about a girl

[yoyobeat]

diggin this (uniqlo lemaire). I love the proportions.

[schiaparelli]

one thing I'm enamored with right now is womenswear featuring women…I mean, I don't have a great way to articulate this, but just womenswear that engages with some idea of how women are represented, how imagery of women's bodies and faces is used in art/culture/society, how these depicted women have agency or not in how they interact with the viewer, how sexuality is commodified or weaponized or eluded entirely



does anyone else have interesting examples of this kind of thing? if so, please share ~

[schiaparelli]

i'm so in love with the new lauren winter stuff. lots of relaxed, breezy things and a superb and complex blue denim, a nice navy and terracotta linen, and WIDE PANTS!!!



this brown is so luxuriant and deep i just keep on staring at it. i love the blue because it is one of my favorite shades of blue but i truly did not expect to fall so deeply in love with a BROWN of all things (maybe i should begin looking at browns more closely…)

(p.s. i own the cream wrap/tie top that's in the lookbook images with the blue pants and duster—i wish it would hurry up and get warmer so i can wear it! perfect picnic garb. i will make white peach sangria and bring it to a park and loll around in my wrap top. you are welcome to join me and indulge in the sangria too. consider buying a matching top)

[thecanadiancook]

"The Bar is one of the ultimate, iconic Dior looks and one of the most iconic in the history of fashion; it comes loaded with symbolism. For me it represents an entry point into the thinking of Christian Dior himself; it is an essential part of the code that is at the heart of the house, at its very foundation since his first collection. At the same time, it is part of the visual language of the mid-century; this period of time and its form of language are an obsession of mine. Just as Christian Dior was obsessed by the Belle Epoque – of course, the shape of the bar is a nod to that period – I am obsessed by mid-century modern! In the strictness of its tailoring and the freedom from hyper-femininity, the Bar silhouette is a combination I find both intriguing and attractive. It has a special significance for me, as I have found much of my career focusing on tailoring and menswear, while at Dior I have found real freedom through the expression of the feminine – the two together are a great combination for me. I frequently return to the Bar to rework its elements and combine and contrast its features in different ways. For instance, in much of the clothing in the very first collection I did for Dior – the Autumn -Winter Haute Couture 2012 collection – there were many Bar elements, especially the focus on the curve of the hips. At the time, I wanted to define the Bar suit in a new way, so I contrasted the feminized tailoring of the jacket, with its curved construction over the hips, against black cigarette pants as opposed to the full skirt. I wanted it to be a new take on the tuxedo and very directly bring the feminine and the masculine together. I think great design will always have a timeless quality to it; great design will ultimately be valid in any year or era. It is the quality of the Bar’s architecture – Christian Dior was a genius architect of pattern – that makes it timeless and makes it possible for me to interpret it in a whole variety of ways in highly different collections."

~The Bar Icon by Raf Simons. Transcribed from Dior: The New Look Revolution put out by Rizzoli. Thought I would share.

[Northwest]

Two Seattle shops that I think do a lovely job offering stylish alternatives to the usual mall/upper end:



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