These and Those, as Well.

So for my graduation present, I got a Nikon D5000. I've been interested in getting into photography for a while now and I can finally get into. So I should be having some new and interesting entries for you. It's probably going to take me a while to get used to it, but I plan on taking plenty of photos this summer! Enjoy!

Images taken by Marrisa

The IOU Project - Trunk Show Host - Marrisa

So I haven't posted anything in a while! Terribly sorry for the lack of updates for the 2012 Resort season. I've been busy with GRADUATION and planning for my party (which I also made my dress for. I will have to show you in a later entry).

But I want to talk again about The IOU Project. I had previously written an entry on it. If you haven't seen it, take a look here. I have recently become a Trunk Show Host for this project. I have some personally picked items, and you can even trace the item back to the weaver. So I would ask you to take a look at my Trunk Show, and see what you like! Below are some of my pieces from my trunk.

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YSL Resort 2012: Innovative & Nautical

As many of you, Yves Saint Laurent is my favorite designer. And this season's resort collection has not disappointed. I was definitely a fan of the nautical theme. I felt like it was done differently, innovative silhouettes, bold reds. I did appreciate the fact that there was more of an emphasis on the reds, rather than the tradition blues. The button down dresses cinched with the skinny belts were absolutely adorable. The peasant sleeve blouses were some of my favorite pieces in the collection. Below are some of my favorite pieces.

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Erdem Resort 2012

This blend of tweed and florals was magical! Beautiful silhouettes and playful dresses. The trousers fit beautifully and I would love to have the floral pant and the salmon colored ones. The lace and embroidered work were fabulous. I fell in love with the floral pumps as well! Interesting color scheme, but it really worked for Erdem! The dark salmon and navy looked very nice together. I'm going to have to try to mix some of those colors up myself. This is one of my favorite collections and the one I feel like I can attempt to recreate in my own ways. Below are some of my favorite pieces.

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Retrospective of Alexander McQueen

The Costume Institute is showing a retrospective of Alexander McQueen's greatest pieces. Below are some photos accompanied by commentary from Sarah Burton.

WIDOWS OF CULLODEN, FALL 2006

“The collection was about the 1745 massacre of the Scottish Jacobites by the English, which Lee felt so passionately about because of his Scottish family heritage, which his mother had researched. The women were the widows of the slaughtered army. This dress was actually based on my wedding dress—I got married two years earlier. We had to figure out how to make lace work in the round with those ruffles because Lee hated gathering. So we cut out all of the flowers from the lace and reappliquéd it on tulle to make our own fabric. This is the collection most people remember as the one with Kate Moss in a hologram. Oh, my God, it was so beautiful. He loved that show.”

VOSS, SPRING 2001

“So much of this show was about the collective madness of the world. It was presented in a two-way mirrored glass box in London, and the girls had bandaged heads, acting like inmates of a mental asylum. Lee wanted the top of this dress to be made from surgical slides used for hospital specimens, which we found in a medical-supply shop on Wigmore Street. Then we hand-painted them red, drilled holes in each one, and sewed them on so they looked like paillettes. We hand-painted white ostrich feathers and dip-dyed each one to layer in the skirt.”

NUMBER 13, SPRING 1999

“This was from the amazing show in London where Shalom Harlow stood on a turntable and was spray-painted by robots. This particular look was made from wood to form the shape of a fan: It was all about the craftsmanship. The wooden wings were in this show, too, and the prosthetic legs he had carved for Aimee Mullins, who walked in the show. That was so moving. There were so many ideas in there. Each of his shows was like ten of anyone else’s.”

SARABANDE, SPRING 2007

“The collection was based on Handel’s ‘Sarabande’ in the film Barry Lyndon. It was held in the round at the Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione in Paris, with classical musicians playing onstage under a giant chandelier. This dress had fresh flowers on it. We put them on just before she went out, and they started to fall off one by one as she walked. I remember people saying Lee timed it. We had a laugh about that. It was an accident!"

IT’S ONLY A GAME, SPRING 2005

“All the girls were dressed as chess pieces, and the show was choreographed as a chess game. It was about the chessboard of fashion. Lee did have foresight and a sense of humor! This is one of the two horse pieces. He made it by commissioning Steve Powell, a hospital prosthetics expert, to make the body. And the horsetails were from the same suppliers who make the plumes for the queen’s Royal Horse Guards.”

VOSS, SPRING 2001

“This is a straitjacket, a kimono with the sleeves strapped around the back, embroidered with raised birds and flowers, and the flowers on the hat were real. I saved all the showpieces from every collection because I’m an obsessive, obsessive hoarder. Sometimes Lee would look at them again, just to remember what he’d done with something. It was his dictionary he was building, really.”

R.I.P Alexander McQueen (1969-2010)
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