Dreaming of the UK

I have really been missing England, Scotland and Wales lately (sorry Ireland, but I have yet to visit you).  I miss the green and the dark skies and of course the fashion.  

But mostly I miss this little polka-dot, 

Missoni-clad wee one.  

 There are a lot of reasons to love it over there, 

but this one is the most important.  

Dreamy Museum Exhibit - Interactive

There were many reasons for my recent trip to New York -- one of them was to ride a slide.

Back in 2007 Mitch & Niall rode on the Carsten Holler slide at the Tate Modern. I was incredibly jealous. The saddest part? I went to the Tate that year but it was a few weeks after it closed.

So when I heard that The New Museum was opening an exhibit called: Carsten Holler: Experience, I almost passed out from happiness.

Day One in New York I practically ran to the museum and paid full price to enter.

The Mirror Carousal was charming

and I enjoyed riding it,
even though it was slower than a turtle.

The Untitled (Slide) lived up to my every expectation. Especially since there wasn't a line and
I got to ride twice without waiting. And the live birds brought the outdoors in,
in a perfectly creepy way.

The Giant Psycho Tank was closed that day, but with a name like that, I probably would have passed on it anyway. If I want to be scared I'll just fly to London and see The Woman in Black.

Dreaming in White Continues

I am dreaming of white, and not just because I have been listening to the White Album non-stop for the last few weeks.

The Spring / Summer 2012 shows in Europe were inundated with white just like New York Fashion Week.

(Fendi)

The beauty of it is, even though white showed in New York, London, Paris and Milan, it looked different every time. I tell you I cannot wait to break out the white. (Except I can, because fall is my favorite season.)

I loved all the voluminous white, the sheer layers of white or subtle cut outs to expose the skin. The white menswear made me drool (my white suit is all ready to go come April). There was risque white and restrained white. Or sometimes there was a mix of all of these.

Some favorites included . . .

The volume at:

Jean Paul Gaultier

Louis Vuitton

Chanel

Yohji Yamamoto

Emilio Pucci

Comme des Garcons

Sheer layers and/ or cut-outs to show bits of skin:

Valentino (Maria Chiuri and Pier Picciolo are geniuses!)

Givenchy

Issey Miyake

Sonia Rykiel

Nina Ricci

Alexander McQueen

Menswear Inspired:

Maison Martin Margiela (Don't you love that Margiela has become so mainstream Kanye name checks the house on his latest album?)

Lanvin

Haider Ackermann

There was plenty of skin thanks to all the minis:

Marni

Giambattista Valli

Stella McCartney

Gianfranco Ferre (They wanted to show so much leg

they skipped pants entirely.)

And loads of modesty:

Chloe

Celine

Hermes (So commune chic.)

Comme des Garcons

Don't worry, you won't be wearing all white in 2012. There was still mad clashing of prints all over the runway. Hussein Chalayan, genius that he is, showed both at the same time.