100th post! all about the inadequacies of this batch of couture shows!

how riveting you say! well get over it, this shit is rubbin' me raw. so, only about 30 women in the world purchase couture, most being from european/middle eastern origin. thus, generally, couture shows are made without profit in mind. if someone wants to commission a $40,000 dress from galliano that's cool, but couture shows most often exist to put the art and whimsy back into fashion. the pure, base, sensual desire for expressing any idea you can think of; shooting for the stars, if you will. it is not practical and it is oft not even wearable without help getting dressed from a friend or two. which is why, this year's offerings were a let down. they were either unimaginative or referentially dated or even both. most veered more towards being, gasp, RTW than couture. yes, chanel showed models in flats ( quelle shoque!) and had them loping out of a giant stone chanel jacket, but the clothes looked more like they belonged on the set of gossip girl than on a museum pedestal. also, i have a problem with models in flats, why make the owners of some of the world's most unique and beautiful collection of genes look like normal women schlepping around? maybe it's to be blase about luxury, but really, those girls just look like the awkward teens they really are, which is disconcerting as i want my RTW models to be inaccessible and the clothes to be irreverently accessible and, therefore, my couture models to look like they are from an entirely different planet with clothes that are made of daydreams, dirty alleyways, and rainbow ponies! mass pictures below, form your own opinions, but mine are:
yawn chanel & lacroix (only because they look dated and done)
chanel:












lacroix:












tiiight: givenchy, dior, and galliano (he dressed coco rocha as a MERMAID! a MERMAID! how perfect is that!?)

givenchy:


dior & coco rocha as galliano's mermaid:

marni and LV:studies in wit and protection

glossed leather armor, cocoons to dwell in, outer layers treated as diaphanous under layers. not a haiku, but you should none-the-less appreciate the freshness of textile usage and the irreverence of form and concept.

heatherette! anti-fashion week! icecapades!

omg fall 08 fashion week is in two weeks! couture shows are on now! but! some of your and my favorites will not be showing this year at bryant park, namely vena cava and heatherette and probably a few more that will surface as time rolls around. vena cava is not showing because they have had such a huge amount of new accounts that they are focusing on taking care of their bizznizz instead of showing in the tents. heatherette will show in their studio but not on the tents, however they did design ice skating outfits for a skating competition that was on sunday. heatherettes ruled, tracey reese, who also designed rink-attire for the event, drooled. and are you surprised that richie rich was a figure skater before becoming designer-cum-club-kid extraordinaire? i'm not. pls see the television-photo for heatherette-costume-vibe.

'puberty be crazy'

a highly intellectualized conversation about model lily cole having a new figure (pic below)

sicksix (9:20:34 PM): haha a model that was criticised from coming back from summer vacation (she is 17/18) with a 'fuller figure' (max a size 2/4) its like fuccccck you i went through puberty! and now she is showin her new legal boobs everywhere

sicksix (9:21:07 PM): well and other parts but still that is comical

boy (9:21:12 PM): haha

sicksix (9:21:46 PM): she honestly looks like she stepped out of a bottecceli painting

sicksix (9:21:48 PM): straight up

boy (9:22:29 PM): puberty be crazy

gushing; blushing

now that i have liquid fortification, i feel well prepared to officially flip my shit in writing over s/s08 balenciaga. i mean come the fuck on, is it not blowing your collective minds? i don't want to hear anyone copping out and crying that 'its not wearable/practical' or that it's 'bizarre/weird' it is straight gorgeous! i'll say the typical fashion bitch catchphrase (because it's true) 'its not supposed to be accessible' because its not, sorry, when has balenciaga been tame and something that is pleasing to everyone? that's what gives design momentum; offending and appalling gets you further than being bland and mildly saccharine. without the obscene there would be no progression of what is considered acceptable; no movement of trend. and honestly, if you cannot appreciate prints, yes prints, that look like intricate jaquards, lanyard whip stitching to fortify exoskeletal forms, and the matador-on-meth gladiator sandals then i really don't think we can continue seeing each other. its not me, its you. please see my design spank bank of images below.

gadgets are blowin my mind

the new macbook Air was announced today and ships. It's fairly powerful and is thin enough to fit inside a MANILLA ENVELOPE! that is smaller than 9/10 runway models! it will take 1799$ and ability to wait two weeks until it ships to get your hands on this micro-tech. also, mac-fact: when jay-z was hocking HP products last week he kept playing on his macbook that he brought to the set with him because no one in their right mind uses HP when they can use a mac.

in a whole new time and space

go to marion-b.com and be transfixed. the bio is endearing; it recounts that while her mother was in her 172hours of labor in Bonaire (Island of Netherland Antilles) she walked around fanning herself and soon to be present baby Marion Bolognesi with ostrich feather fans and consuming Iguana stew. and the illustrations are out of the fucking galaxy. Marion B also showed at Art Basel and i am disappointed that none of her work was featured in any of the articles i read. it clearly rules.

by way by way

shuffling through my post its i found one labeled kitsunenoir.com. well, good thing for you&me that it is a really nicely laid out blog with posts on graphics, art, design, and generally visual pleasure. doubly good that KN links to typish: a blog where readers email to add to the “inspirational, provocative, intoxicating, exquisite, captivating, photography, designs, type, art, fashion, and packaging.”. a lot of the images are overtly provocative (teen boys love the internet too) but the majority are really pleasing (above image) and the best part is you can press refresh all day long for new images. like the random button on tinypic, but more design oriented.

robo-matador

ok, here's what it is. this is jennifer connelley for balenciaga spring08, she is the muse of n.ghesquiere, and i won't be the first to say it, but i probably won't be the last either: wow; wow she is more model-ly than i remember and wow. balenciaga. full crazed balenciaga report to follow sometime this weekend. look for a marni, prada, LV, and sinha-stanic posts as well as relating to the hyper protectiveness and textile/shape innovations of the coming season. image from fashionverbatim

jcrew jcute

to paraphrase myself: OMG JCREW IS TOTALLY CUTE NOW. please see: also, jcrew is also more expensive than i remember though that shit's too wearable and springy for words. i would even say its optimistic.

skinny tards

are you joking me? someone really said this? and people are making money off of the 'innovative' idea that a vegan diet will make you drop some serious ell-bees? new york times profiles the authors of the apparently phenominally well-selling books 'skinny bitch' and its follow up cook book. both books tout veganism as a beneficial diet choice and have such illuminous readers as "Kimberly Latham, a fashion publicist in New York, (who) said: “I would never have read ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma.’ I’m not even sure I know what an omnivore is. But I know what a skinny bitch is, and I know I want to be one.”" the authors scare the readers off of eating animal products because 'like duh they're icky' though, common sense begs to assert itself that if one eliminates SEVERAL food groups from their daily diet, whether they be grains, carbs, sugars, meat, dairy et al. you will drop some weight in a fucking hurry. also, how is it appropriate to enlist women and/or men in a diet of veganism to firstly reap its body slimming benefits and only secondly address animal rights concerns? shouldn't PETA be throwing red paint on someone involved here for the trending out of vanity fueled animal cruelty awareness? maybe they should all just, i don't know, read a real book like THE JUNGLE for example? Upton Sinclair was no skinny bitch, but at least he stayed away from such fine prose as “‘Chicken’ Noodle Soup: Just like Mom used to make — minus the pieces of decomposing, rotting chicken carcass.” ugh whatever, this exasperated vegan needs a beer and a nap with her kitties.

Veruschka: rad babe

"I was always being different types of women. I copied Ursula Andress, Brigitte Bardot, Greta Garbo. Then I got bored so I painted myself as an animal." Really German pretending to be Russian. Really formerly wealthy but due to war resistance did what any blindingly tall slyph-y girl of today would do; run to paris and become a model/actress except she did it in ye olden days of fashion when all models/actresses were less grasshopper and more audrey hepburn. (look for her in Blow Up) At the top of her career she earned 10K/day; this is in the early 70s. Ya heard 90s super models? However, she peaced out on modeling and moved on into art after disagreeing with the editor in chief of Vogue at the time (grace mirabella) who wanted her to change her image to be more approachable to the average woman. She is still alive and well and hopefully just as rad.

richard prince + LV bags

the s/s08 LV Richard Prince designed bags poke fun at the very people who would carry a monogram bag anyhow complete with Henny Youngman jokes all over the side. Asthetically, I find this particular style to be soothing and would rather see one in a plexiglass case than swinging from the arm of a drunk celebutant and for the kajillion dollars they will cost I'd would rather have a shred of a nurse painting. However, judging by the prior artist collaborations with LV bags these will sell just as well despite the talks of the age of the IT bag being over. I mean, russia and dubai still exist and china was recently rated as being the #1 luxury good purchasing country which is kind of a mind trip considering it's history of giving canal street all of it's fine 'inspired' wares.