Accidental Icon: Creative Recycling and Style
"You have a starting point but you don't know the outcome-at least I don't." Helmut Lang A characteristic of Helmut Lang's art work is the mixing of old with new materials and the creation of something innovative through the process of layering and being...
Accidental Icon: Helmut Lang’s Slightly Different Take on Creative Destruction
“I don’t like to throw things away, but I also have the ability to end chapters of my life.” Helmut Lang Creative destruction is a process through which something new brings about the end of whatever existed before it. There is something about it as an economic term...
Accidental Icon: Coda On the Fence Wearing CDG
“Tachiagari” and "Kachikan" Although I love the option of on-line buying, I prefer the experience of walking into a brick and mortar. Because of the role my clothing plays in the performance of my life, part of that is the actual experience of going into a beautifully...
Accidental Icon: Dressed in Comme des Garçons 2
There is nothing like a chic black wool ensemble to keep you warm in winter. In this photo I am wearing a CDG midi skirt and top. I love the velvet collar on the top and the ragged trim. The top looks like a jacket but actually goes over your head like a shirt (always...
Accidental Icon: On the Fence Dressed in Comme des Garçons
This week I return to my academic life after semester break. Classes begin and other activities begin to ramp up. I must confess I am "on the fence" about returning as this has been a very exciting month for Accidental Icon. I had the experience of having my first...
Accidental Icon: Coda Essentially agnès b.
Is it Really About Young Versus Old? There was much internet “breaking” this week about older persons finally being recognized by the fashion world. First there was the amazing face of Joan Didion, a writer of substance, in a campaign for Céline. Next the songwriter...
Accidental Icon: Essentially agnès b. 2
My favorite "essentials"…long sleeved white T, black trousers and of course eyewear! The new face of cool…Joan Didion. Another victory for Iconic Girls and let's add Phoebe Philo to the list of thinking designers.
Accidental Icon: Essentially agnès b.
"I want to make clothes that can be kept for a lifetime." Agnès b. There have been many conversations in the blogosphere of late about wardrobe “essentials”. The word essential means “a thing that is absolutely necessary”. In fashion it usually means timeless...
Accidental Icon: Coda Reflection
Although I have only been blogging for 4 months, I thought I would end the old year and begin the new with a look at some of my favorite moods and outfits. Thanks and Happy New Year to all my readers, fellow bloggers and friends. A special...
Accidental Icon: Reflection
The end of the year is a time to acknowledge accomplishments and to set new goals for the year ahead. This process can be done in a way that is either liberating or oppressive. The project I started in 2014, and have been sharing with you, was to re-invent the way I...
Accidental Icon: Christmas Hiatus
Back on Monday! Taking a Christmas hiatus and recovering from grading papers, last minute gift shopping in the rain and a fabulous day with family. Thanks for all of your comments and encouragement. You are all my inspiration.
Accidental Icon: Angels We Have Heard on High Part 2
So although my post about the Victoria’s Secret “Angels” admonished my audience to not compare and have fun being who you are, I am breaking my own rule and am going to compare myself in this post to the “Angels” in the VS holiday video . The “Angels” are dressed in...
Accidental Icon: Coda Angels
Tonight the angel becomes a mortal and goes to her holiday party in head-to-toe Issey Miyake. If you are curious about Accidental Icon and want to read more about her and her approach to fashion go to her interview by Sylvia on 40+ Style
Accidental Icon: Angels We Have Heard on High
For the last couple of weeks, “Angels” have been the star of the media. In what is referred to as the “Superbowl” of runway shows, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show starring supermodel “Angels” was held in London the first week of December and televised everywhere...
Urban Sentiments: Coda Three Iconic Girls Part 3
Perhaps the thing I love most about PJ Harvey besides her ability to enable one to express the darkest, fiercest, woman anger in the most cathartic way, is that she is constantly re-inventing herself. She has done this throughout her 20+-year career with both her...
Accidental Icon: Three Iconic Girls Part 3
Skirt Issey Miyake, Scarf Timothy John, Boots Chloe For PJ Harvey, Patti Smith and Ann Demuelemeester churches have been a site of and location for creativity. Patti Smith had her first reading in St. Mark’s Church in New York City in 1971. This month she will be...
Urban Sentiments: Coda Three Iconic Girls Part 2
LunaLuz shirt dress, Jil Sander oxfords For me there is nothing more stimulating, potentially transcendent and pleasurable than collaboration. In order for collaboration to go beyond merely working together to the achievement of something truly innovative, the...
What She Wore
Bag CDG “It’s about being conscious of who you are and using all the strength you have to communicate that.” — Ann Demeulemester talking about Patti Smith in the New York Times This bag is made of the softest lambskin and molds to whatever I choose to put inside. I...