"It's a vision of what's happening in the world right now with women. On videos and TV all of the women look fake. I wanted to show this plasticized vision, but filtered through classic pieces and sticking to tradition." So said Miuccia Prada to Style.com after her A/W 07-8 show, which used fabrics to express… Continue reading Miu Miu Memory
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Dinosaurs, Cats and Pizza
>> This should have been more of a weekend post, especially one that involves mindless gazing at the screen, jumping from one blog to another and potentially eating away at whatever productivity you have but for loafters like myself, it seems everyday is a weekend. Fashion GIF taskmasters Reed and Rader have just opened up… Continue reading Dinosaurs, Cats and Pizza
The Eye Has to Travel
Prior to watching the documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, directed by her granddaugher-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland, I had re-read Diana Vreeland's autobiography DV and re-flicked through the coffee table book of the same title (also compiled by Lisa Immordino) as well as Vreeland's authored picture-based volume on the quality of Allure. The… Continue reading The Eye Has to Travel
Legs n’ Things
>> I've been re-watching a ton of old episodes of Smack the Pony, an all-female sketch show that ran from 1999 to 2003 poking fun at all the hysterical tendancies of women and their relationships with men, that are as true today as they were back then. Watch this medley of sketches on the theme… Continue reading Legs n’ Things