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In~tents Assignment

So I have been slaving away on google images looking for examples of a various dress silhouettes for an assignment and to my twisted sense of humour I found something that I’m really considering handing in as an example of a classic Tent shaped garment.  

 

 

Dresses by Artists Adrienne Pao and Robin Lasser 

 

Lyzexoxo

Fashion Fail

One word.

FAIL.

Giuseppe Zanotti…. I honestly don’t even know what to say. 

Gianni Barbatos…….

Marc Jacobs…seriously come on. Those are just plain awful.

FENDI! How could you?  I honestly trusted you and look at this!?! It’s looks like the love child of  the Big Bad Wolf and Woolly Mammoth.

I know the economy is bad but geeeeeez there isn’t really an excuse for these. 

Lyzexoxox

In a State of Emergency?

I love fashion. I eat, breathe, sleep, live it.  But lately after watching some of the these new trends come out and watching models trip up and down the runway I’ve found myself asking; Is Fashion in a State of Emergency? 

 

Vogue Italia September 2006
Hilary Rhoda & Iselin Steiro
Ph: Steven Meisel

The first trend that has me in the corner telling myself it will all be over soon has to be the shoulder pad comeback. Honestly that is one trend that should never be resurrected, it should have been murdered and disposed of properly.

In my opinion the only people who are excused from this Crime Against Humanity are the sport people who run back and forth, tackle each other and catch a brown prolate spheroid for a living. I think there is something in the Geneva Convention about Shoulder Pads.  I can’t  for the life of me figure out just what is appealing about a rectangular torso? 

 

This next trend  left me with shivers rolling down my spine in endless waves of terror. Feathers belong to birds and  only on birds.

 

Watch out for more Crimes of Fashion coming soon!

Raison D’etre

Sorry I’ve been gone for so long.   University has a way of swallowing all your free time and when I do have time I sleep or at least I try to not think about what I have to do.  

I walked down the drive way tonight and I felt so sad because one little  star was out struggling to pierce thought the haze of the sky and I thought goodness he must be so lonely up there all alone . Then I realized not really, because behind all the smog and pollution in the sky there are millions of stars there.  I just cant see them but I know they are there.

It’s a good feeling to know in your heart that in a world full of inconsistencies somethings will stay the same no matter where you are on this planet.

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

lyzexoxo

Rockin the Rabbit!

!! Friday was Stella’s Playboy Mansion Party at the Sail “Bankers, Bunnies, and everything in between” and it was KRAAAZZZYYY!!!!

Yutaki did a FANTASTIC job on the invites!!!

Birthday baby in the center looked gorgeous!!!

After a few rounds we had no choice but to break out the whips and get the party started!

C’est moi! Haha I loved the blow up magazine cover especially since I had my own “interview” in the magazine!

The party group aka the Hostess’ with the Mostess’

I love the fact that Fendi (the guy wearing the afro) went to butter factory looking like this!

All the above pictures are by Vincecarlo photography def. my favorite party photographer, the man is crazy, fun and his photos turn out brilliant! He does photography for Corp, Conference, Seminars, Exhibitions, Launches, Events, Roadshows, Parties, F1, Sports, Motor Sports, Portaiture etc. if you want to have tons of wonderful memories of your party or event (shameless plug) drop him a line at: vincecarlo@gmail.com and trust me you won’t regret it!!!!!

Nicole looks awesome as usual :} Oli is adorable, Bunny babes and Jamie-Babe.

And after the Sail we hippity-hopped over to Butter and partied until the wee hours of the morning! 

Lyzexoxo

Fashion Repeats Itself

The Russian Revolution led by Karl Lagerfield’s Chanel Pre-fall Paris-Moscow 2009 collection has certainly intrigued the fashionable across the globe and I, for one, find the temptation too hard to resist. I think it’s appropriate to discuss the Russian influence on the fashion world considering that tomorrow is the 91st anniversary of the annihilation of the Last Royal Family of Russian, The Romanovs.  

Since their assassination on that fateful night the mystery surrounding their deaths has caused rumours to spread like wildfire.  

Hearsay that the heir to the throne, Alexei, and the Grand Duchess Anastasia had somehow survived were laid to rest by the 2007 discovery of two bodies and the 2008 confirmation of DNA testing. They joined their families and were buried befitting their fitting status. 

Lagerfield of course has now awoken that mystery and I found it interesting to see how the designer drew on the past to create his collection.

For example, the kokoshnik worn in the portrait of Alexandra Feodorovna is very much like the headdress used in Lagerfields show.

 

Kokoshnik were inspired by the corbel arch, “ There are three things I love about Russia,” says Lagerfeld, ”Catherine the Great and Faberge, Russian constructivist art, and Russian folklore. I really enjoyed combining all of these in the ‘Paris-Moscow’ collection.”  The rounded shoulders and fur trim of the Paris-Moscow collection are inspired by Military capes and the gold detailing is borrowed from the imperial gold icons of the Orthodox church.

 

The dresses are combined with tunics and the gold, red and silver have been take straight from Russian Art and Byzantine jewels.  Some of the gowns were inspired by dresses such as the one worn for the wedding portrait of theTsarina Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova.

Other outfits share simliar designs such as embroidery and style.

And so the years pass by and history is forgotten, but as Karl Lagerfield’s Paris-Moscow collection clearly shows, Fashion is Forever.

Lyzexoxo

Ga Ga for Galliano

Only in Paris can the Fashionable find how to bottle beauty, capture scent and make you go Gaga for GALLIANO. Which is exactly how I found myself staring at a bottle of beauty caged behind a glass case in the Galeries Lafayette. I stared entranced and lost in the sheer wonder of the delightfully outlandish piece of art known as the new fragrance by the ultimate Haute Couture Diva himself; John Galliano.  

Interestingly enough the Fashion Guru spent hours draping mannequins in actual Haute Couture silks to achieve the look of the bottle. Galliano researched antique fragrance bottles and also designed the inside and outside of the box. 

The pink and black bottle was inspired by the collars which he used in his very first Fashion collection, Les Incroyables. A gothic G crowns the top of the bottle and a golden rose ties it together.

Another thing I found to be interesting would be the inside and outside of the actual box. The outside of the box was inspired by his “love of collage. My life is a bit like a collage.” The outside was created using the face of model Guinevere Van Seenus.  The sides are designed to look like the many travel journals Galliano creates during his journeys to find inspiration.   Fabrizio Malverdi the executive director of John Galliano has said that ”He  (Galliano) always makes a book of research of everything inspirational he found during the voyage.”   The interior of the box is designed to look like Galliano’s signature gazette. 

Galliano wanted the fragrance , devolped with perfumer Christine Nagel, to be the epitome of the Galliano Girl, he sought to bottle his memory of freshly ironed shirts, the fragrant tones of rose, peony, powdery iris, violet, and the backstage of his epic shows. 

It should come as no shock that Galliano of course went above and beyond with his signature fragrance. Once you smell it, the overwhelming feeling of someone having actually  captured and bottled beauty literally makes you sink into a swoon worthy of any French Courtier.  Wearing Galliano has spoiled me beyond belief and as I walk out the door to face the world, I feel like I’m walking down the runway at another one of Galliano’s Grand Haute Couture Showw. If you ask my opinion that is the perfect way to start your day.

Lyzexoxo