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October 3, 2012

SLiP

“Clearly, this period of the history of the house was not well-known, which I trust was a surprise for Pierre Bergé [Saint Laurent's long-term partner]. I went back to 1966 – just before the events of 1968 [when 11 million workers revolted against the conservative politics of then-President Charles de Gaulle - the biggest general strike in history], but the awakening of youth was in the air, and Yves Saint Laurent wanted to dissociate himself from the clientele of haute couture and embrace this new generation.” Hedi Slimane

I’m not the girl who has a problem admitting when I’m wrong. Perhaps because it doesn’t happen very often, but I will say there is dignity in ownership– albeit good or bad dealings. And well, when I speculated that YSL becoming SLP would be a total abhoration, I was wrong. In fact it’s so fucking chic I die. And like other than being a bit trite at times, its otherwise spot the fuck on. Like Johnny Depp. Which uncanny enough the collection bears striking resemblance to. I know I completely skipped over YSL’s fall but whatever.


Yves Saint Laurent, 3 East 57th Street, 212.980.2970
Images courtesy of Style.com

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September 30, 2012

Not To Be Racist or Anything But…

“The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything.” Thomas Sowell

Dolce & Gabbana is experiencing some hardcore backlash over it’s imperial, I mean “colonial,“ chic SS13 collection. Specifically in regards to their mammy earrings and jovial blackface imagery. Now– I spent a great deal of my college education studying racial violence, sexual dominance and xenophobic hatred, and while DG’s aesthetic choice does fall under the category of fucked up, “racist”– isn’t interpolating the collection as such, racist in and of itself? I mean call me crazy but I don’t see lynches on the earrings, or watermelon rinds in the women’s mouths; which are the visual rhetorics of slavery.. not necessarily cheery African women. After all, if we as a culture never move past codifying these things as racist and from a place of violence, we will never be able to embrace their beauty. And they are beautiful…

Slavery is a horrible fact of human history, and that past will never change. Only we as people can. And we can do so by not calling racism on a collection that includes African women. As well as white. Was it their most tasteful or sensitive display? No, but remember 50% of Dolce & Gabbana is Sicilian and 100%… male.

Dolce & Gabbana, 825 Madison Ave, 212.750.0055
Images courtesy of Style.com

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September 27, 2012

The Jester and I.

“The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He’s supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn’t part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.” William Faulkner

I guess continuing with today’s theme of royalty- I imagine Miu Miu’s FW12 to be that of which my court jester would be swathed in. Kaleidoscopic. Variegated. Indulgant… Here’s some runway:

Miu Miu, 11 East 57th St, 212.641.2980
Images courtesy of Style.com

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September 26, 2012

Come On Ride the Train. Hey Ride It.


“When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages.” Jane Birkin

Louis Vuitton, 1 East 57th, 212.758.8877

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September 8, 2012

I’m In Love with Mary Jane, She’s My Main Thing.

“Is [maryjane] addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating.” Richard Neville

Okay so I’m a serious leapfrogger when it comes to friends, work, music, food, fashion. I get super into a look slash thing, wear it to death for a few weeks slash months and then find a new style-lily to laud on. Repeating this process over and again. It’s kind of always been my thing. Before summer camp one year my mother staged an intervention in protest of the plaid AF skirt and logo tee that had been plastered on my body for the two weeks prior. Then there was the black linen pant, black tank, denim jacket moment– before the Juicy sweatsuit takeover– and after the prep revival. Loafers. Pleats. Knee highs. I tried really hard to bring it back. And in a way I totally did. For me.

Championing the retro prep scene this season is Prada. Swankyyy.


Prada, 841 Madison Ave, 212.327.4200
Images courtesy of Prada.com

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September 7, 2012

Is the Sea Bass Smelly?

 

“Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it.” Ovid

Okay so there is major sickness happening at Barneys right now. Fish. Factories. 500′s. Another Loubi display and I’m not sure why– but it’s amazing.

Barneys, 660 Madison Ave, 212.883.2200

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September 6, 2012

King and Queens and Bishops too.

“This job is part architect and part cake designer.” David Hoey

Happy 111th birthday BG!!! You are one old bitch. But it’s totally okay because you’ve been making old bitches look chic for over a century; and trust, you don’t look a day over 27, 21…
Let’s look back–


1914: Edwin Goodman is the first couturier to herald ready-to-wear– revolutionizing the fashion industry.

  1928: BG moves uptown to the Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion.

 1936 Advertisement

 1942: Window Shopping. The chapeaus– obsesh.

1951: Wardrobing for the Metropolitan Opera gala.

 1959: Roy Halston Frowick is named BG’s head milliner.

 1969: The shoe salon opens.

 Vintage Dior sketch

 1981: BG presents the Fendi fur collection on the fountain in the Grand Army Plaza

 2010: David Hoey and Linda Fargo, the brain children

 2012: BG today

Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave, 800.558.1855
Images courtesy of Nymag, Bergdorf Goodman timeline and Racked NY

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July 21, 2012

This Suit is Black Not.

“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.” Pierre Auguste Renoir

 More Pre-Fall. Valentino edition:

Valentino, 746 Madison Ave, 212.772.6969
Images courtesy of Style.com

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July 3, 2012

One of These Things is Not Like the Other.

Commes des Garçon, Marc Jacobs & Balenciaga

Patrizia Cavalli Detachment Dress

Front Row at Helmut Lang

Total chicness.

Barneys, 660 Madison Ave, 212.883.2200

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June 18, 2012

Let There Be Windows.

Bergdorf’s windows are off the chain right now. as per usual. Some say terrarium, others scream travel, one says Alice & Olivia holiday windows, the other– poodles under a dentist light? It’s a little schizo to the un-bath salted eye but I see a total call to action: Whiten your teeth, buy all of the cold blooded creatures you can (and turbans) and hit the road to the city of lights! O.M.G. Excuse me for a moment I need to make a call: “Hi, Sambuca? I have to cancel our 4pm. What? No. The entrails can wait. What? No. Bye.” Sometimes, direction calls, did you hear it ring?

Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave, 800.558.1855

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