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Where can you buy relatively high quality feathers?
I want to bedeck some of my old t-shirts and things, but you can only get so far with those crappy things they sell at Hobby Lobby.
I live in Austin, TX, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to have an internship in NYC this summer (I’m willing to wait!), and of course the internet is always an option.
Thanks so much!
KD
Entry: Kate and Julie: Together Again
posted by kelleyd
Aug 27, 2009 12:51AM
Gosh I love invites! Could you all upload pictures of the good'uns?
Entry: This Might Work
posted by kelleyd
Aug 27, 2009 3:20AM
Some people have decreased their shopping for purely financial reasons, yes, but there's also a great deal of psychology contributing to the drop off in sales in and beyond NYC. Even with substantial evidence pointing towards a recovery next year, our approach to spending hasn't changed (as exhibited by the unfaltering diligence of the phrase in advertising). As time has passed, we continue to be greeted with the same foreboding (though slightly insincere) intonations of "these tough economic times," Congress has settled back into its old spirit of antagonism, just as we have settled into the realization that nothing's changed. The surge of optimism and unity felt just a few months ago has waned, and though everyone's talking about our renewed progress, it all feels like a step backward. We've been chastised for our past extravagance so well, and have tempered our hope so often, that legitimate cause for optimism barely excites a reaction. We'd rather stay home.
Anyway, if my reading is correct, Fashion's Night Out's larger purpose is to reintroduce people to blatant consumerism (yay!) and show them that participating in it doesn't always lead to a slap on the wrist. Of course, the RECESSION is a mighty big slap on the wrist to get over, but FNO is a push in the right direction--a small shift in perspective that leads to other steps and other shifts and eventually to retail normalcy circa 2006.
Also, parties are fun and this post is far too long.
Entry: Aug 28, 2009 @ 2:21pm
posted by kelleyd
Aug 28, 2009 4:14PM
Curlz MT? Really? Usually I'd give Vogue Paris the benefit of the doubt, but there are some bridges that should be burnt after making one's third-grade birthday invitations and the usage of this font is one of them. I mean, if you're going to reference Cabaret at the very least use Jazz LET or something.
Anyway, excepting misadventures in font land, you can't really go wrong with Liza Minnelli and rhinestones.
Entry: Sep 08, 2009 @ 1:51pm
posted by kelleyd
Sep 08, 2009 6:52PM
Who is the grey leopard print top in picture 10 by?
Entry: We Love Your Photo Editor
posted by kelleyd
Sep 08, 2009 9:21PM
How exactly does Brooks define "high fashion?" Almost everyone would agree the work of Martin Margiela and any couturier both exemplify high fashion in their own way, but the two aren't quite on the same wavelength. I suppose you could justify the grouping by citing their shared "extra-ness;" Margiela is extra-conceptual; haute couture is extra-technical (among other things); they are both inhabit fashion's extremes. But, unless I'm ignorant and Dior's been churning out wig coats for decades, shared extremity does not necessitate shared identity. It's a little incongruous, when every other category IS defined by an aesthetic.
But, then again, when have chapters every really mattered in a picture book?
Entry: Sep 03, 2009 @ 11:36am
posted by kelleyd
Sep 09, 2009 4:32PM
As long as we can call the next decade the "naughties."
Entry: Mid-Day Snack
posted by kelleyd
Sep 10, 2009 1:44AM
I think the best description of Megan Fox I've heard so far came from a review of that movie she jiggled in slow motion for:
"Megan Fox? Someone on MetaFilter said it best: 'In an early episode of thirtysomething, Elliot did a riff on how microwave ovens impart all the abstract qualities of heat to food - yet somehow not genuine hotness.' Yeah, that."
Entry: I'm Sorry Jillian Lewis
posted by kelleyd
Sep 11, 2009 1:51AM
Better to be honest than charitable. At its most basic level, fashion exists to satisfy our desire to uplift and enhance the human form. This collection, regardless of its inspiration, fails to do that because the clothes just are not well-made. Even original designs cannot be successful if they are executed poorly. A good designer is either technically proficient, or able to find a voice within the confines of their skill set, or both. I don't think it's fair to condemn Lewis after only one outing, but right now it looks like she's just not ready to go solo yet.
Entry: Chris Benz: Beautiful Like a Rainbow
posted by kelleyd
Sep 15, 2009 4:03PM
Who is the red-haired model from the first picture and Style.com's look book? I swear, as much as I already agree with #1, she must have multiplied the clothes-love by at least 50 times. Now there's this whole wearing-clothes-love to contend with!
Entry: Marc Jacobs' Blank Slate
posted by kelleyd
Sep 15, 2009 5:06PM
I thought the collection was gorgeous, despite it's over-ruffled moments.
But I'd give Jacobs credit even if it wasn't, simply because he's the first designer who's recognized how repetitive this whole grunge thing is getting aloud. The look itself is still appealing. It's cool. In fact, it's the epitome of cool. Whatever other moods may be floating around, the pared down, torn up aesthetic will always seem more tough, more raw, more real. Apathy will always win out over enthusiasm, because there's nothing to second guess, just cigarettes and emptiness. But really, is that all there is to strive for? Being better than everyone else?
And, ignoring that, when everyone exudes the same rawness, the kind that is bought and sold at Urban Outfitters, what is there that is truly real? I'm tired of apathy, and I'm tired of cool. I'll take whatever I can't get of what tries swimming in a different direction.
Entry: Murphy's Flashback
posted by kelleyd
Oct 25, 2009 2:15PM
This looks so good! Adrien Brody is such a lady killer.
On a related note, thanks for posting that trailer for Rage a while ago. I just watched it and WOW. What with the unchanging monochromatic backgrounds, it should have gotten boring after a while, but it so. did. not. Amazing performances all around. Judi Dench is the coolest woman on the planet. If McQueen is right and we really do devolve into aquatic reptiles in the future, I hope I can end up bearing at least a slight resemblance to her character in the movie. Bitch at its best.
Entry: Oct 23, 2009 @ 2:31pm
posted by kelleyd
Oct 25, 2009 2:47PM
Oh god, who/how many would you KILL to see one of Lagerfeld's baby pictures??? At least ten, right??
Somehow, I keep imagining wee-Karl as a cross between his current persona and Augustus Gloop.
Entry: Oct 23, 2009 @ 3:11pm
posted by kelleyd
Oct 25, 2009 3:35PM
omg, best costume idea ever! The ghost of Yves Saint Laurent.
Just do the standard YSL uniform in white, paint yourself the same color with clown makeup, and glue a bunch of cigarettes to your hands and wrists in an artful, but accessible arrangement, with the butts pointing upwards so they look like yellow tipped spines. Then, when anyone asks you about the last bit, say "Well I've got to smoke SOMETHING!"
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Entry: Mid-Day Snack
posted by kelleyd
Oct 25, 2009 3:58PM
Well if they ever make a stage version of Funny Face....
Entry: Tricked Out Magazines
posted by kelleyd
Nov 12, 2009 5:19PM
There is something timeless about flipping through a no-tech magazine that I think people will ultimately want to preserve. It has a comforting permanence about it: a sense of ritual. We love our glossies because they DON'T change. In a world of blog updates and streaming videos, they offer more than just the sensation of motion (and in ten years, what else do you think we'll be able to glean from sites like Fashionista?).
Not that movement is a bad thing, of course. Quite the opposite We need movement and--more than that--we want it. But we also need a point of reference. Something that will still exist when we step back for a second to breathe. Magazines provide that.
And besides, Taylor Swift and SNOWFLAKES? Did they partner with Hallmark or something? You really can't get much gimmicky-er than that. And, assuming InStyle isn't tricking out the cover with speakers as well, what is the girl going do for 45 seconds that is so entertaining?
I love it when fashion and film collide, but the sentimentalist inside of me thinks the magazine format should be sacred.
Now, if someone started an entirely video-based, not-really-a-magazine-but-let's-call-it-one-anyways magazine, THAT would be exciting!
Entry: Nightcap: Artistic License
posted by kelleyd
Nov 20, 2009 4:36PM
"Stay tuned for 'Life with Rita'" --> !!!
That rumor we spread about Mark Fast doing a line for Topshop? It's true. And it's in last week's Sunday Telegraph magazine which means it was true before we even said anything and we've had it in our lap since... Read More
Meet Blue Logan, if you haven't already. A couple of years ago a friend dragged the soft-spoken Brit to a show at London Fashion Week, Aquascutum he thinks, and he started to draw the models as they walked down the... Read More
Entry: Aug 26, 2009 @ 5:57pm
posted by kelleyd
Aug 27, 2009 12:45AM
Love this. Marrying Lanvin jewelry.