'Rodarte does Couture' has been ringing around the internet, with their very short lived installation of ten dresses, culminating the festivities of Pitti. Yet if truth be told, hasn't that always been the way ever since the self-taught Mulleavy sisters began by dragging a suitcase of hand-made dresses around New York and their couture leanings… Continue reading Florentine Dream
Doggy Treats
After three days of being surrounded by impeccably dressed men at Pitti, who don't get so much as a sock out of joint, I'm rebelling in the form of this post filled with items that you're probably most least likely to see strutting around the grounds of Fortezza de Basso in Florence. I blame this… Continue reading Doggy Treats
West Side Story
This is going to look like a botched up scatty post with Vimeo, GIFS and stills all over the joint. It makes it slightly worse that the subject of the post Scott Sternberg's Band of Outsiders, a label deeply passionate about for clean, precise and to the point classics. Still, with reasons such as my… Continue reading West Side Story
Portraits Reinterpreted
>> Famed still life photographer Peter Lippmann has collaborated with Christian Louboutin a number of times on campaigns, exploiting his still life set-up expertise. I found the Flemish-style still lifes with shoes strewn over tables with goblets, grapes and skulls impressive in their execution and mimicry of those types of paintings. It was also interesting… Continue reading Portraits Reinterpreted