The Glitterati are Preparing

Fashion Week is on the horizon, and the nippy air was just right today to help me get in the mood. Prepare yourselves for a flurry of runway pictures as soon as I can get my little hands on them.

Also, there are only three days left until Cincinnati's FNO! Make sure you RSVP here!

I'll leave you with two of my very favorite collections for F/W 2011

Gucci

Proenza Schouler

Drama? Yep, I'm all over it.

Zach.

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Fashion Trend: Capes

Ladies, Gentleman, Drag Queens, Glitter Children, REJOICE! A new trend is emerging!

A short time ago, Kate Moss wore a Scarlet Red beaded Rodarte cloak to her wedding. I know, right? The duh-rama is unspeakable. I've always had an affinity for hot mess chic, and the drug paraphernalia Kate has hidden in that cloak is the epitome of HMC.

Fret not, the drama doesn't stop there my friends. While Kate Moss was having her gorgeous albeit drug fueled wedding in the Bucolic English Countryside, Sarah Jessica Parker was plotting her revenge. She received no invite to the wedding, and she was not about to miss out on this cape action. (Kate Moss actually wore a custom made Pailette Beaded Coat by Rodarte, but for the purposes of this sarcastic post, it's a cape, got it?) In fact, she decided to do Kate one better, and dispel those nasty "horse face" allegations once and for all.

Sarah Jessica Parker's Inner Dialogue: Take THAT Society!
My verbal dialogue with my computer screen: Oh my shit. 

(My computer didn't have much to say, it can't talk.)

SJP: Oh no I didn't!

Me (and the rest of America): WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HER TOES?? Oh. That's the shoe.

This shoe, actually.

 Christian Louboutin Alex "Lion Paw" Pump. It brings new meaning to the phrase "pussy-footing around."

HA! Okay bye!

Zach. 

Oh, the cape costume is Giambattista Valli Couture F/W 2011. I guess that's relevant. 

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Trivialization

If one more person says to me "Why would you want to go into fashion? It's so shallow." I'll lose my mind.

I'm about to take y'all to church.

I am a creative person, I've always been one to outwardly express the way I'm feeling. Fashion is a way to do that without having to say anything. For others Fashion is a shield, wearing a blouse with a busy print might be a way for a woman to cover up an imperfection in her physique that's particularly detrimental to her self confidence, a brightly colored pair of Giuseppe Zanotti heels could be the perfect show stopper to help a business woman distract herself from her latest deposition. (I'm the king of run-on sentences, don't worry about it.) Fashion transforms people, it provides a way for us to be our best selves, or to be someone else completely.

As for my wanting to work in the industry, my explanation is simple: Fashion is one of the most cut throat industries one can be a part of, and I happen to be a very strategic (and competitive) person. That, combined with the creative aspect of the clothing, merchandising, and style is a perfect recipe for my career. Sounds wonderful right? Well don't get too excited, I haven't even graduated college yet.


Does that satiate your insatiable desire to understand the fashion industry? Didn't think so.

But I feel better. 


Hey! Don't forget to RSVP to Cincinnati's FNO on September 8th!

I can personally guarantee that if you show up impersonating either of the Olsen Twins you will be featured on this blog.

Get to it. 

Zach.

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It's Friday

It's Friday and Rebecca Black dropped out of high school last month, all is well.

I don't know what the hell that has to do with anything we're going to talk about, but aren't you happy you know now?

Here's my Favorite Fashion Fotograph from the past week, guess where I found it!

Oh, oopsie! I found that on my other blog, Personally Public Relations! If you were thinking I was above shameless self-promotion, you were wrong. But in all fairness, that image didn't originally hail from Personally Public Relations, it hailed from the Hasselblad at the hands of Mario Testino while photographing Kate Moss' wedding reception. The white ducks wandering into the laps of fashion's most powerful women probably weren't staged, that would be too far below these sharp artistic masterminds. (I'm not telling you who the women in the photo are, because you have to go to my other website to do that! See, I just self-promoted again! But, if you don't know who (from the left) the first, second, and fourth women in the top row are, stop reading my blog.)

Okay bye!

Zach.

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FNO: Mark Your Calendars!

If you follow me on Tumblr, Facebook, or Twitter, you know that I've been plastering this homemade poster everywhere so you know to come see me as a Featured Blogger at Cincinnati's Fashion's Night Out.

But on the off chance that you live under a rock of ugly clothing you've missed it, here it is again, in more detail, and more hoittie toittie vernacular. 

Fashion’s Night Out
Saks Fifth Avenue
Sept. 8, 6-8pm

Join Stylelist, Saks Fifth Avenue, Cincy Chic and The Fagazine at the 2011 Fashion's Night Out. This fun and fabulicious event event will feature pop-up shops, a live band, DJ, complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres, and a blogger lounge. Now, I know you're all tired of seeing my ugly mug, and the unrealistically beautiful mugs of models and celebrities I post here all the time. Here's what you can do to change it: Come see yours truly in the Blogger Lounge in Saks Fifth Avenue on the night of FNO dressed in your most sartorially liberated outfit. The pictures are always more interesting if you are inebriated, and what do you know, there are complimentary drinks! So come down to Saks, imbibe, shop, and pose for me! What more can you ask for on a Thursday night? Nothing, that's what. 


See you there!


Zach.

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