Proportions and Unlikely Combinations

I haven't really paid much attention to Chloe since Paolo Melim Andersson was fired forever ago, but now that there's a new lady at the helm, I think things are coming along quite nicely. Clare Wright Keller was at Pringle of Scotland for a while, and when she came over to Chloe I'm sure some people's feathers were pretend-ruffled, but apart from the Tilda Swinton-campaign/videos/whatever no one really gives a crap about Pringle so the tears were dried up pretty quickly. Point is, Clare's doing a bangin' job at Chloe, especially with this look from pre-fall that is so everything I want to be but cant quite figure out how to be comfortable with in real life (ugh, this sentence could describe SO many things in my life right now!.. but fashion, we're talking about fashion yes). WIDE LEG PANTS are always such an EDITORIAL look and then it comes to real life and you can't figure out what shoes to wear them with or sometimes they are too long and you end up stepping on 4 inches of fabric (you wanna talk tiny sizes? let's talk RIDICULOUSLY LONG INSEAM, FOLKS!) and then you hem them and they are too short and they look STUPID. Because you NEED to have that lil' fold where they meet the ground and you drag them all over the city and into puddles and shit, because you are just so bourgeoisie that you can't be bothered with that shit. And then on top, to make sure everyone gets the point that you are wearing big pants, a cropped buff leather bomber jacket to make all your dreams come true. It is making all my dreams come true at least, and since this year is all about CHANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS (you don't even KNOW how much I'm into 2012 and the crazy shit that is happening in my brain daily and you don't want to know) I will figure out how to drag the New York City dirt with my wide legs everywhere I go.

It'll be poetic.

Rebelling through Sweaters

J.Crew always gets you with their damn styling and their fucking colors which are outstandingly bright season after season. My roommate got the newest catalog today and as soon as I opened it I died for the colorblock sweater. It's SO Jil without actually being like, JIL, you know? Then decided I obviously needed the chambray shirt to go under it. I still don't have a long-sleeve denim shirt which is absolutely PREPOSTEROUS if you know how much I love (1) Canadian tuxedos and (2) button-down shirts.

And don't even get me STARTED on what's happening behind the sweater because I'm not paying attention. The sequined skirt is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive so it's like, dudes, don't even show me that shit.

But this sweater? This sweater I really really want. Am I at the point where I'll drop 300 bucks on a sweater that could make all my dreams come true? PROBS NOT, but much like the Biebz, I will never say never.

All the things that matter at Balenciaga

Let's talk Balenciaga because it was just SO.FUCKING.MAJOR. As soon as I clicked on the first look my jaw dropped to the floor and maybe I started salivating a bit, who knows, because after half a decade of same ole' futuristic amazingness (not actually an oxymoron, if you REALLY think about it), Nicholas finally brought it to another level.

2012, twenty-twelve, it's all about a CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS and finally someone is figuring out a whole new dramatic silhouette for a new century. Short shorts that hint at your elementary-school gym days with oversized jackets with heavy David Byrne in Talking Heads vibes while also being a little varsity but mostly being a bunch of building blocks thrown over a body that have magically molted into a garment.


The metallic band across the chest is almost like a straitjacket, and I know if I think about it in feminist terms it's like "MONDIEU BULLSHIT BLAH BLAH" but it's kinda sexy. Not in the bondage sort of way just in a "I am wearing something huge that hides my body but it's so cool that you can't wait to see what's under it-sorta way.

(Longest description ever?)


From the shorts we got structured a-line dresses that are unmistakeably Balenciaga in their futuristic feelings. The rectangle going down the middle is just the right amount of Georgia O'Keeffe, cause you know, since we are shifting consciousness and all, we are done with the phallocentric visions and opening up to the powers of the vag (mother earth welcomes you).

This all makes sense.

Also Blogger doesn't recognize "phallocentric" as a word, which should tell you something.



The real gems for me came in later on, when these incredible women swathed under layers of skirts and dresses and hats came out. It took my breath away a little because there was something so earthy about it which is so not ever a word that ever shows up in anything Nicholas does, but man, this is bringing out the hippie in me in ALL THE RIGHT WAYS.


FLOWER.PRINTS. Tiny little 40's via 90's style floral prints mixed with leather and stiff volume. This is the future and I realize that saying something is the future while describing it as 40's via 90's makes no sense but THAT'S THE BEAUTY ABOUT FASHION and even though I am totally joking about that last statement, you and I both know it is 100% true.


Hide everything and show everything. Who knew there was so much power in the LIPS.
(we all did)


All hippies love some fringe and this weirdo lurex-y skirts are right on point. Do you see the evolution even within this collection? From structured to loose isn't even something that is groundbreaking but the spirit, the silhouettes, what all of these together represent is really taking what Nicholas has been doing and just making it a million times better.

And can we talk about the ad campaign full of weird-looking girls lounging around a disheveled apartment with mugs and shit all around? This is my favorite since M/M Paris scribbled all over Christy Turlington's face way back in 2001. T'was about time Ghesquiere made me want to DIE (and not because he picked Kristen Stewart to be the face of his new fragrance, we're def NOT gonna talk about that).

but yea, you feelin' it?

This seems familiar...

I am not one to give a shit about high/low designer collaborations (although the upcoming Marni/H&M situation might change my mind), mostly because I don't wait in line for anything really, especially not clothes, which has to do more with my laziness than with my being a snob (which I'm definitely admitting to being). I didn't know that the Versace and H&M thing was ongoing, but I'm stoked to see that their second round of clothes will be offered online. As soon as I saw the looks on Abbey Lee only one thing came to mind; the epic April 1995 issue of Vogue with Kristen McMenamy on the cover.


Bummer that they decided to go with fruit instead of the butterfly print, but the inspiration is undeniable (she's wearing Versace on the cover). The looks might not be a remake of this classic but they definitely fit in with one of the editorials featured inside:


All I need is a blunt-bangs black wig and some killer red lips and I am ready to go. Thank you internet! Once again you've made my life better.


Versace + H&M collab pics via.
April 1995 Vogue pics via.

resolutions.

more.

reading
writing
making music
making time for friends
cooking
going to museums (still haven't been to guggenheim or whitney!)
vitamins
saving money

less.

negative vibez
smoking cigarettes
being late for things
letting my brain run with it
tweeting (sometimes)


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