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Eye On Design: Silk Macrame Dress By Gabriela Hearst for Chloé

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Chloé’s recent creative directors have been Natasha Ramsey and Gabriela Hearst (2020 – 2023). Both women reflect on the cycles of fashion, returning to past styles in ways that explore the richness of the brand’s heritage, as well as the ethics of reuse.

Hearst has renewed Chloé’s bohemian seventies spirit, bringing back maxi dresses, ponchos, and earthy colors, and reviving the environmentalist ethos of that decade.
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Chic and Comfortable Everyday Fashion

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In the world of fashion, there’s a fine line between looking like a runway model and feeling like you’re wrapped up in your favorite blanket. Who says you can’t have it both ways? We’re diving into the world of style that lets you make an entrance while being in absolute comfort.
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Eye On Design: Breakfast Dress By Stephen Adnitt

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1.5 million cans of Heinz Baked Beans are sold every day in the UK. Australian comic Barry Humphries wore this Breakfast Dress (1997), by costume designer Stephen Adnitt  for Dame Edna’s Work Experience, a TV series in which his alter ego Dame Edna Everage toured UK factories.
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Eye On Design: Christopher Kane, Pansy Dress

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This whimsical silk dress Pansy Dress (2017)  is composed of giant images of pansies. The pansy is a flower’s unique blends of color are a result of crossbreeding, a concept not lost on Scottish fashion designer Christopher Kane. Cain once remarked, “that’s what I am doing now – cross breeding my ideas . . . Pansies are a symbol of freethinking! I like that. I never want to follow trends.”

christopher kane pansy dress photo by gail worley

Photographed as Part of 2017 Exhibit, Force of Nature, at The Museum at FIT in NYC.

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How To Build A Capsule Wardrobe That Represents Your Style

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As we continue into 2022 with the hope that we will be able to venture out freely, walk into our offices and attend social events, the one thing we need to focus on is our wardrobe. For many of us, the pandemic put an end to our social life and we stopped spending money on our clothes. But now it’s time to simplify our lives and get things in order — this means working on an updated wardrobe. If you are a minimalist and don’t like an overflowing closet, you may want to consider building a capsule wardrobe. Continue reading How To Build A Capsule Wardrobe That Represents Your Style →