I should have just let the grey marl YSL cocktail dress fantasy remain exactly that; a fantasy locked inside an ad featuring Kate Moss. Instead, I surfed on over to the USA YSL e-commerce site (quite frightening at the pace designers are all launching these…) and found faced with a $2000 pricetag for the dress and a slightly more do-able $800 for the trousers in the same material. Then the grey marl sweatshirt material was forced to invade my brain once again last week at the Mandi Lennard press day when I discovered Danielle Scutt’s AW08-9 collection features a few pieces in said material, which I didn’t detect from initial views of the lookbook. Quilted details, buckles and tailoring all transform the material from what we would expect from it. YSL made it chic. Scutt has made it tough.
All this precarious tangibility means that now I can’t get the idea of turning the humble grey marl sweatshirt material on its heels and doing something quite unexpected with it, out of my head. It is at times like this that I need to get a sewing machine of my own (sad child-like me has to trek to the parentals’ house to sew stuff….) and raid the grey sweatshirt stock at American Apparel and see what I can come up with. Trust that a grey sweatshirt Susie sweatshop project is imminent.
Love these! We call it “heather grey” in Canada, but I’m addicted to it as well… and yes, get that sewing machine!!
This fabric can drive you mad. Fall 07 Free People came out with pants in this fabric…and I admit, though I am neither 17 nor a fairy living in the forests of Los Angeles {apprently pre-requisites for being a Free People shopper} I got a pair. My mind immediately went to the possibilities of just what could be done.
Please live this out for me–I never did get to the sewing part.
Oh, I need my sewing machine too!!!
I’m always very impressed when people take on projects like this. Mine would end up in the bin for sure so I’ll be very intrigued to see what you come up with. You gotta so it now girl, inspire me!
I love grey marl. I fact I am wearing a top in it today. It was a staple throughout my teens.
Anything in that fabric is definitely worth a DIY effort. I wouldn’t pay the big bucks for a reconstructed sweatshirt, even if YSL himself came over and did it for me!
It’s funny how the YSL dress costs 2.5x more than the pants when it probably uses less materials and is less complicated to sew. It’s such a rip-off.
I checked out the site because i thought it was impossible those pants would be $400- Susie they are $830!
I like the Danielle Scutt belted dress with the quilted shoulders, although I can’t stand the 2 chest pockets.
Good luck with your sewing project! Love your projects posts.
Topshop recently did a thick fold grey marl origami style/tulip skirt with black waistband that was pretty nice. (They also did an earlier version that was grey with silver flecks and a check version which I nabbed for myself). Maybe you should check it out?
looks so comfortable…id def do it myself though instead of paying that kind of money
Looking forward to your next DIY – I find them very inspiring.