February 2006 Archives

If beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, these following designers need to get their eyes checked.

Luca Luca

Biggest loser of the week is Luca Orlandi. We loved the feminine dresses in his last collection but for fall he showed models with shapeless bodies and bland faces which didn't help his equally bland, yawn inducing collection.

Marc Jacobs returned to his grunge roots for inspiration this fall. The result is a surprisingly fresh mix of his new high fashion status as head desginer of the largest fashion conglomerate in the world and his old street punk sensibility. Who else could make flannel could look so chic and elegant? He showed it all with ladylike handbags with a rock n' roll edge and we love it! The tortoise shell chain details, subtle hardware, and exotic skins like rich suede and python make us wish we could bypass summer and go straight into fall. It's obvious the boy genius who was once fired from another large French Fashion House is having the last laugh. It may also be the reason he saves all the best for his own line and mocks the "House of LV" with the crap he doesn't want.

I am offended as a consumer that a bag such as this would be designed, manufactured and distributed for my consumption. It does not say anything to the credit of Fendi that celebrities are tripping all over their cowboy boots for this bag because we all know they have vulgar taste and no trend management. I mean, what could the "B" stand for? B-list? Bad? Butt ugly? Oh, maybe BUCKLE, duh!! Hello!! No shit, we didn't notice the buckles. And to make things even more disturbingly stupid, there's the lace eyelet version with chain handles - for $5,000!!! For another grand, any sane person would rather have a Birkin, an indisputable classic beauty instead of this Pamela Anderson proportioned monstrosity.

For the fashionista whom bigger means better, here is the ultimate fix. The Chloe Edith in grande. How fabulous is this? At 15" wide it's big enough to carry an extra change of clothes just in case you have a "Paris" moment and end up in a stranger's bed with lights and camera. And at $1575, you're getting a lot of bang for your buck. At Bergdorf Goodman.