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I just can’t turn the style filing off. Forgive the absence; I’ve been in France for the past month on a study abroad trip for the Cannes Film Festival. What this means, however, is that we’ve got some red carpet and Paris street style soon to come.
First, a taste of awards ceremony style on the cast of the Peabody Award-winning show Mad Men - 6/16:
A blurry January Jones, whose name sounds more invented than her character Bretty Draper’s.
The dress, despite being less-than-appropriate for a day-time luncheon, was stunning. The color, the texture and its volume all made Jones stand the hell out - it distinguished its wearer as one in the possession of a certain degree of BLAM.
My fashion column from today’s Red & Black:
Attention, fashion-meisters and style skippers! Resolve the fatigue that tired trends have caused this winter, and hear this:
Go for it! Outdo spring’s traditional skin-baring fare with legless pants. Hyper-cognizant beyond its youthful novelty, legless pants sashay perfect circles around both skinny jeans and wide-leg trousers.
Take a pair of legless pants straight from day to night without any hitches, or britches, for that matter; from class to the club, from or the office to the orthodontist’s.
Consisting strictly of pockets and belt loops, this piece commands a brazen presence. Pair it with gym socks and a sequined top to give the impression of the incomprehensible, glamorous enigma, or with a crisp white blouse for job interviews (only the fabulous need apply).
Also, meet the pocket dress. Perfect for brunches and ladies who lunches, the garment is equal parts sweet and low maintenance.
Simply put, it is an enormous pocket. To sport it with panache, all one must do is to step inside, quite literally, and hop, hop, hop. Potato sack race-haters needn’t apply! (The fabulous may find applications online.)
Now recall, please, the tendency of fashion’s cosmic pendulum to swing back and forth between extremes. Recall and wince, for it not having occurred to you sooner: tiny little hats.
Where big floppy numbers once reigned, and even regular-sized berets and newsboy caps had their moment, tiny little baseball caps pick up their outdated pieces.
Just imagine! Tiny caps, shrunken to gently cradle a fine scallop or truffle if the moment required it; chic and practical.
For additional accessories, this spring seasons beckons forth the fierce in lieu of the precious. That said, eschew the miniature lap or handbag dog in favor of the komodo dragon, dog sweaters be damned. If well trained, it can additionally serve as a live hover board. Ride it down the street for an effect that screams, “Elegant! Exotic! Lazy, but in a cute way!”
And a quiet, miniature whisper of advice. Call 15-20 of your very closest best friends to make absolute certain you don’t leave the house looking like yourself, with no twin entourage. Just imagine that horror!
- Valentina Tapia is variety editor for The Red & Black. Visit www.not.com/jk for more trend reporting.
Guess what, dudes. Robert Hayes’ haircut probably beats yours.
In other news, all’s I know is there is a surplus of bangs running around the office here at the RandB, mine included. And something about Spring has planted wacky ideas of Jean Seberg-style (or Rosemary’s Baby-era Mia Farrow) shorty short cuts in my head.
p.s. What do we think of Pharrell Williams’ clothing line Ice Cream? I thought Robert here rocked it pretty hard. The New York Times did a great Critical Shopper assessment of it awhile back.
Hello, friends. Do yourselves a favor and see The Diving Bell and the Butterfly at Ciné while it’s there; it’s stunning. And now for something completely different:
Last Saturday I went to Little Kings for Share and Wear, a clothing trade event. People brought their own and shared, weared, sewed and so on. It looked like this:
Cutie-patootie and ringleader Jocelyn Negron chews on stuff, wears part of cloth that went to a dress creation.
Good news! More pictures after the jump. Click it.
Josh here proves the point that many seem to have forgotten - winter-specific outfits exist. You don’t have to wear tank tops under long sleeves over running shorts over leggings.
Just sayin’.
…and all-over prints, still thriving. John Swisher is small and adorable:
“did you expect otherwise?”
Of course not.
However: According to interviews with designers at a pre-Spring ‘08 fashion convention in Las Vegas that was shared with me by an intrepid tipper (thanks, E.J.), all-over prints are on the way out this season. Will Athens abide? Probably not, but we’ll find out this semester.
And anyway, if they continue to appear on campus with the same pluck our John here exudes, I’m okay with it.
John’s “Jesus” stance, for whatever John reason.
Branton Gray DeArmoun gets points for the following:
A) Jacket, scarf, tie, collared shirt. Just a little bit of effort yields results to the max. I don’t even care about plaids vs. pinstripe.
B) Look at the tie. Jellyfish!
That’s all.
It’s all in the deetz. Bikes by definition are adorable, but it doesn’t get much cuter than this:
If this thing belongs to Amy Whisenhunt, I’m going to have to insist she receive a Style Files diploma.
Guess which is which.
Ugg clogs! Positively raucous! Pink and pink! Fluffy, wholly inappropriate mini-skirt recalling Abercrombie Kids circa-2001!
Don’t guess, I’ll tell you. Victoria, shown directly above, wins. She was stunning all the way around.
Question: What would be more satisfying — a) Several photos per post, meaning less frequent updates (that’s what’s been up thus far), or b) frequent posts featuring a single photo?
Just wondering.
And in the meantime, a point I’d like to make:
Two things. First, that English-language phrases are so hot right now here in Buenos Aires, and they typically make little to no sense, and are often vulgar. Here you get both.
Second, that Henry Holland’s House of Holland shirts have somehow informed the biggest t-shirt trend I’ve noticed thus far.
The above-shown shirt isn’t the best example. Because few stores have permitted me to take photographs inside, I’m having a hard time getting a good photographic example.
Want to see the shirt for real?
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