Friday, February 29, 2008
Models Arent Beautiful Anymore: Too true!
"If you look at the girls, they are not beautiful like models were 20 years ago. The girls are thin, they have strange faces. … At first, you look at them and you’re not sure if they’re beautiful or disgusting."
~ Jimmy Pihet
(Of the Federation Française de la Couture)Labels: fashion quotes
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Featured Fashionista: Huma Abedin
This month's Vogue did a small piece on Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's traveling chief of staff, calling her the "polished politico". I, of course, thought how great would it be to have someone other than a starlet as our Featured Fashionista! On my blog, I strive to empower women, showing that you dont have to be in a major motion picture to take pride in your personal sense of style and express yourself through fashion as an art form.
Without taking any political stance, I think its safe to say that as an educated, independent, and further, a Muslim woman working in politics, she does a lot to break down stereotypes. All the while coming across as not only put together, but fashion forward.
"Putting an outfit together is a creative outlet for me" she says.Labels: fashion quotes, featured fashionista
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
A Tip From Parker Posey
"Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'."
~ Parker PoseyLabels: celebrities, fashion quotes, kiss and makeup
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Karl Lagerfeld In London, Reveals A Beautiful, Jeweled Chanel Maison d'Art Collection For Chanel
"My mother always said it was a good thing that I went into fashion because it proved I didn’t have any great expectations of myself, and she was right. I haven’t made an empire with my name on it. I don’t go around calling myself an artist," he told today's Times2. "If anything, I'm a whore. I go wherever they pay me".
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The days when haute couture was shown to fabulously wealthy clients in an intimate salon are long gone. Today Hollywood starlets and the wives of multi-millionaires will first pick out their hand- beaded and embroidered frocks from a catwalk the size of a football pitch, as at yesterday's Chanel show. Held in a purpose-built arena inside the cavernous Grand Palais next to the Seine, this was a spectacle that proved that while couture is a costly anomaly that few designers can afford, for a wealthy house such as Chanel it remains worthwhile not least as a marketing exercise.
It is an opportunity for extravagance that Chanel knows how to maximise, from every angle. In the mammoth grey logo-printed rug that was unrolled down the catwalk, there was blatant branding. In the live soundtrack provided by the American singer Cat Power there was a cool factor. Most importantly, in Karl Lagerfeld the company has a designer who can interpret the basics of couture into feats of workmanship that are lovely and faithful to the heritage that Coco Chanel bequeathed.
Mini dresses based on a man's jacket, cinched at the waist with a belt, were a sexy update on Mademoiselle Chanel's taste for wearing the Duke of Westminster's hunting clothes when they were lovers in the 1920s. Full-skirted black and silver-sequinned evening dresses, with ribbon sashes at the waist, evoked Chanel's romantic collections of the 1940s. There were also numerous examples of her greatest invention, the little black dress. Here trimmed with frothy black ostrich feathers and jet beading, the classic party dress looked anything but minimalist - which should be to the taste of front-row guests such as Victoria Beckham and the actress Kate Bosworth. In July 2002 Chanel purchased several of the most important artisanal ateliers that supply the Paris houses, including the embroidery company Lesage. There was no shortage of their feats of workmanship on show. So for the finale, a curtain was raised to reveal the "petit-mains" - the men and women who bead and embroider in such workshops - taking their bow alongside Lagerfeld.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Wearing Nothing Is Divine, Naked Is A State Of Mind
“What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.” ~Evelyn Waugh
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Image Conscious
“Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave”
~ Napoleon BonaparteLabels: fashion quotes, image conscious
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Image Conscious
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
~ Coco Chanel
Chanel TV Belt: Spring Summer 2005Labels: chanel, fashion quotes, image conscious
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Myspace Disgrace
Regina: Oh my God, I love your skirt! Where did you get it?
Lea Edwards: It was my mom's in the '80s.
Regina: Vintage, so adorable.
Lea Edwards: Thanks.
Regina: [after girl walks away] That is the ugliest f-ing skirt I've ever seen.
~ Mean Girls
Don't get me wrong, an animal print scarf goes great as an accessory to a pin-up girl look, and a pair of animal printed shoes can dress up plain black in a fun, sexy way... But this girls outfit looks like Kelly Bundy fell in love with Encino Man and had a lovechild. Im sure she is "dressed up" (and I am using the term "dressed" very loosely, fyi) for some occasion or another, but I personally wouldn't be caught dead in this get-up: even on Halloween!
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Have you ever heard of people taking pictures of that for fun? You know, to be silly? I mean, just because this girl is dressed like Mowgli from the Jungle Book in this picture doesn't mean anything. You're taking this critique too seriously. And besides, don't you think it's odd that you waste so much time on people's myspaces looking for ways to trash them?
Heather
its_A_simple_plan_01@yahoo.com
Actually, Heather, it looks like YOU are taking it way too seriously. I think the humor in this is obvious ("this girls outfit looks like Kelly Bundy fell in love with Encino Man and had a lovechild"), and I also acknowledged that she is probably dressed like this for some occasion or another, though like I said I wouldn't even be caught in this on Halloween. So yes it does occur to me that maybe this was just for fun. Did it occur to YOU that maybe this posting was just for fun as well? I dont think it's odd that I find people with awful fashion sense on myspace and post their pictures here, nor do I think its a waste of time. I think its fun and funny. I do it for the blog. So its not a waste of time. Because it stirs up reactions from people like you, who are TRULY taking this too seriously when it is obviously meant to be taken in fun.
Duh.
Thanks for stopping by.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Myspace Disgrace
" Do you prefer 'fashion victim', or 'ensembly challenged?' " ~Clueless
When is this EVER okay? *sigh* Honey, the shirt goes OVER the bra. Not that you should be wearing that kind of bra with a strapless top, anyway. But say you do... the shades of pink in the bra and the tie clash with each other. The boy shorts over the jeans with the top tucked in? Someone please... if you know this girl, save her from herself. And save her clothes from HER!
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tragic...it's "undergarment dyslexia ©"! LOL
Oh my.... this is horrific!!!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
From A Pile Of Stuff
"This... stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff."
~The Devil Wears Prada
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October 31, 2007 12:09 PM
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October 31, 2007 1:24 PM
