Shoe of the day: RODARTE x NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD

sweet jesus!

J. Crew’s creative director, Jenna Lyon’s closet aka my heart’s desire.

From the top (left to right):

Vera Farmiga in Sophie Theallet for Gap and Van Cleef & Arpels with Sophie Theallet

Tamara Mellon

Rosario Dawson

Malin Åkerman

Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg

Charlotte Kemp Muhl and Sean Lennon, both in Marni

From top (left to right):

Emma Watson in Burberry

Mila Kunis in Vera Wang

Alexa Chung in 3.1 Phillip Lim

Anne Hathaway in Valentino and Bulgari

Gisele Bündchen in custom Alexander Wang

Jessica Stam in Rachel Roy and Bulgari

Kirsten Dunst in Rodarte for Gap

Sarah Jessica Parker in Halston Heritage and Fred Leighton

Tom Ford

Kristen Stewart in Chanel Haute Couture and Chanel Fine Jewelry

Riley Keough in Thakoon for Gap and Thakoon Panichgul

Jude Law in Emilio Pucci and Sienna Miller in Emilio Pucci and Solange Azagury-Partridge

Fenton & Fallon + J. Crew = Major WIN.

These necklaces make me wanna shoop. Shoop beh roop. Shoop beh shop! I’m gonna be spending me some tax refund on some fenton&fallon sonnnn!

Spring Couture Crush: Valentino

Chloe Paraty Medium Python bag

aka hummina hummina

Is Zac Posen broke? Or does he have a gambling addiction? A few months ago I found out he was starting Bespoke at Saks and today he is having a Posen party in Manhattan to sell his Target Go International summer line.

Price points: a black tuxedo jacket ($49.99) and pants ($34.99), a brocade tie dress ($74.99) and a gown ($69.99). The whole collection’s going to be available online and in-stores April 25.

So…I notice a trend of designers going mass - Stella McCartney for Adidas and Gap, Jimmy Choo for H&M, Zac Posen for Saks and Target, Rodarte for Target (I mean, seriously we need a Target in Canada!). Is this a good or bad thing? Do you like your designers to be unreachable, to be admired from afar? Or do you like being able to purchase a polyester option, as long as its branded with your couture crush?

I’m on the fence - I feel like the “go after everyone” targeting strategy can dilute the name and create negative brand associations (ie: Armani Exchange anyone?). But at the same time, I like the Obamaness to it. A fashion democracy if you will. And you can’t hide behind the brand to front as though you gots style when everyone can buy Rodarte. So the stylish games become more competitive, more fair - less about cash money, more about the fashionable hunny.

I finally went on vacation a week ago and hit up M-I-A-M-I. I finally went shopping for the first time in like, 4 months! One of the consequences of being house poor is that you end up sacrificing your attention to personal attire and appearance. I was like “Friends” at 6pm every weekday on Omni: a walking rerun.

Anyway, first day there, we hit up Lincoln Street and made it half-way down the strip before deciding it was basically a homage to bedazzled True Religion jeans and big booby fare. I had need for neither.

Then after dinner one night we took a stroll further west and saw an oasis among the sea of glitter, calling to us in its serif letters, spelling out, “J. C-R-E-W”. Steph and I promptly returned the next day.

After getting our crewsifix, we came across an unusual storefront, “All Saints Spitafields” adorned with rows and rows of circa 1920-1940’s Singer Sewing machines. The ceilings were mounted with clusters of accordion photography lights, and the clothes were just dirty, edgy, crude, ripped, torn, worn, and magnificent. Fashion and Interior Design collided.

This was my first intro to All Saints - its apparently come from the UK (of course, right?) and been in the States for the past 8 years. And guess what, its hitting up Montreal and Toronto in the next year. Woohoo - I just have one request for thee future Spitafields’ buyers: please please please choose the appropriate pieces for the Canadian Stores! No H&M’ing it up please. Remember when H&M was amazing in New York and the UK and then when it finally came to Canada it became the less pretty younger sister?!

I pray to the All Saints gods that the same doesn’t happen.

Amen.

I am indefinitely handcuffed to work recently and haven’t been my usual blogging self. But I had to stop and write about the loss of Alexander Mcqueen and pay tribute.

He was brilliant. I especially love-loved this RTW Spring 2010 collection.

WHY.