complaint, in any way, except that he was working m...

29 jun 11

What I Wore: a new take…

Its been a hectic few weeks, with multiple jobs, as well as wacko weather, prohibiting me from getting quality photos of my more stylish outfits. So I decided to go analogue, and do some quick sketch...

22 jun 11

Danbury Street Style: Shannon on Main

They say necessity breeds creativity. I swear, street people in Danbury are better dressed than most people who have a lot more resources. Just look at who is featured in my past street style photos....

21 jun 11

Not trashy: Fashion fun at Ideat Village’s Project Walkway

Oh my! This almost turned out to be the first week in a good long while where I didnt post at all! (Help a sister out, yall.) Wednesday night, I stayed out way past my bedtime to participate in Proje...

17 jun 11

What I Wore: Marie Antoinette’s Half Birthday Picnic

Im sure you saw my little note earlier about the costume picnic I planned in celebration of Mary Antoinettes Half-Birthday. In spite of the glorious weather and my mad marketing skills, we had less t...

09 jun 11

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