i woke up really early this morning and had nothing to do. so i looked at shoes. lots and lots and lots of shoes. i combed through all of my usual spots and picked the best out of the bunch. this is the cream of the crop. the creme de la creme. they are the chosen ones.
colette has a really good selection of footwear. i mean really good. little romantic, poetic, whimsical, delicate foot sculpture good. but i guess that's pretty obvious. i didn't even check if they shipped all the way out here. that wasn't the goal of the mission. this is purely for ogling purposes. behold... a visual feast!
brightly colored slippers
blacks
light
earthy
really scary looking shoes
some are easy to figure out in term of who the maker is but i am too tired to write it all down for you. just guess. and i guess hope for the best. good luck!
face the facts: you will probably never EVER in your life get your hands on the much talked about gorilla print dresses above. only few will ever have the pleasure of wearing, let alone owning, these pieces. when these kind of frustrating situations arise, and they do from time to time, i just resort to fondling them as much as i can at barneys. i don't need to own them, just let me feel them up a bit. oooooh.
but luckily for us christopher kane has decided to make t-shirts too! now we can all be special! i don't need no dress! i've got a t-shirt!
but face the facts: you will probably NEVER ever get your hands on these t-shirts either. all those bitches who had enough mulla to buy the dresses just swiped the last of these off the rack. and you know they bought more than one because they were so "cheap" and "such a steal!".
it's ok. don't worry! just go to a gift store at any zoo and i'm sure you'll find something like it. it will even have a crazy marble motif, probably some mustard coloring, and something obnoxious like BRONX ZOO stamped on. but it will be so ironic everyone will think you are so cool! isn't that great?
christopher kane's first ever resort collection features prints of nuclear explosions. WOW. i read that he found the images on the UK Ministry of Defense website. i love them really. the images are really pretty. though i have to say i am a little disappointed in the shape of the dresses. and the overall lack of blue that seems to make the third dress on the right really exceptional. there's not enough blue and too much mustard. wow i hate mustard. i think that's why i hated louis vuitton spring '09 so much. not that i like louis vuitton really in any way. but mustard! why?
the dress in the middle on the bottom row, the "shrapnel" dress with the swatches of silk is really beautiful. i like how he expanded on the whole war theme. but everything is all really delicate. and the crinkly leather zip off/on jackets! i love them! it seems a lot of people who are making clothing nowadays are on some sort of hunt for the craziest print they can find and manipulate it in a really subversive way. but i wonder if this is just a weird strain of that lightning bolt fascination everyone had last year.
i knew i wanted christopher kane when i first saw a photo of this jacket in i-d magazine last year! it makes me feel really girly inside:
blue and gray together never fails. i love the raw looking denim, it looks so light and airy. something i've only encountered with japanese brand jeans. and APC i guess. though sometimes raw denim can seem like the fabric equivalent of really tough jerkey. the thought of raw denim on my tender winter thighs is frightful. you've got to beat it a couple of times after it comes out of the dryer. this is actually the number one reason why i hate winter: putting on pants in the morning. whether they are jeans or wool pants or even a nice soft silky feeling fabric, it all just makes me want to barf. but these look really summery, no wonder they are for resort 2010. also those ankle boots will probably make any ensemble look awesome. i guess the denim on denim might seem daunting to some people but i've always loved a good canadian suit. even the really hick versions can seem cool in a way.
the time to report on this s/s '09 collection has long passed, but i just recently discovered this lookbook at prada and cannot love/stare at it enough. it's just too beautiful for words. while most lookbooks from other designers feature one or two models and a boring white background, prada manages to push the envelope once again. why not? they keep pushing the idea of what a "brand" is and how it reaches the average consumer. this isn't just a clothing brand, it's more an experience. the prada experience! aaaah!
the look book allows for a really comprehensive look at the collection and how and where the inspirations stemmed from. i hate the word inspiration but for now it will do. when i first saw it on style it was described as "primitive"... i thought the models looked like roman busts, with their heads hair-spayed into oblivion and the very sculptural rumpling and crumpling of the garments. they looked like marble statues. and i guess "primitive" is the right word. it's historically ancient and ironically, so fundamentally Italian. in some ways the only word to describe it is original. the canon of western art history as we know it was established from this era of classical sculpture. the birth of modern europe. that's the interesting thing about the word "modern". other than it's function as historical marker, it also includes the temporal. this collection is about the modern european aesthetic, informed by that other, previous modern european aesthetic. miuccia prada always finds a way to reference the historic and it is never kitsch (not that kitsch is necessarily bad) but bold and manages to really stand on it's own.
i really love how they manipulated each image, sometimes it can seem pretty obvious but i think it really blurs the line between reality and imagery. the lookbook was a collaboration with AMO (part of Rem Koolhaus's OMA, who is Prada's go-to architect). I think AMO mostly does design collaborations and research.
i know i sometimes overthink Prada. but i just love her! i want miuccia to wrap me up in a blanket and sing me a lulaby!!! if you haven't seen the interview with her on cnn you must!
