Expect to see Cameron and his style in this blog frequently. He wore a vintage Yves Saint Laurent Jacket and shirt paired with Proenza Schouler pants to Redeem’s 5 year anniversary party. The most stylish teenager in Washington DC!
The shoes at Yves Saint Laurent - Ready to Wear - Spring Summer 2012 were a big deal for us.
Images from Now Fashion
I love this editorial from the super chic French magazine Jalouse. Photography by Paul Schmidt and styling by Jennifer Eymere. Wearing YSL blouse and shorts.
YSL in the Winter
Our first post of the new year and new blog is of my new favorite shoes, which I’ve coveted for a long long time - the YSL cage booties. Their craftsmanship is stunning - even for a YSL shoe - and they look so beautifully architectural that I’ve had a hard time wanting to remove them from the shelf where they look like statues. Today I wore them with bright green American Apparel socks (to show you the detail), a long vintage Lanvin skirt, a thrifted mens Wrangler plaid shirt, a Silence + Noise motorcycle jacket, WeWood watch, and my favorite hooded scarf in the world from De*Nada design (this winter I have yet to leave home without it).
A closeup of the YSL Cage Bootie worn with bright American Apparel socks.
Blocks and Lines
I wonder if we are going to experience a post-war artistic movement like Paris did in the 1920s. Ok, maybe not, at least we can be inspired by the fruits of the innovation that took place in those fertile days - Piet Mondrian and his un-confoundable grid paintings are one of the first ones to come to mind - probably because the “Mondrian Day Dress” that Yves Saint Laurent created several decades later is one of my favorite designs of his ever.
There’s something so simply genius about this dress, maybe it’s the asymmetrical symmetry of the shift shape and the lines, maybe it’s the simplicity of its form, maybe the crispness of the primary colors, maybe it’s the way he camouflaged the shaping in the grid of the seams. Whatever it is, it’s perfect.
Probably due to that timeless perfection, color-block designs like YSL’s seem to be part of everyone’s collections - so many in fact that I had to sort them out in my head - these are my favorites:
Clockwise from top left with links: Zippo color block lighters, Chloe Ines clutch, Marc Jacobs Mary-Janes, Topshop color block silk playsuit, Kara Ross Mondrian clutch, Emilio Pucci skirt, Pierre hardy heels, Forever 21 geometric dress, Mint Jodi Arnold color block dress, Jonathan Saunders Somerby dress, Herve Leger color block bandage dress, Nike Mondrian sneakers.
Even my closet has recent color-blocked additions - my favorite is this dress here that needed a little modifying since it was 7 inches longer and had terrible purple sleeves - not quite a Mondrian day dress, but it conveys the sentiment….
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