December 24, 2010

December 10, 2010

rock and roll...

Lost Art

December 7, 2010

personal style...limi yamamoto...

style really doesn't get more personal than designing the very clothes that you want to wear...
limi yamamoto of limi feu






HOW COOL IS THIS WOMAN >>> 

she's like a japanese Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde and Debbie Harry all rolled into one...
*she's a rockstar...

Brandon Flowers - Crossfire



*lovely use of straps and rope in this video...

December 2, 2010

superstar...

safety pin by sunaokuwahara f/w 10.11

December 1, 2010

legwarmers...

 that don't look like rejects from a dance recital...
*leather straps!...
LIMI feu
F/W 09.10

buckle down...

LIMI feu F/W 09.10

November 24, 2010

happy feet...

jeffrey campbell booties...

October 9, 2010

yes, please...

***LOVE this!...


Ports 1961 S/S 2011 New York

October 8, 2010

October 1, 2010

uniform-ity...

cathy horyn said this look has

"the neat self-sufficiency of a uniform."...

Lanvin S/S 2011 Paris
*if that's the case then, sign me up...!

-love the brown/cocoa belt with the blue/teal dress...
-the flats sandals with ankle straps make it effortlessly cool...

*yep...this is my kind of uniform...

September 30, 2010

case in point...


'twilight of the ice nymphs'…yumi eto...
stylist...allegra colletti
photographer...denis horan
model...saskia slaaf

allegra directs...

"On dancing feet with ribbons flying..."

and...

saskia moves like a dream...


*dance training pays off...

September 29, 2010

witness...the future of fashion...

Gareth Pugh did not show this season...
he did this instead... 


innovative use of video...
never seen it done this well before...ground breaking work...




Gareth Pugh S/S 2011 Collection - Director: Ruth Hogben from SHOWstudio on Vimeo.

*also calls into question what it means to be a model...
it seems, in some cases, dancers would be more appropriate to showcase the clothing...

September 23, 2010

I walk alone...

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
- Goethe

and so on...

and so on...and so on...
the toggle trend continues...

Margaret Howell S/S 2011

September 20, 2010

volumptuous...

if you try to google that word...
this is what you get...

Did you mean: voluptuous  Top 2 results shown

can we please get this clear?...
volumptuous is NOT a word...
the word is voluptuous...there is no 'm' in that word...


*now will someone please give kim kardashian the news?!?!...
because i am starting to hear other dimwitted wannabees say it now as well... 
and no one ever corrects them...
please...
let's stop the madness...

can you judge a person by what they wear...?

*just a theory...

perhaps...
the more insecure the woman...the higher the platform...???...

September 19, 2010

word association...

*flocked type...
 

A DETACHER 
S/S 2011 invite
http://adetacher.com/

September 15, 2010

but in a nice way...

from wwd.com interview with actress Greta Gerwig...
WWD: Who do you think is crazier: indie cinema people or fashion people?

G.G.: I know more about the crazy cinema people. But I think fashion people and anyone who’s an artist of any kind, there’s a deep hole in them they keep trying to get other people to fill. You’re only around people who have the same hole, so then everyone’s just standing around waiting for people to validate them, so it’s kind of a lot narcissism and neediness. But in a nice way.
*oh yeah...really nice...
LOL...

September 4, 2010

August 29, 2010

streetstyle...limi feu...

*trying to get in the mood for fall...
was really happy to wear my limi jacket -
and in a way i have never worn it before...
it's been too long!

olv grn twill jkt w/giant safety pin closure by LIMI feu
dk denim cropped legging (rolled) by uniqlo
blue/wht windowpane check shirt by +J for Uniqlo
brn/gry stripe tank by H&M (not visible here)
olive lthr platform flats by Dries van Noten

August 28, 2010

August 25, 2010

rainy day gear...

*seems to consist of a green military jkt with drawstring...
very blue faded jns or green cargo pants
and some sort of luggage coloured shoe...and bag...


even the guys are doing it...

August 23, 2010

August 20, 2010

people got problems...

*once upon a time i knew a guy who worked at the YSL boutique on 57th Street...
the following is from a story he told a group of us... 
 
some girl was in the store looking at lipsticks...
they cost more than she thought they should so she said something like...
people be paying that for a lipstick?
people got problems!
now...whenever i see someone being ridiculous in any way...
i just think to myself...

*people got problems...

August 18, 2010

everything french...

is inherently sexy...

August 11, 2010

fall 2010...shapes and details...

skirts - A line
-button front
-kick pleats (front and/or back)
-wrapped
-asymmetrical
-below the knee or mid calf (w.boots)
-culottes
-leather (straight, above the knee)

pants - high waisted
-long, wide leg trousers
-pleated and tapered to the ankle
-skinny knits
-capri leggings
-olive narrow cargo style pant (instead of jeans)

tops - shirts
-pussy bow blouses w. billowy sleeves
-sleeveless silk blouses
-sleeveless sweatshirt
-fluffy cowl neck sweaters
-light blue man tailored shirt
-some sort of safari inspired shirt (vintage YSL preferred)

shoes - boots

-boots- shiny leather to the knee - black, burgundy
-blk and/or brown pumps w. kiltie or tassle
-ankle boots - several options
?clogs- high heel in cognac w. kiltie or tassle (preferably both)
?leopard flats (to wear with skinny pants and leggings)

coats - jackets
?fur
-toggle coat in navy
-hooded felted wool and/or cashmere coat
-3/4 length cocoon coat
-3/4 length classic car coat
-long sweater coat 

bags
-clutch
-structured shoulder bag

jewelry - shiny gold
large hoops
long, dangling gypsy style
long chain w.locket
oval bangle

fall 2010...fabrics...

-flannel in grey and navy
-tweed trousers
-soft, louche silk blouses- black and ivory are best
-cashmere - knits and wovens
-jersey
-leather- black, cognac, burgundy
-patent leather/shiny leather
-suede

*hosiery-sheer black

fall 2010...colours...

grey - as usual
black - always
burgundy - never enough
navy - always elegant
ivory - sweaters and blouses
cognac/luggage accessories - very classic
gold jewelry - earrings!
leopard - shoes and handbags
camel - skirts and coats...
fur - accents

August 9, 2010

a lot of people...

*have really bad taste...

there...
i said it...!
whew...that felt good...

July 30, 2010

camoflage....

*here's a visual challenge...
can you spot the small crab hidden amongst the sea vegetation in this image?...

photo taken on the coast of Scotland, near the Isle of Skye...
*such a lovely name...the Isle of Skye...
clue: it's near the bottom...

July 20, 2010

cagey...

Vilsbol de Arce
f/w 2010

July 18, 2010

urban gypsy...

the future of fashion > > >

i begin to wonder if fashion is even relevant anymore...
in the grand scheme of things...
and in the way we have all come to know it...

i think it may just be something different now....

July 5, 2010

July 4, 2010

anything can happen...



"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
- -- Shel Silverstein

June 29, 2010

yohji...my love...


If Yamamoto loses 'it', where does 'it' go?
From the NY Times: Mr. Yamamoto's Blue Period

Veiled and distant and dour, Yohji Yamamoto is the cockeyed pessimist of fashion. Hunched over his dinner plate one winter evening in Florence, he is an enigmatic outsider surveying a roomful of strangers who, as it happens, have come to celebrate this man whom hardly anyone knows much about.

The dinner -- in honor of a retrospective of Yamamoto's work -- is being held in an unlikely setting, a gilded room in the Palazzo Vecchio, the most famous of the local Renaissance palaces, decorated with fleurs-de-lis and a Donatello sculpture of Judith lopping off the head of Holofernes. You might say that there is something slightly disembodied about Yamamoto as well, as he sits center stage in a room where the Florentines usually honor heads of state. Who are these dignitaries, he seems to be thinking, these functionaries and local nobilities, both minor and major, and what are they to me?
The crowd this evening is aware that the guest of honor, a small 61-year-old man with a tidy athlete's body and an oversize head fringed with scruffy long hair, is a legend. They are also conscious of the fact that he is the subject of an unprecedented exhibit across the Arno River at the Pitti Palace, in which garments from a long career are arranged -- in what curators pretentiously term ''interventions'' -- throughout a series of galleries filled with academic marbles, Italian naturalist pictures and a lot of Napoleonic bric-a-brac.

But that is probably all they know about Yamamoto, whose work is frequently characterized in terms of genius and who occupies a central role in a design lineage as long as it is surprisingly robust. Look around the fashion landscape, and you will find it populated by Yohji disciples, and not just among the ranks of art dealers and architects for whom his clothes have long been a default uniform.

In the three decades since Yamamoto came on the scene, his once radical ideas have excited colleagues as diverse as Junya Watanabe, Jun Takahashi and Martin Margiela. His odd shapes and skewed proportions have informed an entire generation of Belgians and lately seem to be turning up everywhere, thematically threaded through collections
as unalike as those of Marc Jacobs and Miuccia Prada and even highly praised newcomers like the American Jasmin Shokrian, who was not even a decade old when Yamamoto first showed in Paris. ''Right now there's a big Yohji influence,'' Carine Roitfeld, the editor of French Vogue, said recently before the start of a D&G show filled with retreads of the late-punk 80's. ''A big feeling for this intellectual girl. No more names, no more logos. It's a good mood to revisit, I think.''

It is not just the nutty precincts of the fashion cognoscenti that have felt Yamamoto's influence, however. With his Y-3 line of sportswear, produced in collaboration with Adidas, Yamamoto has introduced new generations to his austere notions about how people look and move and understand themselves in clothes. He is, as Julie Gilhart, fashion director of Barneys New York, suggested, ''probably the only designer you could name who has 60-year-olds who think he's incredible and 17-year-olds who think he's way cool.''

Yet none of this seems to matter to Yamamoto at the moment. In truth, he tends to cringe at the fuss. ''I always hated the idea of retrospectives,'' he said to a reporter, speaking so quietly, he might as well have been talking to himself. ''A retrospective, to me, is just proof of all your mistakes.''

tie me up...


best tie i have ever seen...
LOVE me a little macrame...

by
Christophe Coppens


* i own it in black...

June 25, 2010

splish splash...

*i really like this shirt....
great colours...great placement...just great...


 
dries van noten menswear
spring 2011

June 18, 2010

going green...

green soup with French flair...

inspired by rustic soups from the south of France...
best served with some crusty french bread...


recipe : http://www.grouprecipes.com/117095/green-soup-with-french-flair.html#

June 17, 2010

once upon a time...

ph: peter lindbergh
i had very few pairs of pants...
all black...no jeans...
in a variety of styles...all with stretch of some sort...
mostly high to mid-waisted...

they were all pretty pricey...very good quality...
and i had each one tailored so they fit like they were made for me...

that was many years ago...
all those pants served their purpose and lived a good, long life...
but most of them are long gone at this point...
and i have changed sizes several times (up and down) since then...

now i find that i am seriously lacking any pants that fit me nearly as well as any of those pants did, way back when...

i need to find myself an excellent tailor and invest in some alterations...
it's just so much better...

May 8, 2010

jellies...



 














jellyfish...
via my friend mimi...

mimi's blog is long-winded :
http://long-winded.tumblr.com/post/573260155/uniform-as-differentiator?ref=nf

April 28, 2010

it's full of stars...





*egg pastina...

April 12, 2010

romper room...


*i love rompers...
even the name is fun...
suggesting a romp through the park, the city, the woods,...

April 4, 2010

making waves...

this is my nami top...with the wavy stripes...
i call it that because it is from japan and the word for waves in japanese is nami...


*thanks to runner for the top and the translation...







red/blk stripey top - mercibeaucoup
blk linen cropped cargoes - vanessa bruno
soft-as-butter natural nubuck booties - sartore
little wooden mushroom pin (w/eyes!) - princess tina
blk snakeskin and screwhead bracelet - felder & felder
leather patchwork bag - km rii

*see 'best bag' post for details on bag

streetstyle : nyc



soho, nyc...

April 3, 2010

watch me...



watch by issey miyake...

March 28, 2010

best bag...





this bag is pretty much perfect..
.

km rii hobo bag from oak.com

March 24, 2010

i *heart* ny...




ode to the city...

as i stroll downtown...
as i roam the streets...
i keep searching for that familiar beat.

the heart of the city...
the pulse of this town...
i feel the excitement has somewhat died down.

the artists are elsewhere...
the masses moved in...
it seems that my city is less than it's been.

i stop in a cafe...
to seek some relief...
and am somewhat surprised by the strength of my grief.

my city is changing...
that's certainly clear...
and it all makes me ponder - what's left for me here?

so i take a step back...
and i look all around...
and its clear - she's the best city i've ever found.

i *heart* ny...

March 19, 2010

classic vs timeless

*note to self...more later...

March 12, 2010

( tailored ) urban chic ...








neil barrett f/w 2010 paris

March 11, 2010

the classics...


short duffle coat by victim


the duffle / toggle coat

do you have one?
i always see them pop up now and again at places like jcrew and apc...
and even though i am drawn to them....
i have never actually even tried one on...

i think it's time..
while everyone else is buying a camel coat this fall, i am going to invest in a different, but equally classic look...
IF -- i can find the right one...

will you let me know if you see a good one pls?

thank you!

March 9, 2010

a dress of a different colour...



directional colours...
TAO for comme des garcons f/w 2010 paris...