Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion History A Fiorucci Primer Fashion Designers The Power of Identity Inside Elie Saab's Atelier Fashion Week: Tokyo 5-Knot Ujoh DressedUndressed Growing Pains House Commune Fashion and Design Rick Owens Furniture Design: Organic Chaos Fashion and Sustainability 5...
Hair, Self and Society
This week I have been thinking about hair. Triggered by the article on my Weekend Fashion Bibliography I have been reflecting on my own hair(story) as well as the transformative power of a change in how you style your hair or a new cut. The article tells us that...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art J.W. Anderson: Disobedient Bodies Inside Disobedient Bodies Fashion and Music Furla Celebrates It’s Anniversary Through Nine Decades of Music Fashion Week Playlist Fashion History Who Owns Hoop Earrings? Fashion and Design Studio Maud Fashion Film How...
A Not Entirely Unfair Rejection
As I continue to interrogate my feelings about pink, I am struck once again with how the complexity of my profession always allows me to appreciate the transaction between a person and their environment. As we learn more about the brain, we also now know that these...
Professorial Pink
Wearing Brooks Brothers French cuff shirt, Corinne Collection pink sweater, Yohji Yamamoto belted long jacket, Prada mules, Monies earrings and Anne & Valentin eyeglasses According to W Magazine, Pink is the color to wear in 2017. Now pink is not often a color I...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Photo @toryrust for @barneysny Fashion and Art Fashion Photos That Look. Like Paintings Fashion Film Girlness: Celebrating Barbie’s Birthday Walking Fashion History The Enduring Impact of Christian Lacroix Punk, Pretty and Powerful: A History of Fashion Through Pink...
The Gesture
Photo and clothing: Vincetta Now that the big four fashion weeks are over and I can get a chance to really look, I am once again moved by the work of a designer I have written about here before. Today I am drawn again to the sociological intelligence of Demna...
My Day With Dries
Photo by @toryrust for @barneysny First my apologies for being a day late with my usual Monday post. As promised last week I have been doing research and getting lost in the world of Dries van Noten, perhaps to find a bit of myself. After my last post, Dries van Noten...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Fashion’s Dalliance With Dance Fashion Interviews/Film Virgil Abloh and Heron Preston A Guide to Indulgence Fashion Runway Best Things CR Saw in Paris Today Seeing Blue: Backstage at Dior Loewe Fall 2017 Wonderfully Weird: Rick Owens Haider Ackermann...
Clothes, Life, Dreams and Reality
Recently I had the pleasure of doing a project with the iconic department store of cool, Barneys NY. I was given the delicious assignment of choosing any designer in the store and styling an exclusive head-to-toe look. Then I was to take two pieces from the look and...
(Wear)house of Dreams
This weekend I got to go to an event that I was really looking forward to: a market show called Capsule. Capsule is a sort of launchpad and serves as an affordable start to break into the New York market for those brands that are just beginning to set out. As the...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Commerce Different Notions of Creativity Fashion and Art Watch the Trailer for the First Dries van Noten Documentary Fashion Runway Beauty and Brains Deranged Sophistication Alluring Ambiguity A Riff on Refuse Urban Tingle Fashion Alchemy Fashion Designers...
The Wizard
Yesterday I wanted to feel real, vulnerable yet protected. I wanted to be a woman in the city traveling through an ordinary day. I wanted to be the observer, not the one observed. I don't know how to use words to describe that feeling but I know that there are...
Ease is My Edge
I have been thinking lately about what gives someone or something an "edge"? What does it mean to live on the “edge”? Why does one designer seem to rise to the top, especially during a very visually saturated spectacle like fashion week? What makes a garment “edgy”?...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Claire Barrow on Leaving Fashion Week and Having a Show Simone Rocha’s New Collaboration 5 Best Soundtracks from NYFW Fashion History Dior Looks at decades of Fashion 70’s Fashion Found In San Francisco Attics Fashion Designers NYFW Altuzarra Proenza...
Fashion: Body+Desire
Last week I moved through life and the world of fashion at dizzying speed. There was New York Fashion Week, a trip to the West Coast, launch parties and popping up at a pop-up to see and support dear friends. I am part of the visual blur loosely called fashion that...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Photo: Heather Hazzan Courtesy of the All Woman Project Fashion and Art Ten Fantastic Fashion Documentaries to Watch Now Jessica Lange Reimagined as 8 Legendary Women New York Fashion Week Is NY Fashion Week Over? Fashion Designers Raf Simons Tears Up the Rule Book...
Two Birds One Stone: Emerging Designers and Valentine’s Day Plotting
Photo By Liya Liu So New York Fashion week begins and the whirlwind is even more confusing now as brands and designers are all over the map, literally and figuratively. Everything is up for grabs including deciding how designers want to show their clothes, where they...