Accidental Icon: Friday Fashion Bibliography
As the week progresses in intensity I find myself having less time to read through many of the interesting articles and features about fashion that come into my feeds and mailbox. I have always appreciated those bloggers who do the work of curating and suggesting...
Accidental Icon: Details Pertaining to Choice
Detail: Accidental Icon Wears Black wool jacket: Yohji Yamamoto, Black wool trousers: Y-3, Cotton deconstructed wrap blouse: Ivan Grundahl, Suede booties: Sigerson Morrison, Handbag: Lonchamp Le Pliage My choice of a look today began with a pragmatic...
Accidental Icon and Fashion as Communication: Artist Michelle Pred Reminds Us We Have a Choice
Fashion and art share many similarities: both require the material manifestation of an idea, both are the end products of process (as I wrote about last week), both are tools of communication and both have a relation to commerce in ways that impact their conception....
Acidental Icon: With a Little Help From My Friends
Today marks the first 6 months in the life of "Accidental Icon". I have learned so much, had some interesting experiences and met so many wonderful people. It is hard to believe it is just a very short time because it feels like so much has happened. So to mark the...
Accidental Icons: Details Pertaining to Process
Detail: Accidental Icon Wears Shirt: San Francisco Shirt Company, Trousers: Elm Design, Sweater: Junya Watanabe, Boots: Schott Detail: Margo Wolowiec Corrections and ExposuresThe painted corrective marks such as the x below mirror...
Accidental Icon: Pertaining to Process
This weekend I had two experiences that seemed to help me find my way through the pull to retreat and the melancholic mood I have been in lately. Not surprisingly, one experience was related to art, the other to fashion; though you could say that the fashion event was...
Accidental Icon: Thinking About Coats and Cocoons
Perhaps it is the bitter cold of New York today, or the coats that caught my eye as I was trying not to look at social media during NYFW, but today I find myself obsessed with coats. So I have to confess that even though I said I was going to ban myself from from...
Accidental Icon Takes A Reflective Approach to Fashion Week(s): Going Off the Grid
Usually when I look at my Instagram and blog feed I am visually inspired and prompted towards reflection. As it happens I will often feel both stimulated and soothed. However, something changes whenever it comes to fashion week and the same images or video clip...
Accidental Icon Wears Stutterheim: Experiments With the Realm of Rain and Darkness
Melancholy is an emotion often occasioned by people or places. Melancholy also can be experienced as longing, yearning or missing something. It is considered to be a mature response to loss after the process of feeling sorrow and deep sadness. The story of the genesis...
Accidental Icon Wears Stutterheim: Off the Rails
Raincoat Stutterheim, White Shirt Hache, Sweater Ann Demuelemeester
Accidental Icon Wears Stutterheim: Embracing Melancholy and Accepting Rainy Days
December and the beginning of January was somewhat of a euphoric period for me. Many mentions on blogs (thanks to all), being named on top instagram account lists, photo shoots and some fun collaborations. There were many visitors to the blog, lots of buzz and...
Accidental Icon: Coda Who Is Andre Walker?
“Everything I’ve learned until now, I’ve learned from having a lack of knowledge.” Andre Walker The dress I am wearing in this photo is from the collection And Re Walker featured at Dover Street Market. I have to confess until buying the dress I had never heard of the...
Accidental Icon: Details National Guard and/or Avant-Garde?
“It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she...
Accidental Icon: Yohji Yamamoto National Guard and/or Avant-Garde?
"I make clothing like armor. I wanted to protect the clothes themselves from fashion, and at the same time protect the woman’s body from something – maybe from men’s eyes or a cold wind." Yohji Yamamoto Perhaps because of the bone chilling cold weather or maybe just...
Accidental Icon: Coda Fashion Reveal and/or Conceal and/or Fear and Shame?
This week in an email to WWD, Rick Owens responded to all the controversy surrounding his interpretation of reveal and/or conceal in the clothing he presented in his AW 2015 menswear collection. Reminding us that there are countless statues and sculptures in museums...
Accidental Icon: Fashion Reveal and/or Conceal? Sleight of Hand
The question of whether and how to reveal and/or conceal has been addressed by designers in countless ways from the use of different textures and transparencies of fabric, to draping and deconstruction. Junya Watanbe weaves web like holes into this sweater...
Accidental Icon: Fashion Revealing and/or Concealing?
This week my theme emerges from the controversy surrounding Rick Owens AW 2015 menswear collection. This designer has been challenging us for years to re-think our ideas about gender, age and sexuality. Although we should not be surprised to expect such...
Accidental Icon: Coda Helmut Lang and Creative Recycling
“Materials are just materials, they are here to serve you, the subject is what you want to express” Louise Bourgeois as told to Helmut Lang Helmut Lang’s clothing designs favored an urban, modern, androgynous and minimalist aesthetic. His clothes are...