My 3rd post on the NYFW pictures from Style.com......and it's getting more apparent what the "trends" will be from the Big Apple.
I totally LOVE the entire shows by Behnaz Sarafpour and Derek Lam. So SO fabulous!!! I want everything!!! Now!.......
....but of course, there were many more yummy things out there:
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A deluge of lovely pictures from Style.com......a lot of Peter Som and Rag & Bone.
A lot of fur going on around necks, long lean legs with bulkier arms, rusty/dark reds, hints of scarlet, metallic hues of blue, grey and so on. Lots of black and white. I like this palette :)
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My girls and their men came round for dinner last night. On the menu:
STARTERS: Onion soup, blinis (blue cheese and jam, soft cheese and caviar)
MAINS: Seafood pie, basil beef, duck with orange sauce, pumpkin & potato salad, broccoli with sesame.
DESSERTS: Banoffee Pie 1.2, chocolate bread-&-butter pudding.
We drank a nice deep Beaujolais.
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Finally, a couple of seasons late and initially not in a size that I can even zip up. Beautifully balanced scarlet sleeves (a la sports coach), a tight bodice and waist rendered in black satin-like polyester, and a discrete little slit in front for walking.
I went a bit mad last week in town too. What did I score?
Nicely-military black wool trousers with a tux-line down the side, a dark blue angle-cut straight long boyfriend blazer to replace the Topshop one that had a brilliant shape but gawdawful fabric (which TORE), a pair of dull silver kitten-heeled buckle-toed work shoes, a pair of pointy dark blue and brown snakeskin flats to replace the ones that Bean stepped on (and killed) in a subway in Tokyo, a superbly-cut printed linen (linen!) off-white cheongsam with maroon flowers, a completely seamless slightly stretch black pencil skirt with a lovely thin brocade waistband, and (finally in stock!) Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer.
All this and the rest in the past month: a double-toned pink crew-neck slim-fit sweater, an ivory polyster pussy-bow blouse with carmine shoulders, red snakeskin pointy pumps, cross-strapped slightly rock n' roll platform stilettos, a dark marl grey cashmere twinset with white and seed-pearl trim, tea-green Herve Leger plunge-necked cocktail dress, asymmetrical Alexander Wang beige knitted dress.
I also threw out (gave away, not really threw out.....) perfectly wearable stuff that dated back from Uni days (which have been worn so many times in so many ways that they have gone negative in the price-per-wear logic of things). I kept a few items that have great sentimental value/emotional attachment, but by and large it was good to get old energy out of my wardrobe, and fill it with new zest.
Oh, did I mention the very large silver Balenciaga work tote that was on sale?
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My last entry made me think about a particular party question that Shay always ends up asking at dinners. It involves thinking about 5 members of the opposite sex that you think are hot. Brad Pitt appears to be a popular choice, as is Hugh Jackman.
Think mine would end up looking like this: Daniel Craig, Russell Crowe, Jeremy Renner, Ken Watanabe, Gerard Butler.
Do you see the trend? I didn't realise it until just now. I do like raisin-ey men, don't I? All hound-dog-faced. Certainly the antithesis of the pretty boy look. Hmm.
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If you are familiar enough with the life stories of the members of Duran Duran and the supermodels they cast here, you'd understand just how massively genius this thing is.
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It's 2am-ish right now, but it's the end of a night for me. Just finished doing a home facial that was sorely needed after an evening of mucking about in my oily kitchen. Why, you ask.
We had friends over for dinner: Ella, Lulu, Shay and their men. So what did I cook?
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The Alexander McQueen collection was so breath-taking - it is the 1st time that I've actually looked at images of a fashion show and shed tears. Oh, Lee. If you could only see her now. Every look was immense. Rodarte can't hold a candle to this detail, nor anyone else to the cut and proportion. I'm palpitating.
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