Good afternoon, Wednesday. My day has been spent recalling many happy moments with David, and looking forward to many more. Of course, I've also been watching the shows from Fashion Week online, and I just love what I'm seeing from Ports 1961, a favorite designer of mine for its elegant clothes that are free of pretense or fuss.
As I've been nostalgic today because of the anniversary, I also started to think about my career, in all its various stages and iterations. I remember years ago when I worked in the trends world following every word Faith Popcorn, a woman reknowned for her trends work at the time, to see what we were all going to be like in the future. One of her most famous observations was a concept called "cocooning", where we would all focus on our homes and creating a safe environment from which to sleep, eat, work, and love. I can't help but feel this trend having a big resurgence not just because so many of us are freelancing or refocusing priorities amidst all of this talk of work/life balance, but because we're seeing it on the runways as well.
There's a new shape happening for Fall 2012 that stateside designers are serving up- and it feels much like a cocoon, a tulip, or an organic funneled form that is at once totally modern yet totally homespun. Lest you think this shape is dowdy or unflattering, fear not. We've spent years sucked into tight clothes and such, and perhaps it's time to loosen up and rethink what sensual means- perhaps it's not as obvious as a body con dress and it's more about warmth, comfort, safety, and pleasing to the senses. I am loving the colors of this collection (that deep green again has me knocked out, I can't get enough) and the shape of the silhouettes is exciting- perhaps these looks are better suited to a more mature audience, but take this shape and make it into a short, metallic dress and things can get pretty cute. In any event, we're all going to be wearing this look come Fall, so get used to it. As someone who is very much cocooning these days, I find these looks immensely reassuring that I am on the right track.
Cause that's what's up this newly shaped Wednesday in New York Citay, brought to you live from my very own cocoon in Brooklyn. XO