When it comes to pushing fashion into the future, no one did it quite like Pierre Cardin. This week’s Pink Thing is a striking Pink Silk Jersey Jumpsuit from 2008, a perfect example of the late designer’s lifelong devotion to bold form, saturated color, and theatrical flair. With its sweeping batwing sleeves, tapered legs, and shimmering black fringe at the neckline and cuffs, this jumpsuit transforms the body into a living sculpture. Continue reading Pink Thing of the Day: Pierre Cardin’s Silk Jersey Jumpsuit→
This Dolce & Gabbana silk dress from Spring 2017 celebrates pasta as an internationally recognized symbol of Italian identity. Food motives have been part of Dolce & Gabbana’s design since the 1990s. Most recently, the pair have made use of produce, gelato, and cannoli prints, reinforcing the connection between Italian food and fashion as parts of La Dolce Vita. Continue reading Eye On Design: Dolce & Gabbana Pasta Print Silk Dress→
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.
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.”
Photographed as Part of 2017 Exhibit, Force of Nature, at The Museum at FIT in NYC.
I was Christmas shopping at a Nordstrom in midtown when I spied this fantastic silk men’s shirt with the likeness of actress Sissy Spacek as Stephen King’s ill-fated Prom Queen, Carrie (from the eponymous 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma). A little Googling reveals this shirt to be from designer JW Anderson‘s Fall/Winter 2022 Carrie Collection — because of course it is! Continue reading Carrie Collection Silk Shirt by JW Anderson→
