Metallic Shoes

You can always tell when I have project due soon, because the number of posts per day increases dramatically... Elie Tahari's aforementioned collection has inspired me to look for metallic shoes. They would be such an attention-grabbing accessory, even with the most basic of outfits. it would really brighten up winter...Doubtful whether I could actually pull them off, but here goes.

These double-tongued metallic Converses are... fabulous. $92, zappos.com

Both, anthropologie.com. Both, too expensive. (left, "master class lace-ups" by Repetto, $218. right, "gold leaf skimmers", $328.)

I also found really cute gold maryjanes at APC but you can't save pictures from their website so you'll have to check them out yourself. $333.

Grandma's Cozy Sweater

Ever feel like you just want to wrap up in a huge, cozy, grandma-knit sweater on a cold winter's day? Apparently, Giles Deacon knows just how you feel:








My question is, how do the models walk in these? Aren't they heavy? (Not to mention hot, in whatever Fashion Week venue they're in?)

Mmmmm cozy haha

You can't see it that well in these pics, but I've been noticing a lot of crazy-huge, wierd eyebrows in recent fashion shows... what's up with that??

Elie tahari - Fall '07

Mardi Gras was really fun & the dress turned out great -- it was a dark blue floor-length skirt with a fitted floral-y halter top. When I get some pictures I'll put them up.

I've been catching up with emails... a ton from style.com and I love Elie Tahari's F/W 07 collection. It's really mod, easy to wear, cute stuff such as....

i love the metallics he used, especially the jacket in the 1st photo, and the trenchcoat is supercute and looks like it would be a great raincoat, which I've been looking for...

Ugh i just spent like 20 minutes getting salt stains out of a peacoat and jeans. When will it be spring??

Walking around Boston I've noticed that a lot of people are wearing long, puffy (usually black) winter coats... wait, a trend that's actually practical for winter??? It's super exciting! Last year's peacoats are still around, but in a surprisingly small number. Maybe people finally realized that puffy coats are way warmer...

Like this North Face coat... it'll run you about $300, but it looks really really warm!

My computer's messing up so I can't show anymore pictures... but you get the idea...

btw, I think it's really mean of stores to be showing swimsuits while I'm stuck freezing (without snow, unlike upstate NY with like 9 ft of snow) and posting about coats while listening to "Baby It's Cold Outside." Why do I live on the East Coast, again?

Mardi Gras Dress

I'm going to New Orleans, Louisiana for MARDI GRAS in a week and a half and I'm going to a Mardi Gras ball. I need a full-length gown, which I'm having my cousin, Maria Spyridopoulos, make for me (she is sooo talented and owns an amazing boutique, if I do say so myself). I'm going to her tomorrow to pick out fabric and design the dress. I'm thinking empire-waist, since that looks really good with tiny straps and it's going to be pretty warm down there. This dress, from gojane.com, is OK, a little prom-ish, but I do like the loose neckline and the way the fabric in the back is draped . Plus, since it is Mardi Gras, I want the dress to sparkle a little and this fabric would look cute if it was sparkly.








Or this dress, from poshgirlvintage.com (I need to post about them later, there are such adorable dresses on that site!!) This is a little more party:



Really shimmery, and the color looks nice in the photo, not too terrible-bridesmaid- peachy-pink.




Then I decided to look at David's Bridal for some basic styling ideas and found a couple of dresses. I'm trying to stay away from strapless, so this is what I ended up coming up with.

What is it with me and the red today? The first one has a halter neckline, which I hadn't really considered before. Somehow a halter seems a little juvenile to me (did I really just use "juvenile" in a sentence???). The second one has that empire waist that I want...


I'll keep you updated on what I finally choose.

To Russia With Love

I've decided to become... a Russian peasant. This replaces my previous wish to become mid-1700s French nobility. (Best. hair. ever. Plus amazingly huge dresses. My fondest wish is that someday giant hoop skirted dresses with elaborate decoration will come back into style so that I can wear something like this around. OK, maybe corsets wouldn't be that fun, but they'd be worth it for a little while.)







This isn't exactly what I meant but for some unknown reason people don't put pictures of 1700s French nobility dresses online. (This all started because of history class and "Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution", which describes every style from that time period in great detail.

http://home.att.net/~liliuo/images/gaynor2.jpg

But I'm digressing (surprise surprise). It was Gucci's spring/summer '07 collection made me fall hard for Russia. OK, so maybe Russian peasants didn't actually look as good as this, but a girl can dream.











I love these belts and the patterns and the shape. I love Russia. I would even be happy if I could just look like this:













Oh,



. I am dissuading myself from hopping on a plane by the fact that weather.com tells me it's currently ... 9 degrees. Wait, that's not actually too much colder than Boston. AND they have snow!?




If there's no posts for a few months, I think you'll know why.


[all pretty pictures of Russian dresses from style.com, nesting dolls from http://www.therussianshop.com/russhop/matryoshkas/matphotoviatka.jpg (can you say that 5 times fast?, and map from googling "Russia map." You'll find it if you really want to.]

Lacoste sweater

I usually don't love Lacoste's clothes, kind of plain, a little too preppy for me, but I love this (men's) sweater. Too bad I already wear, like, all men's sweaters. I'm getting this as soon as it hits stores:

Yum!