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Posted by Dain, Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:08 AM (Eastern)
RIGHT Very simple elements—a jacket (reminiscently Chanel, how French!), a blouse-ish element, and a skirt—in the simplest color combination available, black, white and silver. But each is an intrigue in itself, from the exaggerated jacket that sits more like a camisole (giant buttons, giant lapels, and plenty of embellishment at the hems just in case your eye glossed over its jacket-y outlines), to the silver mesh shirt, to the gathered and ruffled and rose-d up and nearly ungainly skirt.
LEFT This makes me laugh! Look, it's a Burberry plaid trench, a bastion of classic style, and it's been made to float in the breeze like a ephemeral raincoat! Paired, with all things, a violently patterned and sexy plunge blouse and very plain long shorts.
RIGHT I love this jacket. Its lines are simple and clean, but the hem, the cuffs, the pockets, and the collar are frothed asunder with lace and beading and what all. What an amazing jacket that is. The gold lamé dress is cute, too, but o, the jacket, the jacket.
LEFT More Burberry-inspired tongue-in-cheek. A classic trench, from the masculine lapels, the nondescript khaki, and the waist-cinching tie, but it billows and ruffles like a jacket for a 17th-century fop!
RIGHT What a pretty shade for a jacket! It's got a lot of structure in some places (the collar, the shoulders), and the embellishments are just right, from the sparkled cuffs and stiff collar, to the inconsistent bows. I love the cute, frothy pouf of a skirt, too (rather like lemon meringue... with uhh... flies).
LEFT This dress kind of reminds me of a candle, it kind of reminds me of a flamingo (the colors and the feathers), and kind of 20s-era flapper style. Though it's a complicated dress, it gives the sense of simplicity, and... I don't know... it's a pretty dress, and it wouldn't be impossible to wear.
RIGHT Wow! The little black dress in sculpture! The spare bodice (sparkly, but very minimal), the simple but altogether complicated gathered skirt (talk about "full"), and the petticoat underneath, which doesn't so much resemble lace as ivy leaves growing willy-nilly. It just hits the right extremes, and doesn't fall apart doing so.
LEFT Tiered ruffles, done to the max, but with a delicate, soft material that only hints at structure (if the previous dress resembles the stiffness of sculpture, this dress is more like a rough sketch), in a shade of crimson beautiful to behold. (And only one strap! Did you notice? How odd.)
RIGHT Just marvel at the gorgeous fabric (luxe!), the nigh architectural gathers, and all the little details (lace frothing up at the collar, the anticlimactic drawstring hem, the Mahometan-style trousers (in tinted, sequined, and tiered chiffon, no less), the skin-tight vest, etc.).
LEFT That's a great jacket. The mandarin style touches in the front, cropped to the point of being a bolero in the front, but look at the back (see picture below) and it's long, slit, and pleated à la Sun King style. The dress is pretty too, layers of ruffled watercolor chiffon.
All pictures courtesy of www.style.com.
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