Love it or Hate it??? Furry Vests…
Isabel Marant is my all time favorite designer. Every time I go to Paris, I schedule my first day around making a trip to her store. The above image is an Isabel Marant ad from a French magazine. The most common high-street trend I saw was the furry vest. It’s kind of a weird trapper-chic look. I’m not a fur person (I only wear it if it’s vintage), what do you think? Love it or Hate it?
October 8th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
maybe if it were really vintagey-looking and worn with something more havisham/tenenbaum-y, like a slightly decaying flapper dress & thick tights…but as w/ the image above, i have too many “TECHNOFUTURE RAVE CYBERPUNK!!”-late-’90s traumas to pull it off, myself.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
love it…only if its faux fur
October 9th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
ah, fur… honestly, i love the idea of a warm vest. it’s smart, and like the mocassin/plaid lumberjack-ish trends.. i guess it’s a given. however, they’re so damn hard to pull off! i walk down the streets and see too many women confusing their sexuality for a trend.. (granted living in minneapolis, perhaps they truly are just cold.) for now, let’s just stick to menswear.
October 10th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
i love faux fur vests, and i certainly love them with the above sort of look just as much as i would love one with a crepey vintage dress and woolen tights. i love adding unexpected texture, and faux fur does just that.
not real fur, though. it’s so easy to cut real fur out of our lives, why not just do it?
October 11th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
yessss to the isabel marant! but no to the fur
October 12th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Normally, I would be opposed to this, but everywhere I see it done, I really like it. Fur, when done well, adds an interesting texture to an otherwise typical outfit (or couch, etc.)
Also, the Sart caught a great example of a fur vest. I love this outfit and this girl:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/Rw6Y9t-8PvI/AAAAAAAACPE/u7Nd8t3XyIk/s1600-h/P1w.jpg
October 20th, 2007 at 4:56 am
love it!