When People See the Woman Inside
Photographers: FionayEduardo Make-up: Jenny Sauceda Hair: Rachel Hopkins Stylist: Jared Martell This is but one of several pictures taken for an editorial in Glassbook Magazine. I wrote recently about what it feels like to not be seen, to not see oneself, for...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion Editorial Serious Ladies Fashion and Graphic Design Invitations to a Fashion Show Fashion Magazines Jefferson Hack Fashion Future The Future By Those Who Will Be Creating It Fashion Past Mary Quant Exhibition Callout Fashion and Craft Made to Measure Fashion...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion Favorites My Favorite Resort Collection (and no it's not Gucci) Fashion Editorial Rick Owens Makeup AW/2018 A Modern and Real Look at Underwear Fashion Film In Celebration of Black Fashion and Sustainability Biodegradable Stilettos Fashion History Victor and...
Inspire Me Tender
Photo by: Rachel Hopkins @rachel_hopkinshair “I always wanted to project my woman as a little fragile, someone who is not that confident and might be struggling.” — Rok Kwang Creative Director Rokh In the most recent bibliography I posted a link to a feature about a...
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Fashion Design Women of Character Fragility Sculptural Sublimity Fashion and Craft Feather House Entwined Fashion Disrupting Bodies: Design and Disruption Mindfulness over Wastefulness Fashion in Motion My Place
Earring Lust
Dinosaur Designs
Design Dreams
Transparency
Recently there was a cover on British Vogue that was much applauded for making history because it included a diverse group of models. Finally, the many articles proclaimed, diverse women are being recognized on the covers of high fashion magazines. “To me they...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Designers Worth Knowing Snow Xue Gao Fashion Design Thinking Convertible Fashion Thought Leaders Jonathan Anderson on Craft Fashion Spaces Home and Creation Fashion Stories The New Age of Fashion Publishing Fortune Telling Garment Poetry Fabric Tales
Navel Gazing
I feel like I need to begin this post with an apology for my neglect. So many of you took the time and wrote such encouraging and inspiring comments in response to my last post, I thank you. For the first time since I have started this blog I have missed several...
A Life of Letters
I have spent the entire month of shedding ending up having more work and the only shedding that has been on mind is how I might “shed” academia. I have been filled with ambivalence about that decision even though it is clear to me that something must give if I am to...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion Designers Alternative Luxury My New Favorite Brand Fashion Design Influences Parents Fashion and Beauty How to Get 80"s Hair Without the Perm Extreme Beauty for Tom Ford Fashion Styling Are Kimonos the New Spring Cardigan? Fashion and Design Craftsmanship and...
Finding New Layers
When one undergoes a process of shedding new layers appear. Somehow every day new and wonderful layers of the fashion system are revealed and emerge before me and become opportunities. This weekend I was privileged to serve as a judge and panelist for a Fashion...
Shedding: Notions of Perfection
This week I have had the good fortune to experience some thought provoking interviews. For me a good interview or any kind of interaction for that matter, is one that makes me have to think. The questions usually connect what is happening in fashion and society and...
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Fashion Week Shanghai Edition Shanghai Fashion Week Urges Young Designers to Return Home How Shanghai Fashion Week Got It's Groove Fashion Accessories Small Sunglass Trend Going Strong at Shanghai Fashion Week On the Street Shanghai Fashion Week Vogue Italia Coverage...
April: The Month of Shedding
I am wearing many layers here and it feels so very reflective of my life at the moment. There is an unpredictable part that is mirroring the weather as I look out my window and see snow this second day of April. Layers become an adaptation and way to cope with...
Context: Me Being Dressed In
This week as I continue to evolve, with the help of my readers, an identity driven conception of personal style I am struck by the importance of context. I am thinking about it’s use as an an analytic lens with which to expand the way I look at at a fashion show or a...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion Spaces Issey Miyake's Timber Townhouse Fashion Week Tokyo Enhance Mint Designs Low Classic Fashion and The Hunt Thrift Stores NYC Insider's Guide to Vintage Shopping in NYC Best On-line Shops Vintage and Consignment How to Find the Most Unusual Vintage Costume...