Third time doesn't need to be a charm for Nina Garcia and her beloved book series. Alas, she's giving us more of what we love with a book aimed at today's economically challenged times. The book, titled The Style Strategy: A Less Is More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart, is destined to offer insight during a fashion recession. Due out in August, and Ruben Toledo will once again lend his illustration skills. After The One Hundred, where yours truly had a cameo, and Nina Garcia's Little Black Book of Style, this one will move to the top of our reading list.
And while we're sort of on the subject . . . Project Runway season five has wrapped. Taking place in LA this time around, the finale show is on the New York Fashion Week schedule in its Friday 9 a.m. time slot. Where and when the new season will air is still in the air, heh, but supposedly the finale show will happen. You may recall, in previous seasons, a handful of contestants show to serve as a decoy so as not to reveal the real winner. But this time, who is presenting will be a secret. So, not only do we not know when and if PR will air, but we'll have no idea who designed what. Confusing much?
Want an instant injection of fierce? Then you must get one of these Grace Jones Buttons ($3 each). A quickie lesson: She's a Jamaican-American singer, actress, and supermodel whose masculine appearance influenced the cross-dressing movement of the '80s. The image on the pin is from her 1981 album cover for Nightclubbing taken by Jean-Paul Goude. Twenty-five years later, the model and art director reunited on the set of V Magazine's Spring issue for which Jones is a cover girl. Viva, Grace!
This Barron Duquette Cynthia Jumpsuit ($326) is interesting to say the least. The model looks good in it, but on me it might be a different story. The baggy, genie-inspired cut is a sassy evening look, but I'm not sure about the cropped, elastic banding. Do you love it or hate it?
Opulent, whimsical, vivid — all adjectives you can count on Lacroix to bring. However, considering this is couture, the French great toned things down a tad. There's still plenty of pouf and crazy, but this collection felt tame. Or maybe I just prefer when Lacroix goes mad . . . Influences were varied: Spanish luxe, retro prom, Parisian flourish, but it was unmistakably Lacroix. Some dresses resembled exotic bouquets of flowers, while others an English garden party. Meanwhile, separates were jumbled together to create a high-end hodgepodge — very inspiring. Stacked bangles and oversize earrings were noteworthy. Then there's the bride, in her white and gold decadent glory. As always with Lacroix, I'm smitten.
Where there is couture, there's always going to be all-star attendees. Couture isn't up everyone's alley, but the Spring Couture collections in Paris did attract a gaggle of fashion devotees like Carine Roitfeld, Daphne Guinness, Dita Von Teese, and Olga Kurylenko (left, gorgeous). After the Chanel show, first-time fashion show attendee Keira Knightley said, “I was saying ‘I want that one and that one and that one,’ but I’ve got nothing to wear them to." Somehow I doubt that! Check out who else made a cameo at the Parisian shows.
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Singer and actress Selena Gomez posed for pictures at the 2009 American Music Awards with a pretty pink smile on her face. She took advantage of the occasion and went glam; wearing a Talbot Runhof sequin dress with black strappy heels.
Third time doesn't need to be a charm for Nina Garcia and her beloved book series. Alas, she's giving us more of what we love with a book aimed at today's economically challenged times. The book, titled The Style Strategy: A Less Is More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart, is destined to offer insight during a fashion recession. Due out in August, and Ruben Toledo will once again lend his illustration skills. After The One Hundred, where yours truly had a cameo, and Nina Garcia's Little Black Book of Style, this one will move to the top of our reading list.
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