Accidental Icon: Women on the Move
One of the things I love about fashion is its ability to present strangely compelling ideas that pull us out of everyday life. Fashion makes us want to tell new tales about the life we are living and the characters we are. Fashion also inspires us to develop new...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Warhol on the Runway Fashion and Commerce Balancing Business and Creative Learning Fashion Brands in Business’ Headlights Fashion Designers How to Empower Women Through Their Wardrobe Alexander Wang’s Exit From Balenciaga and Potential Successors...
Accidental Icon: Details When You Just Don’t Want to Get Dressed
Freud said that the purpose of life is to work and to love, "that's all there is." While appreciating Freud for intuiting what I now know to be structures of the brain, for many reasons he is not my favorite analyst. What he left out, and what my favorite...
Accidental Icon: When You Just Don’t Want to Get Dressed
There are just some days when I have to go out that I don’t want to get dressed. Especially lately when the new semester has kicked in, Accidental Icon is busy and family needing more than the usual amount of attention and care. Since becoming somewhat of a public...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Photo by Joey Cupelli for Bloglovin Style Spotlight Fashion and Art The Underground World of Suzanne Bartsch Fashion and Commerce Why Fashion Presentations Matter Now Styling Breaking Down the Elements of Artistic Vision Frocks Every Day to Play Fashion Designers...
Accidental Icon: Details One Design, Two Looks
Accidental Icon Wears: Sheer Silk Shirt: Ann Demeulemeester, Sheer Silk Tank : Ann Demeulemeester, Clone Pants: dogstar, Black leather tie sandals: Miista, Belt: Givenchy, Lucite Earrings: Vintage For more romantic looks on the lighter side see my Pinterest board,...
Accidental Icon: One Design/Different Looks
This is the second of my posts highlighting the Australian brand, dogstar. The creative director and designer of dogstar, Masayo Yasuki, inspired me with her words about her work and how it appears in the world, " I never fail to be surprised at the ways in which...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Marc Jacobs History at the Zeigfeld Fashion and Commerce Blogger to Brand Builder Why Women Should Embrace Self-Promotion Styling Beauty at Marc Jacobs Fall Style: Bombers, Shearlings, Shoes and Totes Beautiful Deconstruction Proenza Schouler...
Accidental Icon: Details Moving Forward but Looking Back
In this week's post I look back to AW 2015 and have some fun with a darker side of romance. Dark, moody, saturated colors that put me in mind of the Dutch painters is my palette. Dark greens, black blacks, burgundy (I think the fashion folks are calling it...
Accidental Icon: Fashion Looking Forward and Turning Back
Fashion Week is here and New York is buzzing with shows and events. Extending across the globe to London, Paris, Milan and other cities, Fashion Month will provide us with millions of images and videos. There seems to be more coverage of the celebrities that are...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Emerging Fashion Photographers Worth a Second Look Fashion and Commerce How the Antwerp Six Took on the World Grace Jones Blasts Pop Stars in New Memoir Styling Music Goddess Fall Fashion Effortless and Chic Designers The Most Iconic Moments of Hussein...
Accidental Icon: Details Beauty is Within the Person and the Design…Combined
This week I introduced you to the beautiful clothing designed by Masayo Yasuki, the creative director of dogstar, a company based in Australia. Already some readers have asked where they can get dogstar in the U.S. Although sadly not available in...
Accidental Icon: Beauty is Within the Person and the Design…Combined.
After a challenging summer, last week came way too fast. The semester began, projects that seemed like months away came due and events that I had long been looking forward to happened. I was feeling so overwhelmed I didn't even feel like dressing up. For the first...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Gold for the Met Fashion and Commerce What Givenchy’s Public Show Means for Fashion Ines de la Fressange for Uniglo Styling Like Wearing Black? You Are Probably Clever and Sexy Master Minimalist Fashion Designers Marvielab Accidental Icon Loves Fashion...
Accidental Icon: Details Taking Advantage of Limits
Accidental Icon Wears Photo 1 Shirt: Comme des Garçons, Pants: Ioanna Kourbela, Sandals: Elie Tahari, Earrings: Paris vintage, Sunglasses: The Optical Boutique Photo 2 T-Shirt: Play CDG, Boyfriend Jeans: Paige, Cardigan: UNIQLO, Sneakers: Play...
Accidental Icon: Taking Advantage of Limits
When complaining about feeling stuck or uninspired people will most often respond to you with the refrain to try and “think outside the box”. This catch phrase, attributed to management consultants, means to try not thinking of the obvious and to come up with...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art The Reunion Peter Lindbergh Fashion Lessons From Tim Burton’s Cult Characters Fashion and Commerce Business v. Vision? Balmain and Feminism Fashion Designers Atlantique Ascoli Alexander Wang’s Top 10 Fashion and Styling In the Mood for Pastels Who’s...
Accidental Icon: Details Life Happens
I have always loved a jumpsuit ever since they first appeared in the fashion scene in the 1970's. I have owned one in various renditions and for different purposes ever since. Of course I would love them because they are decidedly an in-between, both/and wardrobe...