ForwardForward.com, which is the fancier sister store to RevolveClothing.com, is blowing out tons of designer pieces--at a fraction of their original prices. There are Want les Essentials de la Vie bags, Erin Fetherstone tulip skirts, and loads from Doo.Ri and Rachel Comey, including this cape-like bright blue top which I think I might need to buy.
Last season, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Kenya based line Suno (designed by film director-turned-designer Max Osterweis) was made entirely out of vibrantly printed vintage kangas. Osterweis had collected the kangas (they're kind of like cotton sarongs) on trips to visit his mother in Kenya; fair-trade workers in Nairobi then stitched them together into fitted blazers, batwing sleeve blouses and barely-there minidresses.
So many events, so little time, such a big city. Oh the dilemma! If you're still deciding where you want to be for Fashion's Night Out, I'll try and help you make at least one decision.
It's true. I've waxed rhapsodic about all things red about a zillion times. Red is my hangover helper, it's the color of 30 percent of my footwear, and I rarely leave the house without its bold, transformative shade on my lips. This season, however, I'm looking to red in a more grownup way. I want the power red of Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl as she glides through the work party making deals and eating men. I want Joan from Mad Men's hypnotic wiggle dress red. I want the red that says, "Yes, gentlefolk, I'm fun and sexy, but I've got control of this room." I want red wool. Today on eBay, I found some pieces that fit my mission nicely, including this Pendleton wrap jacket (with jeans and loafers, all Sunday-casual like?), a perfect little Dior blazer, an expensive-but-unbelievably-adorable dress from Stella McCartney, a sophisticated chain-belt dress by Milly, and this fabulous vintage secretary suit which I'd belt and wear with tights and shiny, sexy black boots. 
I have a genuine love for catalogs, I do: I love coming home to find them in the mailbox and head straight to my sofa to pore over them page by page. But right now I'm maybe loving online catalogs even more--you get to turn the pages and see all the pretty imagery of the tangible paper copies, but are just a simple click away from that object of desire.
My friend Shana sent me the following email yesterday: "Is white in season at all? I have a white dress I haven't worn--like ever--because I'm so afraid of all the fashion taboos I'll break. How far into September can I wear it?"
Spike Jonze has started hyping the fashion collaborations inspired by his latest movie, Where the Wild Things Are, including partnerships with Opening Ceremony and Urban Outfitters. The OC collection includes jewelry designed by Lucky fave Pamela Love. [W Magazine Editors' Blog]
