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I am a pop-culture junkie. Honestly, were there some sort of Promises-esque facility for folk of my ilk, I’d be wildly, wildly in debt. I am from Southern California, after all, and that inexhaustible obsession with celebrity, and its trappings–drippings, in this case–is part of my DNA. Say what you will.
But this, this I cannot suffer. I mean, first of all: WHAT THE? Also, in case you didn’t notice, this line of apparels [SIC], is a new fashion trend by FASHION DESIGNER COCO. And again, this chick is not kidding.
If you need a good laugh, check out the site (and its apparels).
I am at a loss to say much else.
David Yurman is, generally, a bit conservative in his men’s collection for my taste. But when Paula Leed, one of the owners of Royal Jewelers in Andover, tells me in her ever-so-sweet way–read: she basically bosses me around–that there’s something I need to see, I listen.
And I DID love it. I’m sure you’re thinking: a dog tag, really? Yes, I know, the very phrase conjures nightmares of JGC gone Jersey Shore Guido (which, incidentally, WOULD be my summer look, were I not already more than three-quarters of the way to achieving Troll doll status thanks to a long-overdue, much, much, much-needed haircut…) but I kind of love this dog tag. Legit. Crocodile rendered in silver? LOVE.
The bonus? It has a certain weight to it so in the event I DO actually throw down (more bienvenido-a-Miami than Jersey Shore, in truth), I’ve another trick up my sleeve… or, rather, hanging over the spot where my chest hair would be were I real man.
LE SIGH.
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58 Main Street
Andover, MA 01810
(978) 475-3330
It’s rare I feel some compulsion to post about another site (for obvious reasons), but JESUS, XOJANE is SO DOPE. Rather than blathering on here about the wealth of personal essays, insider insight, and unabashedly honest voices that are contributing to the site (including TAVI, DUH), I’ll say, instead:
GO TO THE DAMN SITE AND DISCOVER FOR YOURSELF.
THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ONLY!
Meet David Chum, the designer behind Selahdor, and be among the first to shop this Boston-based label’s latest collection. The designer himself is on hand for personal fittings, and if you’ve seen him on either our recently-aired segment on the launch of Emerging Designer Fund or his feature a few months back, you know he’s one charming fellow. He’ll be preselling the A|W 2011 collection, and selling a selection of samples from previous seasons.
The trunk show is part of LOUIS‘ Exposure Series. Designed to be like an open-air market at the store, the series also features, each weekend, a dynamic mix of designers/artists/artisans.
Selahdor is the Emerging Designer Fund’s 2011 Award Recipient, and is sponsored by The Liberty.
As much as it pains me to admit it, I am beginning to wonder if my wardrobe will rely as heavily in the coming years on the amazing deals I have, for the past few years, been fortunate enough to find on the flash-sale sites like Gilt Groupe and Rue La La.
The economy is improving, if inordinately slowly. And should it continue to improve, how many designers will continue to peddle their overstocked or overproduced goods via the discount-driven online retailers?
Gilt, lagging behind new concept sites like Groupon and Livingsocial, is on the way to revamping its cost-centric image, courtesy of a nascent major investment of 62.5 million dollars from Japan’s Softbank. One element of the plan? A full-price menswear site. If others shift or diversify their focus in a similar fashion, we’ll end up with ten new net-a-porters. And, frankly, they’re already doing it extraordinarily well. [Their recent menswear addition, Mr. Porter, being my homepage, of late.]
With Rue La La being Boston based (and with many of my close friends and some of the city’s most creative people working there), don’t get the wrong idea: I want these sites to succeed. But as with all things, particularly in this fickle game of fashion, you can only be innovative for so long, and I’m both curious and excited to see how these merchants will reinvent themselves in the months, and for the successful some, years, to come.
[Daphne Guinness getting ready for the Gala in a Barney's window... Why not?!?]
It was McQueen Mania at the Met last night, as the Costume Institute celebrated the designer and his body of work in their annual fundraising fête.
But the mania was well deserved, if regrettably posthumous. Few designers accomplished what McQueen accomplished with his work: an artistry that transcended his medium and lived purely in the world of fantasy, but that embodied so thoroughly what the rest of the world of designers and luxury giants are perpetually blathering on about: clothes that are, at their core, aspirational.
Master Milliner Philip Treacy said of the maelstrom at the Met: ”[McQueen] wouldn’t have come…”
My personal favorites, after the jump. [Clearly, Guinness is a goddess in McQueen, and as per usual completely overshadowed the myriad others who could only pay their lesser homage to Lee...]
For our FASHION FORWARD segment this past weekend, we focused on the best and brightest (quite literally) of the Resort and Spring collections. And, as a nod to these interim months, we brought you a few of our favorites from the local haunts to keep you warm until, finally, we can all shed a few layers and declare it Spring.
