As I Continue to Dream of a Coastal Vacation...

Maybe Miami isn't the best place for my dream holiday.

Maybe I need to think even deeper.

Like James Bond deep.

(Doesn't this smack of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo?)

Remember in License to Kill when James Bond goes to a wedding 

in Key West and mad adventure ensues?

I think this bridge exploded.  

I can't be bothered to re-watch it right now, 

so let's just assume.

So Key West has now become my next dream destination.

And as much as I love a Jame Bond film, I really want to go for the Hemingway history.  

Look, I know he had issues with women, but can you blame him?  His mom dressed him up as girl when he was a baby.  

Plus, have you seen photos of his house?  

Casa de mis suenos.

I want to go to there.

So now comes to my favorite part.  

Wardrobe.

In my head Key West isn't just 90s glamour, 

it's 1990 Glamour.

Just really dated and really awesome.

I tried to google Key West Fashion and what came up looked even older than 1990.  (I apologize if you are from Key West and disagree.  I'm just going with google images.)  So I was giving them the benefit of the doubt by saying 1990.  I can't do 80s fashion.  It's too real for me.  Too much reality not enough irony.  

Which is why I've decided to reference even older decades, like the 40s and 50s.

Actually, maybe I'll just dress straight up like Hemingway.

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.