Review Trois of Fashion Week

I think Nanette Lepore is my favorite collection so far. I don't really know what to say about it except that I loved it. The colors and the patterns and the fabrics and designs were all amazing. All things that I would actually wear that doesn't have to be worn to a red carpet event. Big win in my book!

Nanette Lepore

Marc Jacobs did everything BIG this year. Big bows, big accessories, big pieces, and big hair. When I say big, I mean HUGE. I'm not exactly a fan of that... yet. I also noticed that the length of the dresses has gotten longer also. In fashion we constantly go from short to long and back so I noticed that all of his dresses hit the girls in the mid-calf region. Maybe we're moving to longer skirts.

Marc Jacobs

I loved the patterns that Gwen Stefani picked for her L.A.M.B. collection. All of her pieces were spunky just like her but I really like them all. There were a lot of really cool/fun dresses.

L.A.M.B.

Really did not like Hervé Léger's collection this year. It had bizarre cutouts and puffs and slits and this outfit below sort of looks like she should be in space.

Hervé Léger by Max Azria

A special weekend present for you

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For Caroline

We received a request to find the perfect bathing suit for a girl who has a square figure, she's small on top, and a little bigger on the bottom. Our advice was for her to get a strapless bikini. Only girls who are smaller on top can really pull those off. If your girls are too big, they look like they are falling out and are being squished. Since she is worried about her bottom, we suggest a suit bottom with a type of frilly addition to the tradition suit. We searched, and found on shopbop these fabulous suits:






Hope this helps girl. And remember YOU can request fashion advice at: laplacard@gmail.com

My sincerest apologies

I just wanted to take a moment and say I'm truly sorry. When I first critiqued Marc Jacobs' Fall/Winter '09-'10 collection last September, I was more than a bit harsh. However, now that fall has come and gone and the snow is starting to melt I've come to realize that you were right Marc, you're always right. Not only do I have a new penchant for adding large amounts of neon to my wardrobe, but I've now found myself on a diet just so I can rock a crop top to spice up my boring leggings this spring. Without even realizing it until now, the very elements of your collection that made me think you had gone temporarily insane, are now staples in my closet. Low-and-behold you did it again. I'm sorry for ever doubting you.

I solemnly swear that I will never question you again.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth



Here's the old post I happened to stumble upon today...

Dear Marc Jacobs,
Each season I count on you to be my trusty fashion inspiration; but I feel like you've seriously let me down this time. I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around your new fall/winter collection, which awkwardly mixes trends, colors, styles and fabrics. It seems almost as if you got confused and sent some resort wear down the runway by mistake.

Why did you pair 80's-on-acid colors with dark astral accessories? At first, I thought everything was going to be ok , classic grey silhouettes, sleek pants, but alas! Pepto Bismal pinks and grass green with football shoulders? Come fall I'm craving the usual buttery brown leathers, deep purples, plaids, and wools; and I rely on you to show me how to wear them. But mixing Palm Beach Lilly Pulitzer with goth? It just seems so... wrong.

I was especially excited for your show this year when I heard that you chose Francois Nars to do makeup, but the metallic violet lips made your models look like space voyagers and not a throwback to "edgy 80's clubbing vixens", which you claimed was the look you were going for.

Marc, you've always been a fashion god to me, so who knows, maybe you see something that I don't. Its going to take more than one questionable collection for you to fall out of my good graces, so I guess I won't give up on you just yet...

Eagerly awaiting ready-to-wear,

xoxo











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