Letter and style

Dear Charles,

You must know that the wintertime is not an easiest time for a girl that doesn’t pick a first pair of jean and sweater when she is dressing up. I was never good at that. Thick layers of winter clothes are making me sometimes totally sad because I don’t want to look like I suffered the bees attack. So I just felt like I have to write you a few words to describe how you brought joy to my upcoming fall.
Charles my dear, with your double-breasted princess coat you gave me hope because the length and fabric is just perfect defense against harsh and windy wintertime and silhouette is practical for wearing layers. With French cleanness, which you obviously know perfectly because, of course, you are a Frenchman, that coat also has a great dose of romance that you can feel only if you are fairytale lover. I bet that Alice wouldn’t take it off on the cold days in wonderland. And about the dresses, I have a confession to make; You know what a girl needs when she invests in a good dress? Option to be a creature of the light and of the night. With the dresses like the velvet one with flower appliques and the tunic dress in ivory silk, seems you somehow knew that, didn’t you? Anyway who still buys the dress that is evening solely? Furthermore, I adored that floor-length ivory dress with high waistline (again aesthetic but purely romantic) and that sheer top with embellished Peter Pan collar with velvet pants. Talking about velvet I hope that Alexa wasn’t the one that was inspiration for rust jumpsuit instead of me. And please tell me how did you know that I plan to escape to New Zealand in the future? Would it be totally inappropriate to explore gardens in that little silky romper with those cute frills on the hem?
I am glad that you design for a girl that likes to borrow from some old lost times and is immune on trend in amount that demands the mature style. Your collection dear Charles of mine is for a grown up girl that does everything what adults in big world usually do. But sometimes that girl survives the reality by closing her eyes. Did you know that is not a very complicated way to find yourself in some other place and time? One, two, three…and when you count to nine, you disappear in shine. And when you blink harder you are all of sudden among the clouds. Pik-Pik…you hear the sound, and it isn’t talk of the clouds. They don’t produce that terrible sound. Why people are impatient like that? Do they know there’s no way to land in the short time, if you want to avoid the harsh fall? How crazy and impossible would be to get off the cloud in a blink of an eye?

Yours truly,
moi

SEE COMPLETE CHARLES ANASTASE FALL 2011 READY -TO- WEAR COLLECTION AT STYLE.COM
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fashion, week, street and style

With one more New York Fashion Week, somehow comes to mind that we like stability. Stability in this case gives to us a beautiful and not so beautiful clothes and tons of celebrities, most of them looking phony dressed in clothes by designers in whose front row they are sitting in. Fashion is business, a business that is forth-largest industry globally and somehow that $500 billion worth thing brings joy and fun. And there was no lack of joy this year in New York. Besides everyone gossips about Alt-Roitfeld failed friendship, Terry Richardson is hugging Emanuelle. Julia Frakes had a problem with dishwasher 10 minutes before the Karen Walker show and fellow brygger has some serious jungle issues. Grace Coddington assiduously takes notes while her boss looks like she is bored to death, as usual. Flamboyant, cool and unique Miss Elson and the rest of the clique gathered around 3W (Wasson, Waris and Wang) are still the ones that have most fun.
And what is splendid is the fact that you can see all this even if you are miles away from New York. Those that are enabling this are tons of PP (party photographers) and SSP (street style photographers) and specialties of the week are certainly street style photos. But sometimes I question myself is it unfair or if not perverted that we are more into stalking the pretty people rather than the pretty clothes. On this issue I found the like-minded, Carine Roitfeld, who herself creates lot of buzz. She told Style.com’s Dirk Standen; “It’s true that, when you go to a show now, the photographers are more interested sometimes in the dress or the jacket you’re wearing than to photograph the show, and I think this is totally wrong. It’s an honor and you smile to the people. But is it normal? I think there is something a bit weird, that more people want to see these looks than want to see what John Galliano or Dolce & Gabbana did for the show.”
After all it’s not easy in the times when begins the end of cold winter trauma and you are more into thinking about short sleeves, to be a prophet. For that, I believe you have to have a little something in your head. Does today’s society appreciate that?

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3.1 Phillip Lim pants, net-a-porter; vintage Chanel woolen coat, Atelier Mayer; 3.1 Phillip Lim ivory blouse, net-a-porter; top in point d'esprit mood, modcloth; vintage Balenciaga fur bolero, Atelier Mayer; Marni purple suede sandals, net-a-porter; blue feather, Atelier Mayer; YSL 70s paisley dress, Atelier Mayer ; Elsa Schiaparelli coat, Atelier Mayer; Lanvin flats

Karl and Couture

In this superficial surrounding of what we call our world, very often we judge text by headline, thing by appearance, person by look, book by cover. So our little minds sometimes are seriously surprised how things can change in the opposite way. But when the cover is Chanel one, we are never concerned about content, because Chanel prose never fails to impress us. Karl Lagerfeld somehow knows what he is doing to enrich its contents, no matter if it is ready to wear or haute couture. If nothing, at least he has an exceptional power to make regular person even if cannot afford awfully pricey clothes made to measure, happy. So just looking sometimes at bonny images can make a girl delighted about upcoming season and more rays of sunshine. That light in summer and spring days would reflect on Chanel clothes divinely. In those times, some lady will be truly lucky cause with few spare pennies she might become Sirona, the star goddess. To others remains inspiration and peek into this shimmering world filled with fluid fabrics. And the color of that world can be without hesitation named a pastel dream. Less like Popsicle, more like pensive reflection of vintage illustrated advert from some old vogue from beginning of the last century that lays somewhere hidden. If the color reminds you on that, that truly is not just the pure coincidence: he tried really to evoke that. Furthermore his intention was to bring, or better to say make some kind of fusion between Marie Laurencin’s expression of Paris in early years of twentieth century and today’s modern silhouette. Karl points out that shape and attitude is strictly for today. So faded colors of Marie paintings as pastel pink, mauve blue, grey and black, found a perfect ally in delightful fabrics and cuts. Karl enlivened the years of Lurencin work when she was a close friend of Nicole Groult, sister of fashion visionary Poiret, in a magical way. Some people just know how to be masters in connecting contemporary and tradition, without disgracing the original moment.

Mood of dreamy colors that was closed by Kristen McMenamy as the bride was opened with bit rigid silhouette, coat that has trapeze cut and short-sleeved dress that is boxy. Like a sculptor he transparently and slowly changes shape. That’s what I like from Karl and people who are working on Chanel shows. There are no breaks. Breaks as I called them are to hate. Continuums are to love. Continuum as the part of changing and development when the skirt becomes casual but the bodice is still bit rigid or when the edges on heavy silk become soft and romantic. And when everything becomes floating you get an impression of falling stardust. "Nonchalance in couture is very important. Couture without nonchalance is just drag queen attitude of women of an era past that I hope will never come back", says Karl.

I must admit styling of few outfits with pants and jeans doesn’t actually fit in my idea of tunic and tulle solely over the leg, but Karl says that modern Chanel girl wears trimmed jacket with jeans. And on the flats as an eternal flat lover have to agree with him. Karl believes he is tired of seeing all those girls walking in high heels so simple and elegant pointed flats were almost invisible and didn’t distract attention from the clothes. How else we could notice all the details and embroidery provided with high level of workmanship that demands neat hands, lot of patience and knowledge. One of those skilled people with lot of patience is Mdm Pouzieux that waves braided trim on Chanel couture garments. She works alone and is not keen on revealing the secrets of her craft. At the end, do we really need to know everything? Some things are just sacred. So is couture.