Dreamy Mens and Dreamy Rhymes

One night in NY, my clever friend Brigham 

asked me if I got my 'knickers in Paris.'

I replied, 'No, NY.'

Oh man!  

I completely missed his play on words which was ridiculous because I had JUST been talking (Read: bragging) about my upcoming Jay Z + Kanye West concert.  AND I had just told him they played 'Ninjas in Paris' 3 times when my sister saw them in North Carolina and he said they played it 5 times in Atlanta.  


How many times would they play it in LA we wondered?  (More on that later.)

But back to my Mens in Paris.

The song has such simple rhymes that are a perfect mix of West Egg, East Egg and Ghetto Egg.  Geniuses!  


So in honor of Kanye's extensive fashion education that just won't stop, I took a trip to Saks to smell 'untitled,' Maison Martin Margiela's first perfume.  

Well it wasn't entirely for his honor, since the scent made its way to the US in April I alway stop at the Saks in NY (their display is better than the one in LA) to smell it.  

And isn't Saks on 5th Ave so pretty at Christmas?

I'm unsure about how I feel about wearing the perfume, which is why I'm content to just smell on occasion and not buy.




I almost bought the pen they created for Opening Ceremony but could not justify it when I already had an orange feather pen bought at the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC.  See how practical I am?

There was a great photo from Vogue which I could not find of the Margiela staff, including its head designer with obscured faces, wearing matching lab coats.     

I am so tempted to take advantage of Vogue's ridiculous offer to charge $1,575 for one year's access to their newly digitized 119 years of archives.  Then I could post the Margiela photo.  Maybe if was $1,575 for 5 years of access, but one year?  I'm not there yet.    

In the meantime I will just dream of the clothes: 

(I wouldn't really wear the plastic seat-cushion you put over your furniture to protect it form life.  But I would love to wear a mini-military coat.)

And the shoes!  

If I could rewind to 2009 I'd do everything I could to buy these:   

 Don't even get me started on the 'toe shoes.'

 Madness!

 I think Kanye would approve.

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.