Stella McCartney Resort 2011

One word: lace. Lace shorts. Mini lace. All leg and a little lace. Not an over-elaborate "you look like a doily" lace. Detailed but simple lace. Just a bit of lace peaking out from under a tailored coat or jacket. Lace in colour. Lace in powder blue. Blue lace overlay and a lace bouquet on one shoulder.

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Helmut Lang Spring 2010 RTW and Resort 2011

I'm focusing mostly on the denim and t-shirt aspect of Helmut Lang's resort collection because it encapsulates what I like most about Helmut Lang.

And on that note, why not flash back to the Spring 2010 collection too? Especially since a) I loved it, b) I never posted about it, and more relevantly c) it was designers Nicole and Michael Colovos' introduction of a denim-focused line. A little minimal, a little goth, lots of tight leathery and legging-y things = "tough-chic."

This one's for my girl Andy and all the other badass girls I know.

Helmut Lang Spring 2010

Helmut Lang Resort 2011

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Rag & Bone Resort 2011

This isn't about vacationing in St. Tropez or St. Barts. When I think of Rag & Bone, I think understated casual, reinvented tomboy, muted greys and impeccable layering. Like if Annie Hall were made today, she'd be dressed in Rag & Bone. If I liked tweed in their fall collection (I'll still find it here, but), I love the light silky fabrics in this collection. And yeah. Those lace up boots worn with grey socks are pretty much the incarnation of my most profound sartorial fantasies. 

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Chanel Resort 2011

So I'm vacationing in Saint-Tropez, playing pétanque with Diane Kruger and Vanessa Paradis, at sunset, barefoot on the grass in a chiffon maxi dress, delicately pastel printed, holding my coral sandals nonchalantly in one hand as I toss the metal boule with the other...just a typical evening on the Riviera. Also, somehow, it's the 70s - we've all gone back in time and Mick Jagger is serenading me.

= my life story if it were penned by Karl Lagerfeld.

Back to reality, to sunny (finally) Amsterdam, a starving artist sitting cross-legged on the floor in jean shorts and a tee, drinking from a mini keg of Heineken. This isn't so bad at all...I really don't think I'd have it any other way. 15 year-old me would look at present me and think I was the coolest person ever. That's always a nice thought.

Alexander McQueen Fall 2010 RTW

A Triolet For A. McQueen

When all the world beholds McQueen,

a golden angel lights the room.

Caped gowns and gilded feathers sheen

when all the world beholds McQueen.

His bronze capped empress Byzantine

wears bold rococo swirls hand-loomed.

When all the world beholds McQueen,

a golden angel lights the room.

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Chloé Fall 2010 RTW

Chloé in beige, camel and neutral tones? No surprise here. I think N°21 may have gotten it right in Milan by adding flashes of bright colour to refresh the palette of neutrals gracing numerous runways. Nonetheless, I wanted to post EVERY SINGLE look from Chloé's fall collection, because the pared down seventies sportswear look that designer Hannah MacGibbon achieves so effortlessly is what I wish I looked like EVERY DAY. It's casual but chic, comfortable but feminine and flirty, it's what a Charlie's Angel would wear off duty. I appreciated the seventies influence in the high-waist wide-leg pants and I loved all the coats and knitwear in the collection.

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