Just finished reading the Versace article and found it to be a good read. I've heard about all that was going on with the company. The family resisting change, the decline of the brand. I always thought the brand was doing good because J Lo wore that gown and everyone went nuts, but then again that was many many moons ago.
Glad to hear that Allegra is studying at Brown.
It's interesting that Missoni, also family ran is doing great. #versace
Kate Moss and I: both squinting as we trim our bangs in the mirror. Kate, I like to spread out a plastic trash bag over the sink first, as "the help" (Mr. Leucadia) dislikes wiping up wet bang fragments. #versace
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: "Ed Hardy Uggs" You've rendered me speechless... And let me tell you, that is quite a feat! Actually, I'm still hoping you're playing a cruel trick on us. Ed Hardy Uggs, Really? #versace
@Being pecked to death by a chicken: Really. I live in TEXAS and saw some at Macy's. I snapped a cell picture to prove it to passerby but it is unneeded, BEHOLD!
I looked up photos from Pakistan Fashion Week after seeing the ones that were posted on here, and I gotta say, those are some of the most beautiful women and clothes I'v ever seen. Makes me sad that many of us associate Pakistan with poverty and terrorism and kind of overlook the beauty and the culture. #ragtrade
Granted, I don't work for a luxury fashion house, but the story of Versace very much mirrors what has happened at my company. We've seen countless executives brought in, in an attempt to rein in our spazzy, crazy CEO. It just goes to show that resisting change, refusing to evolve and failing to think creatively about your business will fuck you in the end. And also forgetting that 2, 5, 10 heads are better than one.
The Versace fall has been a long time coming, but it's been really interesting, for me, to watch which retailers and apparel lines have failed and flourished during the past few years, and why.
I read that news about Moises de la Renta and giggled to myself, imagining that Chris Kattan's Mango character from SNL was an actual person with his own private designer. #ragtrade
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I am no expert but I think they have been back for a couple of years. Go right ahead! Don't take your fashion advice from someone else's small children! #ragtrade
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Oh capes are DEFINITELY back, I saw one in Ann Taylor Loft the other day, and one in Club Monaco. And I'm pretty sure I saw one in J. Crew too. #ragtrade
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I love capes and would love to have one if only I could solve the handbag situation. You're forced to have it dangle on your arm or hold it in your hand and my bags are way too heavy for that, Also, I need both hands. You know, for stuff. #versace
@BlondeGoddess: I have a similar problem with hats. I love wearing hats in the winter, like real structured wool felt hats, but once you put it on you're kind of committed to wearing it. Without a coat check, you can hang up your coat and scarf or wad them up somewhere, but I always end up with a hat sort of awkwardly sitting on my lap. Very awkward in crowded restaurants and such.
I think the sort of ladies who wear hats would know what to do with them, and are too elegant to be wadding up coats anyway. #versace
@Leucadia: You know, I once went to the Ritz Cafe in Boston for lunch with a (much better heeled) friend, and it was late winter. I checked my coat, and the coat-check person asked my name and greeted me by name when I came to pick it up, and immediately brought the right coat without a tag. It was like a window into a much more fabulous world where I had a discrete identity to strangers. That was years and years ago, and I have never forgotten it.
Which is just a long-winded way of saying that I too am into hats, and the more structured designs and high-quality fabrics and accessories of yore. #versace
Carine Roitfeld is the nastiest creature I have ever had the occasion to meet, and that beats out Anna and Nancy Reagan--who are both simply demanding and rightly so. Roitfeld's style has been the same for two decades--Tom Ford was marketing it in 1995--and what is interesting about being dressed completely in black, unless its Yohji or Issey circa 1983? Skinny trousers and high heels and a big overcoat is style? Then streetwalkers have it in spades.
I love both Carine and Anna. However, it bugs me that Anna gets so much flack for her less-than-charitable comments (e.g., many people in the Midwest are like "little houses") when Carine also regularly says things like "jeans are for assistants," "all the girl who work at French Vogue are very skinny and beautiful," and "You think this [trip] will be so glamorous ... and then you get there and the people in the hotel … There were lots of people who were so fat."
I also dislike when journalists pit these two women against each other by suggesting
Anna is old. Wintour is 60. Roitfeld is 55.
In any case, as much as I agree that American Vogue has been repetitive of late, I really don't want to see it become French Vogue. Anna's days at the helm may be dwindling, but I do think the woman deserves respect.
And for the record, I like the designer "whole looks" editorials that are Anna's signature.
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Glad to hear that Allegra is studying at Brown.
It's interesting that Missoni, also family ran is doing great. #versace
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The Versace fall has been a long time coming, but it's been really interesting, for me, to watch which retailers and apparel lines have failed and flourished during the past few years, and why.
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When I read this the first thing I thought of was Mango, that weird SNL monkey character Chris Kattan used to play.
I would actually be very interested in seeing that clothing line. #ragtrade
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Oooh right! Okay than I would like a collaborative clothing line from the two. Simian/Stripper wear! #versace
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Stop it! I already like you too much!
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Great minds! #versace
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I think the sort of ladies who wear hats would know what to do with them, and are too elegant to be wadding up coats anyway. #versace
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Which is just a long-winded way of saying that I too am into hats, and the more structured designs and high-quality fabrics and accessories of yore. #versace
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I also dislike when journalists pit these two women against each other by suggesting
Anna is old. Wintour is 60. Roitfeld is 55.
In any case, as much as I agree that American Vogue has been repetitive of late, I really don't want to see it become French Vogue. Anna's days at the helm may be dwindling, but I do think the woman deserves respect.
And for the record, I like the designer "whole looks" editorials that are Anna's signature.