. I had my doubts, but 2 years in, Stuart Vevers has finally made Coach cool again in my book. Floral biker vests and jackets? For a girl who loves Liberty of London as much as I do, these pieces are game changers. This blog idea came about when I saw an ad for the Tea Rose Applique Saddle bag below and immediately thought, WOW. Then I realized this was a Coach bag. “Whaaat?!!!!,” went my internal fashion dialogue. I needed to see more. Check out Coach’s Fall/Winter 2016-17 show for even more of Stuart Vevers’, and now Coach’s, grooviness …
Dream Shoes: Splatter Paint Sandal Manolos
In case you did not realize, I am SO into the whole splatter paint trend. I loved it when Helmut Lang did it in the mid 90s and I love the 2016 version. I still regret not buying the Ralph Lauren splatter-paint jeans I was lusting after all fall. By the time I got around to it, they were gone. I found the Manolo Blahnik Susa Painted Cork Flat Sandal in a magazine and was so obsessed that I’ve had the little shoe I cut out on my desk ever since. Perhaps they will go on sale… Manolo Blahnik Susa Painted Cork …
David Bowie and the Current State of Gender Fluidity
As you have probably been reading a lot this week, David Bowie was the original gender maverick. He was one of the first in the public eye to incorporate gender fluidity, the buzzword of 2015, into his on-stage personas. If you think about it, it is pretty amazing that David Bowie was addressing these issues, with which we are only now becoming more comfortable, 40 years ago! Keep reading to hear how gender issues have come up in our house and scroll down to see how we have caught up in 2015, when designers like Gucci have men in pussy-bow …