Rick Owens Spring 2016 RTW
Speaking before the show, Owens said he’d been thinking—wondering, really—about the ways women nurture others, metaphorically taking on another human being’s weight. That inquiry was communicated forcefully by the show’s staging. The carrying women, with their human freight, also suggested the physical labors of pregnancy—an undercurrent amplified by the Owens silhouettes featuring distended volumes that were almost carbuncular.
A Supercut of Hollywood's Best Moments of Female Seduction
From Mrs. Robinson’s suggestive arch of the leg to Jordan Belfort on his knees, Hollywood has a long, rich history of female seduction. The above supercut gives you a glimpse of some of Tinseltown’s leading ladies most seductive moments. Starring everyone from Uma Thurman and Mena Suvari to Cybill Shepherd and Demi Moore, the four-minute-long video is well worth a look.
"Women Fashion Power" at the Design Museum
Designed by the world-renowned architect, Zaha Hadid, this exhibition brings together exclusive interviews, an immersive multimedia journey and unique historic pieces of clothing to form the most wide-ranging presentation of modern fashion ever to be shown in the UK. Discover how women from Dame Vivienne Westwood to Natalie Massenet and Princess Diana to Anne Hidalgo have used fashion as an important tool of self-expression and empowerment to build reputation, attract attention and assert authority.
Oscar Wilde
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Marcel Proust
Anais Pouliot photographed by Casey Brooks, “Women in the Morning”
Lola - 'Lascivious' AW12 VIDEO
With a sensual play of opaque and sheer textures, lingerie label Lascivious’s “Lola” collection sensually plays opaque against sheer textures on classic lingerie silhouettes with a fashion edge yours truly finds irresistable. Shot to accompany Lascivious' AW12 collection, a collection inspired by the notion of love as a binding entity -- something you want to be chained to; lustful, base and raw. This mood and idea has been deconstructed to draw inspiration literally from flesh and bone - Lola, with it's sinuous flowing design lines...
Rich Girls Will Break Your Heart, Poor Girls Will Take Your Money...
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Versace Spring 2013 Ready-to-Wear Collection MFW
NYFW: Richard Chai S/S 2013
Richard Chai’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection literally took my breath away. Minimalist in its best form. In his womenswear we see innovative unique cuts complete with fit-and-flare skirts, mini-dresses, and the like - infused with high tech fabrics, prints and structured shapes.
Yves Saint Laurent
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
"She was never a very rich woman, she was never a very beautiful woman and yet she created beauty and she created wealth," an observer notes of Diana Vreeland, the legendary Harper's Bazaar and Vogue editor whose story is told in new feature documentary Diana Vreeland: the Eye Has to Travel.
Vreeland (1903-1989) was one of the sacred monsters of the fashion world: a magazine editor who used to browbeat her photographers and models; who never deferred to her publishers or advertisers and who approached each new issue of her magazines with a messianic zeal.
Don't suggest to Lisa Immordino Vreeland (the director of the new film) that her grandmother-in-law's chosen world was superficial. Immordino Vreeland contends that "Mrs Vreeland" (as she respectfully calls her) was a fashion revolutionary: a career woman who changed the way women dressed while also transforming the world of magazine publishing. According to the director, Vreeland also created the modern-day fashion editor. Before she arrived, fashion was the domain of "society ladies" who would offer advice on how women could please their husbands or cook a nice pie.
