5.12.09

this time, baby, i'll be mullet-proof/refined minimalistic tendancies

oh for god's sake, feel free to cry with me as i link & bask in green-skinned celebration of the decade of the fashn bloggr..:

free comme,
free rodarte,
free miu miu and more,
free herff christiansen,
free etsy gifts,
free tickets (with a thousand complimentary gifts) to celebrity-flocked exclusive events and parties,
magazine and editorial features + collaboratory projects with designers,

i am to: thrift more men's button-downs that i can just wear with jeans or a maxi-skirt (that i also want to acquire a whole heap of)..
= all very slouchy and casually comfortable-looking, & with nice clean lines, most likely in restrained colours; mostly black, grey and white..
i'm aiming to sort of tap into 90's minimalism in fashion more through mixing more tailored, narrow, fitted skirts that falls to the ankles or a little lower that i can dress up, or just wear casually with jackets or drapey cardies..it's just going to be hard finding opportunities to wear these - i guess mostly just shopping/jobs around town/having coffees & catch-ups ? lucky the weather's been reallllly cold lately..



'Hemlines are like the economy, so much so that the correlation between the two has been coined "the hemline theory."
Dresses and skirts rose to thigh-high proportions in the '20s and the '60s, just as the stock market took a turn for the better. And now, with the economy on shaky ground, the Spring/Summer runways saw the comeback of the maxi skirt. More than just a signal of a conservative market, however, this influx of long skirts seems to be a declaration that showing less leg might actually have more of an impact.'

- Meredith Fisher.

'and there were more formal varieties at Marni and Roksanda Ilincic, both designers who have the ability to take less-than-sexy shapes and make them feminine.
but it was Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel who proved that long does not equal conservative, showing just as much leg as a mini with his sheer skirts.
Vera Wang, traditionally known for her evening dresses, pared things down this season, by pairing up big, patterned skirts with silk shirts, fit for a formal.'

- maxi column skirts
- 'safety orange', 'peacock blue'
- Vera Wang resort 2010
- sew crop tops

'the Dark 90s were not only associated with heroin chic but with 90’s minimalism too, when women wore clean lined dresses, oversized tuxes, pin-thin pants, pencil skirts and scalpel sharp jackets.
this trend was skillfully evoked at the Narciso Rodriguez, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Helmut Lang, Jil Sander, Michael Kors, Rick Owens, Roland Mouret, Bottega Veneta, Donna Karan and YSL shows.'

- tube skirts, often paired with long blazers
- & crop tops
- & doc martens

'this is a look that can become a mainstay in your wardrobe for everything from work to cocktails, season to season, if you are looking for an investment. ..there were also some great new photographers like corinne day, juergen teller, david armstrong and david sims just to name a few, who really modernized the face of fashion editorials and campaigns.'



(let's be in love..let's do old and grey.)

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