Let’s Keep Talking About Culture Change
I cannot tell you how inspired I was by all the comments on last week's post. I feel like we are on to something that is still becoming and not yet there. So that means let's keep talking. I am thinking of all the discourse this month on women's empowerment and how...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion and Society Where Did Issey Come From? The Museum and Fashion Dressing for Protection Fashion, Style and Inspiration Shape Shifting Fashion, Sustainability and Luxury Bite Studios Fashion and Memory One Last Look As We Know It Now Pink Sunshine Evoking...
We Need To Keep Talking “Style”: Part 1
“Fashions fade, style is eternal ” — Yves St. Laurent What I admire about this quote and this designer is that St. Laurent was challenging the very system that made him famous and was saying that style is situated within an individual and transcends time because of...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Paris Edition The Decorated War Photographer Who Shot Dior's Show How to Pretend You knew What Went On During Fashion Week The Obscure Rebel Who Inspired MiuMiu's Collection Best Paris Instagram Accounts to Follow Fashion Streetstyle Fashion Muses Fashion Designers...
Land the Drone and Other Thoughts on Women’s Day
For some reason it has been hard to find something that catches my eye during fashion month. I might like a look or two from a collection but I begin to wonder if the props and sets are starting to be more important than the clothes as a way for designers to tell...
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Milan Edition Fashion Designers Pedro Pedro Angel Chen Atsushi Nakashima No. 21 Moncler Genuius Etro Ferragamo MSGM Ode to Milan Editors Picks Wallpaper Fashion, Art and Design Prada Set Building Prada Pop Art Fashion of Interest Moncler's Stroke of "Genius"...
Taking On Your “Red”
Today I had my first design process class at NYSD. Rather than start with a garment that inspires me and around which I create a total look, now I must learn to create from a concept. Our first assignment is to identify a setting that will become our concept and then...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
LFW Fashion and Art The Art Collective That Lit Up the Burberry Show Fashion and Social Media The Instagram Account With the Best Pre 2000 Fashion Fashion Editor Picks LFW Wallpaper Editors How LFW Went Niche Carine Roitfeld Fashion Designers Simone Rocha Ryan Lo...
Designer Wednesday
This week I really wanted and needed to feel comfortable. During NYFW a number of designers wanted to dress me for their shows and as honored as I was, It involved running around meeting Calvin with garment bags and at one point I had to change in a coffee shop...
Seeing Red
After a frenzy that began with a trip to Japan and ended with the close of NYFW, I finally feel like I can take back full ownership of my "red". I am owning it here from head to toe. I have re-connected with all my important relationships, my clothes (old and new),...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
NYFW Fashion and Art Daphne Guinness and the Blondes Telfar Clemens Talks Fashion and Art NYFW Editor Picks W Magazine Wallpaper NYFW FAVS Victoria Beckham Yajun Tibi Libertine Vivienne Tam Moon Choi Eckhaus Latta Snow Xue Gao Sies Marjan NYFW Beauty Bold Beauty...
Getting to Know Your “Red”: Here’s Mine
Wearing: Mother black jeans, Jacket: Vintage Marithé + François Girbaud, Vagabond boots, Alexander Wang satin shirt, Vintage Earrings and Sonia Rykiel bag, Red Lips: Burberry Military Red Welcome to all the new readers that found me due to a recent video on...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Fashion Design Invisible Details Nylon Icons: 4 Greats Re-Imagine Prada’s Synthetic Signature Fashion and Art Duane Michels + Loewe Yves St. Laurent: The Show Where Art and Fashion Collide Fashion and History Tracing Fashion’s Obsession With the Bob Fashion and Craft...
The Month of Red
Photo: Calvin Lom This month I decided to focus on red. Not because of Valentine's Day or the usual sentimental attachment to the color, but more because I want to reflect on passion, adventure and maybe even a little danger. A crimson red that is the color of ...
The Last “RE” of the Month
Right now I am sitting in a hotel room in Tokyo. Coming to Japan has been a long deferred dream. I think the calm and order of this culture is exactly what I need at this very frenetic moment. My “re” word for the moment is to re(flect). 2018 has started with a flood...
Weekend Fashion Bibliography
Photo: Maizhou Yuan Fashion and Art Fashion, Skincare and Art Naked Body as Canvas 5 Radical Feminist Artists Who Used Their Bodies as Art Fashion and Technology A New Tattoo That Can Control Your Phone Fashion and Inclusion Colorism Colorism 2 Nude Collection Beauty...
When My Two Worlds Align
Photo: Carmen Daneshmandi It is very rare that I find a skin care product, or any product for the matter, that produces an observable outcome and that has an origin and purpose that makes me feel passionate and inspired. I was recently introduced to a brilliant and...
Establishing a Routine: Skin
From the editorial "Force of Nature", Creative Direction @dte.studio Establishing a Routine: Skin In a wonderful book called, A Natural History of the Senses, the author Diane Ackerman, includes an essay titled, “The Skin Has Eyes”. Our skin keeps us in touch with...