In a font size usually reserved for the death of terrorists like Osama bin Laden or what one might assume will be used to declare a cure for cancer, yesterday’s LA Times Image section proclaimed Vintage as the niche trend that has gone mainstream.
The first clue? That large retailers are appropriating the trend for their own commercial advantage.
Lucky Jeans and J. Crew were singled out…
Think of your style icons. Now ask yourself: do you admire their style or do you admire their stylist’s style?
As more and more celebrities rent their personal style from stylists by the hour or on retainer, it becomes harder and harder to know where someone’s authentic style ends and their stylist’s style begins.
Or take Portia de Rossi, who admits in her book, Unbearable Lightness, that…
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Vintage Ossie Clark Dress with Celia Birtwell Print (annieteeks) | Vintage 1960s Danish Lucite Necklace (persnickitties) | Vintage 1950s Ceil Chapman Cocktail Dress (millstreetvintage) | Vintage 1950s Tina Leser Dress (lacedwithromance) | Vintage 1970s Biba Kaftan Dress (lestervintage) | Vintage Lilli Ann Coat (bigjohnson7) | Vintage 1980s St. John Tuxedo Mini Dress (ndbvintage) | Vintage Lizard and…
If you’re the sort of girl who likes to “take it to the max,” then I suspect that “taking it to the maxi” in today’s VPOD might also be your style.
This vintage 1970s maxi dress by Frank Usher has all the bohemian chic a modern girl could ask for and get this, it’s two separate pieces. Uh-huh. It’s a two-fer!
You get a slinky dress in…
What is it about childhood hardship that leads to creative genius? I am amazed at how many biographies of super-talented artists and designers are loaded with heart-wrenching stories. Take Rudi Gernreich, for instance, the designer of today’s VPOD.
When he was just eight years old his father committed suicide. Then,at 16, he and his mother fleed the Nazis and immigrated to the United States along with…
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