I let things slip for too long and they caught up with me. CUNY has forced me to settle some incompletes and raise my GPA or else they will drop me. This has been a setback towards my goal of being the next Oprah Winfrey/Charlie Rose/Larry King, but I have to take care of things in order to get ahead. I'm learning these things the hard way :-( . I'm going to continue to write on here in order to make some journalistic progress. I saw Marc Jacobs on Oprah yesterday and it really inspired me to pick myself up again and move on. He was talking about how his grunge collection in the 90's was a miss and caused him to be fired from Perry Ellis.
(Photo Courtesy of Oprah.com)
On another note I was reading about the fall collections today in the Times. I'm including several styles from Viktor and Rolf and other designers that I really LOVED or inspired me. This creativity really is wearable art. (All photos taken from nytimes.com)
This silver number is very cool and funky. I like the skirt. For some reason the skirt reminds me of those upside down tinfoil wrappers that people use to bake cupcakes and muffins.
This piece is much more wearable. Classic with a little funky detail of silver lining. I can see some funky "lady who lunches" wearing this outfit. I really like pieces that are versatile such as this one. The top would look great with some jeans or the skirt paired with a different colored top. In fact, the outfit really needs some color. Maybe a broach or scarf. A neutral color like grey really works with anything. Of course you always have to think about which color will be most flattering to the wearer's complexion.
Something about me likes this BERNHARD WILLHELM piece. The Cocoon shape is interesting and is really coming back and has manifested itself in many different forms as well as across many different brands. I always believe that one's personal style should reflect their personality and the right person could really carry off this piece despite its lack of versatility.
This Versace dress although not very avant garde is well made and eye catching. The color is amazing and fits the model wonderfully. I'm really glad the Classical look has not gone out of fashion. This dress made me think of the Goddess exhibit a couple years ago at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume institute and could have been included in that exhibit. Way to Go Donatella!! Maybe the rehab really did some wonders for the company. I read a piece in
W magazine recently about how she was inspired by the colors of the southwest from the Arizona or New Zealand center where she went for drug rehab. This blue certainly evokes that and makes me think of the sky in Georgia O' Keefe's paintings.
