Couture Du Jour: Spring 2022

Couture Du Jour: Spring 2022 Although fashion has taken on a brave new face after the pandemic, leading to more avant-garde and unusual looks being presented in ready-to-wear collections, couture is where it’s at if you suffer from fashionphilia and are looking for the innovative, fashion-forward, laboriously embellished, and detailed garments that exude such opulence…

Dior Fall 2019

I loved  Dior’s Fall 2019 collection’s embellished skirts, many on tulle with butterfly motifs made of feathers, sequins, and print overlaid with sheer black wave textured fabric. The black and white ink print dress  and contrast dot and gingham skirt were also charming.  I  felt as if the gingham flannel jackets, hats, coats and skirts-…

Fabulous Fashion: Dior’s New Look To Now Exhibit

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibit was certainly titled appropriately, abounding with fabulous fashion from post war era to modern times. Upon entering, I was greeted with Dior’s New Look, the inspiration for the exhibition, which changed the silhouette and hemline of wartime garments back to full skirts, cinched waists, and floor lengths as a…

I Can't: Resort 2018's Worst

Anna Sui Resort 2018 The proportions, the hemlines, it’s like layers of granny when combined with her prints. Stella McCartney Resort 2018 I wasn’t feeling the play with silhouette and volume- some of it came down to styling- the pairing of oversized jackets with a-line skirts…but honey, I can’t with the draw-string, the palm-tree print, the sneakers,…

2017 Cannes Red Carpet Best and Worst Dressed

The 2017 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet was full of glitter, glitz, and glam and sharply contrasted by cheap costume looks complete with synthetic wigs in fashion colors.  Fabulous stylist-curated wardrobes, carefully posed clutches, poised postures…Cannes is one of the years big fashion events, Hollywood starlets drawing the attention of the world in all their…

Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2017

Fencing has been done recently, but for Spring/Summer 2017 Dior put its own spin on it. Jackets, vests, and dresses bore signature details of the sport: quilting, straps, and studs, with a nod of a hat or visor. Gorgeous graphic dresses, knits, and skirts; on-trend below the knee skirts paired with red Moto jackets and…

Resort 2017 Fashion Shows

Helmut Lang Altuzarra Boss Isa Arfen Givenchy: youthful yet mature, edgy and ethereally feminine, the Givenchy Resort ’17 collection was beautiful, fun, chic and wearable. Norma Kamali Marchesa is known and renowned for its carpet-worthy gowns. The Resort ’17 collection was full of beautiful dresses and gowns, embellished with feathers, beading, and floral embroidery. I…

Christian Dior SS16: Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Wow, Christian Dior has lost it for Spring/Summer 2016…I can’t wait to laugh at Natalie Portman in these hideous rags of unfinished cropped sweaters paired with old-timey under garments and “dresses” made out of fabric so cheap it wouldn’t make a proper dinner table napkin.  Blah is how I would describe the collection…aside from the…