Archive for the 'Fashion' Category
Monday, October 8th, 2007
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?
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Anna Sui gave these t-shirts as a part of the goodie bags at her Spring 08 show. The shirt bears the faces of Don and Jin Chang, the owners of Forever 21. The shirt says, “thou shalt not steal”. I love it.
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Over the holiday weekend Leo and I have become obsessed with the
AMC show, Mad Men. It’s one of the best shows I’ve seen in a while, and the costume design makes it doubly worth watching. The show is based on the men in the ad agency profession in the 60’s, and highlights the good and bad of that period in terms of workplace ethics, gender roles, and fashion.
After watching the show, I’ve been increasingly interested in all the slimmer retro shapes that keep popping up for fall. The dress shown on the left is by
Generra, and the dress to the right is
Robert Rodriguez.
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Recreations of the classic oxford shoe popped up across many of the fall runways, most notably Marc Jacobs and Zac Posen. I am happy to report that this adorable trend it is now available for to the rest of us. While cruising Walnut Street the other afternoon, I stumbled upon these gray beauties. Who needs Stuart Weitzman when you have Steve Madden. What do you girls think?
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Denim has been pretty calm for a bit now… Lately we’ve been battling with the idea of wide leg jeans (which no one ever wears on the street) and colored jeans (which seem like a good idea, until you get in the changing room)…but now we have a new debate on our hands. What is going on with acid-washed denim? I tried on a pair this weekend to see what the fuss was about. I hated to actually like them, but I did really like them. But in the end, I walked out of the shop empty handed (but only because they were too long, and they had pesky ankle zippers). So what do you think, love them or leave them?
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
I never really paid much attention to Paul Smith (I thought he just did stripes, or something…) but these days people are always going on about him. So when Joy posted about the Pink line I decided to check it out. Some of the photos are super cute, although I always fall for any sort of nature-y fashion shoot.
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
I’ve been doing a lot of swimsuit searching lately in preparation for my honeymoon in Italy, and the twist bandeau tops are by far the cutest new swim shape. This shape is super flattering for so many body types, and it’s sure to keep away nasty tan lines. This one pictured here is
Tommy Bahama (available at
Nordstroms). I recommend sizing down so that your top doesn’t slide off.
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
I love the british shop Toast’s on-line store. I caught sight of it over on Lena’s blog. I love the above caftan and the below beach items, so cute!
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Love in a bag. Recently while Leo and I have been planning our honeymoon to Italy, we realized we needed some ‘grown-up’ luggage. I came across this amazing Diane Von Furstenberg
suitcase the other day, and just fell in love. It would be so easy to find it twirling around the luggage carousel! Oh well, enough dreaming. We ended up getting a very sensible set of swissgear cases, which are good in their own right.
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
I love
Olly and Suzi’s new t-shirt collection for
Topshop. In such a pro-green fashion moment, this collaboration is wonderful (and dare I say, grossly trendy). But regardless, I love Olly and Suzi’s drawing style as well as creative concept. The two met as art students and have spent their creative careers approaching wildlife in it’s natural habitat, and together working to ‘capture their prey on paper’. Check out their book
here, Olly and Suzi: Arctic, Desert, Ocean, Jungle.
Posted in Cute(t) , Fashion Trends(t) , Prints(t) | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
So maybe I’m a little late on this…but in my defense, they’ve always been around. I finally caved and bought a pair the other week at the shore, and I have to say they are the first pair of grown-up sunglasses I’ve ever owned (by grown up, I mean comfortable and functional). I always toyed around with vintage DVF’s only to suffer from looking way too much like Nicole Richie with the huge bug-eyed glasses. Oh well, now I just look like Tom Cruise in Risky Business.
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
While searching for the perfect summer dress, I stumbled upon these adorable nautical-inspired dresses from
JCrew. I love the way the large conversational prints are used in a new way to reinvent these classic summer dresses. I especially love the anchor shirt dress!
Posted in Cute(t) , Fashion(t) , Prints(t) | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Call me crazy, but all of a sudden I’m totally into woven shirts. I’ve always held a grudge against them…growing up I had to wear collared shirts to school every day as part of our dress code. Following that as I approached college, I rebelled and cut the necks off of all of my shirts. Then landing a job designing garments, I struggled through designing woven shirts, and worst of all trying to draw a collar accurately (very challenging, try it you’ll see). And after all that, I actually bought one the other day, and I can’t seem to take it off.
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
These days I know way more about suits than I ever thought I would. With our wedding coming up, Leo and I have searched high and low for the perfect suit. Although we didn’t end up with a
Band of Outsiders suit, I must say they do make the most amazing pieces. Their cuts are amazingly slim and they seem to be one of the only brands that cater to young stylish men. The other thing to love about them is their website, it’s a blog. And even more love-able is the fact that they are preparing to launch a women’s wear label, ‘Boy’ which will debut at Barney’s sometime real soon.
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
The other day when I was so taken with Kate Moss’s graphic identity, I had no idea who to thank for all it’s lovely-ness. Turns out British graphic designer Peter Saville in conjunction with Paul Barnes is responsible. You may have seen Peter’s work on album covers for bands such as Joy Division and New Order. Basically his stuff is amazingly rad, check out some more of his work
here (Designed by Peter Saville) or
here (co-author of Visionaire 36).
Posted in Fashion(t) , Art(t) | 2 Comments »
