Hey, Friday...looking forward to a lovely weekend...friend in town so should be fun.
Fashion Week has reared its glammy head, with the big shows from the mega designers coming in the following days. I looked at all the shows from the past two days and was, well, unimpressed. BCBG did some weird turtlenecks under everything, and Steven Allen took the urban farming look to new heights, a look I am a bit over to be honest. Most interesting to me was Vena Cava, whose show notes had them going back into their Vogue repository from the 90s to shout out Azzedine Alaia, Donna Karan, and other big stars from that era. Let's be honest- the 90s were not super fashionable- not in my mind anyway. The only real moment I remember from that time was Tom Ford's insanely amazing collection for Gucci, with silk shirts and velvet pants and worn by Madonna at the MTV Awards, when Courtney Love stumbled all over her (ad pictured here). My point is- I don't remember a ton of great fashion from that time, because everybody was so caught up in the admittedly mopey grunge era, which I despised from a fashion perspective (though I did not at all despise Chris Cornell- heart him. And Kurt of course). Yes I loved the Marc Jacobs cashmere thermal- that was a great way to bring some luxury into that very downtrodden time of flannel and work boots and stinky hair (not to mention all of those shoes with those thick heels. Yikes).
But the Vena Cava collection, pictured here, supposedly took cues from the "good" moments of that time- and I must say, there's some nice looks here, but in general, I'd say I'm not super excited by the smudgy makeup, though that little polka dot dress reminds me of so many frocks I rocked from that time, with high heeled suede platforms if I recall- it's cute for sure, but worthy of runway? Not so much...
I do like some of the languid, limby long dresses here- definitely nodding to Donna Karan, whose DKNY collection was a defining moment of my youth, with its ads full of images of a town I knew I would one day inhabit. So all in all, some nice looks, but nothing fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing more from the week, though from what I've seen, there's a somber mood for Fall in terms of palette, but let's see what the big guns pull out...cause that's what's up this fashiony Friday in the MIA. Cheers to the weekend. XO
