SF Trend: Opening Ceremony Spring 2011

SF Trend: Opening Ceremony Spring 2011: "These are just my faves.. Wouldn't mind owning ANY of these pieces for Spring. (via fashiongonerogue)"

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
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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

  

Irony in fashion

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I have never been a label freak. In fact when there is one I try to take it off. I don't know why, I just don't like labels or logo's on my purchased clothing. However when I saw this picture at Trend hunter under Funky town Photo's I changed my mind. The car is obviously an old one and the painting of VL with her little stars is hilarious. So many of us, me included, grew up wanting things, me clothes, and not being able to afford them. So you get a car, a not so nice car and label it literally. Classy, trashy, and kind of genius in making it a statement of sorts about what is important and been classy and having class or living in high class. It could go on forever.

Carolina Herrera Dress of the Season Oh big ouch I want it, it looks like a painting

Stop. I can not keep the information straight. I have gone from Spring 2011 to Pre-Fall 2011.

I looked at Proenza Schouler 's Pre-Fall show yesterday. Thinking about their very well received Blues, Yellows and Greens in innovative fabrics to make sleek, body hugging amazing dresses. The PS1 purse, the PS2 sophmore handbag, I say no more. I love where they are taking their story. Their woman have very exciting lives, and the clothings respond to your need at the down of a hat grab and go. They never disappoint with their textile work and knits. I love the jacket this fall that looks jumpled together. Cheers to them. http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2011/fall/main/newyork/womenrunway/proenzaschouler/#slide16&ss1

 http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2011/fall/main/newyork/womenrunway/carolinaherrera/#slide34&ss1

http://images.nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2011/fall/main/newyork/womenrunway/carolinaherrera/images/34.jpg

Researching Color & how it is in the fashion world

I am a person who pays attention to detail. When I see people in bright colors I wonder what made them buy that coat, why that color, and if it was a brand thing. This week I ran into some good color at the dog park. Jean, a woman from Liverpool England had on a Puff coat in a daffodil yellow with a gold crossover purse. She looked bright, cheery and a lovely person.

Here is the bright lovely Jean in her coat with gold crossover bag, she bought it because it was bright and an uplifting color.

Soon this gentleman walked by and I stopped and asked to take a picture of his coat and why he bought it. It keeps him warm and he likes the color

 Kaycee had just received this jacket in honeysuckle pink for a family member and they had this right. Honeysuckle pink, the color of the year. She looked super cute in this
color. (I am think most would with the brighting qualities to the light around you. Bright colors reflect off skin tone and voila you are wearing a little blush,

After the gentleman in the coat had walked by this guy walked by and Jean was floored, here was the exact same color within a couple of minutes.

How Does Honeysuckle Become the "Color of the Year"

I came across an article naming the color of the year. Last year it was turquoise and who really knew? I have seen some other blogs talking about Honeysuckle and it's a pink really.

Pre-Fall 2011 Trend:Fierce Beauties - EyeScoop - Celebrity Photos, Fashion and Lifestyle News - WWD.com

Pre-Fall 2011 Trend:Fierce Beauties - EyeScoop - Celebrity Photos, Fashion and Lifestyle News - WWD.com

Gorgeous bag with metal handles in the shape of trees in the ultra cool off blue

1950's Circus Fabric - Vintage Fabrics - DonnaFlower.com

1950's Circus Fabric - Vintage Fabrics - DonnaFlower.com
these images remind me of a time when as a child anything was possible, clowns were real people, Santa fit inside somewhere somehow and nothing scared you. The world was a safe self sustaining place where everyone was nice loved living, didn't have so many problems or in such a hurry. Ironically the clown went on to have a beyond average horror career, I still wont look under the bed but it's safer in here with in the nice old fabric. Beano

Style bubble brings us .............

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I look at the collaboration of Loeffler Randall and SUNO and want every single pair to hang on my walls just to see how perfect and balanced color, texture, line, and contrast can be, even when you don't see it. They are of the stuff of shoe gods. Alexander McQueen, Manolo, Louboutin. The craftsmenship uniqueness of the shoe by the Suno fabrics feels like each tell a different story. I don't know that I will ever get a pair like those. The heards and knowners will see them and make calls to have 6 to 13 pairs delivered to their home. Others will find them and spend their whole weeks worth salary on them and not have money for rent. That is what happens when things like these are made. We will see them editorially, occasionally on the heard, and on celebrity's (hopefully they will have to pay for them) WTF is with that anyway. They have the coin to buy. We bottom feeders with the know but not in the known should get them for free. The ones that read about SUNO in the NYT months ago and followed their story and collections. Getting sold and Opening Ceremony much cheaper then. The people that want meaning from their choices, and are generally nice. Not the snooty hearders or knowny knowners. Oh well, nobody will get to see or read my love for these shoes. Maybe. Today someone will understand.

Bright Red Orange

As I looked through all the fashion weeks shows one color kept coming up. This Bright deep coral or red orange color has taken over the catwalk. It's such a punch of color to any outfit, beware to wear!

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