Tagged: NYFW 2015

February 18, 2015

H-two-Oh! x

Caroline Herrera Fall 2015 will never be an out & out rock chic heroine..but Caroline Herrera is still a heroine.

There’s no slip and slide on an outrageous avantgarde walk of the wild. This is soft, respectful and poetic with a sense of attentive stillness and clever touches.

There’s so much to appreciate with her now seemingly old-fashioned stance of taking a theme like water, and milking all the inspiration from it: transforming, transfiguring, transmogrifying. With the materials chosen taking as much precedence as the silhouettes.

Where she needs it, the tone is strong and textural, adding a mean streak with a flash of red and killer-pointed shoes..

Or paired right back: Reflections on water at sunset..

Or snow on a frozen lake: Simplicity and peaceful fragility…(and a rather stunning wedding dress)..

(All photos Style.com)

Cultivated, charming and full of quality – it’s a commanding performance with an impressive range, always offering an underlying sense of knowledge and calm in a world too full of dragonflies..

Laters, Kate x

February 16, 2015

Coach Journey..

NYFW is in full force with a royal gallimaufry (look it up) of offerings, each screaming for attention. But sometimes it’s the unexpected that catches the roving eye. This is Coach..a brand I normally associate with tan and handbags..

But these are tough, potent clothes designed for attitude with a modern, fit-for-combat edge, ready to fight the worst of the winter weather with chutzpah and style whilst keeping enemies at bay.

And there’s a duffel..accessorised with a bandana. What’s not to love?

These shoes nail the bitch sentiment…hard nosed, no-nonsense but with just a subtle sprinkling of fairy dust with their glowing gold and cheeky tassel. Never thought you’d like a kitten heel? Look again..

(All photos from Style.com)

This is functional dressing with eclectic additions, it’s hard and seductive, frank and forthright with an awareness of what’s happening…but a determination to strut their own path.

I’ll have some of that..

Laters, Kate x

September 5, 2014

Stepping Forward x

Fashion: It doesn’t have to be flattering – just capture a mood. But sometimes it does both.

Derek Lam 10 Crosby SS15 with it’s efficient dynamic of form translated into movement is grounded in the classics..but then given wings..

It’s the details that do the talking..the cut of a sleeve, the place of a pocket…it’s a perfectionists attitude fused with giddy moments of occasional laughter..