Oscar de la Renta at the Museum of Fine Arts: Visual Candy and Which One I Want to Wear.
Oscar de la Renta at the MFAH.… Read More Oscar de la Renta at the Museum of Fine Arts: Visual Candy and Which One I Want to Wear.
Category: Fashion Inspiration
Can’t Let Go: Fendi’s Neckline Illusion
I’m obsessed with the illusion neckline detail on this Fendi dress in their Fall 2017 RTW line. The red strip sewn in a U shape seems to be floating on the model’s skin. Not an earth shatteringly new detail, but so pretty and wearable if adapted to show less cleavage. I say that because we… Read More Can’t Let Go: Fendi’s Neckline Illusion
Can This look Be Saved? Second Guessing the Designers
It amounts to picking on someone’s work, but let’s do it anyway. Well, I pick on commercial patterns, when it’s deserved; we also get into the second guessing habit with ready to wear (not that I’ve bought any RTW in the last 7 plus years). So, let’s start at the highest end of the fashion… Read More Can This look Be Saved? Second Guessing the Designers
Can’t Let Go: #Hearts and #Quilts and 2017 Fashion Runways
Happy Valentines Day, Dear Readers! Please know that today I can’t let go of these two items that walked down high fashion runways. Heart Candy Box Couture Photos from VogueRunway.com. Picture credit: Umberto Fratini I just cannot stop staring at this outfit from Rodarte for their Spring Summer 2017 line. Other than Rihanna and Katy… Read More Can’t Let Go: #Hearts and #Quilts and 2017 Fashion Runways
Grey Silk Tunic. Part 1
Good Morning, dear Readers! This will be a short post because I’m actually in the process of knocking off a ready-to-wear tunic. Two things: High-end is a relative term. The tunic is gorgeous in it’s simplicity, and it’s $70 at COS, a clothing retailer. Not that high end, compared to the number of hours and… Read More Grey Silk Tunic. Part 1
Dress Detail of The (Election) Year
This is a dress for waving to the huddled masses. This election year I’m in a constant state of that “bad-taste-in-my-mouth” feeling. But let’s move on – to the dress worn my Mrs Trump (right) at the RNC. Those sleeves!! Pure, sartorial drama. Then I came across this!! Joyce Beatty (left), Democratic Congresswoman from Ohio… Read More Dress Detail of The (Election) Year
Nothing’s New. Tracking the The Cold Shoulder Trend
Disclaimer: By trade, I am not a fashion historian or anything like that. I do love history of fashion in the western hemisphere, and love to track where the current trends in fashion originated. Because there is very little in fashion that is so new that there is no precedent. Well, let’s see about the… Read More Nothing’s New. Tracking the The Cold Shoulder Trend
#Fashion Industry Does Scrap Busting
The high fashion industry – it’s just like us. I’m inspired by highest fashion looks, but are big designers furtively keeping tabs on what is happening in the sewing community? I like to think so. Members of the sewing community have long been inspiring each other to use their leftover fabric in creative ways and… Read More #Fashion Industry Does Scrap Busting
Is Anything New?
Well, yes, plenty. But not really. And, that’s OK. Re-claimed designs in the sartorial world can be regenerated and made to look new — but not really. Before I twist myself into a pretzel, it’s best to start splainin’ myself. There IS a ton of innovation in the fashion industry but it’s a given that… Read More Is Anything New?
Fringe Inspiration: Spring 2016
Conventional wisdom prohibits me from sporting fringe at my age, but I’m obsessed with it.… Read More Fringe Inspiration: Spring 2016
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