Still life in plaid and garnet. Dress designed by Naomi Alessandra Schultz.
Continuing in the deep garnet mood (this won’t last forever; Spring is here after all!), I give you this still life of a plaid-bedecked wood nymph on a rumpled maroon bed. I endowed my dryad with a monobrow to intensify her gaze.
I designed this dress a couple of years ago and it’s still one of my favorites. The actual dress, photographed here by Rebecca Teague, weighs a ton because there are about 20 godets on two tiers. But all that extra fabric is worth it when I spin around and around…
Paris Fashion Week closed in a desert of beige, caramel, and taupe, but the drama found its way in through the back door. A trickle of lavish color seeped into collections from New York to Paris. Blood-red velvets, leather, jacquard and lace insinuated themselves across a wide swath of collections, reminding me that on some level we’re still feeling our fangs and thirsting for something dark and rich.
Altuzarra (Sigrid Agren), Alexander Wang (Snejana Onopka), Zac Posen (Mia Rosen)
My favorite red velvets in New York were at Altuzarra, where a bevy of gothic glamazons donned crimson gowns that looked like a collaboration between Dr. Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands, in the best possible way. » Read the rest of this entry «
