Showing posts with label fashion week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion week. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Fashion Reads- Diane: A Signature Life

If you know me at all then you know that i have a deep love for Diane von Furstenberg. Her memoir, Diane: A Signature Life, is in my list of top ten favorite books. Whether you like fashion or not ( if not then I don't know what you're doing here) this is a great read. She married a prince, ruled a fashion empire and started a family all before the age of thirty. This book tells the story of a fashion star in the making, a downfall and a sudden comeback.  This book holds good advice for any young designer looking to make their way in the fashion industry. Von Furstenberg honestly shares her mistakes and successes and off course talks  in great detail of "the wrap", the famous style of dress that catapulted her into fashion fame.

 And while we are the D.V.F. train here are some of the current covetables from her fall collection, you know the stuff I'll be looking for on the Saks Black Friday sale's rack!
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Perfection!

70's geometric, enough said. 

Where would I wear this? To the disco of course!

Are these not Mary Tyler Moore shoes!

Buy it for me and I swear I'll wear it!


Sunday, September 18, 2011

the fine print

Just when I was finally coming to terms with impending winter doom and the endless months of black and grey wooly staples, here come the s/s 2012 collections to draw me right back into warm weather fashion. The most exciting part of the new collections has got to be the prints. Designers showed large scale prints in acidic colors, soft Liberty of London-esque florals and Van Gogh reminiscent fabrics.
Here are just a few of the standouts:


3.1 Phillip Lim

Jonathan Saunders

Band of Outsiders
Derek Lam

Jonathan Saunders

Paul Smith

Diane von Furstenburg

Diane von Furstenburg


Jill Stuart

Marc Jacobs

Matthew Williamson

Matthew Williamson
Rodarte