Saturday, September 11, 2010
Sitting Pretty
Great article by the NY Times (honestly, who can't get enough of their reporting) on the politics of the front row at fashion week. I've been wondering for days which cast members of Entourage requested front row seats...Also a bit of entertaining gossip about what's been going on at Conde Naste.
Portrait of a Lady
So this is a post I've been wanting to do for a while. People occassionally say fashion is art. I'm not sure how much I believe that but I do know I've gotten alot of sartorial inspiration from the art world. Colours, layers, moods all of it goes some way into training your eye. Sometimes the thing that will strike you the most is the juxtaposition of two shades you never thought would complement each other so well, or the fold in a dress, an elegance in posture...
The Clown Cha-U-Kao by Toulouse Lautrec.
Primavera by Botticelli. This one really needs to be bigger. You can click on it for a larger one but really go google the details, look at the hair, the folds of silk and most importantly the colours (of the landscape as well as their robes).
Blue mountains by Vasily Kandinsky.
Woman with a Black Boa also by Lautrec.
Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
St Jerome in Meditation by Caravaggio...That deep, deep red.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai. The blue sea and the white foam.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Seventies Style: A Love Story
The last one has a skirt that is so Michael Kors. See below. I think my favourites are the girl with the blue neckerchief and the little blue miniskirt girl with the camel top. Also possibly the girl with the green skirt in the same pattern. I truly truly love sewing patterns. It's vintage they way they wore it - great inspiration. And the seventies isn't even what I think of as my decade. You should see how I get with forties and fifties patterns!
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