tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327472562011-04-21T13:13:49.583-07:00Rescuing Chicagoans from a Fashion Black HoleMadame Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562395941666898363noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32747256.post-1162439786883488692006-11-01T19:35:00.000-08:002006-12-06T11:55:19.353-08:00

My most recent obsession is with Peter Som's Spring '07 line. Som has been on the scene for sometime, but has in these past few years, upon gaining recognition in the Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund Initiative as one of the top ten finalists.I was flipping through my November Vogue, reading Life With Andre who wrote a good 300 on Mr. Som's work and I became enthralled by the ethereal beauty of his

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cos*tume  /n. Pronunciation[n. kos-toom, -tyoom; v. ko-stoom, -styoom] Pronunciation Key -–noun1.a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, esp. that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.2.dress or garb characteristic of another period, place, person, etc., as worn on the stage or at balls.3.fashion of dress appropriate to a particular occasion or season: dancing

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Oh Chicago, we knew it was coming and in true midwest fashion, it was by suprise...SNOW! (and inevitably winter).Although I'm a big fan of the summer months, one thing I always miss is my outerwear. I love getting bundled up and picking out my coat or vest and a whatever scarf/hat/glove combination suits my mood. I look at winter as another opportunity to accessorize!One of my best friends once

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My friends, I have been remiss. Fashion Week has passed and I have said nothing.BUT...that doesn't mean I haven't been paying attention....Things I'm loving:De la Renta: I could just wallpaper this post with his spring line. As opposed to the contorted silhouettes he gave us this fall, all of this clothes are beautiful and look extremely easy to wear. Classic skirts and summer dresses floated

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So, I just wanted to do a little pre-projrun post. And I just want to express my love for a certain contestant...named Jeffery.My friends laugh at me, because I always seem to side with the badasses in this competition. Don't get me wrong, I love the Danny V's and Michael Knights, but my heart goes out to the Santinos and Jeffreys (ProjRun, overproduced much?).I couldn't have loved Jeffrey's

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I went to the club this weekend. I just say that I went to the club because it doesn't matter where it was, it was a club, in Chicago, which is not saying much. I'm not a big clubber; house music, over priced drinks, and hyper- muscular guys in tight oxfords are typically not my bag. I do not want to date a tanorexic man. No thank you!While at the club, I began to think to myself about the

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I was contemplating writing this blog on the insaney of fashion's current anachronism when I came across the most beautiful and fun fashion spread I've seen this fall. Interview Magazine is great. It is a cultural completist's dream, full of music, literature, film, and fashion's biggest and smallest stars, served up in a sexy, avante-gard manner. To the point my darlings, I was flipping

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Dear Chicago,My eyes hurt!!!!Today, i saw a gold, sequined fanny pack! OUCH!I also saw, a lady who was not skinny enough to squeeze into skinny pants. FAT GIRL IN SOME SKINNY PANTS!Please remember my friends, that being trendy and being stylish are two different things. We all love looking at the beautiful models whose thighs don't touch rocking the trends, but if your body doesn't fit it,

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At the beginning of each new shopping season I like to make a list. A list of things I feel I need to be the stylin' maven' that I fancy myself to be. First I preshop, to see what it is that I want, I usually just head down to Michigan Ave. and browse away.Pre-poverty, this was much more careless, but this year, in light of recent tragedies (see last post), I am sitting down and making a shopping

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My spirit was killed a little bit today by a Paul and Joe, white, leather jacket.I know you all know I'm working on a budget over here, a budget that doesn't include the funds for a $139 white leather, ruffeled collar, motorcyle jacket.At TARGET! Aren't they supposed to be a place where I can buy a $50 white leather, Paul and Joe motorcycle jacket?It was love at first sight. I tried it on

Madame Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562395941666898363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32747256.post-1156730668236087242006-08-27T17:56:00.000-07:002006-08-27T19:57:49.350-07:00

As I was busy resisting my urge to do a flip by flip of the fall Vogue here on Mode-us, I instead contemplated Balenciaga and Oscar de la Renta's fall lines. With structured tulip skirts from Balenciaga and 19th century updates at de la Renta, what I want to know is this: when does fashion become to haute to handle?On one hand, I love the whimsey of these lines. They are costume-like in fit

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This weekend while paying a visit to my family at our lakehouse in Michigan I got to take in my little sis' Teen Vogue, Fashion Rocks insert. As a fashion enthusiast and an avid music appreciator, I was more than excited to take in a combination of the objects of my cultural lust.It seems to me that since musicians have had the publicity to become cultural icons, they have been setting fashion

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I'm doing some clandestine blogging at work. I love it. I was just telling my 40 year old, gay co-worker about my blog. He said Chicagoans aren't fashionable because we're fat. It's true. Then we counted, out of ten people that walked by the window, how many were overweight, and there were only two. Who knows, maybe we're wrong. But, what I do know, is that I sit in front of two big picture

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This fall's hottest trend, Skinny pants, is oh so fun, and oh so intimidating. I'm not usually a fan of material clinging to my leg from waist to ankle, but this take off of last winter's cigarette jean is to chic to poo poo. They make me think of Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face. Enough said.As with most trends, Skinny pants are not meant for all, and there are rules. These pants are not to be "

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After being in France for Project Runway Season 1, you can imagine my excitement in discovering what I had missed in the character rich Season 2! I'm now hosting weekly "Project Run-day" parties where my friends and I sit glued to the television, holding our breaths for commercial breaks and between gulps of what I wish I could say were Martinis or something a little chicer, but is actually Bud

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For the past few weeks I've been thinking about beginning this blog. As far as major US cities go, Chicago seems to be a fashion blackhole (I mean we have ikram, which is apparently fabulous, though I'm not sold). Despite this fact, there seem to be an appreciating number of people who really care about fashion in this city. I have come up with several reasons for why we are a black hole and it

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