„The fashion magazine is the tried and tested means of communication that is integral to the chronology of fashion. From La Belle Assemblee, which displayed fashion plates to the gentry of the Regency period, to the 21st century EverManifesto, which only distributes its freeprint copies at fashion shows, the magazine has remained a touchstone between designers and public. The magazine must convey ideas of fashion to its readership but also, via its editors, stylists, models, photographers, has to contextualise these ideas within the zeitgeits of the time. For a Vogue
Iubesc perioada asta din an. Parca are mai multa substanta si traire decat primaverile, mai multa natura si umanitate decat iernile, mai multe nuante decat verile. Pentru mine este si o perioada in care devin, inevitabil, nostalgica, introspectiva si retrospectiva. Ma gandesc ca zilele de toamna sunt perioade in care constientizam cat ar trebui sa pretuim ceva ce stim ca va disparea curand: caldura soarelui, lumina de zi, weekendurile insorite, picnicurile si plimbarile, copacii inca infrunziti, galbenul si oranjul… Si asa amanam sa incaltam ciorapi grosi, amagindu-ne ca o botina
Exista rochii pe care le tii minte, pentru ca te-ai incrucisat cu ele – intr-un context sau altul – si iti sunt contemporane: rochia de mireasa a lui Kate Middleton, rochia Galaxy a lui Roland Mouret din toamna lui 2005, cea verde a Keirei Knightley in „Ispasire” sau cea Versace Couture, purtata de Sarah Jessica Parker in SATC. Pe altele le stii pentru ca sunt parte din istorie, sunt acele rochii iconice care au schimbat parcursul si estetica modei: prima rochie neagra creata de Coco Chanel in 1926, prima rochie
„What is it for a person to be cool? We use the word „cool” in a variety of ways: to indicate a low temperature, to signal general approval or to describe an emotional state or person’s temperament. Additionally, some people use the word „cool” a if it were synonymous with „fashionable”, and thus would claim that something s being cool is a matter of its being approved of by the relevant group. Yet it would be aesthetically naive to think that a person can count as cool merely in virtue
„One of the most perplexing aspects of fashion is its preoccupation with change, and hence with time. Its mutability is the point. Even those who take (or claim to take) no particular interest in clothes will, by accident or passivity, nonetheless go with the fashion flow. […] We can date old photographs by what people wore, how they styled their hair, the contours with which the women drew their mouths. If we were to propel ourselves back to the 1920s we would notice at once that there were only three
„The clothes you put on do not instantly make you the character you want to be. Clothes are a lifelong journey into aquiring an identity, an identity deliberately formulated, but also made by accident. You try on a tweed jacket and understand that is has connected with the part of yourself you scarcely knew about, which would like to go for a walk along a country road, with dogs. Or you put on a dress and discover in you the capacity to be quite lah-di-dah. And indeed, all cross-dressing is
Este devreme, devreme, devreme, dar imi beau deja cafeaua. Pentru ca sunt pe fuga: am de carat cateva sute de umerase pline cu haine, cutii cu pantofi, indescriptibil de multe accesorii, pungi si alte prostii, pe care le veti gasi frumos aranjate in gradina cu trandafiri de la Green Tea. Astazi acolo ma gasiti, aproape toata ziua (intre 11:00 – 17:00), cu garderoba mea scoasa la vanzare (daca nu stiti motivele, cititi posturile anterioare). E ca si cum ati rascoli prin dulapul meu – doar ca nu cel de azi-azi,
„The French, when they can’t remember something, blame it on a „hole in the memory”. Through the hole in my memory have passed not only the names of the people I met 10 minutes ago, the combination for the lock on my suitcase and the plots of Henry James’s novels, but also some inner sense of who I was at various times in my life. Looking over my shoulder, I regard whole chapters of my past as the misadventures of a stranger, though of course the stranger was me. A
„Pe urma a dat sa isi stranga parul. Despletit, ii mangaia fata si ii cadea in ochi. Si l-a ridicat in varful capului si si l-a sustinut cu cativa piepteni pe care i-a gasit pe perna, fara sa se mai pieptene… […] Razele diminetii intrau pe fereastra deschisa jucandu-se in mii de feluri pe peretele de vizavi, fluturi care se urmareau, ape care se rostogoleau in cascade, cercuri care se deformau, toate aurii. Razele cadeau si pe oglinda care stralucea aproape sa se sparga, pe camasa de noapte, pe cearceafurile
„Am mers intr-adevar drept de tot. Oraselul parea parasit, marea nu se vedea nicaieri, doar abia o boare care ma facea sa simt prezenta ei peste tot. „Lumea, atata cata e, trebuie sa fie la plaja, m-am gandit, iar localnicii, desigur, la treburile si gospodaria lor.” Simteam in aer toata vacanta, plina de fagaduieli.[…] Un vant sarat care mi-a amintit iar de Constanta si de copilaria mea, m-a oprit in loc. Ca o linie puternica la orizont, mi-a aparut marea, imensa, verzuie ca jadul si umflata ca o respiratie uriasa.