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As it appears when you are busy enjoying the great outdoors time on the blog is lost. Hiatus apologies. I will be back soon..........................................
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Urban Legend.
I am all about the Urban. I live it, love it, breathe it, and depending how the wind blows me I even taste it. Naturally my penchant for Urban is simply stated as different. Yes, they have a shoddy mix of graphic tees (which for my friend B I can half-heartedly agree with you that they should go) however its the other clothes; the fancy emblazoned parachute tops, shift dresses and hand-crocheted tops that I go for. There is one particular brand that Urban carries and if you get a chance to get your hands on it (because the minute it hits the rack its gone). I receive the catalogue faithfully and when I do I immediately head towards Thayer and attempt(because I believe there are other girls who might happen upon it faster than I) to get my hands on the coveted articles. About one month ago I managed to grab a pleated camel colored top and a midnight blue crochet strapped tank; both by Kimchee and Blue (the brand I was referring to). When I walked to the register after contemplating whether or not I needed both (and I did because when I looked at the price I felt it was well worth it $39.99 each) the cashier sighed stating, "There she goes...the best tank ever and the last one in stock!" I love this store and yes again the graphic tees aside you can rock the high fashion at the right price. Not just an "Urban" legend anymore, eh.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tory Burch?
She is not exactly the most iconoclastic ideal for a winner of the CFDA accessory award but they gave it to her! Could it be that her style and resort collections are the epitome of high fashion at a whopping $125 for a pair of ballerina flats donning the imagery of her logo at a 1/3 lb its weight in metals? HELL NO! Is this board out of its mind? Were we running out of ideas this year?
Alas, let's give it up for the heiress turned fashion designer Tory Burch! Yay for terrible fashion and a complete lack of originality.
Additionally I suggest that the CFDA give out an award for the best dressed male designer; my clear cut choice would definitely be His Royal Highness; TOM FORD! Hottest gay man ever!
Monday, June 2, 2008
A Star Has Fallen Yves St. Laurent
Its to no suprise that my heart goes out to a man who is has and will always been an inspiration to my daily life.
Interview with Susy Menkes
So after all the false reports over the years of Saint Laurent’s passing, it’s finally true.
Yes, the rumor had been going around Paris and I sort of knew it was imminent. But when Pierre Bergé went to Canada last week, I thought it wasn’t going to happen any time soon. But there you are. He’s certainly going to be missed.
It’s a testament to his genius that many of the ideas that he sewed in his youth have been so co-opted by the mainstream that they have become it.
I think it’s so hard for anybody to understand now how revolutionary his ideas were. The idea of wearing pants to the office! And the stories are legion. Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.
It’s easy to forget that the concepts of ready-to-wear clothing and men’s wear were practically unheard of before him — as were licensing deals and “out” gay designers.
Absolutely. The fact that the French have been celebrating this past month the May 1968 riots is sort of brought home by thinking of Saint Laurent in that era. I was very young and even though I wasn’t actually demonstrating, I just felt that Saint Laurent was so in tune with what I and my generation wanted to wear and do. It was that sense of freedom — breaking through the barriers of convention, of class, of all sorts of things. And the clothes just went with it.
A lot of people, especially those who were introduced to him as an aging designer, forget that in his prime he was so adept at reading the Zeitgeist. For over four decades he embraced and referenced everything from Beat culture to drag culture, street fashion to menopausal chic — often to be met with opprobrium from the public and fashion industry alike.
What seems strange about Saint Laurent is that I don’t think he referenced what was going on in the same was as, say, Marc Jacobs references things today. It was something that was inside of him, inside his well-spring of creativity. He famously did a Porgy and Bess collection never having been to America, let alone to the South. And when he did that Russian collection — the one that was so amazing to me, the one that was full of Russian color taken to a luxury level — he had never been to Russia.
I have special memories of that collection because I was standing there, as everybody was, with my hands over my head clapping as these incredible clothes came down. It was hippy deluxe to the nth degree — the colors, the fabrics and the decorations. And, at the end of it all, beside me was a quite elderly woman with gray-rinsed hair. She turned and said in a bewildered way to the world, “No blazers! No blazers from Yves Saint Laurent!”
And that was the measure of the guy. You know, he could completely overturn his own inclinations and still be completely spot-on with what was going on in the world.
Yes, the rumor had been going around Paris and I sort of knew it was imminent. But when Pierre Bergé went to Canada last week, I thought it wasn’t going to happen any time soon. But there you are. He’s certainly going to be missed.
It’s a testament to his genius that many of the ideas that he sewed in his youth have been so co-opted by the mainstream that they have become it.
I think it’s so hard for anybody to understand now how revolutionary his ideas were. The idea of wearing pants to the office! And the stories are legion. Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.
It’s easy to forget that the concepts of ready-to-wear clothing and men’s wear were practically unheard of before him — as were licensing deals and “out” gay designers.
Absolutely. The fact that the French have been celebrating this past month the May 1968 riots is sort of brought home by thinking of Saint Laurent in that era. I was very young and even though I wasn’t actually demonstrating, I just felt that Saint Laurent was so in tune with what I and my generation wanted to wear and do. It was that sense of freedom — breaking through the barriers of convention, of class, of all sorts of things. And the clothes just went with it.
A lot of people, especially those who were introduced to him as an aging designer, forget that in his prime he was so adept at reading the Zeitgeist. For over four decades he embraced and referenced everything from Beat culture to drag culture, street fashion to menopausal chic — often to be met with opprobrium from the public and fashion industry alike.
What seems strange about Saint Laurent is that I don’t think he referenced what was going on in the same was as, say, Marc Jacobs references things today. It was something that was inside of him, inside his well-spring of creativity. He famously did a Porgy and Bess collection never having been to America, let alone to the South. And when he did that Russian collection — the one that was so amazing to me, the one that was full of Russian color taken to a luxury level — he had never been to Russia.
I have special memories of that collection because I was standing there, as everybody was, with my hands over my head clapping as these incredible clothes came down. It was hippy deluxe to the nth degree — the colors, the fabrics and the decorations. And, at the end of it all, beside me was a quite elderly woman with gray-rinsed hair. She turned and said in a bewildered way to the world, “No blazers! No blazers from Yves Saint Laurent!”
And that was the measure of the guy. You know, he could completely overturn his own inclinations and still be completely spot-on with what was going on in the world.
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