HC @ the Design Museum

These are some of my favorites from Hussein Chalayans' retrospect at the Design Museum in London last year. It is art and technology in its best joint effort.

Manifest Destiny (SS03)

Kinship Journies (AW03)

Genometrics (AW 05)

Airborne (AW07)

Inertia (SS09)

Etienne Aigner

Vintage bags by Aigner. Classic, artsy, worn in and cozy. Mr. Aigner started making his staple leather goods in Paris about the same time of Diors' rising. Once the European market had been showered with bags, shoes, belts and wallets in the classic burgundy and "A" symbol, the company came State side. Aigner bags are still in production in a variety of updated colors. The company is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a "Vintage Collection", but if you ask me the oldies are the goodies. I got mine for $6 at a thrift store on South St.

Vamos a Mexico

Lanvin Resort 2010

It's like the Rum Diary, but very chic, and without HST. Alber Elbaz apparently got his inspiration for Lanvins 2010 Resort collection from Acapulco. I wouldn't exactly pin it as coastal Mexico but it does certainly have a South American feel. MANY of the individual pieces are amazing ( floor grazing airy dresses, the white blazer and everything in the silver sequined fabric...) but the most wonderful thing about this collection is how it was styled for these shots. Even the more basic pieces look like a dream in combination with the bright accessories, hats, and smiling, prancing models. The barefoot girls are my favorites. Truly a Resort collection, it is everything I would want to pack on my (hypothetical) future vacation to South America. 4 countries in 6 weeks, perhaps. Oh yes, you also have RTW bridal. You know, just incase.

Great Expectations

I say this as if it were disputable: John Galliano is fantastic.

I'm in love and completely inspired, thinking of lush Dickens characters in great heaps of silk and taffeta, and opaque technicolor tights?! Amazing.

This is FW07, by the way.

Genius.

Completely Random

Found on my desk top from last nights vodka & sparatic style.com designer hunting get together....can anyone ID these looks?! If for no other reason than so I can find more....I think I did have the name of the photographer...but then my computer was made jukebox and all was lost. Vanessa and I will do nearly anything for the first outfit in its entirety!!

Hunter Dixon S/S 10

I'm just dying over this line!!! it's been a LOT of work over the past few weeks getting it ready....with fashion week going on as well...but the samples have come together perfectly and I'm just so pleased :)
Lindsey Cragg shot the entire line for us around Soho and the meatpacking district, hope you love as much as we do!
You can see the whole shoot on Lindseys' blog here: http://lindseybelleblog.com/fashion/