On top of the amazing Spotlight Blogger of the Month campaign, the wonderfully supportive people at Weardrobe featured me and FashionistaTalk.com on their Explore page. I love the beautiful graphic they made (picture from Future is Vintage) and I thought to include it in this post, along with my interview. You can read it here or on the Explore page.
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Stella McCartney in the ‘fresh’
It is now Stella’s turn to act the muse. I’ve always been fond of her fresh, playful kind of approach to fashion, with its ever-present sense of ease and cool. When putting together what I found to be the most interesting pieces from her spring and resort collections, there a few things that I noticed that sort of made me pause and think. First of all, as much as I love Stella’s clothes, I found her debut (2002) collection pretty uninspired. I would even go as far as to call it simply bad. It just seems so gimmicky and even vulgar. All the risqué slogans left an unpleasant taste in my mouth and made me wonder “why.” Well, in Stella’s defence, it was her first collection as an independent designer and this might have been her attempt at making her entrance with a bang (regardless of how big a flop it might have proven to be). At least our girl takes risks, right?
the chiffonery of Alberta Ferretti
Before I get into details, I might as well begin by declaring my unyielding love for Alberta Ferretti. Some of the more attentive readers might have already assumed as much from the title, but in the interest of keeping things clear and simple I’m officially ‘coming out of the closet’ with this (sort of speak). I love her romantic approach to the female aesthetic. For example, what can be more delicate and feminine than her chiffon fluttery frocks in pale palette of lingerie pinks, ivory, and cloudy beiges. And when she added those gorgeous elements of embroidered flowers in her 2010 Spring collection, how could a girl resist?
