Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Inside the New Balenciaga Exhibition Warby Parker Puts Rauschenberg in the Frame Fashion History Remembering the Revival Of Balenciaga A Recent History of Fashion Designers Inspired by David Lynch Styling Five Times Fashion Turned Trash Into Treasure...
Interlude
The last six weeks have been a whirlwind. Between end of semester grading, graduation and traveling for Accidental Icon I have only been able to take notes so to speak and have not yet found the right form to translate them. There has not been time to process the...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Today I am headed to London, Lisbon and Back to London. I am bringing my computer and hope to post but since life is full of "accidental Occurrences" I may or may not be able to Post Monday or Wednesday. Fashion and Commerce What the New Luxury Looked Like 16 Years...
The Way They Live Their Life
Photo"@maizhouyuan In the interview of Rei Kawakubo conducted by Paul Smith in Dazed Magazine, he asked her who her favorite artist was and why. Her reply was, "No one in particular. I am usually more attracted to the way they lived their lives rather than their...
Style Is Not Static
Photo: @maizhouyuan This week I have been inspired by Rei Kawakubo. Not so much her clothes or the Met Gala but more her philosophy and approach to fashion. In the two posts I shared about her in last weekend's bibliography, there were some points that jumped off the...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Commerce The Newness Imperative Emerging Design: Something New to Say Marine Serre Finnish Fashion School Fashion Designers With Something to Say Paul Smith Talks to Rei Kawakubo Haider Ackermann The Importance of Fighting For Your Dreams: Jeremy Scott...
Indirect Expression
Photo: @maizhouyuan I have been talking about emotion in class lately and teaching about how one can facilitate the expression of it. Sometimes there are no words to describe what is held in our bodies and then we must use what is known as "indirect expressive...
A New Category of Cool
I found myself intrigued by a quote featured in one of my picks for the Fashion Bibliography, Why the Coach Handbag is a Symbol of It’s Era-Defying Cool. The quote attributed to cultural historian Joel Dinerstein, succinctly states, “The French have chic…but Americans...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art How Irving Penn Revolutionized Fashion Photography The Japanese Cult Movies Outfitted by Yohji Yamamoto Fashion History A Brief History of the Staff Jacket Coach: The History of Cool Fashion Designers Meet the Emerging Talent from Russia’s Fashion Week...
You Never Know Until You Try
As many of you know by now I have done a campaign with Mango. One of the fun things about it, aside from hanging out in Venice California and meeting an amazing team of creatives, was getting to style some clothes from the brand and create outfits of my choosing. As...
A Serendipitous Precursor
@Monsierbrowniebrown I have been feeling a physical sensation of being pulled. I imagine it has something to do with my time traveling between 12 time zones but romantically I feel that a part of me has remained in Shanghai and wants me to return. I am...
Jet Lag
Is there such a thing as jet lag for a blog? I have been anxious the last few days about not being able to do my regular posts in my regular time frame. There is something about the rhythm and continuity of keeping to a schedule that feels important to me now as life...
Subversive Glamour
My apologies for being off my usual schedule. Fitting in everything and keeping priorities straight is important to me so after a one day "layover" at home on return from the conference at USC (which I will write about at some future point), I took a two day trip...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
This is why there was no Wednesday Post! Fashion and Cinema How to Wear Feathers Fashion History Iconic Model Muses Fashion Education Fashion Schools In China Fashion and Geography Offering a Glimpse of Eden Issey Miyake in Milan Fashion Details Jason Wu's Neon Garden...
Who or What Tells the Story?
Jacket: Hannan, Jeans: AG, Sunglasses: Efva Attling One of the best things about a good interviewer is that they ask question or make a comment about you that cause you to pause and reflect. Yesterday someone made a statement that I was a very visual person. I found...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion History Punk and Political History of Tartan The Untold Story of Martin Margiela’s Time at Hermes Fashion and Media Mastermind: A New Magazine Fashion Designers Wear Your Emotions Get to Know Ukraine’s 10 Most Exciting Designers Color, Attitude and Guilty...
Back to Basics
My normal state of affairs is always to be a woman in motion. Sometimes though the speed becomes such that I really want to pause and take a reflective break. Right now I am blessed with an abundance of experiences and new opportunities ranging from speaking to a...
Always in Motion
Jacket: Yohji Yamamoto Y's Red Label, Pants: Helmut Lang, Bag: Laurence Dacade Paris, Sunglasses: Efva Attling Last week when reading the articles on shopping in the fashion bibliography, I am nostalgically brought back to one of the classes I took at the Fashion...