Showing posts with label presidential fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential fashion. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Marc Jacobs -Two Thousand and Ten Nights


 drawing by marguerita


This one did. “I had fun,” Mr. Jacobs said 

Afterward, shrugging, as if it were that simple. Pulling off the combination of Eastern and Western styles — European and Asian — took some finesse. (In the end, it all blended together.) The layers and proportions were tricky; almost every outfit consisted of layers, usually with sheer, hosiery-like leggings as the main underpinning. And there were ruffles and frills everywhere: coating slim dresses, spilling over tailored pinstriped jackets, spiraling around long jersey dresses, finishing rompers. But the overall effect of this terrific presentation was a free-spirited attack of fashion, a wide comfort zone with different textures and assumptions about what is pretty and feminine. http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/marc-jacobs-now-man/?ref=fashion

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Ruth La Ferla:Z Dress? .Here Comes Fash-On-Bama

watercolor by marguerita

“I voted for Obama, but I didn’t vote for that dress”.
Some of the most heated conversations on the morning after election night centered on Michelle Obama’s dress. The first lady-elect took to the stage at Grant Park in Chicago on Tuesday night wearing a red-and-black sheath by Narciso Rodriguez.
That Dress? Everyone Has an Opinion - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

"We should all lay off and let her dress the way she wants to," said Letitia Baldrige
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