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[ 8 November 2009 ]
Scents & Sensibilities
Every year, Perfumer & Flavorist magazine announces the top 10 fragrance profiles for the coming year — no easy task, given that there were over 600 fragrances released in 2008! In 2009, they predicted a surge in perfumes that had notes of lime, milk or cream, deep amber, citrus aromatics, oriental florals, florals with fruit & florals with wood, orange flower or rose violet. While the craze for perfume with woodsy undertones or fragrances which smell like milkshakes (yes, really!) will continue into 2010, there are some new aromas on the horizon too. What can you expect to sniff next year?...
Fashion Round-Up 2009
While fashion used to trickle down direct from the runway, the proliferation of fashion blogs, street style photographers & the uprising of bloggers-as-celebrities has caused a turning of the tide. This has never been as apparent as it was this year. Mixing it all together has become even more marked as models’ off-duty wear makes them fashion icons — their often-imitated mix of haute couture & streetwear gives everyone new ideas as to how to rework their closet…
Thankfully, ironic fashion seems to be dying out. There are only so many hipsters-dressed-badly-but-deadpanning-it one can take before one starts to foam at the mouth…
Rodarte in Target
Rodarte is a relative newcover to the fashion world, but one that has made a huge impression. After their debut in 2005, Kate & Laura Mulleavy, the two sisters behind the line, landed a Women’s Wear Daily cover as well as a meeting with Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. They won the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award in June, & the CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear last year. Rodarte is known for its ethereality, sublimely sophisticated palettes & uber-embellishments — which is why so many people were surprised to hear that they had inked a deal to design a capsule collection for Target’s Go International…
Forte Fashion Show
Of course, as is often the way at events like these, especially in New York, the people attending were just as interesting than what came stalking down the runway. In the front row, I sat beside a jewelery designer who rubbed up against my faux fur coat sensuously for the duration of the show, & later asked me to show her my thighs before practically mounting me on the sidewalk…
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Perfect! I especially loved the Fashion Roundup 2009.
Oh yay! I can’t wait until the Target Rodarte collection debuts. I think they’re selling some really funky high-waisted lace tights.
Have you seen the lingerie collection Sonia Rykiel is doing for H&M? It’s so sweet, so retro, and so budget. I’ll be first in line on Dec. 5th! :-)
Luana — Haha, thank you, it was fun to write!
Treacle — I have! It looks beautiful but a little impractical. Well, impractical for wearing under clothing. Fab for getting frisky with your lover! I actually wrote about that & Jimmy Choo for H&M for ChinaShop the other day. Should go live soon!
Thanks for penning this, I feel like I’m a little more in touch now with the wider world. Rodarte for Target sounds like it will be superb, and I loved the Scents and Sensibilities article.
Do any perfumers make scents for home as well? I just moved and really want this place to be a departure from the old place, and my old way of doing things.
Jessica — Yes! Check out Luckyscent’s home section: www.luckyscent.com/shop/sectio… A lot of the scents are in candles or diffusers, which is a nice way of doing it. John Galliano has designed scents for Diptyque & Comme des Garcons do candles too.
Hi Gala – that was cool. I enjoyed the fashion round-up article especially. I’m sad skinny jeans are going out of fashion though – I’ve just discovered they’re the most comfortable and the most FABULOUS item of clothing for me. Look kick ass with my metal tess. I’ll have to go out and pick up like, eight more pairs before they’re replaced by leggings.
Steff Metal — Thanks miss! In contrast, I am NOT sad skinny jeans are going out at all! Haha. They are the world’s least flattering thing on my body shape! I don’t think you have any reason to panic though, they will still be around for at least 3 years I reckon.
3 years? Wicked. I shall have hundreds by then!
That’s definitely a Kenley Collins dress. I’d know her stuff anywhere, haha.
Loved it!!
It occured to me to day, that I have read your blog for ages, but never ever left a comment.
Shame on me!
Your blog is the best thing on the internet!
Thanks for being such an inspiration, Gala.
Keep up the good work! :)