February 17, 2015

Food for Thought..

Banana Republic Fall 2015 is the faultless streetstyle collection of NYFW.

It’s the Collection for the realities of life: Meeting friends, the school run, a trip to the shops..a quick snap from the paps…it’s normcorm coolness personified..

And maybe that’s where I have my itch, my first wobble of a potential problem, hard to hold back and impossible to shake off..

I love the stripe. But think too deeply and this collection becomes an unsettling vision..like a serpent eating it’s own tail. We have fashion..we have street style..now we have fashion that is street style and because it’s so perfectly of the moment, there’s no sense of pushing boundaries or striving for the next artistic step.

It’s not that I don’t like it..I really, really do..and look – metallics and tassels again..

(All photos Style.com)

It’s faultless, flawless, impeccable – and feels like it’s been squeezed and prodded into life by a profit driven corporate machine…to produce the opposite of anarchy.

The truth is fashion has to sell, but it fundamentally has to walk hand in hand with creativity: We need a heart..but we need a soul too.

Laters, Kate x

10 comments

February 17, 2015 - 10:37 am The Slow Pace

The coats are amazing! I love that everything is so wearable (except for those heles maybe 😉
xx,
E.
http://www.theslowpace.com

February 23, 2015 - 10:28 am Maison Bentley Style

I just found it really interesting where they got their ideas from..feeing them back to us rather than giving us something new. The coats are amazing.. xxx

February 17, 2015 - 1:40 pm Abbi

I think you have to be a model to pull off grey socks with beige heels but I really love those tights with the stripe.

February 23, 2015 - 10:28 am Maison Bentley Style

I’m hoping it’s a stripe just on the one side.. xxx

February 17, 2015 - 1:48 pm Alison Pentland (@FeeFiFoFunFaery)

Some beautiful garments to be sure, but the weighted tops with the bare ankles seems awkward to me … or maybe that’s because I’m in the Toronto GTA and it was -25 C yesterday 🙂 Love your shares. TY.

February 23, 2015 - 10:28 am Maison Bentley Style

-25 would do it!! sheepskin and shearling for you! xxx

February 17, 2015 - 10:16 pm Ava K. Fashionista

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February 23, 2015 - 10:29 am Maison Bentley Style

Thank you xxx

February 20, 2015 - 2:42 am dievca

Street style is making your own, so no collection can do it for me – alone….I will take some of the pieces and make them mine.

February 23, 2015 - 10:30 am Maison Bentley Style

It is strange how what happens around a fashion show is becoming more of a spot light that what’s happening on the catwalk..xxx

February 17, 2015 - 10:37 am The Slow Pace

The coats are amazing! I love that everything is so wearable (except for those heles maybe 😉
xx,
E.
http://www.theslowpace.com
- February 23, 2015 - 10:28 am Maison Bentley Style
  
  I just found it really interesting where they got their ideas from..feeing them back to us rather than giving us something new. The coats are amazing.. xxx
February 17, 2015 - 1:40 pm Abbi

I think you have to be a model to pull off grey socks with beige heels but I really love those tights with the stripe.
- February 23, 2015 - 10:28 am Maison Bentley Style
  
  I’m hoping it’s a stripe just on the one side.. xxx
February 17, 2015 - 1:48 pm Alison Pentland (@FeeFiFoFunFaery)

Some beautiful garments to be sure, but the weighted tops with the bare ankles seems awkward to me … or maybe that’s because I’m in the Toronto GTA and it was -25 C yesterday 🙂 Love your shares. TY.
- February 23, 2015 - 10:28 am Maison Bentley Style
  
  -25 would do it!! sheepskin and shearling for you! xxx
February 17, 2015 - 10:16 pm Ava K. Fashionista

Reblogged this on avakfashionista.
- February 23, 2015 - 10:29 am Maison Bentley Style
  
  Thank you xxx
February 20, 2015 - 2:42 am dievca

Street style is making your own, so no collection can do it for me – alone….I will take some of the pieces and make them mine.
- February 23, 2015 - 10:30 am Maison Bentley Style
  
  It is strange how what happens around a fashion show is becoming more of a spot light that what’s happening on the catwalk..xxx