Remember that episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy and Ethel are desperate for dresses from a specific designer? They’re heading to a horse race and insist upon these fancy dresses so Ricky and Fred cut head and arm holes in potato sacks and sew the designer label into the burlap and convince the Read more →
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I took a fashion road trip this weekend—after three years in New York, I finally made my way to the much lauded Woodbury Commons. I’m not a shopping in a group kind of girl and I’m not an outlet kind of girl because it’s generally too much effort, but this was like walking through a Read more →
A Fashion Veneta: Booth Moore’s in Milan, well actually everyone’s in Milan, for Men’s Fashion Week. She caught the Bottega Veneta show on camera. Will purple ever not be in for men? {LATimes} Surprise, Surprise: Look who’s on the cover of Teen Vogue. Emma Watson, looking like we do in our wildest dreams and saying, Read more →
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If I could build a “Forever Wardrobe” like Plum Sykes does in this month’s Vogue, it’d be topped off with one of Bottega Veneta’s woven clutches. I lean toward a clutch anyway – an oversized patent sack-like one for Fashion Week, a vintage velvet pouch for dinner, a woven straw rectangle for the beach – Read more →
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“Now, when someone admires my dress, I never say it is by Balenciaga or Bottega Veneta. I tell them it’s an old Phillip Lim. This neatly conveys the message that, just like everybody else, I’ve cut back on shopping and am happy to wear something by a modest label.” –From The Guardian‘s story on on-line Read more →
I’ve had a long love affair with Herm√®s. I love the house’s sense of secret luxury; I love the connections with Grace Kelly and Jane Birkin; and I really love the Herm√®s tie I stole from my dad years ago because I loved the horses on the label. What I don’t love however, is Heidi Read more →
