Here is wrap video from Fashion Week !!!
I am presenting it monologue / flashback style, which I thought would be a funny new way to do a voice over.
Oh, yeah, and there’s Natalia Vodianova inside !! (so beautifuuuuuul)
Big kisses !
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Each season, we become part of the New York Fashion Week scene and have the opportunity to attend shows and pop backstage for some of our favorite designers. We love to share our Fashion Week coverage, and this season we are bringing you an even more intimate look with PurseBlog Video. We selected five shows to feature, but while you wait for those videos, take a look at our trailer of what’s to come! We hope you enjoy it.
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Each season, we become part of the New York Fashion Week scene and have the opportunity to attend shows and pop backstage for some of our favorite designers. We love to share our Fashion Week coverage, and this season we are bringing you an even more intimate look with PurseBlog Video. We selected five shows to feature, but while you wait for those videos, take a look at our trailer of what’s to come! We hope you enjoy it.
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The first day of New York fashion week, my friend Daphné (You’ve seen her here and in this Pardon My French and who has the coooolest style) told me that she started her own mini fashion challenge during fashion week.
I immediately thought : “What a delightful idea !”
We should all do that, right? Fashion challenges. C’mon, it’ll be fun.
She decided that she was going to try wear a white shirt every day.
(No, the yellow taxis in the background weren’t on purpose. We really were looking for a taxi after the Phillip Lim show.)(I know, we’re so stylish that the taxis coordinate with our outfits.)(It should be noted that we ended up spending like eight hours trying to find at taxi.)
So I haven’t been following her around like a crazy person (almost though), but the days that I have seen her, she has stayed true to her challenge.
Mucho respecto.
Oh, I am thinking about what could be my own fashion challenge, what to you think of old rock / sports tees ? Is it too easy ?
What do we talk about between shows? About what’s happening during the shows!
Here is a very relaxed conversation with my friends Samira, Kate and Caroline, to share with you what we think of street style from the inside, and of the changes that are happening in fashion today.
Take a look and give me your point of view – because you are the ones with the most perspective, and you’re the ones for whom all this “content” we so often talk about is made for!!!
(PS : your comments about the fur question were so great yesterday that I am getting a post ready to answer – we’ll also publish some of your comments. Thank you so much to have kept such a respectful and interesting conversation!)
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It’s great to have access to instant shows and livestreams, but it’s also pretty annoying.
You watch them, you drool over a jacket, but you know you’re gonna have to wait months before it hits the store.
But the thing is – a show is not only ideas about what to buy. The best stylists in the world are working on creating the perfect outfits and you can find a million great styling ideas just watching them. I use that all the time to refresh my wardrobe.
So I told myself, why not share ? Make a new blog section ? And give that new section another crazy name ?
Yeah ! So let’s call it : Things I Can Do Right Now. And today, we’re gonna talk about layering coats and jackets.
Oh, like, today, a watery snow (the worst kind of snow !) is falling on Milan. What did I do?
I layered my transparent raincoat over my usual coat. It’s light, perfect for that weather and I feel like I am wearing a totally new coat.
Ok, sometimes layering can be intimidating. Did I put the right floral shirt over the right denim shirt under the right printed jacket?! But with coats and jackets, it becomes super simple. Two favorite coats? Throw them on together à la The Row. Your favorite leather jacket isn’t quite warm enough for winter? Wear it on top of or under your coat for added warmth and some Altuzarra chicness. The biggest thing to keep in mind is balance. You don’t want the layering to be too bulky, so always wear your smaller coat or jacket as your base layer. Voilà!
So.
What do we say ?
Maaaan, I can do this right now !!!
I know, greaaaaat title, thanks.
;)
After Garance posted these images from the J.Crew presentation, a lot of you were asking about the lipstick…
I’m always on the search for a perfect red lip (I’m a little bit of a red lipstick hoarder) and this look has become my newest obsession. In order to get the the bottom of this perfectly glossy, rich red lip, I asked Allison (a fabulous stylist at J.Crew) to break down the steps for us. Here it goes!
1. Fill in lip completely with Maybelline Color Sensational Lip Liner in #50 Red.
2. Apply Hourglass Opaque Rouge in Icon.
3. Top off with MAC Lip Glass. (Note from Allison: Just watch out because this stuff will literally start dripping off your chin!)
Three easy steps, one perfect lip!
xo Alex
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I want to be the Proenza Schouler woman! Chic, modern, precise but also soft and relaxed.
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Another season has come and gone, and before we dive into what the Europeans have to offer in the coming weeks, it’s time to look back at what we learned about Fall 2013 during New York Fashion Week. First and foremost, things aren’t going be be quite as busy and boisterous going forward as they have been over the past few seasons. Most brands showed lots of neutrals (black and white, in combination, in particular) and subdued colors, which is great for people like us. It gives accessories an opportunity to sing.
And sing they did. The bags out of New York this season are exotic, furry, haircalf’d and embellished with textiles and jewels. As fussy as that sounds, though, there’s a sophistication to the best of the group that takes down the volume by an order of magnitude and manages to make those elements look wearable and elegant. Below, the 20 strongest American contenders for your handbag dollars from Fall 2013. Fill us in on your favorite of the bunch in the comments.
[Images via Vogue]
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Marc Jacobs isn’t as widely revered for his handbags as he used to be (although it’s a different story with his work for Louis Vuitton), but the accessories that liberally dot his runway show every season are still just as influential within the industry as everything else the models are wearing. Marc Jacobs is the king of New York, and his reign doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon, even if his handbags aren’t at the top of as many shopping lists as they were in the heyday of the Stam bag.
For Fall 2013, the message was clear – simply shaped, chain-handled shoulder bags with serious texture. Whether it was black leather lattice layered over one of the collection’s omnipresent shimmering, muted jewel tones like a handbag fishnet stocking, python on its own or sequins added to python like super-glam mottling, these are bags that make you want to reach out and touch them. Especially the lone ivory fur option, which may just be the thing that makes me a believer in fur bags after all.
[Images via Vogue]
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The light! The music! Here is a look at the magical Marc Jacobs show…
I loved it. I know I use that word too much. Seriously though, I just adored the Marc Jacobs show.
The incredible atmosphere that you see in these photos (I’ll put up a video later. You have to hear the music!) really got me. So many stories found their way to the surface of my mind while I was watching the models come out…
The first thing that caught my eyes was that this was definitely the most chic “walk of shames” you’ve ever seen. You know what I’m talking about… Everybody has had at least one of these episodes (don’t tell me this has never happened to you) where after spending a crazy night out (wink wink), you have to get back home.
Your hair is a mess. Your makeup is smeared. You lost random stuff. Your wallet. Your skirt. Your bra. Whatever. You have the feeling that everyone is looking at you and you just want to hide under a blanket at your house, but at the same time, you walk really slowly because you’re not quite ready for the return to reality. You get the urge to yell at passersby, “My nights are more beautiful than your days!!!”
Ok, so that’s already enough imagination. But wait… Now this is where my passion for science fiction movies joins the party.
‘Cause yes, but there was the sun!!! This post-apocalyptic atmosphere. SO MAYBE WE’RE ON ANOTHER PLANET. Or maybe this time, aliens have actually landed, causing a shift in our ecosystem and this big bright thing IS a spacecraft. And maybe… MAYBE!!! Our walk-of-shamers just spent a night… With one of them (Insert sexy alien, dressed in Marc by Marc. No?)
She’s still in shock by what she just dared to do, but does she regret it? Doesn’t really look like she does…
Yeah.
I know… I know… I’m out there.
At the same time though, you only aren’t going there because you haven’t seen Battlestar Galactica yet. (You have seen it? Can walk and talk some time???) And that’s exactly what was going through my head during the precious few minutes of the show. I put together a whole feature film, right there in my head.
The truth is though that Marc Jacobs was inspired by an installation by Olafur Eliasson called “The Weather Project,” that I’ve heard of but unfortunately never seen.
Ok. I’m sure that Marc is open to lots of different interpretations. With that, I send big hugs!!!
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Translation : Tim Sullivan
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When I dream about chopping my hair, I imagine it exactly like this…
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There’s an inherent luxury to a day clutch. That a woman is free to carry her bag in her hands implies all sorts of privilege, chiefly among them that the woman in question has other people at her disposal to worry about all the things with which the contents of an oversized tote might otherwise contend. It doesn’t guarantee that someone has a driver, personal assistant or nanny, of course, but I can understand why a certain breed of woman likes the implication that the look, when well-executed, provides. Proenza Schouler Fall 2013 seems to be a bid to attract some of those well-heeled customers.
Investors have been trying to take Proenza in the direction of an old-world European luxury house for a couple of seasons now, and these textured day-clutch riffs on the PS1 and PS13 are the brand’s strongest efforts in that direction yet. The PS13, which is a tad disappointing in satchel form, shines brightest as a generously sized clutch, while the newly stripped-down version of the PS1 hand-held lends itself well to many of the textures and treatments that filled the largely monochromatic show. Perhaps most tellingly, the weird runway bags of almost every previous Proenza show were nowhere to be found; these guys are clearly looking to take their accessories business to the next level.
[Images via Vogue]
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Despite it being the fall collection, the beauty look at the Rodarte show had a very beachy vibe.
The eyes were made-up to mimic your makeup after a day at the beach, after the humidity of the day has made your mascara fall below your bottom lashes. It might sound a little messy, but the look was pretty and understated. It was almost a reverse smokey eye…Is that a thing? Did I just make it a thing?
The hair kept up with the beach vibe with loose waves and added a little bit of a cool, princess element to the look with two braids meeting in back and secured with a rose of hair, all topped off with a metallic barbed wire headband.
So…the Beach-Princess look, you in?
xo Alex
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There’s perhaps nothing lovelier in the fashion business than watching a young designer blossom into one of the industry’s great talents. If 3.1 Phillip Lim Fall 2013 is any indication, that’s exactly what we’ve done with Phillip Lim; I remember when he first started making bags (there were bows involved), and to see him find his footing in luxurious modernism brings me great joy. As do this collection’s bags, natch.
The new-and-notable bag from this collection is the 3.1 Phillip Lim Ryder, which you’ll find in the slideshow below in a spare black leather base with front panels of lush calfhair, fur or snakeskin. It’s a bit of utilitarian luxury, this bag, meant to be thrown across the body when a busy girl heads out into the world. Lim’s always been conscious that his customers are women who need functional solutions as much as they need fashion, and this is his latest attempt to straddle that divide. Indeed, even the flat clutches in this collection have crossbody straps. From an accessories standpoint, it’s easily Lim’s best yet.
[Images via Vogue]
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Last week at the Studio we were all sitting around talking about our first memories of fashion week. Garance thought it would be fun for you to hear about some of those moments that you only live once… here it goes!
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I spent many years dreaming of what it would be like to walk into the Bryant Park tents and attend a real New York fashion show. Living in Minnesota, I felt like that dream was light-years away. To be surrounded by beautiful clothes, beautiful people and beautiful New York was my ultimate fantasy.
My first season was in September of 2009. I had just wrapped up a summer internship in the city with one of my favorite designers and was skipping the first week of classes of my senior year of college to write show reviews for a new fashion site. When I received my schedule for the week, I couldn’t believe it was real.
“All of these? I get to go to all of these? Even this one here…in the tents?”
To be there, in the middle of it all (especially when I should’ve been sitting in art history) was so exhilarating. I’ll never forget walking up the steps to the tents for my first show. I was living a complete dream. I took my seat, the lights went low and my eyes welled up with tears (you know me, always crying at fashion shows). That was it. I was at fashion week.
This season will be my eighth fashion week, which is still a little hard to wrap my head around. It doesn’t take long to get jaded by fashion week. It doesn’t take long before you start complaining about how busy your schedule is, or how annoying it can be to have to go all the way from Milk to Lincoln Center. But I am reminded every year of how magical it all really can be and how lucky I am to be here. The feeling I had my first season is something that comes back at every show and I know it will stay with me for a really long time.
xo Alex
The subject of celebrities at New York Fashion Week is a little bit odd. Most of them are paid to be there by a designer whose show they’re attending or a brand or product that they represent, which means that many of them are wearing and carrying clothes from that designer in what can be a fairly transparent marketing scheme. The whole point of a fashion show is marketing the new collection, though, so I can’t gripe too much. And no matter how a bag got into a celebrity’s hands, I always enjoy seeing what they carry.
And then there’s the models. They’re also paid to show up, of course, but they’re generally not bedecked in the duds of any particular designer. Instead, they’re carrying something that, more often than not, perfectly punctuates their “model off duty” look and makes us all wonder why we can’t figure out how to dress like that in our downtime. (Because we’re not models, probably.) It’s an interesting contrast, and one that we’ll explore fully in the slideshow below.
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If you’re sick of oxblood (as people insist on calling it – looks like burgundy to us), then go ahead and take a seat for Fall 2013, or at least for Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall 2013. The contemporary powerhouse showed lots of rich fall colors on the runway – tan, navy, charcoal – but the most arresting accents were those in rich shades of wine. Seems fitting for fall, doesn’t it?
Most of the women’s bags (Marc shows men’s and women’s during the same show) were small, structured midcentury throwbacks, and although the models all carried them by short double handles, the bags also boasted attachments that will no doubt yield crossbody straps once the bags hit retail. For the Marc by Marc customer, that’s almost a prerequisite – it’s fun to see a bag styled as a hand-carry option, but when it gets down to business, the Marc girl just wants to sling a small bag across her body to keep her hands free. That shouldn’t be a problem for any of the fall options, even if Jacobs himself envisions them being used differently.
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Here is a whole new section of Pardon My French.
It’s called This Is Trending, and I really hope you like it and share it and plus one it and all the trending stuff that we are supposed to do !!!
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A really interesting Theyskens Theory show, with voluminous silhouettes and fabrics that I want to touch… And buy right away. And as I was telling you this morning, the tall boots that are giving me so many ideas. This is the kind of accessory that can give energy to any old wardrobe in one sec – but the important thing is, you should show some skin and not cover the leg entirely.
Nude tights, the sequel?
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Models at the Prabal show took to the runway with perfectly messy, wind-blown buns. My everyday post-walk-to-work hair is now feeling a whole lot cooler…
Do you like the look?
xo Alex
At an Alexander Wang show, there’s always the accessory. In the past, it’s been things as varied as leather handkerchiefs and clutches shaped like old, deflated footballs, and this year, at the Alexander Wang Fall 2013 show, it was fur boxing gloves. Can you carry a handbag and wear fur boxing gloves simultaneously? That’s for magazine stylists to decide over the next few months, I suppose.
As we all know, Wang is set to make the leap to Balenciaga this season, and this collection, his most mature yet, seemed to be an effort to make a statement that he’s ready for the task. And who knows, maybe he is. The accordion-like handbags that went down the runway had an interesting, outsized take on structure that wouldn’t be out of place on a Nicholas Ghesquiere runway, even though they pose the same functional issues that many of Ghesquiere’s Balenciaga runway bags also caused. As chic and spare as rigid slate haircalf looks on this shape, how do you carry it in real life? (The answer, of course, is probably “with a shoulder strap that’s been excluded from the runway version.”)
[Photos via Vogue.com]
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Fashion week is in full swing in New York. It’s fashion tiiiiime!!! Yahoooo! Camera flash! Stilettos!!!
Okay. Don’t you go forgetting that we are creatures of intellect and reason.
We’re aren’t only defined by our sublimity and perfect outfits, no. (Yes yes yes, I’m talking about all of you and me, of course, of course!)
We are thinking beings as well. We intellectualize.
So that’s why it’s high time we answered to the…. Big Questions of Fashion Week.
Drum roll please…
Is one well dressed if she is dressed in winter as she would be in summer?
Let me explain. Let’s just say, for example, that we’re in New York during fashion week and, again, hypothetically, there’s a blizzard named Nemo that just hit the city the day before.
There are mountains of snow on all the sidewalks and frozen puddles everywhere rivaling March of the Penguins. A freezing wind sweeps down the avenues like a tunnel and there you are in your little sandals with your toes poking out and a short skirt with your shirt open half way down your chest.
You have to be carried to go over puddles and you live in constant fear of death by black ice.
Your outfit would be perfect if it were August, but even my neighbor’s bulldog is more covered up than you (it’s wearing mini-boots)(just looking at your frozen feet makes it cold).
Yet there you are, shivering for the photographers.
So I’m wondering, even if you’re really well dressed… Are you really well dressed? Or does it just totally miss the mark? Is a stylish outfit always a stylish outfit no matter the context, or should one dress according to the circumstances?
What’s this supposed to mean on the Phillip Lim invite? Who’s this Sono Mama?
Here’s what Phillip explained at the show… Sono Mama, in Japanese, means “stay as you are.” I like that thought!
Oh, by the way, here is a little video I caught of Susie interviewing Phillip after the show.
What are we going to be wearing next winter?
Yep! I found a trend!!!
We’re going to wear heavy boots with really short skirts.
Today already I saw it at Phillip Lim (love him forever) and Theyskens (really good show ! I’ll post about it ASAP).
What does everyone talk about in the first row of the shows?
(or the second, or the third?)(Or in standing?)
“Do I look like a car ? I feel like look like a car!”
(Bryan Boy, not quite confidant about his outfit)
“When is this gonna end?”
(The magazine editors, talking about all the bloggers who now have seats at all the shows.)
“Want a ride? Come up in my car!!! Well actually it’s more like a Chinese mini-van. But China is trending!!!”
(My friend Daphné)
How to patch up a bruised ego?
Was your seat at a show just stolen from someone more important than you?
Did you just get yelled at by Rihanna’s bodyguards?
Did you just realize that your outfit is a total fail, just as you’re in the middle of talking to Emmanuelle Alt? (The Goddess of Coolitude)
Here’s a miraculous solution… Amnesia. Pure and simple.
I let it sink in for two seconds, think about what I can do so that next time, it doesn’t happen, and then I tell myself that there are moments in life that are out of my control. At the end of the day, they’re not going to change my life at all.
I don’t know if it’s because of situations like this (it happens every day with fashioooooon) that I’ve had to develop a thick skin (If it’s the case, then cool. Back in the day I would’ve dwelled on the thing for hours imagining all the possible responses I could have given. I know now that gets you nowhere. I’ll never have the perfect response.)
Or maybe it’s the meditating I did in January back when my New Year resolutions were in full force, helping me to distinguish which thoughts were worth my time and which ones don’t deserve any energy.
Whatever it is, let’s hear it for selective memory!!!
Why are flash photos not allowed at Marc Jacobs?
What’s the set going to look like? What’s the show going to look like?
What are they going to do if the flash on my phone goes off accidentally like it so often does?
And a follow up question:
Have you figured out a tecnhique to not get blurry photos of the shows or anything in motion? Please? I can’t figure it out and I need to be able to share my profound comments on Instagram…
Aaaah, such a perfect show!
First of all, the room it was in was… So grandiose. The music, the excitement (“Will everything change now that he’s the new artistic director of Balenciaga?” “You think so?” “I can’t wait to see!”), the light cloud of smoke that made everything in the world so beautiful.
And then all the silhouettes, one by one, that put out a vision of a more mature Alexander Wang woman, less rebellious. Sublime grays, softened contours, looser and my comfortable looking pieces that gave me back my desire to be in winter (all of my big talk this morning about getting rid of gray coats went out the window. Now, of course, I want a Wang gray coat)(Not all gray coats are created equal, you know…)(whatever that means ?).
And then Malgosia, the Sublime Model (upper case because she deserves it)(I met her this morning with Emmanuelle Alt at the end of Victoria Beckham’s show and I was so enthralled I couldn’t even dare look at her), who closed out the show and stole my heart.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that this weekened in New York we were treated to a nice snowstorm.
We were all so traumatized after Sandy that we expected the apocalypse – and for real-life folks, that means getting provisions (I heard that the Whole Foods in Union Square had people battling over the last bunches of kale)… And for fashion folks just starting up fashion week, it means a deep depression (And having to rethink all the meticulously planned and prepared outfits).
Okay, not that much drama, really. We all ended up seeing the shows we wanted to see and everyone was wearing something.
And it gave me the chance to do a little research on how to stay chic when it’s freezing out.
Because really, as much as I love winter jackets (and even more love for parkas), I tend to stay pretty safe and neutral when I pick one out. When I think about what’s in my closet… I have a gray one, a blue one, another gray one, and another gray one, a camel one and a khaki one.
Woo! Could be a great editorial for Reader’s Digest.
I keep wanting to stop people on the street and say no really, I have a really interesting print shirt on underneath!
You would die if the’d see the layering I’ve got going on underneath!
I mean, look at my scarf. Totally editorial, right?
But the fact remains that the thing you see me in during the winter months is pretty much just my coat.
That’s why I think it’s time that I step out of my outerwear comfort zone a little.
Next year, I promise to buy a big colorful jacket (I fantasize about the one on Jenna here. She got it from Altuzarra and I totally should have bought it as soon as it came out)(Joseph is such a parka genius).
And if I don’t end up going for it all the way, I’ll at least try to get some interest to my sleeves, like the Kenzo coat here in the second picture. And I want to try out a red jacket, since Stella is making my mouth water with hers.
Uggghhhh and now my brain is torn between the minimalist takeover of my wardrobe this winter and my current daydreams of colors and patterns!
What do you think? Should I try out something a little more daring in my outerwear or just keep on playing it safe and simple?
I really liked the Prabal show yesterday.
It’s simple: I immediately imagined how I would wear some of the clothes…
I love the idea of a belted parka – it gives winter a whole new attitude, very feminine.
I am also a big fan of this sweater, I imagine wearing it with a shirt underneath… And I’ve always loved pockets in my dresses.
And the harnessed night blue dress, this one is for when I get my Oscar. What ?
I took this photo at the Creatures of the Wind show (my first show this fashion week!)(Raaaah!!!), that I really liked.
What also hit me was the support that young designers get in New York.
And I’m not just talking about CFDA and Fashion Fund, which help up and coming brands to set up a structure and develop.
I mean, look at the front row. Anna Wintour and the entire team at Vogue is there, Style.com, of course, and lots of others that aren’t in the photo – and this is only the third time that Chris and Shane have presented in New York.
Besides that, I love the little leather cape!
Yesterday was the first day of New York fashion week.
After having a huge anxiety attack in front of my computer (I don’t know why it happens before every fashion week, it’s always like I’m about to leap into the void)(but now I have to try to be all adult about it and look like I have it all together in front of the team at the Studio)(Am I kidding myself they decripted me in one second)(Ughhh adult life)(Can you really be considered an adult if you only express yourself in parenthesis?)(hmmmm) I went to my first show, Creatures of the Wind, where I met up with Laurel.
Laurel was such a big fan of her bag, so much so that I had to ask her the story. Here’s the e-mail she sent me later on when the two of us were right next to each other waiting to get into Duckie Brown…Gottz love modern communication!
“My backpack is by Meredith Wendell! I love the green glitter straps and the woven raffia, but I really love that I can cram a sweatshirt or a pair of Bensimons in it. The only drawback is that it’s a little bulky and clumsy at parties, so apologies for anyone who’s had to stand behind me recently!”
Of course, right before taking her photo, I tagged “Backpack” on the wall (I always have my spray paint with me, as you know). Problem was that the NYPD showed up and we had to run…
Ha! Kidding. I don’t tag. I just have fun with Photoshop.
(In other news, three hours into the after + a glass of champagne and I’m doing much better)(Big hugs!!!)(Thanks Laurel!)(Cool backpack!)(Vive la fashion week!)
Sometimes, instead of focusing on precise elements of my wardrobe, I like to think of my look as a whole. Actually that’s how I dress most of the time, maybe that’s why I am not very attached to the season’s latest it-items, but rather to pieces that will combine nicely with my wardrobe.
Sometimes I’ll think of volumes, but mostly what I love is to imagine colors stories. It can be a total burgundy look (a little extreme, but when it’s very casual, jean, tee-shirt, shoes, it looks pretty cool) or just to combine colors that work well together, like in these pictures.
I know, it’s totally the contrary of the color clash trend that’s going on right now, three million colors in one silhouette, the what can I add on top of that outfit? Crap, I only have fifteen colors and 45 accessories! I don’t know if that’s gonna work style that I see everywhere right now (even though it happens to me sometimes and I like it), but it’s a nice rest for the eyes and that’s maybe why I like it a lot.
What about you are you more a color clasher or a color combiner ?
Kate Spade has done such a stellar job branding itself that when you go to one of its presentations, you know approximately what to expect: bright colors, unrelenting girlishness and just a little dash of sass. The brand’s signature style of femininity lends itself well to retro references, especially those from the tailored, full-skirted American midcentury, where life was supposed to be just as idyllic as it is inside a Kate Spade window display. In retrospect, the 60s weren’t quite so pristine, but that doesn’t mean Kate’s clothes can’t be.
Kate Spade Spring 2013 is full of technicolor prints (especially gingham), neon pumps and sweet little suits of boucle and summer tweeds. Some of the models toted actual Kate Spade picnic baskets, but my favorite was the wicker tube bag made especially for holding a full-size glass bottle of your favorite sparkling water. Kate has always had a yin for irreverence, and this season’s super-60s throwback was full of it. Check out our full gallery of the collection after the jump.
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How stupid are we when we use Social Media? All of our most basic instincts come into play (follow me!). We all end up as original as a rock in the desert (look at this picture of my feet! #FromWhereIStand) plus we spend all the money we could have invested on the pair of shoes we’ve just instragrammed on annihilating our data plans (Oh my god look at those shoes I’m dyiiiinnnnng! On my wish list asap! etc.)
Then add in all the collective hysteria of fashion week and all dignity goes out the window.
Plus, the stuff we post… I mean c’mon.
Blurry pictures.
Does that sound good to you? 1,465 blurry photos from the Dolce&Gabbana show? No?
Yeah, I know so annoying, but, it’s not our fault! It’s the models! They are walking too fast !!!
Here’s a photo taken by Cathy Horyn, who has quite the talent for blurry photos.
And who has a good sense of humor as well as she retweeted this here:
RT @AndreChiles1: @CathyHorynNYT You really aren’t the best at taking pictures, are you?
One legged models.
Have you ever tried to take a picture of moving shoes? Try it. It’s not your fault. It’s that the models walk too damn fast.
The finale shot.
EVERYONE posts a blurry picture (SERIOUSLY CAN THESE MODELS STAND STILL FOR JUST ONE SECOND?) of the show finale. Do you want me to post my finale photos? No, seriously… I’m curious, do you?
The #WhoGivesAShit tweets
Today, I’m wearing @Balenciaga, @Marni, and @Topshop
No photo attached. Already we could care less about what she’s wearing, and plus we have to make all the effort of imagining the thing. Seriously, #Couldn’tGiveAShitIfITried
The #TMI tweets
Spotted: @Caroissa in front row @Topshop eating @PretaManger sandwich.
I mean, for starters, it’s a little #WhoGivesAShit about what Caroissa is eati…Okay, to be honest, our natural instinct to be voyeuristic (Don’t play innocent. You know it’s true.) gets a huge lift for a micro-hundredth of a second.
OF COURSE you have to fight this instinct. We have to protect ourselves from ourselves. I mean, you can paparazzi yourself as much as you want, try not to paparazzi folks who don’t realize you’re doing it.
Tweetiquette: Let’s all try to edit our tweets and think about what the person whom we’re tweeting about will think of said tweet.
Well, do you think repeating the Tweet in question on my blog is some form of metapaparazzism? I won’t ask Caroline. I hope she reads this post long after fashion week, a long long time from now. Never, even. Caroline, if you’re reading this, please forgive me. I love Prêt-À-Manger too. And sometimes, I’m in the front row and I’m darn hungry.
The #MyLifeIsSoMuchCoolerThanYoursCommaBitch Tweets.
@BryanBoy : Huge breakfast before the Marni show.
Really Bryan, really? A fruit plate?
So annoying when you just scarfed down two croissants.
@DerekBlasberg : Did you see @KateBosworth @JessicaAlba @TheLSD @MariahCarey @NaomiCampbell @NicoleRichie (and more) in my NYFW diary?
Oooooh, so annoying when you’re not invited.
The #WelcomeToTheNewWorldOfTechnologyAndCommunication tweets.
If you’re interested, @AnnaDelloRusso instagrams all of her daily credits (Meaning the who’s she’s wearing that day) inventing a whole new fashion series. Live. Awesome AND terrifying at the same time.
The “quote” tweets.
No need for another quote please. We already have many too many on our Twitter feed. Why are we flooded by quote and wisdom tweets? Because a quote is short, you don’t have to invent it, and you usually get a lot of retweets. A quote is a massive followers-getting weapon.
Tweetiquette: Let’s not do these too often. You end up seeming desperate for followers.
Now all these tips don’t apply to Diane Von Furstenberg, quotetwitteuse-in-chief who regales us with her aphorisms. And who quotes herself, so to speak…
*The moment of bliss that follows is brought to you by Dianne…*
Be true to yourself. It is hard but avoids complications. Good day Love, Diane.
Clarity, clarity, clarity… not easy but SOOOO important! Getting there! Love, Diane
I tell the world “dare to be you” and sometimes I forget it myself! Love, Diane.
#FuckingiPadPeople.
Arggggg shit!!! At a show, when someone is sitting in front of you (in runway terms, that means next to you going the opposite direction of the models’ walk) and decides it would be an awesome idea to film the entire show with his iPad. He then sticks in right in front of your face.
You have two options: Either you fold yourself in half and try to watch the entire show underneath his iPad or you just watch it right on his iPad. It’s the blurry version, but you’re probably already used to that. You can try to express your discomfort, but with the electric ambiance that pervades the shows this year, don’t be surprised if you get slapped.
#ShitWhichFiltershouldIuse?RiseHudsonorToaster?
Instagram is high-drama for perfectionists. Me, for example, I have four photo apps. It takes me hours to put together a single Instagram. #NoKidding.
Yeah, anyway, since 100% of the people around are Data Roaming like crazy during the fashion shows, the internet never works. Your iPhone just keeps thinking and thinking and you shake it like its going to change something (I mean I do that all the time) and your battery runs out real fast. That’s how you have 100% battery at 8:00 a.m. and 7% at 11:30 a.m.
Solutions? Either you have a car with a charger, or you make stops into cafes :
“Buongiorno avete una prisa (?) elettrica (???)” with your charger and a converter (Which is enormous and takes up tons of space) to have it work with the Italian outlets. That or you buy an external battery. Here’s my experience with those: #Don’tWorkAtAll
Anyway, long story short.
Since we’re just between friends… If you’re addicted to Twitter and Instagram, you can subscribe to our group, TIA.
Twitterers and Instagrammers Anonymous.
Here’s some excerpts from a conversation I had with Matt @BaronNYC and Emily, @emilynote (Did you really think you could have a group of ANONYMOUS Twitterers and Instagrammers? Are you CRAZY? That’s totally contradictory. We WANT to be known, just like everyone else. FOLLOW US.)
[This conversation has been adapted with the angle of Fashion Hysteria in order to better serve this post.]
“I always try to use the same filter. I just like to think this is my filter, my way of seeing the world.”
“Well, for me, every photo is torture. I have three filters, 5 photo aps, and every Instagram takes me so much time I could’ve done another blog post. Ugh. This thing…” (Recognize me? Yep, that one’s me)
“Yeah, I wish I could share my life with more than four people. How many followers do you have?
“165,000. You?”
“345.”
…
“Pffff. You see the problem, don’t you? It’s not the number of followers you have but the number of likes. You know what my goal is? I want you to see not the people who like the photo, but have Instagram put just the number of people who like it. Like, you have so many likes that you can’t even read all who liked it. That’s classsssy. Like you, Matt, you have SO MANY likes that you have to move to the next step: THE DOUBLE DIGITS.”
“Omg. So true.”
“You know what… I’m gonna give you my secret. You ready?
“My secret is the HoD. Yeah. The Hour of Delivery. For example, if you post a photo right when it’s the end of the Prada show. Yeah. That’s just too bad for you girls. It’s 7:00 p.m. Everyone is busy posting blurry photos of the show. Instagram is blowing up and your bomb of a photo goes unseen. Two likes, max. But if you do it at 4:00 when everyone is pissed about the beeeeeep show, then you’re like-count is through the roof. You’ll get 12 likes right off the bat. Listen to this: Thanks to my HoD technique, of that, one day, I totally blew up: 31 likes!!!”
“Damn Matt, you’re gooooood.”
“Aaaaah, yeah and you never have the moment where (small little voice) Oh nooooo! I forgot to put the blur option on my photo! Noooo!”
“My style is the moody photo. You know, all artistic. So, see, the photo I posted of that latte, 5 minutes ago? It was a huge artistic risk that I took there. My followers could’ve taken that terribly. They could think I’m a sell out.”
“That said, the only thing that is always appropriate are pictures of cats. With a cat shot, even during fashion week, you can never go wrong.”
…
That’s it.
So of course I had to report this fascinating conversation (I know, you just can’t wait to join TIA, right?) to Scott, and he told me that since the most popular subjects on Instagram are cats and food and so he’s going to start an Instagram of cat food.
With that, I’ll leave you with a few pearls from a girl who knows how to twitter. Short, personal, and lethal. Lauren Santo Domingo, @TheLSD. She’s got it down to an art.
And one that should apply to me :
Ha! I’ll try to remember that one next time I read a Tweet from Derek ;-)
Today, I am taking you to the Diane Von Furstenberg show with Amanda De Cadenet, who came to visit New York (she’s an LA girl!) for Fashion Week. I love her point of view, her honesty and also the show she hosts, The Conversation.
On the show, she sits down for very intimate interviews with a lot of very interesting girls, the kind you can call only by their first names, Gwyneth, Crystal, Alicia, Lady (ahah), etc…
I thought if you didn’t know her already, I would be very excited to introduce you to her !
Ok, the thing is, the conversation was so interesting that only one question stays unawswered… Did we make it to the DVF show?
The subtitles will be online in 15 minutes!
As we mentioned last week, Proenza Schouler tends to put its most directional accessories on the runway instead of the bags and leather goods that actually fly off of store shelves. That’s the case for most designers, but Proenza is particularly notable because there’s such a wide gulf between the runway bags and the rest of the line; you needn’t look further than Proenza Schouler Spring 2013 for proof.
In addition to the new Proenza Schouler Record Bag, the collection’s runway accessories included several very interesting patchwork purses with futuristic pieced hardware. In fact, “patchwork” hardly seems appropriate for a look that was a lot less hippie-dippy and a lot more postmodern than the term usually implies. Will those bags be a retail success? Likely not, but the Record Bags might do well, and you can expect to see notes of all these looks on PS1s and PS11s (and PS13s, if we ever get to see them) to come. Check out the full collection after the jump.
[Images via The Cut]
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