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Take the la-di-da of The Wedding, add a little (okay, a lot) of OTT-addict ADR, and it seems everyone is suddenly fascinated with fascinators. They were top of mind (sorry) during the Little Shilpa show at Lakme Fashion Week recently, from the Summer Resort 2011 collection. Images courtesy of Lakme Fashion Week.
Thinking of Lee today. McQueen for a day. McQueen always. Images: TFS, Style.com, Elle.com.
Get out of your doom and gloom state, darling, and let yourself bloom! Suddenly, everything is coming up roses. I had a dream, a dream about you, baby. It’s gonna come true, baby. They think that we’re through, but baby, You’ll be swell! You’ll be great! Gonna have the whole world on a plate! Starting [...]
New York and “we” may “all get dressed for Bill”, as famously noted by the royal We of fashion, Ms. Wintour. However, in Bill Cunningham: New York, a documentary film of the original street style photographer by Richard Press, we get a glimpse of the man underneath the clothes. There has been much buzz on [...]
There are some things in life we cannot seem to get enough of. Ice cream and Uncle Karl would be two things that come to mind immediately. Well now, you can have a double dip, with Uncle Karl’s latest career as an ad-mad man. It only seems fitting, after his many professions and creative collaborations, [...]
When I was at the AGO recently, taking in the last bit of Maharajas and their many baubles, I had a déjà vu of a déjà vu. When I first visited the exhibition in the Fall, I had seen this wonderful western-style portrait in oil paint, of an elaborately adorned Sadiq Muhammad Abbasi. I couldn’t help [...]
Well, technically she hasn’t left. One sees Ms. Christensen from time to time – in the underground, avant-garde, below the radar sites and publications where culture, art and beauty lurk. Lately, she has made a few mainstream appearances again. Here she is in the May, 2011 Russian edition of Harper’s Bazaar, photographed by Luis Sanchis. [...]
Ms. Wintour’s Vogue + Ms. Coddington’s fashion direction + Meisel’s mastery + McQueen pieces from the upcoming Met exhibit = Alexander the Great. As an aside, these museum pieces are being worn by actual bodies only because they are not part of the permanent collection of the Costume Institute at the Met – the guidelines [...]
H&M recently launched a Conscious Collection – just in time for Earth Day. The collection for men, women and kids, is made from environmentally adapted and greener materials such as organic cotton, Tencel and recycled polyester. “It’s not just about organic cotton any more, the possibilities for creating a complete fashion statement with eco smarter [...]
The yearning I have for this jacket can only be sated by owning it, by wearing it, by living in it… Only then can I say Margielahhhhhhhh. Image courtesy of The Fashion Spot.
Take a deep breath. You will need it to take in the beauty of this collection. I gasped out loud at Eina Ahluwalia’s emotionally charged jewellery collection, shown in Mumbai at Lakme Fashion Week in March. The collection, entitled Breathing Space, presented an alternate image of the Indian bride. Ahluwalia was aiming to present women [...]
Carry a lot of stuff everywhere you go? Need something functional, yet stylish? I’ve been carrying around these images of a few handy totes for a while now. A couple of great choices for digital boys and girls… And if Notebooks aren’t your thing, maybe a nice mag bag from Anya Hindmarch to drag home the [...]
Another fashion book on my list this month is the much-anticipated one written by Andrew Bolton called Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, which accompanies the exhibition of the designer’s work to open at the Met in May. The tome also features contributors Tim Blanks and Susannah Frankel and of course, those unforgettable photos by Sølve Sundsbø. The exhibition opens May 4th [...]
It’s an April Sunday in Toronto. To the uninitiated, that means we can have four seasons happen in one day. Today, we’ve seen hail, snow, freezing rain – and alas, sun. Stay calm and do the following… 1. Expect. Like any good Canadian, when it comes to the elements, one has to be used to this [...]
I was catching up on my blog reading and came across this wonderful image by Sart, of a young lad in Florence sporting a club collar. It immediately had me saying…George Emerson, is that you? Images courtesy of The Sartorialist and IMDB.