Fashion Journal #5

Stumbled upon this today while on ifstylecouldkill.com, and then decided to look at more of her work! This first one is a wonderful combination of menswear and art- pop art?

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, http://www.trealamode.com/2010/09/under-my-umbrella.html


This one reminds me of the huge kimono-like jackets from the 1910s

Agatha Ruiz De La Prada: Milan Fashion Week Womenswear A/W 2009 - Runway  http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/trkLicgY14M/Agatha+Ruiz+De+La+Prada+Milan+Fashion+Week/6Kcq0TRqSFF

This reminds me of the "New Look," and also the Victorian era, from the silhouette and hat.

http://www.fashionwindows.net/2010/04/agatha-ruiz-de-la-prada-fall-2010/agatha_ruiz_dela_pradaf1029/

Her work definitely seems all over the place, but I really love the references, childish colors, and wacky playfulness. It's so quirky and I love Agatha Ruiz de la Prada! :)

Fashion Journal #4

This weekend I went to Philadelphia with the Fibers department for Fibers Philadelphia! We saw so much amazing work, and some sites too, as this was my first time to the city. I have to say that my favorite piece of the entire weekend was a set of six conceptual corsets.

They were beautiful and white, and all their shapes relayed a certain kind of longing. Of course immediately I began to think of historical corsets, bustles and hoop skirts from the Victorian Era. The series was titled "Exposed: An Armory of Physical Longings" from 2011 by April Dauscha.

They bring in the idea of feminity as power, and control of one's life, instead of as a constricting social construct.

Her website is aprildauscha.com .

A bit of this semester's work...

Have you seen the Nerd Show???

I organized a show this semester at MassArt and it's been up this past week! We're taking it down tomorrow. Real pictures later!

Fashion Journal Week of 2/3-2/9/12

Vogue!

I picked this (February 2012 Vogue, with Taylor Swift on the cover) up at the store the other day, and found a few things that both surprised and pleased me!

Prada! Vintage cars, awesome 50s styles (of hair and cuts) makes me think of all the car shows I go to in the summer with my family at home. Sometimes people dress up in rockabilly outfits there, and many people display vintage magazine advertisements for their antique cars on display. I had no idea that Prada was so cool! I love all of these pieces, and the shoes are fantastic! I'd really like to see more of this collection. I would enjoy having this pink set.

I find this to be a strange story of a photoshoot. But I do really love this black Nina Ricci hat. That, and the prada skirt and shoes she wears in the second picture I put here, are the only things I like in this set. Also, vintage is awesome, but when did it get so popular??? Some people say it's because of Mad Men. All of this reminds me of the 1960s.

Jason Wu for target is just so fun! floral, floofy, and old fashioned inspired hair, and a cat in the ad! How much better could you get??? I like the 70sish print, but not the 80sish shoes.

Such a pretty pink mermaid dress. I really like the accompanying vintage photo. But when did vintage become such an overused vocabulary word?

Fashion Journal Week of 1/27-2/2/12

If you couldn't figure out my love of cats from the rest of this blog and our Cat Haus tumblr, then you haven't really been reading, or you just don't know me. But really, I probably love cats a bit too much.

Apparently cats aren't just an internet craze, but high fashion, too!

Victoria Beckham (aka my favorite Spice Girl, Posh Spice) even has cat dresses in her latest collection! (which Katy Perry also wore for SNL promos) I really like this sort of mod one.

An adorable cat dress for daughter harper. a similarly bold print to her mother's counterpart dress.

A cute sweater from H & M, which was featured on Glee. fair isle knits are popping up everywhere these days! 

And a sweater dress from Sodamix... 

Adorably quirky shoes from Miu Miu, in a sort of 70s platform mary jane?

Miss Chloe loves fashion, too!

Studio Spring 2012

I was totally bored with my pictures and "inspirations" that I had up last semester, so I used my monitoring shift to remedy that! Now it is sufficiently nerdy. :-)