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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Friday #OOTD

Dress: Club Monaco / Stilettos: Stuart Weitzman / Necklace, Bracelet, and Earrings: Tiffany & Co.

Thursday #OOTD

Blouse: Aritzia / Skirt: Zara / Sandals: Anthropologie / Necklace: Bauble Bar / Earrings and Bracelet: Tiffany & Co.

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

"That twisted-ness was the key to the collection. The word couture implies cutting and seaming. There was none of that here. Everything was molded rather than seamed. "It's Haute Couture without the Couture," said Lagerfeld, tongue firmly in cheek. And yet there was look after look of a gorgeousness so exquisite it could only be achieved in ateliers that were accustomed to confronting the impossible—and mastering it. It must help that Lagerfeld always has the future in mind as he cherry-picks his way through the past. Take lace and coat it with silicone. Think pink, but think plastic, too. Tatter, shred, disrespect…and make something new. That was all in keeping with the much-touted youth-ifying of Couture. Sam McKnight's hair and Maison Michel's little hats perched pertly on the back of the models' heads had the effect of a Haircut 100 cover from The Face circa 1982. The effect was compounded by Lagerfeld building his silhouette on shorts. There were coat-dresses over shorts, jackets and skirts over shorts, plus the perfect shoes for shorts—sandals. Given the molded, sculpted nature of the clothes, Lagerfeld liked the ease of a flat. "The models can walk in those dresses like they're nothing," he said." - style.com

Giambattista Valli Fall 2014 Couture

Nothing said "new Couture customer" like Giambattista Valli's collection tonight. Imagine the Alhambra Gardens. A girl wakes, maybe she's still dressed from the night before, maybe she swathes herself in a striped sheet or slips into her beau's pj's. It's bright so she puts on sunglasses. Her head hurts. She wraps it in a napkin from the champagne bucket. And she goes for a walk in the garden. There's a dry, warm wind, blossoms are blowing, they cloud her… A pretty picture, and Valli did it justice on his catwalk. He visited the gardens years ago and filed the memory away for access at the right moment. It was the eclecticism of the Alhambra that appealed to him, the mix of Moorish and Spanish. That mix was entirely sublimated here, but there was still a feeling for the heat of the gardens, for the richness of the flowers, and even, at the end, a monochrome catholic strictness as a kind of cleanser before a finale of skirts fluffed into an extravaganza of feathery tulle. "They'll be the best-seller," Valli announced confidently, because they would lend themselves so well to weddings. "The secret of my girls is that they're always eccentric," he said before his show. "They don't play it. They are." So you could say that there was eccentricity in a skirt in pink fluoro lace laid over a striped body. But the strength of this lineup was that Valli didn't, for once, actually cater to that waywardness. Skirts were pencil thin and below the knee, and right away that gave the collection a long, elegant, grown-up line. They were paired with crop tops, tanks, or a capelet situation that Valli liked. In the case of the full-skirted frenzy of the finale, he used tiny piped pyjama tops as a counterpoint." - style.com

Christian Dior Fall 2014 Couture

"Raf Simons is not a designer obsessed with the past. He leaves the decade-hopping to his peers, preferring instead to look ahead. And yet his latest Couture collection for Dior—his most completely realised to date, as beautiful as his debut of two years ago, if not as audacious as his continent-spanning collection from last July—found him looking back. Not at one specific era, but rather at many. Simons was curious, the program notes explained, about the way different time periods informed and influenced subsequent ones. And more than that, he said after ward, he found himself thinking about Christian Dior's fascination with the Belle Époque and asking himself, "If I had been [working] at that time, what would be my interest, conceptually or technically or architecturally? What would I be excited about?" The show was divided into eight groups, hopping not decades but centuries—for example, from the Marie Antoinette-inspired pannier silhouettes of the opening to astronauts' jumpsuits, back to embroidered court jackets and forward again to twenties volumes. Models from each grouping emerged onto the circular set, a launching pad like something out of a sci-fi flick, with curved walls covered in orchids by the thousands. They circulated there to the sounds of Sonic Youth, exposing the clothes from all angles and letting the intricacies and, at other times, the purity of the construction sink in." - style.com

Joey Potter Plays Dress Up in Glamour Magazine's Closet

What: Glamour Magazine August 2014

Who: Katie Holmes

Photographer: Tom Munro

Photographer: Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Verdura, Gucci, Sarah Chloe, Jennifer Meyer, Cartier, Hirotaka, Berge, Tomas Maier, Valentino, Aurelie Bidermann, Madewell, Michael Kors, and Adidas Original.

Saldana Shines on the Cover of Fashion Magazine

What: Fashion Magazine August 2014

Who: Zoe Saldana

Photographer: Chris Nicholls

Stylist: Zeina Esmail

Hair Stylist: Mara Roszak / MakeUp Artist: Vera Steimberg

Designers: Julien MacDonald, DSquared, MCL By Matthew Campbell Laurenza, Emilio Pucci, Jimmy Choo, Mawi, and M2 by MC.

Best Dressed Week #27

Nicola Peltz at the "Transformers: Age of Extinction' Press Conference in Berlin wearing a white crochet Dolce & Gabbana skirt with a matching Stella McCartney bodysuit, nude stilettos, beach waves, soft pink lip, and lightly smoked eyes.

Both Delevingne and Knightley attended The Serpentine Galley Summer Party in London wearing completely different looks from top designers. Cara opted for a black Mulberry column dress with key-hole. Completing her look was her "Cara Delevingne" handbag, a high-pony, and subtle makeup. Keira went with a colourful floral appliqué Chanel dress over top white linen trousers. Hair and makeup was keep simple with tasselled waves, bronze smokey eye, and natural mauve lip.