Monthly Archives: September 2009

In yesterday's post I briefly wrote about the way some designers have tackled notions of femininity throughout their collections at New York Fashion Week. Marc Jacobs may have wowed the press with his ballet inspired collection, others such as Alberta … Continue reading →

Right before New York Fashion Week started silvery and golden studs, spikes and fringes of tinkling metallic cones were still all the rage both in clothes and accessories. A while back I interviewed a footwear designer who actually revealed to … Continue reading →

There are people in the fashion industry that could easily put to shame Iago’s doubleness. I have indeed witnessed media people telling me they hate a specific designer, finding themselves by chance in front of the designer in question three … Continue reading →

Remember the post on the JCDC/Schiaparelli gloves? Well, if you are too lazy to make them and would like to find them at an affordable price (or if, like me, you are on a mission to find how much this … Continue reading →

There is one thing that fascinates me about designers and that’s how they tackle specific inspirations for their collections. It’s not uncommon for designers to say that a particular collection was inspired by, say, a painting, and it’s usually rather … Continue reading →

My disillusion with fashion continued during the second day of the New York Fashion Week. I find it almost impossible to look at collections such as Charlotte Ronson’s with its cropped tops, see-through leggings, black lace tops and dirt splattered … Continue reading →

Fashion experts claimed the keyword to this year’s Spring/Summer catwalk shows was going to be relevance, yet seeing the designs presented on the runways during the first day of New York Fashion Week, you had a feeling that most designers … Continue reading →

Jean Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky arrives at the Toronto International Film Festival next week for the joy of the cinema-fashion connection lovers, and to give a final cinematic overdose to Chanel fans with the story of the friendship … Continue reading →

In a previous post on Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard I wrote about the painstakingly difficult process that allowed tailor Umberto Tirelli to create the shirts worn by the Garibaldini soldiers in the film. The tailor reproduced the uniqueness of the … Continue reading →

For some critics the Art Nouveau age produced narcissistic art for art’s sake. Yet I can’t deny that the beauty of line and graceful forms of some pieces of Art Nouveau architecture or furniture really fascinate me. Many artists, architects … Continue reading →