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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Boobs - The New Black 2013

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and quite coincidentally, boobs are everywhere! Gaping bazers sans bra, shirts slashed to the sternum & large expanses of decolletage are hot this Fall. Claire Danes went sheer & super low at the Emmys. Buxom Kim K and Miranda Kerr both went for OTT eye-popping cleavage at Paris Fashion Week. I love these shots from Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent Pre-Fall 2014, reminiscent of Tom Ford's early Gucci cigarette pants & satin shirt looks .

Saint Laurent, Pre-Fall 2013

The no-bra + blazer seems to also be the look du jour. I love a good black blazer, but when it comes to the bra or no bra look underneath I do think only those with petite frames & smaller busts (a la Kate Moss or Cara Delevingne) can carry it off. But it is a real high fashion or red carpet look - not for your usual night on the town. Having said that - Cara seems to have carried it off just wandering home from a night on the town in bra and jacket, below.

Cara Delevingne, June 2013

Cara Delevingne, October 2013

Olivia Wilde, September 2013

Georgia Jagger, August 2013

Gwyneth Paltrow, October 2013

Jessie J, September 2013

Miley Cyrus, ELLE June 2013

Miley Cyrus, Twitter Pic October 2013

Miley Cyrus, album cover 2013

Jennifer Lawrence for Dior, October 2013

Beyonce, October 2013

Jourdan Dunn, GQ September 2013

Pink, Marie Claire September 2013

Kate Bosworth for TopShop, October 2013

Lara Bingle, March 2013

Lara Bingle, October 2013

Kate in 2008

Kate Moss for Stuart Weitzman Fall 2013

Rihanna, September 2013

Rita Ora, August 2013

Jennifer Metcalfe, May 2013

Kelly Osbourne, February 2013

Friday, April 20, 2012

Polka Dot Cool

January Jones (Betty Draper) in Mad Men

I have always been a stripey girl. I guess because they are kind of rockabilly. My sister Banana meet-cute has always been into polka dots. At the moment she is rocking an array of polka dot Gorman shirts (by the way, Gorman has just opened in Auckland) A bit like we are into the Rolling Stones and The Beatles, respectively. I'm Alison Mosshart - she's Zooey Deschanel! Below are some polka dot pics I love, from her Instagram.

Top Shop Nail polish

Saturday Night Connect Four

I just got back from London where I (unsuccessfully) tried to get into the opening weekend of the Damian Hirst retrospective at Tate Modern. Musing upon his works, I found myself drawn again to his dot paintings. Many people say "What's the big deal? Why is it art? He doesn't even paint the dots himself!" But having assistants paint for you is no new thing in the history of art, and there is something about his dots. They are beautiful. Symmetrical, colorful, peaceful. Maybe it's the Libran in me - we love colour, calm, prettiness and balance! The dots embody these traits.

Opium by Damian Hirst, 2000

Olivia Palermo muses upon a Hirst dot painting

Also paired with the Hirst exhibition was Japanese artist Yayoyi Kusama, whose art is also full of polka dots. Kusama says “I love Damien Hirst, I respect his work a great deal and I am very happy that the polka dots that I started using (as a young girl) have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everyone joining hands to use them together in this way.”

Yayoyi Kusama

The Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life (2011)

Musing upon these works drew me to the influx of polka dot designs that have been permeating the fashion landscape lately - namely Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney. Marc Jacobs says, "A dot is timeless and a pattern I always love, and round shapes are always beautiful". Here is a compilation of some of my fave latest dotty looks.

Stella McCartney dots