Coats, Checkers, and See through shoe heels

I treasure looking through each collection to find that one item that makes the difference in my life and others, this year some of these items are among them

Marc by Marc Jacobs gives this look each year yet we have Goggle glasses & dark socks and she is thrilled beyond belief to be carrying a gold bag

I forgive Marc for all his indiscretions with this Rhapsody & French Roast (lavender & brown) checkered coat dress with what look like her Docs and a part smile

 Cushnie et Ochs had a streamlined hat loving show and the coats just melted with the models and dresses

Kelly Wearstler in a most fabulous black & white checkered trench coat for me, Pippa & Gwen Stefani this coat screams for L.A.M.B

Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall RTW 2012 Collection looks like Karl Marx & a Train Conductor but at least they are warm & comfortable & I love gray

Marc by Marc Jacobs mens coats looked plush & I love their coats being a giant. The sleeves are long enough to cover my wrist & I look dainty & small

 

A trinity of love here, we have the golden jacket Jason isn't looking for & underneath a polka dotted dress in metallic thread & socks with boots

I have never thought of belting a coat, how genius to create your own proportions and a full skirt double layered with boots & socks love the hat as well

Pixie hair, glasses big enough to consider them goggles, the belted coat (my new give it a try) create the geek chic

Banana Republic's cheetah trench coat a staple a classic in most cases and worn lots of times by itself however in this case she has a dress on underneath (only in the movies right?)

There has to be a tangerine coat. Pantone's color of the year

Marc didn't make a gold trench for women so I am getting the gold one for men!

Cushnie et Ochs also had these sweater coats with asymmetrical lines, patterns so subtle and creative one would just think from a far they were gradiention of color

Rag and Bone mixed it up with blankets, shawls, and wraps giving it a middle eastern vibe with a color palette close to the Olympian blue and whites

Susie of the Style Bubble gave us a quick pre look before coming to the shows love the shoes

And her she is in the same fab shoes think Docs patent leather white, x accents sparely on the leather and see through heels they are a grand express of I don't care if I scratch them they must be see! To Susie!

Trying new things

 

http://www.heavymachinedesign.com/pages/about-us

It's easy to get behind in my reading during fashion month. Recently I found myself staying up all night until 7am, reading about fashion, catching up on Style Bubble. Style Bubble is one of my favorite blogs.  She puts outfits together that make sense and have balance. In one post, she was wearing a monochromatic blue ensemble and on her feet were thick cashmere socks from Topshop and these amazing otherworldly shoes from Heavy Machine.

"The brand Heavy Machine was established by Sunshine Co. Ltd, to fulfill the dream of a new generation; founded in 1989 located in Taipei, Taiwan. For the past 20 years Sunshine Co. Ltd has been designing clothes for men and women, and in 2007 they decided to expand their business into shoe design, creating the new label, ‘Heavy Machine’." They saw something missing in the shoe market and now are sold all over the world. When I started becoming interested in shoes, my vision of what shoes should look like was limited by brands like Prada, Gucci, and Calvin Klein. I wasn't looking around. Then I saw one of the Olsen Twins wearing Balenciaga boots and something changed in me. 

                                                                                 

"Balenciaga is now owned by the Gucci Group (part of PPR), and its womenswear and menswear is headed by Nicolas Ghesquière.^[7]Jean-Paul Gaultier and Agnes B. The hip, fresh interpretation of Balenciaga classics, such as the semifitted jacket and the sack dress, caught the attention of the media as well as such celebrities as Madonna and Sinéad O'Connor.^[6]" Ghesquière, like Balenciaga, is a self-taught designer, and apprenticed to
 ^{Wikipedia 2011} 

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After Balenciaga, I was exposed to Ld Tuttle, a shoe designer who has a heel and a form she plays with in each of her collections. The one directly above with the light blue material is my favorite. I can't remember it's name and it's long worn off. It was sold at Urban Outfitters last summer and I spied them being worn by Whitney Port on the tv show "the City" also. Not to mention the numerous little starlets caught sporting them in the tabs. They were a bargain too! This last shoe is from Ld Tuttle's new collection; it reminds me a little of Prada's collection with the satin pink fabric:}

                 ^{Probably because of the wedge heel. Oh Well I love shoes, so here are a couple more Heavy Machine Beauties:}

                       New York's Magazine "The Cut" has a bio on Heavy Machine if you're interested:

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/09/talent_scout-heavy_machine.html