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Met Ball 2: Marion Cotillard in Dior

Here’s another favorite from the Met Ball – Marion Cotillard in SS Couture Dior. Not pointing any fingers (ahem Beyonce and Givenchy), but this was by far the most stunning sheer black and deep purple look of the evening.

Met Ball 1: Carey Mulligan In Prada

“Schiaparelli was thirty-seven and Prada was thirty-nine when they delivered their first collections. But experience of the real world, which was a man’s world for both of them, made them intolerant of female passivity and desperation. They don’t really care what makes a woman desirable to men. Their work asks you to consider what makes [...]

La Gamine

Drawing on Audrey Hepburn’s classic charms with the requisite smattering of androgynous sex appeal, this doe-eyed clothes-less cutie was recently developed for a client. A different direction was chosen for the product packaging, so I just had to let this pixie fly on her own. I feel a bit naughty exposing her in her skivvies [...]

Odysseybramble

Each year for the past three years, I have found myself compelled to partake in the second job joy of costuming my amazing boy Zoran’s school play. This year, in which my little man is playing the lead role of Odysseus in The Odyssey, was no different. Next year he’ll be off in middle school [...]

Irene in Wonderland

One sunny day earlier this Spring, I stopped by to visit Irene Hernandez-Feiks in her shop, Wonderland SF. We played dress-up and had a little chat about her business, the San Francisco art and fashion worlds, and what the future holds.

We’ll Eat You Up, We Love You So!

Wild things ran rampant on the Fall/Winter 2010 runways, gnashing their terrible teeth and showing their terrible claws. Wolves in particular made a striking appearance at Helmut Lang in New York and again at Topshop Unique’s woodland romp in London.

Gaultier In San Francisco

Perhaps I’m a bit off my nut, but there’s just something about going to a museum all by my lonesome. It’s as if everything there was crafted just for me, as if the work traveled through its artist vessel just so that my eyes could feast upon it. The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: [...]

Mad World

The long wait is over for Season 5…and we’ve officially entered the late 60s with the women and men of Mad Men. Op art now graces the walls of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce where Rothko’s abstract impressionist multiforms once hung. Mary Quant has begun to work her hemline-shrinking magic on forward-thinking birds like Megan, Don’s [...]

Mode d’Erté

Before I delve into F/W 12-13, I had to get this Erté-inspired illustration of Givenchy couture (hold the bull nose ring) out the door . What with all of the Gatsby-inspired frocks fluttering about for spring, a little reference to the Art Deco illustration master seemed entirely appropriate…

Fishbowl

Ohh, Mary…that woman just keeps on bringing it! Mary Katrantzou trotted out another winner collection for Spring 2012, rife with both the extravagant bloom of nature and the rampant excesses of humans. Her most interesting pieces located the point where the two meet to perform a weirdly unsettling dance – such as the below dress, [...]