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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…

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