Designer Wednesday…And My Obsession With Detachable Sleeves
Fall 2017-2018 #lunatica Alessandra Giannetti Most likely born from my preoccupation with long, oversized sleeves, my fall obsession has become detachable ones. My first experience with them was provided by my dear friend Mireia, of Milo' Tricot, who gifted me with a...
Bring it On
Today was the first day in months that I woke up and have nothing on my calendar except to write a blog post. In fact when I click on this holiday week, I see lots of empty white space. The reset began officially last week and started with a haircut,...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Photo by @maizhouyuan Wearing Faux Fur Star Camo Coat by @angelchenstudio Fashion and Sustainability Stella McCarney Creates Glamorous Faux Fur Do It Yourself For Minimalists: COS's Pattern Making Book Fashion Lookbooks Theory Good Wool Collection Maiyet Bozena...
Reset: A Sustainable Life
I looked in the mirror last Friday and was distressed at what looked back. My face was haggard and drawn, my hair long and stringy, my skin and eyes dull. My nails are splitting and I have been irritable and impatient. I have been stress eating things that are not...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion Styling A Tribute to Stacking, Layering and Loading Up Sustainable Styling Tips Sleeve It or Leave it Fashion Ecology Three Days to Butterfly: Tiziano Guardini The "L" Is for Live, Love, Laugh: L-Saha Fashion and Creative Non-Fiction The Jacket Fashion and...
Time to Get Up
Photo: Calvin Lom, Styling by me with clothes graciously lent and gifted by Baby & Co, Seattle As many of you know last weekend I was invited to Washington DC to give a TED talk. The theme was Superpowers and the idea was that we all have something special about...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion History A White Washed History of Denim Modest Dressing Blasts From the Past are Popping Up In Fashion Fashion and Art Nicolas Cage Inspired Suiting Fashion Interviews September Magazine Parody Fashion and Inclusion Why Haven’t Chinese Designers Taken Over the...
Designer Wednesday
Usually in exchange for an opportunity to wear the clothes of emerging designers, I request that they participate in an interview. This week I have been featuring a brand, Fors Nome, that is run by a mother and two daughters, each having a unique skill set they bring...
Streetwear and Meaning
I have been finding myself gravitating towards streetwear. I recently bought an Angel Chen "Fight Club" coat and was attracted to the brand that I am wearing in this post Fors Nome, (find out more on Wednesday) because of the logo on this beautiful blue coat that says...
All that Glitters…
Photo by: Gaelle Leroye Recently I was asked to comment for a magazine on the sequin trend manifested throughout the SS2018 collections. I restrained myself somewhat, speaking and approaching the topic from a minimalists point of view. However what came to my mind...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion History Why Contemporary Fashion is Looking to the Ethos of Margiela Fashion and Art Unskilled Worker Fashion and Design What Happens When Two Furniture Designers Walk Into Dover Street Market Fashion Designers Shanghai 8 The Studio K Pushbutton Perminute...
A Designer’s Process and A Reinvention Story
Recently I traveled to Seattle where I had the good fortune of meeting a number of designers: both fashion and jewelry. I was introduced to the very inspiring Joanna Morgan, a local jewelry designer. She graciously invited me to her studio and also agreed...
“New Cities of Tolerance and Creativity”
I have been feeling like I want to wear a black beret again. A beret and a black leather jacket. Once again I am up for a fight. When I was a younger social worker who frequented some very tough neighborhoods and advocated for and with young women and girls who were...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art % Fashion Museums to Add to Your List of Where to Visit Fashion Styling A City Slicker's Canadian Tuxedo Monochrome Fashion Inclusion, Sustainability and Social Welfare Diversity Report: If You Are in Your 50's and 60's You Don't Wear Clothes According...
Tangled Web: Design Theory
“Coco Chanel became important because she cut a jacket that allowed a woman to move” — Callidus Guild I have been quite taken with threads lately. During the past week I have taken pictures of the MOMA exhibition poster advertising Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Design Interdisciplinarity Fashion and Art YSL's Sketches for "Belle du Jour" Sculpture for Your Face Fashion and Commerce Creativity and Commerce Fashion Designers Balmain Dries van Noten Maison Margiela Cindy Sherman Celebration Debut Bohemian Travelers...
Neural Pathway to Personal Style
How I put together what I want to wear on a particular day is always a complex web (like the neural pathways of the brain) that spark and fire and contain equal doses of affect and cognition. New and productive neural pathways are laid down when we...
Identity and Choice: In Motion
In an article posted in last weekend’s bibliography, Osman Ahmed from BOF, writes eloquently about his take on the current aesthetic of style. The central theme of the article, using a line-up of young designer offerings as examples, is that in today’s very fluid and...