Filed under: Christopher Kane
—> Christopher Kane F/W
—-> American Apparel
—>Barker Black (p.s. sorry these are man shoes –>literally<– )
Whoa….wasn’t that cool!
-Isabel
Filed under: Musings
elliot: I think you need to date a sarkozy
isabel: should i buy a rolex
elliot: probably
isabel: that is such a good idea
elliot: should i ask ” ” to get me a job as Steven Meisel’s assistant/lover?
isabel: this song will inspire you
Filed under: Musings
Cartier advertisement from 1985. I was -2 years old. The 80′s look like a lot of fun, I wish I could move there (you know, just up and go, leave everything behind…) I wish moving to 1985 was like moving to upstate New York or rural Arizona.
Totally in to this right now, might be due to the aforementioned decade. Mykita x Bernhard Willhelm collaboration sunglasses. Maybe when I move to 1985 I can wear these when I go skiing with my college bros in Steamboat and I’ll wear like a hyper-saturated purple windbreaker or something awesome along these lines.
Avid readers will know I campaign for EOR – Equal Ombre Rights. It’s a pretty important cause. Maybe more important than that damned Arizona Immigration Law drama which I know absolutely nothing about.
On the Alexander McQueen intro page right now, kind of cool, kind of reminds me of falconry for obvious reasons…which is really cool. Free endorsement deal for anyone who can e-mail me deetz on NYC falconry clubs. I want a falcon and I want to tie one of those silly pom-poms around its face and I want it to fly uptown and harass the people at the Met’s sculpture garden, then fly back to me and tell me all about it.
Dior Makeup Compact by Harley Viera-Newton – everything about this is just cool, plain and simple.
-Elliot
Filed under: We Hate Fendi Casa
So, let’s say Fendi Casa is a fat, 17 year old girl from, oh I don’t know, a suburb of Des Moines, who plays World of Warcraft and smokes Black and Milds and eats canned corn. Just picture that. Picture that fat girl running through her farm, oblivious to absolutely everything but her immediate periphery of grain, dairy, and rural Midwestern immobility.
Well, little did you know, Fendi Casa (the fat girl from Iowa) has a gay older brother! But not just any gay. Versace gay. His name, omg-ironically, is Versace Casa. He thought he could escape the mundanity of his world, of his sister’s annoying and tasteless presence, so he left for a big city – Memphis! Aspirations people.
In Memphis, he took classes at a community college for “fashion design,” and, barely passing the associate’s program, designed this lovely/stunning/haute sofa. I mean, talk about gorgeous. So Versace Casa is now considered a shining star in Appalachia’s elite culture diaspora, and he’s starting to make the bigwigs in on the East Coast tremble in their Balenciaga’s.
-Elliot
PS- this post gets so much better. I hijacked that image from Kanye West’s twit pics. Yes. And, he asked his followers, “is this sofa too hood?” I mean really you can’t invent this sh*t no matter how much Courvoisier you drink and joints you twist or whatever the f*ck the terminology is for that sort of thing.
VALENTINO. DRESS
ALEX WANG. BOOTS
THIERRY LASRY. SUN PROTECTION.
Tiefschwarz feat. Seth Troxler – Trust (Adam Port Remix) by Adam Port
Don’t cha wanna know what party she’s going to?
-Isabel
So. I watched the September Issue for the first time and remember coming to a few conclusions regarding miscellaneous fashion truisms, all of which I completely forget at the moment, but, like everyone else that watched the film, I developed a creative crush on Grace G. Everyone else, except Anna, blended together into this intense stare fashion show packing and unpacking whirlpool to the tune of a terrible soundtrack. I’m not going to write about GC because everything that there is to write about her has already been written, probably better, but I’d like to point out some moments of styling genius according to my underdeveloped [but] ‘fangirl’ editorial eye.
Raquel Zimmerman shot by David Simms wearing Christian Lacroix Haute Couture
Natalia Vodianova with Olivier Theyskens wearing Rochas shot by Annie Leibovitz
Kate Moss shot by Juergen Teller in 1990 something
-Isabel
Filed under: Rag and Bone
If you buy one thing, ever, that falls in to the “this probably costs way more than it should” category, you should buy Rag and Bone’s Peruvian Cotton T-Shirts (thank you Isabel for the gateway introduction to this new addiction of mine). They range from $80.00 to $135.00 but they are unrivaled. They are the “perfect” t-shirt. Everyone spends their sartorial life looking for their “perfect” things (jeans, shoes, sunglasses). Now I’m a little bit closer too the Holy Grail.
They have an elegant, simple, just-so-awesome seam down the back, and the sides are sewn together at an angle for a sheered off look. All in all, I’d pay way more for these puppies than $80.00 to $135.00
Just loaded up at Rag and Bone’s Christopher Street store for my upcoming trip to Marrakech. I need to look good for those vacationing Europeans.
-Elliot
Filed under: Isabel Marant
Isabel Marant is probably the French-est designer I’ve seen since I was last in France and tried to memorize various labels in little Left Bank boutiques. The categorization is a compliment.
Marant cited various inspirations for her three collections–which have 1. made female editors in Paris, London, LA, NYC lose their sh*t and generate at least 35 articles on the designer in various publications 2. featured those studded booties that have women cool enough to wear ‘em wait-listed for months 3. generated enough fame to open an enormous store in Soho on Broome. Who does that? Inspirations like, “Glam Rock Meets London Bad Boy” are fitting, check out this look from her F/W debut in 08:
Or this look from her S/S collection…
But if you look at the some of these looks from her latest A/W show…
…You might agree with me that Marant’s inspiration might actually sound something like, “I’m just cool, I’m used to having a table in the garden at Hotel Costes, Harbour Island is over even though I will go there during the Christmas season on an anonymous aristocrat’s Gulfstream wearing this fur pictured above, and I just make clothes I already have and have always worn.” Some women just got it. It might even be comparable to Christophe Decarnin for Balmain if you took away the ‘tude.
-Isabel
Filed under: Balenciaga, Photography, Stella McCartney, Steven Meisel, Yves Saint Laurent
I’ve got some time on my hands lately so I’ve been reading fashion magazines again. Remember thoooose?
Natalia Vodianova for Stella McCartney photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
Freja, Mirte Maas, Kirsi Pyrhonen and Stella Tennant all photographed for Balenciaga by Steven Meisel in what I think was the standout collection for F/W 2010. Like always.
Tiah Eckhardt for Eres (on a gorgeous carpet might I add) for Eres photographed by David Bellemere.
YSL with Daria
-Isabel
