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THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Dear Readers:
My sincere apologies. I've been absent for approximately six months.
I have only recently resigned from a highly unethical consulting firm whose Managing Director did a pretty good job of almost destroying me. I wish I could tell you who she is! (look me up on Linked In).
If you've heard of a little word called bullying - you'll understand why I lost interest in fashion, blogging, and just about everything for the better part of 2010.
Happily though, HBTN traffic statistics are still kicking, people still continue to follow me on twitter (BIG SMILE) ...AND I've managed to keep my freelance post at Peppermint Magazine.
You'll see my literary contribution in the forthcoming "September Issue", which is very exciting. A big thank you to Kelley Sheenan and Tess Curran for their ongoing faith in my ability to write...and more importantly, deliver.
Rarely does one come across a designer, when every piece in the collection inspires a resounding 'yes, yes, yes!' Like When Harry Met Sally (I'll have what she's having), you'll want every shred of fabric from Swedish designer's Ido Sjostedt's SS10 collection.
Australian readers will identify with the Alannah Hill-esque fabrics and cuts. All readers will appreciate the playfully girly colleciton, infused with an elegance that is tastefully alternative.
We're a huge proponent of grass roots design. Doubly so when the designer is technically unable to drink. Catherine Conlan is seventeen years old, self taught and hand makes each garment from her NSW home. Citing Vivienne Westwood as her inspiration, Catherine's designs are on trend, stylish and attention grabbing. She's definitely one to watch. Buy online at www.thehangingspace.com.au
The temperature is cooling down or in the northern hemisphere's case, warming up. Either way, there's plenty of transitional weather for when a woollen scarf won't cut the mustard. Cue then, the starstyling crochet knit, available at www.pixiemarket.com . Tres tres chic don't you think?
Elena Martin is yet another Central Saint Martins graduate, supremely talented in her craft. Her label Martin Lamothe is a superb fusion of understated chic and ultra bohemian cool.
Scott Sternberg, the creative mind behind band of outsiders has grand plans. In 2008 he expanded the 'recontextualised vintage' mens wear label to include a chic and retro inspired women's collection. If the AW10 collection is anything to go by, Sternberg is on track to grow his empire from US $12M to US $40M by 2013.
It's Carrie Bradshaw meets "run away to the circus". Who would have known the two could be friends - a spectacular fusion of fairy floss tulle and sixties-meets-seventies print?
Somehow it works, and the look is still very much on trend, where anything pretty much goes, as long as it does (if you know what I mean). It's an ensemble so wild and creative, I'd love to see Susie Bubble give it a shot. Apparently she'll be sitting front row at Sydney's RAFW, as will be the Sartorialist's Scott Schuman and his partner, Garance Dore.
There's a trend coming to a shoe store near you, and it doesn't involve heels. First there was boyfriend dressing, denim, shirts, etc, et al. Now it's cool to slip on your bf's shoes - or at least into a replica in your size.
Today's fashion muse is Australian label Ginger&Smart and their AW10 collection, Rhythm of Light. Psychedelic pops of block colour intermix with the traditional winter pallette of black and grey.
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Today's design muse is the independent Sydney label Sandy. Also producing illustrations, drawings and paintings, the self titled designer handmakes the entire fashion line, screen printing many of her sketches on to tees, singlets, and hoodies. Based on the themes of storybook whimsey, nostalgia and all things sweet, we detect a strong '70s festival feel to Sandy's glorious creations.
It may seem a little sacrilegious to wish you "Happy Friday" on the holiest of Christian days, but I'm going to anyway. Happy Friday, dear readers, and make it a great one.
Getting back to "look of the day", I came across the following image (below) on the website of chic Euro chain COS. For Southern Hemisphere readers that don't know COS, it's an uber chic label, that's closest in style to Witchery and Country Road. Only the Europeans.....do it better.
Refined, modern, stylish and ever so glamourous, I truly lament that COS is not available in Australia.
If a fashion blog is going to make it in the ultra competitive sea of wannabes, it's got to do all of four things
1) Have a point of difference - i.e. be original 2) Shoot and display high quality, original photos, ideally of the blogger / blogette him/herself 3) Post and update regularly 4) Amass a cult like following
And HBTN Style? Well.....
1) Our point of difference: We like to think think our command of the English language is pretty good, and that our name is rather original, too. We provide chic commentary from the mainstream to the obscure and have a burning passion for sustainable design. That separates us from at least 80% of the pack.
2) Given the blogette is staring down the barrel of her 32nd birthday, and, would have to run five marathons consecutively to skinny in to a pair of size 0 jeans, she's not about to shoot herself wearing Top Shop trends only a 15 year old could get away with.
Number Three: Yours truly works FULL TIME - unlike many talented literary lasses, in an industry that has nothing to do with fashion. Read: she is time poor, tired and when she's had a bad day, couldn't give a shit about fashion.
4) Can't say we have a cult-like following, but we do have a following - If you're reading this post, so are another 3000 fellow fashion lovers. [We think that's pretty good].
Also at 223 Bedford Avenue Williamsburg (see image below), New York's best vintage store according to New York Magazine, stocks an intoxicating collection of genuine, high quality European labels from a bygone era. Emilio Pucci, Chloe, Chanel, Azzedine Alaia, Gianni Versace are just a handful of "names" on offer.
Unfortunately Amarcord's online offering is very limited (remember to check their eBay store.) But then, doesn't every girl need an excuse (or not) to visit the Big Apple?
Keep up to date with Amarcord's warehouse sales, VIP offerings and general fashion muses at their offical blog www.amarcordvintage.tumblr.com
If you've got a little more cash, be quick to snap up a piece of 1980s Alaia. Click HERE
Chanel - what a bargain! Country style giddy-up - could almost be mistaken as part of the current collection. CLICK HERE
AMARCORD LOCATIONS
SoHo (retail) 252 Lafayette Street (btwn Prince & Spring) New York, NY 10012 tel/ fax: 212.431.4161 Mon - Sat 12 - 7:30; Sun 12 - 7
Williamsburg (retail) 223 Bedford Avenue (btwn N. 4th and N. 5th St.) Brooklyn, NY 11211 tel: 718.963.4001 Daily 12 - 8
Super VIP / Appointment / Invitation only Williamsburg (showroom / archive) 242 Wythe Ave (btwn N.3rd and N. 4th St.) Studios # 8 and 9, Brooklyn, NY 11211 tel/ fax: 718.388.2884 By appointment only showroom@amarcordvintagefashion.com
French actress Melanie Thierry came to life in Elle (US) May 2001 in the feature "The Age of Innocence". The picture of ethereal innocence, this could just as easily be an inspiring fashion spread in 2010. All the more reason to invest in enduring pieces that surpass the test of time.
Elle (US) May 2001 The Age Of Innocence Photography by Ruven Afanador Melanie Thierry
It's Fashion Week (LMFF2010) in Melbourne, and I'm sitting 3rd row at the L'Oreal Paris Runway 5, presented by Cosmopolitan.
For starters, $12 sparkling (by the glass, not bottle) is not a way to wow the crowd. Neither are impossible to wear pret-a-porter trends ripped off from Top Shop AW09 - though somehow the creative design process got a little warped for this year's AW10 offering.
If all this sounds rather harsh, review critically, the images below. If size 0 models look atrocious wearing bronze leggings / sporting hemlines that ride precariously close to one's buttocks, imagine what the average sized girl (10-14) would look like wearing the same, as she totters on prostitute style stilettos down Melbourne's Chapel Street.
Not to mention that in six months it will all be over, and she's coveting the next season's must have. Her bank account suffers and Vinnie's bins across the country fill with unsaleable merchandise.
Editorial Note: The images below were sourced from http://www.lmff.com.au/ and are displayed for commentary / illustrative purposes only. Individual designers have not been identified to protect privacy.
I never used to refer to previous issues of my (extensive) magazine collection, much less feel inspired to blog about their content. But when I contemplated the $130 per month I was spending on storage, not to mention the hundreds I'd parted with to buy these publications, I realised it was time to either recyle - or reuse.
Imagine my delight then, when I began to leaf through the ghosts of editorials past - and found much contemporary inspiration to pass a Sunday afternoon.
Intime, published in L'Officel, April 2007, is a quintessential French exploration of female independence, sexuality and beauty. The editorial is delightully provocative and sensual, and is not without a sense of voyuerism. The ocean blue velvet lounge provides a stylish yet relaxed backdrop to the model as muse, clothed in various interpretations of (then current) fashion trends.
Green fashion is more than feel-good, it's more than a fad. It's what the industry is moving towards - especially when you consider traditional cotton production uses twenty-five percent of the world's pesticides, and ten percent of all agricultural chemicals.
Suddenly that cheap white t-shirt looks rather dirty, doesn't it?
Today's eco muse is Melbourne's very own Bhalo, a fair trade label that uses chemical free, and hand loomed, embroidered cotton by women in rural Bangladesh.
Apparently it's getting rather hot way, waaay, waaaay up north.
So, whilst I'm searching for the perfect winter coat, my New York sisters are trying on pretty summer dresses. Although Melbourne's AW's are rather mild mind you, and today I'm wearing a red and white shift I picked up in the Marais last year.
Re: pretty dresses: I'm coveting the chic and effortless style of US label, Hunter Dixon.
Apologies to my AU readers, Hunter Dixon is unavailable online, and the closest retail oulet is Sloane in Singapore. Perhaps you can organise a stopover if you're bound onwards to Europe.
There's a trend coming to a shoe store near you, and it doesn't involve heels. First there was boyfriend dressing, denim, shirts, etc, et al. Now it's cool to slip on your bf's shoes - or at least into a replica in your size.
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