Accidental Icon: Life Happens
This week marks the first year in the life of Accidental Icon. I had plans for a really over the top outfit, a cake designed to look like my sunglasses and was going to try my hand at making an animated birthday GIF. But in the same manner that all the wonderful...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Watch Greg Arakis for Kenzo Fashion and Commerce The Best of Berlin’s Independent Fashion Scene Are Unpaid Internships Acceptable? Fashion Designers 10 Things We Learned about Hedi Slimane Meet the Designer Celebrating Her Working Class Roots Ronald...
Accidental Icon: Details Wandering Woman
During the 1990's, I had a boss who was exceptionally brilliant. She was small like me and had a french gamine look to her. I absolutely loved her style and the clothing she wore. Her designer of choice was Morgane Le Fay. Morgane Le Fay was founded in...
Accidental Icon: Wandering Woman
Although I have lived in New York City for many years, the city still contains secrets and untold stories that take me by surprise.
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art A Guide to Museums Dedicated to Fashion Designers Is This the Most Fashionable Kids Book Ever? Fashion and Commerce Creative Wacky Warrior Will Uber for Models Disrupt the Industry? A Facebook for Watch Geeks Styling Rebel Heart Ziggy Chen Fall 2015...
Accidental Icon: Details Staycation
“For those wearing my clothes it is like stepping out of ordinary life into a dream” — Kenzo Takada Hot summer days in the city require thoughtful choices of cuts and textiles when it comes to clothes. Since black absorbs heat it is sometimes a challenge to wear it in...
Accidental Icon: Staycation
Staycation "A vacation that is spent at one's home enjoying all that home and one's home environs have to offer." For various reasons having to do with caregiving responsibilities, Calvin and I were not able to get away this year for our usual summer...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Yohji Yamamoto’s Most Iconic Images Transformative Power of Clothes Fashion and Commerce Shaking Up Fashion New Designers Insiders Share Top Tips for Success Why Fashion Retailers are Staging Food Experiences Styling 50 Best Little White Dresses...
Accidental Icon: Details The Other Side of My Coin
Accidental Icon Wears White Cotton Hooded Wrap Dress: Ivan Grundahl, White Silk Sheer Cardigan: Yohji Yamamoto, Sandals: Jil Sander Navy, Earrings: Monies For more beautiful white dresses see my Pinterest Board
Accidental Icon: The Other Side of My Coin
Last week I wrote about my fascination with the darker side of life. My very close friends, those that know me the best, call me the “Good Bad Girl”. This reflects the idea that there is another side of my coin, those moments in life that are full of lightness and...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art The Untold Story of New York’s Homeless Fashion Photographer The Feminist Artist Who Broke the Rules of Fashion Fashion and Commerce Quiet High Street Rebel COS Accelerates Global Expansion Jane Birkin Asks Hermes to Remove Her Name From Bag Fashion...
Accidental Icon: Details Taking Them Off
I have always been fascinated with the darker side of life. As I walk the East Village, reminders of what it was in the 70's when I visited tattoo parlors before they were legal, drank in seedy bars and had friends who lived in squats, brings back all the feelings...
Accidental Icon: Taking Them Off
For the last several weeks I have been giving myself the challenge of styling white shirts and jeans/denim. I have re-discovered the comfort of jeans, buying three pairs as I had not one in my closet. I have one pair of each style I have seen repeatedly marching...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art Instagram Star Also Known as @CopyLab Film Hong Kong Dress Fashion and Commerce How Do Independent Fashion Magazines Make Money? Nutricosmetics Promise Beauty From the Inside Out Fashion Designers Remembering Elio Fiorucci Annelie Shubert CFDA Vogue...
Accidental Icon: Details Displacement
Displacement I. the moving of something from its place or position. II. the removal of someone or something by someone or something else that takes their place III. the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from its original...
Accidental Icon: Displacement
I love living physically, intellectually and emotionally on the margins. It is always a delicate balance and I find my creativity emerges in the tension. Since the menswear shows here in NY recently, I have been obsessed with the brand Public School and the creative...
Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Art 3D Dream Girl by Nick Knight Fashion and Commerce Carine Roitfeld Expands Her Empire Japan’s Retail Culture Sets the Global Standard Conversations on Slowness Fashion and Styling A Fashion Magazine Lover’s Paradise Subjective Reality Miu Miu Fall 2015...
Accidental Icon: Details Sheer Delight
Scandinavian designer Johan Lindeberg once described his contemporary label BLK DNM as, “exactly what I want to see a woman wear.” The "white shirt" in this post is made from 100% silk with a round or claudinet collar and comes from BLK DNM's SS 2015...