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• 04.29.08
  When Fashion Talk Turns Ugly
  Adrian's Rants (9)

  “Fashion” words and idioms are hardly a nascent invention. But while previous efforts meandered safely within the realm of affordable fashions (see Clueless [1995] for its many Valspeak additions to this category), this newest breed of fashion jargon is fiercely eyeing the industry’s firmament – haute couture. Blame Tyra for this one. So while you once looked “sexy” in that banded dress, you are now likely “high fashion”, “fierce”, maybe even “workin’ it”. I argue that if you can’t offer a detailed account of Olivier Theyskens’ career, you shouldn’t be allowed to intersperse your “Michael Kors” and “pop of colour” babble with ...
  
  
• 09.26.07
  Dear Chris, may I Call you Chris?
  Designers, Adrian's Rants (0)

  Dear C. Bailey,I know it's hard being the David Beckham of the fashion world. It's difficult having the fashion crowd flip-flop between loving and loathing you like the Britney Spears does with that thing called Fate. We loved you when you cropped the iconic mac to within an inch of immodesty and even more when you studded the entire spring 2007 collection like a young girl christening her first BeDazzler. But we shunned you when you championed Victoria Beckham as a beacon of contemporary style. Heck, we still (partially) hate you when we hear the word 'chav'.But passion-fuelled sentiments ...
  
  
• 05.05.07
  Forever Green?
  Adrian's Rants (4)

  I chug back three bottled waters a day. I spend frivolously on non-organic clothing. And I call Canada, Seal Clubbing Capital of the World, home. And apparently, I'm barred from being au courrant.Eco-chic. Green-chic. Enviro-chic. Stop-coming-up-with-witty-monikers-to-engineer-a-conscious-chic, perhaps? Forgive me, but I assume by this point, you too have been swamped with stories and articles detailing the growing crop of celebrities, designers, manufacturers, and retailers embracing sustainable fashion. From the high street behemoths - H & M recently launched its own organic line - to the high end superpowers - fashion bible Vogue has nearly proclaimed eco-friendly fashions a virtual messiah ...
  
  
• 05.02.07
  Neu Rave not So New
  Adrian's Rants (6)

  I've never wanted to dress my age. I had always deemed it as a laudable gesture of sophistication; my mother deemed it as the crow's path to grey hair.It began at the age of six, an age when salt-stained slush pants and faux fur trimmed boots with ribbed rubber toecaps epitomized utilitarian chic (oh, how this definition will change with time). They weren't pretty by any means, but they got the job done. In other words, the crocs of childrenswear before...well...crocs.But amidst the kaleidoscope-colored playground of gamboling children outfitted in patch worked parkas, I, for one, couldn't fathom why a ...
  
  
• 04.09.07
  Can Style be Earned? Victoria Beckham keeps her Fingers Crossed.
  Adrian's Rants (3)

  In the game of fashion, does effort get rewarded? Not when the game is this consuming.It's no happenstance that Mary Janes are as subversively appropriate at age four as they are at forty-four. Callowness aside, albeit that arguable as well, the fashion ring and the classroom are not as dissimilar as your fourteen-year-old self may have hoped. Colleagues that can only be described as "all fur coat and no knickers" approbating the zeitgeist, continuing clout endowed to wearers of the pleated mini, and neophilia being the disorder of choice (clarification: not necessity. Such is an entirely different discussion...), all seem ...
  
  
• 03.23.07
  What Goes Up, Must Come…Laced?
  F/W 2008 Runways Shows, Runway Trends, Adrian's Rants (1)

  I explore fall's suggestive It-shoe: the laceup oxford heel.While Nancy Sinatra famously sang "These boots are made for walkin", had she been recording in 2007, she may have opted for "These boots are made for stripping". As far as the last few seasons go, if our clothes haven't been explicitly about sex, our footwear certainly has. From patent leather to peep toes and toe cleavage, designers have explored the gamut of fetishistic footwear.For spring, designers proposed dizzying heights with precariously vertiginous platforms. It made both foot lovers and models shriek alike – the latter on the steep descent from their ...
  
  

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