fashion
i splurged.
They say that to figure out if something is "worth it", you should take the cost of the item, and divide it up by the number of times you'll use it. With this theory in mind, I was able to justify buying a beautiful heather grey, cashmere, fits-me-like-a sexy-glove, feels-like-buttah, tank top.
I visited what I hope is going to be my new office in the Flatiron District and was feeling optimistic when the alluringly monochromatic windows of Club Monaco beckoned me in.
So, fine. I don't have a car payment anymore since moving to NYC... for the cost of one, I now have a great tank top! I like this better than I ever liked my car.
Hrm, did this come in black..... ?
Get Excited! Make Things!
Digging these shirts. Via monstro.
fashion + social media
I am heading out to give a talk at ISU tonight to a Fashion Production class. I agreed to give it if I could also touch on some social media stuff that has taken more of my time lately than fashion. (Okay, all of it.)
I'll update this post later with some info about how the talk went. Meanwhile, here are the slides!
Project Runway Looking for Designers
Project Runway is looking for fabulous new designers for their next season (their 6th). I just got an email from Kasha Foster, Casting Director for the show, who says she is looking to tap into some of Des Moines' promising designers.
Applications and more information can be found on their website:
http://www.seenon.com/project-runway/season-6/casting/
(Please note: the submission deadline has been extended to Friday, August 1st.)
Let's see a Des Moines designer on the show!!
Your Body is a Battleground.... I Hope You Win.
Perhaps this helps to explain why I am drawn more to art than fashion these days?.....
Body Politic
By INGRID SISCHY
Published: February 25, 2007
NY Times
Last fall I was stopped in my tracks as I walked into a show in Milan during the collections, and a male friend, who’d just witnessed the same debacle that I had, raised his eyebrows and asked, “What happened to feminism?” It’s a question that is being asked repeatedly these days, and for good reason. The only word for the fashion collection we’d just seen was “bimbo” — clothes put out on the runway without irony, without quotation marks, without any raison d’être other than saving money on material. Over the course of the next two weeks I gave myself a little assignment. I’d watch the runways in Milan and Paris and check off those clothes that signified a throwback to the long past of objectifying women. And on the other hand I’d put a little star down when the designer seemed to be wanting to take us into the future with a view of women that reflected self-possession.
Good thing I still like swings. Of course there were exceptions, designers who were true to the present, but by and large it was backward and forward and backward and forward. Then there were the designers who left earth entirely and showed a universe of female droids and cyborgs. These were the ones who, intentionally or not, illuminated the big challenge facing women’s fashion, best described by tweaking the famous tag line from “Star Trek”: women’s fashion, the final frontier . . . to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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