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And remember all that talk about cut-offs in the NYTimes? (It’s okay if you don’t.) The New York Observer caught on, too, via UGA alumnus, Brooklyn comedian, writer, actor, College Humor jokesmith (sorry, I had to) and all around cool dude Adam Newman. He blogged about it, so it must be true!
Glad to have you with us, New York-based sporters of shorts.
We Athenians may sometimes forget, but it turns out there are a number of other dually cool and stylish spots in Georgia. Thanks to The New York Times’s Style Magazine T for reminding us all, in a Style Map of Savannah.
We’ll try to forgive the Times for going the “Georgia Peach” route — really, guys? Too easy. (Or, if you’d like, evoke a Gob Bluth-style “Come on!” here.) Though the map’s highlights stray into the realms of cuisine and spa-going, it also pinpoints BleuBelle Boutique and the James Gunn store. Extra points for embedding Marc Jacob’s presence into SCAD, rather than making it a spot highlight unto itself (again, would have been too easy).
Backstage at the Hangar, getting ready for primetime fashion show. Hair, makeup, minor outfit adjustments and PBR. Designers and models were oftentimes one and the same.
Athens is at its best when a group of students, friends and artists come together and independently create a product and produce the show that showcases it just because.
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Lindsay Lohan thinks it’s perfectly reasonable for you, and you, and you to all go out together and spend $99 on a pair of leggings.
Not just any leggings! Her leggings. Not really her leggings, but her “hot new legging line, 6129 which, happens to be the birth date of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe-her inspiration for the collection.” How perfect is that? She put out a line of leggings.
Before I continue matter-of-factly on, a quick word:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
And the answer, of course, is no. She’s not kidding me.
What about now? Is she kidding yet? No, the $42 “leopard ankle gloves” aren’t kidding either.
Be the first to own a piece from Lindsay Lohan’s hot new legging line, 6126 which, happens to be the birth date of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe-her inspiration for the collection. These funky ankle gloves add sass to your favorite nighttime looks.
Delicious! Funk and sass and favorite nighttime looks. And Marilyn Monroe as a style icon (not at all tired or worn out!), and uh, leggings? Not at all tired or worn out, either, right? (I am kidding you.)
A whole line of Lindsay Lohan leggings.
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Extra, extra! The NYTimes caught on to cut-offs! (But only for men?)
The article offers the following advice for making homemade cut-offs, which calls into question what other kind of cutoffs could possibly exist*:
The trick, should you care to make your own for the price of a razor blade, is this: Cut just the seams and lightly score the fabric with the blade, first in front, then in back; carefully, firmly, tear along these lines. The resulting frayed edge should, Mr. Bastian said, come out perfectly after a wash. But be warned: without subtle stitching above the fray, the shorts will unravel with each wash, so you had better be happy with your quads.
*The New York designer Michael Bastian included a pair of $300 corduroy cutoffs in his first collection — for fall 2005, mind you — and they were the first article of clothing he sold.
Hey Athens, haven’t we known all along? Sad sack flares that still fit from however many dreadful years ago can be revived in the cut-off manner, and brand new shorts can be made for very few dollars after a stop at a thrift or used clothing store.
While I’d like to heckle the Times for having a cut-off epiphany now, I think their greater point - that high-end versions are being included in designers’ collections - is at once interesting and indicative of cut-off contagiousness, and also totally dumb on the designer’s behalves.
Still, one more good point:
“You definitely don’t want clam-offs,” Mr. Macko said. A seven-inch inseam, give or take, looks good, but it is best to mark it while wearing the pants.
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Get this:
The dressing room was conceptual; it was simply not there, an open white area of mirrors and light without form. Mr. Silva abruptly moved a large white wall, suddenly caging me into a doorless hexagonal dressing apparatus where I was forced to confront myself on all sides with excruciating clarity.
From The New York Times’ Critical Shopper on Jil Sanders by Cintra Wilson.
A boutique is a success when it’s cognizant of crucial, oft-overlooked details, like the mechanics and logistics of the dressing room.
In Athens, Opulence downtown has attractive, heavily curtained dressing rooms that nearly make up for poor lighting with decadent furnishings.
Encore is awkward with its pull-chain-lit closets, and Fortsons is worse with surplus stock taking up half of a dressing room. Sabina fares well with good-sized rooms and a great big mirror just outside them.
Speak now if you’ve had a good dressing room experience anywhere in Athens.
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Premiere DIY Athens fashion on display this Saturday. The show features work completed in a collaborative sewathon last week by Jocelyn Negron and friends.
See pictures from last week’s secret clothes making party here.
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Jocelyn Negron, Athens’ most precious seamstress (and self-taught, too), is masterminding a brand new, funtime fashion show. Who else would assign a secret location to have a DIY sewathon party to craft the clothes a week before the show itself?
Until I can embed it, watch a 360-degree view of what went down.
And to job your memory, remember this?
I went to the 2008 Cannes Film Festival this past May for a study abroad through Grady. As you can imagine, it was absurd and fabulous in equal measure.
From the premiere of Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling:
Dita Von Teese, after the movie
And the back of her wacky mermaid dress, as seen pre-movie on the red carpet
Vogue cover model Natalia Vodianova in a flouncy fuschia and orangish dress. I like that it isn’t your typical cocktail-looking dress, and has a nice summer feel to it. (See lady to her right for comparison.) Pretty on her, but demure and gets lost in the red of the carpet.
That’s the thing about premieres and the red carpet at Cannes - while they’re black tie events, one can basically wear whatever one wishes, provided women are wearing heels and men are wearing proper shoes (otherwise, you won’t even be allowed on the carpet and into the theater - got a ticket from a person who wasn’t allowed to enter one night). There were huge discrepancies between different people’s ideas of tastefulness, appropriate hemline lengths, percentages of skin exposed, etc.
Natalie Portman hurries her way to the red carpet in one of two strapless, ruffley-trimmed mini-dresses she will wear during the Festival. I suspect this is Lanvin. The other she wore to the opening ceremony.
As you can kind of see, a then-super-pregnant Angelina Jolie went for a more sober look at Changeling, particularly compared to the hot emerald green number she wore for the premiere of Kung Fu Panda. This nude, smock-ish dress seemed to aspire toward elegance, but fell short at just plain matronly and kind of weird. See what I mean? It’s a costly sack.
Photographs © Valentina Tapia 2008.
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