Mark Haddaway and Katy Rodriguez, the brilliant duo behind Resurrection, have been working on a project.
We’re so jealous, we might cry.
They’ve assembed what The Telegraph calls, “the most important [collection] to come up at auction.”
It includes original 1970’s Vivienne Westwood from both the legendary Seditionaries and Pirates collections. There are Paco Rabanne dresses and leather jackets from the 60’s and an entire, unworn look from Yves Saint Laurent’s 1968 Safari collection. There’s a 1986 zippered, hooded, green mini Alai that was in fact worn, but by Grace Jones, a python skin Ossie Clark coat and a few slinky Versace dresses circa Gianni.
Are you emptying your piggy bank yet?
If not, there’s also a group of dresses from Marc’s 1992 Grunge collection for Perry Ellis.
We’re kind of speechless. So in the words of Rachel Zoe, (since she’s probably the only one who can justify shelling out thousands for these pieces right now), “I die. D-I-E.”

—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST
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Jerry Kaye, former creative director for Perry Ellis, has just been named head designer for Dr. Martens.
That’s probably the most sensible fashion appointment we’ve ever heard.
Kaye came on as Men’s fashion director at Ellis in 1993, the same year Marc Jacobs was fired, and stayed up until 2005 when he launched his own consulting firm working with clients like Levi’s.
Hartmarx, the company that owns Dr. Marten’s and hopes to expand into ready-to-wear, chose Kaye because of his “vast experience in taking heritage brands and making them modern and relevant in today’s marketplace.”
We’re still waiting for our new docs to arrive in the mail, (they’re a gift and we’ll be scribbling all over them), and now we’ll also be waiting to see Kaye’s take on the classic shoe.
The question is, will we actually wear them?
When I was sitting at the Perry Ellis show this morning, fresh from the torrential downpour outside, my notebook read:
“Everyone around me is talking about real estate. This can’t be good.”
In fact, I found myself only watching for the models.
Photographer Jeremy Kost read my mind.
Over and over again…
—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST
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