marchesa...je meurs

i've always loved marchesa { even in the last few years when i would give a slight eyebrow raise to the things they sent down the runway. } this year's collection blew me away. the soft colors, the intricate mixture of all things glitter, fringe and tulle. it all looked very very expensive, hard to construct but easy to watch glide down the runway. to me this is what fashion is about: when you dont look at the models { bc honestly with this lot, you might wake up having some nightmares }, when the pieces have integrity, meaning and stand out; reiterating the purpose and agenda of the brand while managing to be fresh and new in an ever-changing landscape.
bravo marchesa.
je meurs

the only words for this collection are GIMME GIMME GIMME!

spring spring spring :)

pictures taken from CEU....you can find her blog here!

so glad spring is finally here in all its pollinated glory. still feeling under the weather and trying to recover, so found some beautiful (and drama filled) photographs that will hopefully whip

my immune system into shape!

slash- how i die for the entire outfit in the first photograph...

♥ MIMI

the birds { aka...i think im slowly dying }

bonne matin beautiful people!

it's such a beautiful day outside today and i finally get the feeling we've won the battle and captured spring. ok....im not technically dying, but i AM sick. i can't even enjoy the day because im sickly { insert coughs here } i've spent the day drinking copious amounts of water, sneezing and sketching. don't have an outfit today so leaving you with one of my illustrations instead.

be back tomorrow along with another beautiful day!

p.s- yes...sorry for the dramatic post title...im a bit of a drama queen

i kinda need these in my life..

colors are in this season! and thank sweet baby jesus for that. nothing like bright dramatic accents of colors (and sequins....one can never go wrong with sequins.)

lots of designers are doing colors really well this season { namely marc jacobs, Thakoon and DVF } but my favorite thus far is Céline's leather clutch and classic box bag.

{ i definitely have my eye on that neon yellow box bag.....it shall be in my closet this spring }

what do you guys think? are we embracing the colors this spring? or are we clutching to neutral colors like a crack head to his pipe?

the feeling of desire

a quick sketch i finally scanned into my computer while at my sisters. i really should buy a scanner...but that's also like a pair of shoes....what's a girl to do?

speaking of gaga...

um....can we pause for one second?

i need to pick my jaw off the floor before we talk about the fashion orgy that was thierry mugler's 2012 fall/winter collection.

i would like to thank mugler for apparently being one of the only designers that remembers fashion is a show. the point of it is to get people's eyes so far out of their sockets they can no longer dream in anything but rainbows and unicorns....or in this case skeletons and plastic body wrap. that show was so OD that its not even believable.

1.) triple catacomb runway+models walking haphazardly+zombies = wtf amazing

2.) models actually having personality, proving to me they do something besides being skinny, tall and so serenely tortured.

3.) gaga.....hello! enough said

4.) ahem. can we talk about gaga's SHOES where 12 inch wedges and made her like 6'1 {if we're gonna be real, they probably deserve their own post }

5.) designers having at-itt-udeeeeee seeping out of every pore of their collection

i love. the end

j

why chanel will change the fashion industry....again

we've waiting all year for this and it's finally here!

HAUTE COUTURE....aka the most ridiculous pieces of "clothing" the world's best fashion houses can conjure.

the first glimpse of a model....who's not even over 7 feet tall...and she's wearing flats?

this is the genius of karl's spring/summer 2011 couture line.

and yes...while other designers might yawn in the shadows, this show (as we wrap up all the fashion weeks) was one of my favs because karl leaves every girl between 15-30 thinking one thing about the entire collection... GIMME!

the show really is the accumulation of the growing changes in fashion today.

the way people interact with fashion and style is changing rapidly as street style, blogging, DIY, resources like lookbook and chictopia, namely, the internets, makes everything more accessible to us.

designers are realizing they can no longer sit on clouds in their magical castles sipping unicorn juice and casually throwing ideas down to pedestrians.

any woman could actually wear this. i mean...if they lost 40 lbs, sold all of their belongings and did some things they would never tell their children about.

what do you guys think? are we saving our pennies to buy this collection? or wishing haute couture would stick the to clothing only lady gaga could wear in public?