For the Newbies
As I approach my third anniversary with y’all (still a little more than a month away), I thought I might offer the newer members a trip down my memory lane. Deron has many times queried Sheila for helps and hints on fashion. I’m not sure, but my comment, buried here, may have been my first appearance.
Alexander McQueen’s final collection revealed, in Paris
Full set of photos here.
quote out of context
When I… see the homeless, like, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, they’re pulling out, like, crazy looks and they, like, pull shit out of like garbage cans.
(via marginal revolution)
strut
the traffic women of North Korea
Their uniforms, it is said, were designed by Kim Jong II. They rotate only counter-clockwise.
Vintage Chanel at Paris auction
It took assessor Francoise Sternbach a year and a half to assemble the 820 lots, which she acquired from more than 120 private sellers. Some of the vintage items were dug out of trunks or rescued from attics where they had languished for decades, she said, adding she hoped those lots would end up going to museums.
“These are dresses which have lived during Mademoiselle Chanel’s time, which went to the most famous parties, which were admired and worn by gorgeous women,” said auctioneer Cornette de Saint Cyr. “And they will be worn again by gorgeous women. That’s what I want: For (the garments) to live again.”
Remembering Alexander McQueen
Assuming
my second attempt to fly from Chicago to Dallas this week is successful, I am outfitting myself properly. Today I bought this pair of High Dexterity Gloves in the event I’m offered an opportunity to touch Deron’s sausage finger.
Dear clusterflock
Two questions, separated by your ability to answer each:
1. Do you have a beard? Why or why not?
2. Are beards sexually attractive? Why or why not?
You know I love Barack
But since he moved into the White House, I’ve been paying more attention to Michelle.
octopus caps
Sometime after Christmas I’ll be ordering my own custom cycling cap from Octopus Caps.
Tim Duncan’s Shoes
Joseph/Jesus Costume
The ‘market price’ of this Joseph/Jesus costume is $45.00, but it can be gotten for only $26.95 at Planet Santa! (Check out the Biblical Costumes page.) Caveat emptor: “Does not include the wig and beard set.” That much said, bear in mind that “this is great for many biblical or middle eastern roles.”
So you could wind up saving money big-time, as your Joseph/Jesus costume might do for: Muhammad, John the Baptist, Job, Ali Baba, Nebuchadnezzar, Abraham, Sinbad, the Mahdi, David (or Jonathan), Saladin, Moses, or any number of prophets, major or minor. (Not suitable for the Sheik of Araby, the Thief of Baghdad, or that Turkish officer with a hard-on for Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.)
The making of a David LaChapelle Maybach photo shoot
Kind of amusing.
Maison Hermès Window Display
Based on a window display he first presented in 2004, the japanese designer tokujin yoshioka has now restructured it using a japanese actress currently being presented at Maison Hermès, japan. the installation will run from now until january 19th, 2010.
‘on designing a window-display of Maison Hermès, I intended to express people’s daily ‘movements’ with a suspicion of humor. there are moments when I perceive a hidden presence of a person in the movements born naturally in daily life. I created a design where one can perceive someone behind the scarves as if life were being breathed into them. the window is designed with an image of woman projected on to a monitor. the scarf softly sways
in the air in response to the woman’s blow. ‘ – TY
(Via designboom)
Tavi & Joanna and Rei Kawakubo
(Joanna Newsom via Boner Party)
Comme des Garçons is headed up by Rei Kawakubo, who personally invited Tavi over to Japan and let her pick out six items. Tavi is 13, she writes a fashion blog and has always worshipped Kawakubo’s fashion sense.
Joanna Newsom is dating Andy Samburg, star of SNL. But she used to date Bill Callahan, who performs musically as Smog, as well as Noah Georgeson who produced her first record and also produced for Devendra Banhart. Georgeson says this: “From the autumn of 1999 until the spring of 2004 I lived in the first floor apartment in a Victorian house on Castro Street in San Francisco. At first, I lived alone in a room that was about the right size for an infant to feel comfortable, and that had, in fact, once been a nursery. After a while, I moved into the room down the hall from the nursery. It was bigger and I shared it with my girlfriend Joanna and her harp and all the collected materials of our lives. Among the waves of our life in this room, Joanna wrote most of the songs that ended up being her first album, and I wrote these songs.“ Joanna Newsom’s second cousin is Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco. Girlfriend plays the harp and writes 20 minute songs about mythical islands.
Both Ms. Newsom and Ms. Gevinson are in Comme des Garçons jackets.
Oh hell no, I have no idea what it means, this information rolls around in my head all day. But I thought it was interesting.
Kelley Deal Handmade Scarves
I love these one-of-a-kind wool scarves made from old sweaters. Available on Wire & Twine. They are currently all sold out, but you can follow Kelley to find out when more make it online!
Holiday Jewelry Commercials in Need of New Copy
Diamond Dick opens the little box; she shows the weakness he likes and reaches for him, leading with the puppies he bought for her last year–and the recession is over.
Captions?
project runway
It Is What It Is
Robin Givhan comments on the national outrage over fashion, our national insecurities and pin points the origins.
By its very nature, fashion is a business of falsehoods and costumes, all in service to self-definition. The uncomfortable truth about the fashion industry is it has a knack for tapping into unspoken cultural obsessions and taboos. Fashion sets up a rarefied world of perfection that is, in many ways, defined by how much it differs from the mundane, from the norm. And all indicators suggest that as a culture, we hate what we are becoming: fat.
(via tavi 
Arrest thine gaze
Sleeping in mah pimp coat.
Texas, Our Texas
When it came to collecting, former Neiman Marcus fashion executive Derrill Osborn had a singular focus: cows.
First Birthday
Phil in a smock
I’m the cute one on the right! I think this is 1961, Timmy Rollitt is on the left. I have not seen him since I was about 8. I’ve had his address for over a year – one day I may go and say hi.
Art on the roof
