i mean

So..confused..WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU GETTING AT HERE?

This must be a thinly veiled sexual reference 4 billion times over, but..I'm missing it?
Please, be more EXPLICIT next time, Mr Jacobs. Subtlety is for lightweights !

page turners

The internets are afire this week with talk of the new Spring/Summer 2010 campaigns...Bloggas be all excited bout them but fashion houses be all pissed at us? For posting pics? I am confused...it's free advertising and it is usually a LOVEFEST and all those ads'll be out in February mags right about now ANYWAYS...right? Right.

Well, controversey be damned here are some of my faves of what I have internets stalked so far:

BALENCIAGA / STEVEN MEISEL

Correct me if I am wrong, but (unless I have the credit info wrong) David Sims has shot the Balenciaga ads for years...Why the switch to Meisel this season, I wonder? I will assume they have kept M/M Paris on as the campaign designers (as they have for years) cuz this seems about their weirdness level (see any and all Stella McCartney ads for reference). I dig it though, if only cuz it is something unique in the sea of samesamesameyness that is the front third of most fashion magazines.

LANVIN / STEVEN MEISEL

The ads for Lanvin are always...CHALLENGING, shall we say? Remember the Bratz-like giant eyeballs? This ad is straight up UNCOMFORTABLE, but I find something fascinating in that.

Perhaps wearing Lanvin throws you into a full body orgasm. I would suspect that this is TRUE, although I have yet to have had the pleasure of Alber's creations on mah skin...Lemme try adn rectify that sitchernation and get back to ya.

CHANEL / KARL LAGERFELD (DUH)

Is that hat for sale? Because I need it. WHAT I ALSO NEED is Claudia Schiffer's pact with the devil/goblet of water from the Tuck Everlasting fountain. Last I checked bitch was 40. She looks 19. CALL ME, CLAUDIA.

GIVENCHY / MERT & MARCUS

They coulda done whaaaatevaaahhhh they wanted for this ad, I would been all for it. I LOVE THIS COLLECTION. I WANT TO WEAR TRIBAL ZIGZAGZ ALL OVER MY BODY ALL DAY LONG. Totally loving the logo treatment as well; it's like the logo for LOVE mag, which I know is controversial aesthetically for a lot of people but I am a champion of UGLY AMAZING and so I love it.

ALEXANDER WANG / FABIEN BARON

This is the first time I have ever been WANG RABID (hey wait, getyr mind outta the gutter!) in my life, readers of this blog know I am not usually a fan. But this sweatshirt MIGHT improve my life by like, 487%, I am pretty sure. Also (as I posted during fashion week) sidebraids are the new jam. And my supercrush Fabbyfabs is tops, obvs.

LOUIS VUITTON / STEVEN MEISEL

Bike shorts n clogs! Bike shorts n CLOGGZZZZZZZZ! I won't focus on the fact that this looks sorta like a grisly but CHIC murder scene discovery out of an episode of CSI:VOGUE, where they solve FASHIONABLE MURDERS with CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY (the head detectives are played by André Leon Tally and Grace Coddington). I will just focus on BIKE SHORTS N CLOGZZZZZ!

PRADA / STEVEN MEISEL

I know I am in a cold lonely dark room in enjoying this collection as much as I do, but I feel like it falls under my aforementioned UGLY AWESOME rubric. CLEAR PLASTIC & VELCRO on everythin, let's do it, I dig it. And orange lips are a look I like to rock myself, so thumbs up right there.

MARC JACOBS / JUERGEN TELLER

She's standing in a toilet. I mean. You've got my attention. (The End).

OVERALL SIDENOTE:
Can we talk about Steven Meisel for a second? Dude has the market CORNERRRRRRED on ad campaigns. Kinda crazy, right?

all pics from tfs

i need new ways to say GIMME THAT

i hope you weren't so put off by the weird furry neo-uggs and questionable use of a cavaricci-esque pant so as to miss the BEST THING ABOUT LOUIS VUITTON (save the afros, doy):


LOUIS VUITTON S/S 2010

these hairytail JANGLEBAGS are my new EVERYTHING.

GIANT JANGLES THAT HAPPEN TO BE BAGS!
they can hold things, but not too many things. flat things. like your phone and some necco wafers, no cash though because you spent it all on giant racoontailz.

DEAR MARC JACOBS, PLEASE SEND ME ONE...please?

pam grier, dat chu?

oh my holy mother of hair


LOUIS VUITTON S/S 2010

god DAMN i cannot wait to see this whole collection.
besides wanting to be a redhead (which may happen in a few weeks...) i have ALWAYS wanted a lauryn hill/coffy afro !





COFFY IS SOME HOT SHIT, BITCHES



still the best hairdid of all timessssssss !

now you know

lest any of you were thinking, as i overheard perez saying after the marc show, that the collection was "totally wearable" (???)..i just wanted to give you a heads up on look #15, which from your computer screen may seem like a demure anklelength sweaterdress...



...but is, in fact, a cashmere ass cooler.

still "wearable" perhaps, but not to the same places you may have thought.



i am only trying to help you, it's because i care!

maybe fashion makes the baby jesus cry

NY FW, DAY TWO.

dudes..new york is WET.
not like, andrew WK I GET WET, more like some sort of temperate slow and steady chinese water torture. it makes trying to look DECENT like, sooooo much fun, REALLY.



and so, this is how it went.
slow & steady wins the race black leather pocket tee (cut to croptop, SO much doper), jonathan saunders for target pyschedelia skirt, marc jacobs richard prince-y naughty nurse shoes.

GOLD STARS for susie bubble who pretty much correctly guessed my outfit while we (me, tavi, laia, kat, susie) waited for cushnie et ochs to begin yesterday.

SIDENOTE: the aforementioned black leather tee was molested by a crazy person at my herrrr salon yesterday, i was like who are YOU...i realized who he was when i saw his MARC JACOBS logo tattoo, this dude:



merc's ex, jason preston?
dude is locobananas, if you were wondering.

pps i miss this marc

nothing really happens in my secret life

fun with fashion, V mag peel off sunglasses edition!
WHO WORE IT BEST?

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta:



olga:



david byrne ?



charlize?



ScarJo?



anthony kiedis?



white lights?
i tried and failed, colorforms don't stick to pasty white faces too well. mabes that's why ga is so TANNED UP on the cover:



not...really...working....



fuck it, stick it to the mirror and make a hairbow outta that shit. we call this CREATIVITY and HOMAGE. (my parents would call this 'do you have a job yet')



ps white lightning tee in the house! I LOVE IT SO MUCH. duhvs, already made it a croptop

stickerface

STOP IT ALL RIGHT NOW:



those sunglasses PEEL OFF HER FACE so you can stick them ON YOUR FACE.

i'm gonna walk around like that, dare me.

ps, the press realease says AVAILABLE SEPT 1, which is TODAY, which means sept-never in portland. my cab from the airport is going STRAIGHT to my mag store on 4th & A.

pps outfit credits ON COVER is soooo p i m p

i can feel the hysteria, even on the west coast

marc jacobs talks after partayyys over at the cut:

"We’re doing it with Visionaire and we’re doing it for Lady Gaga"

obviarse.
i mean, DUH DUH DUH. why she isn't starring in the MJ FW 09/10 campaign is BEYOND ME!

so fashion is JUST now accepting gagagagagaglunacy as SO DOPE, is it awesome or a bummersville that she can get the real things and mabes doesn't need to crafternoonitize a headpiece and leotard for her daily coffee run? unclear.

btdubs, "doin it for lady gaga" is my new mantra

books are heavy

i finally, FINALLY got the juergen teller marc jacobs book i ordered a YEAR ago, it got sent to tsent to my old job, then i was on the ROAD, then fedexed here, etc etc..so here, here it is. yesssssssssss!



STEPHEN MALKMUS! can we bring together any more of my favorite things in one place, MABES NOT POSS.

still one of the BEST ever:



dakota fanning, such an epic moment.
supposedly they made the whole collection tinysized for her for this.

so many good ones: naked sofia in a pool, crazy winona, harmony korine, thurston&kim&coco, stella tennant in gold glitter, cole mohr doing bryanboy, jarvis on a bike...

ps, this book is about ohhhh ummm 400 pounds? dannnngggggg.

juergen teller: marc jacobs advertising 1998- 2009

heart explosions

STOP YOURSELVES FROM A FREAK OUT, JUST TRY:



marc jacobs, you lil heartpalpitating crotchthrobber you!
can you STAND IT?!
sorry, can't talk, falling in love with a photo from 16 yrs ago of a gay man with prettier hair than mine.

also, i am beyond jealous of his eyebrow game..i want MINE to look like YOURS.

1993 perry ellis era marc, WHITE LIGHTNING SALUTES (and wants to make out with) YOU.

(picture sent to me by steve via fashinfags)

that zebra carpet really challenged me

hoooolleeeeee shizbomb. forgive me, everyone. i have not gotten deep into the MET GALA slideshows until right now and i am kinda reeling. it was sort of the best one yet, mabes cuz i'd rather see models dolled up than lame actresses. that's just ME.

allow me to begin with the "kids, stay off of drugs" award which goes to...kate moss. or at least, this lady formerly known as kate moss:



it's kind of a bummer, isn't it?
upside: you look great marc! pants! novel!

speaking of fallen iconz..SOMEONE WAS AT THE LADY GAGA SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT (truefax) and is FEELING JEALLYBALLZ that she is not the #1 chameleon anymore:



mmmkayyyy madonna. mmkay. pokerface, we got it.
ps, gaga already wore those boots last week, sorrs.

more LV, in the most shocking of ways:



fucking crapballs, leighton. i am torn between OMFG, i toooootally wanna wear that TOO and uh..these pictures'll be around for a long time, know what ahm sayin? hmm. fencing it, fer now.

the SIT NEXT TO ME award goes to:



ALT. killing it, covering it, being it, living it.
wait is he smuggling someone in? is he fashion trojan horse? or the dread pirate roberts?
haahah. okay, i just cracked myself up.

MOVING ON.

i need to discuss this:



DR LISA, i applaud you. balmain gets one free pass from me and HERE IT IS.
question: what does she wear when you see her for a dermatologist appointment? avant shouldered white jackets with a rodarte legging? swarovski encrusted stethoscope? one would hope. FINGERS CROSSED.


debbie...is this a bea arthur tribute?


clogs? ANKLE? how racy!


what? no jangles? no color? no more mullet?
so low key, kan!! i was hopin for a crazy SOCK at least.


dear satan:
if i pledge my eternal soul to you CAN I LOOK 1/4 AS HOT AS DIANE VON FURSTERNBURG? at HALF her AGE? eva longoria looks so PTA mom next to DVF. top drawer, lady. love it.


AWESOME. (kristen mcmenamy! julien dy's!)


awesomer? (lacroix, sweetie!)


AWESOMEST.
"oh, this? vintage helmut lang. pants. messy ponytail. why? BECAUSE I AM STELLA TENNANT, DUDES. no more questions."


uh...i think jack white is kinda really hot. i feel uncomfortable admitting this. are you ok with it?

you know what else is making me uncomf? in a seriously fantastic way?



british boy(s).
oh. hello. hi.

did i miss anyone who was dopeshow?