It's Saturday morning, I'm feeling fresh and the fashion fatigue has evaporated with a good night's sleep.Also, I woke up and looked at Thom Browne's collection and it made me chortle quite a lot so I wanted to share. Menswear (hey, something for the guys!) hasn't looked this, uh, interesting in years. I haven't been this amused since Gareth Pugh's Fall 2007 bizarre explosion of ninja, s&m and jailhouse rock.
Here's the quick review of some of the Friday's shows (no shots of Jovovich-Hawk yet):
Vera Wang: Wang has a new line at Kohl's so we now not only have access to some of her clothes, we might actually be able to afford them, as well. From what I've seen, there are some really nice pieces. Her '08 collection is my favorite so far. Great structure, nice flow, the colors aren't exactly spring but I don't favor spring colors, anyway. There were a few misses but all in all, 100% wearable.
Proenza Schouler: PS are getting raves all over the place and are another label that sold in Louisville, although their 90-day Target line has come and gone. I'm not a huge fan but they are critical darlings so I thought I'd include them. Strangely, when it comes to high fashion, I tend to be really conservative favoring Calvin Klein, Armani, et al. Sadly, I'll probably never be in either with the exception of the t-shirt CK reps gave me at Lollapalooza and the Armani blouse my old, very wealthy boss bestowed upon her downtrodden little employee (I had to duck flying staplers at that job, but that's another story).
Baby Phat by Kimora Lee Simmons: I just had a gander at Mrs. Russell Simmons' closet in a magazine and that thing was bigger than my living room. She has more shoes than the entire footwear department at Dillard's AND she purges every season. I don't aspire to that but it was impressive (or sickening, depending). As for the collection, bright colors flew down the runways and all I have to say is it's springtime for hoochie mamas! Even if I had the figure for it I would never be brave enough (or trashy, depending on your view) to sport these looks. Unfortunately, I spotted another pair of high-waisted shorts. Seriously, it's a scourge!
More later when I'm glued to the couch going back and forth between the US Open men's semi-finals and the America's Next Top Model cycle 8 marathon. I'm hoping for a Federer/Jokovic final but wouldn't mind if Ferrer won his match as he's been most impressive. I do NOT want to see a victorious Davydenko but there seems to be little chance of that). Tonight, I hope it will be Justine all the way. Now if only she could win Wimbledon!
Hope you are enjoying the glorious grey Saturday,
Ms. P
ps. RIP Pavarotti. Valentino's retiring. Italy's losses are also ours this week.
Those fashion week links were fab. Thom Browne must know really different guys than me if he thinks even a drastic modification of some of those outfits would fly off the racks.
ReplyDeleteAnd Baby Phat wares always has about 10x too much stuff going on... I mean, unless you like that kind of thing.
On another topic, thanks for visiting my blog! I didn't even notice I had comments until today because I hadn't really told anyone about it yet. I'm still trying to find my voice and focus... but clearly, you and I will have a lot to trade ideas about, what with our practically identical TV viewing tastes and other commonalities! (Is that a word?)
Enjoy your night!
Thanks! I've been covering every day and it's somewhat exhausting and I'm not even there! I don't know how people who really cover it deal. But hopefully you were able to read the other posts. I'll be writing a bit every day til NY is over.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to sharing more tv, fashion and pop culture!