July 2009
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Week in Review: Over-plaid? →
Read last week’s Week in Review piece over at The Fashionisto. With a slew of Fall 2009 (and Spring 2010) releases building on the tartan pattern, I look at whether the emerging menswear trend of patchwork has finally put plaid in its place (I certainly hope so).
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Ramona by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.
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Tisci Tantalizes
No haute couture collection at Paris last week did to me what Riccardo Tisci did. Sure, it was a small show of only 22 looks, but for someone who sides with wearable high fashion and often finds haute overly haughty, Givenchy totally reinvigorated me.
Will anything ever again so beautifully disrupt my accepted notions of ‘fashion’?
The one thing missing from Tisci’s...
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What is this Who Am Eye? →
I really don’t like criticizing collections. They consume a wealth of financial resources, time, patience… and even if the style of a collection doesn’t sit well with me, I can always respect a designer’s aim. But here is one exception. All I’m offered are a few loose-fitting singlets and T-shirts, a short, a jacket, a shoe, a pair of jeans. It might seem like that...
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Fashion Blogger Power List →
A few weeks ago we saw Holt Renfrew pay tribute to fashion bloggers worldwide by creating window displays inspired by BryanBoy, Tommy Ton and others. And just in case you weren’t aware of those making the biggest splashes online, The Daily Beast rounds up and profiles the top 6.
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