Top Picks: Donna Karan Pre-Fall 2011
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Tagged: 1930s, 1940s, 2011, aviator, bias cut, Donna Karan, evening gown, forties, jacket, pre-fall, satin, silk, thirties
It’s getting cold!
Last weekend I was in Budapest Hungary for Lindy Shock, and just arrived in Stockholm Sweden for the Halloween Swing Camp, and I gotta say, it’s starting to get cold in Europe! Here in Sweden it’s also pretty dark – it amazes me every time! It’s 4pm and dark as night, and it’s only early November. Just thinking about Swedish mid-winter makes me shiver, so here are some wonderful winter coat illustrations from the 1930s to warm you up:
Tagged: 1930s, coat, Depression, jacket, thirties, winter
Top Picks: Burberry Prorsum Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear
My top picks from the Burberry Prorsum spring 2010 ready-to-wear show. Those puff-shouldered trenches have been mighty popular with the celebs…
Tagged: burberry, classic, jacket, prorsum, Ready to Wear, RTW, Spring 2010, trench, trench coat, trenchcoat
Jo’s Favorite looks from Fashion Week
Above: Carolina Herrera
Above: Marc Jacobs tweed trench coat with a fur collar and cuffs
Above: Victoria Beckham
Above: Ruffian
Above: Gwen Stefani’s L.A.M.B
And here’s an oldie, but a goodie. I just HAD to include it!
The 1940s were the inspiration behind the Carolina Herrera Fall 2008 collection, and no woman was fully dressed without a proper hat back then. The highly sculptural felt numbers were perfectly perched atop the models’ soft waves.
Categories: Clothing, On CatwalksTagged: Carolina Herrer, coat, double breasted suit, dress, Gwen Stefani, jacket, Marc Jacobs, Ruffian, runway 2010, Victoria Beckham
Love this coat at Loewe
From Loewe’s Spring 2010 ready-to-wear collection. The model is Frida Gustavsson. I found the rest of the show fairly Country Club bland, but I do love the glamour of this leather coat.
Tagged: coat, jacket, leather, loewe, Spring 2010
Yves Saint Laurent did not invent the tuxedo for women!
We’ve been enjoying a fashion comeback of tuxedo styles for women over the past few seasons, bolstered by the passing in June 2008 of famed designer Yves Saint Laurent. It’s true, in the 1960s and 70s, YSL was responsible for re-popularizing suit and tuxedo styles for women, in particular his 1966 creation, “Le Smoking”, a tailored tuxedo suit with a long, slender 1960s silhouette. But, with all respect, it’s ridiculous to say he was the style’s inventor!
I caught Elle Magazine with this little diddy from last year: “It’s no coincidence that in the week when fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, the man who designed Le Smoking (the first tuxedo for women) passed away, the A-list are paying their respects in a way he would have loved- by wearing tuxedo jackets at every opportunity.” And even my beloved Wikipedia has this to say: “the Le Smoking tuxedo suit for women was the first of its kind to earn attention in the fashion world and in popular culture.“ What’s going on here? Yves Saint Laurent did NOT invent the tuxedo for women, and the 1960s was not the first time women fashionably wore suits and tuxedos. Every swing girl knows this!
Above and below, we have Marlene Dietrich, who wore this tuxedo in the film Morocco in 1928. In the scene she sings and even kisses a girl…
And here we have Josephine Baker, Gloria Swanson, Anna May Wong and Katharine Hepburn in the 1920s, 30s and 40s…
Rant aside, it’s brilliant that the look has been having a fashion comeback (even with mistaken origins). Here are a few celebrities, mostly care of Fashionising.com, who have been toying with the trend. We have Ashley Olsen, Diane Kruger, Naomi Watts, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Blake Liveley and Dita Von Teese.
If the Fall 2009 and Resort 2010 collections are anything to go by, it seems as if the trend will be with us for a while longer. Viva Le Tuxedo!
Categories: Celebrities, Vintage PhotosTagged: bowtie, dining, dinner, Dita Von Teese, girl, hat, jacket, lady, Marlene Dietrich, suit, tails, top, tophat, tuxedo, women, YSL, Yves Saint Laurent
Men’s Vintage Looks in The Aviator (2004)
Leonardo Di Caprio (playing Howard Hughes), Jude Law (playing Errol Flynn), John C. Reilley and Alec Baldwin all get the vintage treatment in The Aviator. Slicked hair, red carpet-worthy tuxedos, 1940s suits and of course, plenty of leather aviator jackets.
Tagged: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Alec Baldwin, aviator, fashion, fifties, flying, forties, hollywood, jacket, John C Reilley, Jude Law, leather, Leonardo DiCaprio, pilot, retro, style, suits, thirties, vintage
The Sartorialist, Sydney Australia
Another shot from international street fashion blog, The Sartorialist, this time taken on the street in Sydney Australia. If this guy isn’t a swing DJ, then he should be.
Categories: Men's Fashion, On The StreetTagged: cap, jacket, plaid, sartorialist