ELISABETH KOCH
I am a milliner. www.elisabethkoch.net
Sitting in my atelier here in Beijing, I am wearing a black skirt that closes with green velcro. It has no label but my sister got it at URBAN OUTFITTERS in London like 10 years ago (!). My top is of jersey cotton, sleeveless, slash-neck type with very wide red & black horizontal stripes (3 red and 2 black). The straps can be tightened with cords (of the same striped material) and tied in a bow – or not, you could leave them hanging too. Both of mine are in bows. The label inside says “BDg registered trademark EST. 76″. This top is also a hand-me-down from my big sister who works in fashion in NY.
On my head, I am wearing a hat of my own label: Elisabeth Koch Millinery. Often while I’m working on a piece, I’ll stick it on my head just to get the feel of it. I make each of my unique creations by hand. It is made of triangular pieces of light silver sinamay with a poof of hand-cut white feathers in the middle. It’s a commissioned piece for a client. Other than these three things, I have no shoes on, no jewelry, but yes to a little mascara (MAYBELLINE from the USA) and eyebrow pencil (DIOR from Amsterdam).
Today is a wonderful July 14th 2010 at 4pm.
JOHN TAN
Stylist/Casting, New York City
Blue shirt by CDG Shirt, vintage charcoal grey trouser by HELMUT LANG,
white sneakers by VANS, L’Homme Fragrance by YSL. It’s my uniform.
Entire day in Paris while attending shows.
KELLY LYNN WATERS
I’m a designer/architect, sometime illustrator, and blogger of halcyon days (http://kellylynnwaters.blogspot.com)
Well, seeing that it’s a typical San Francisco summer day, cold and foggy, I went looking for something to brighten up my day so I pulled out a favorite vintage silk dress. The print on the dress is reminiscent of some art nouveau pattern and the colors are a really lovely combination of deep peacock green, a light plum, rust, and black and beige. The tag says RUE DE SOIE (silk road I gather) but the style reminds me of Ossie Clark or Biba. I cinch it with a black and gold leather belt by HYDE and pair it with plum tights and dark brown boots from PAOLO. In my ears are black pearl earrings given to me by my Mister for our first anniversary. Around my neck is a cast gold wishbone necklace by LAURIE BROWN also given to me by the Mister (he gives great gifts no?) and a longer gold necklace made from three different types of chain I acquired at Rare Device. And on my finger my wedding/engagement band, wide and heavy with a pavé surface by CHRISTOPHER ROULE. The hair is long and dark with bangs but I’ve been itching for a lovely chopped do a la Tao Okamoto. A spritz of the classic PRADA and one more layer before I leave, a classic vintage trench, given to me by my Aunt, given to her by my Grandma, and black leather riding gloves by AGENT PROVOCATEUR (another gift from the mister), a quick grab of my vintage Coach speedy, hop on the bike and off I go.
July 6, 2010 San Francisco CA. Just a day at the office.
ALEXANDRA DONALD
I’m a writer, blogger (http://alexdonald.wordpress.com/) and DJ from Dublin, Ireland.
Tonight I’m going to my sister’s hen party. I usually hate events like this; enforced gaiety, lack of spontaneity and too many women all in one place. Ever since I attended a single sex convent school in Dublin I have been aware of the need for gender balanced social interaction (so much so, that I left the aforementioned school and ended up attending a mixed sex Jewish school instead). However it’s my sister and I love her dearly so all misgivings must be jettisoned and replaced with a smile.
I’m wearing a red draped VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Anglomania dress, which is my favourite item of clothing, with nude leather strappy sandals. As I have a great love (bordering on expensive obsession) for jewellery, it’s always the most considered part of any outfit of mine. Tonight I’m wearing a silver architectural ring from Djinn Jewellers in Dublin, an antique teaspoon ring dating from 1932, and a VIVIENNE WESTWOOD amour knuckle ring. A massive MARC B snakeskin tote is on my arm which I expect will be filled with presents for my sister by the end of the night, although I hope nothing crude, penis-shaped, pink, or fluffy will be included.
CHRISTINA BEAULAC-FERRIS
I am a blogger for TheLooksee.com and jewelry designer living in Los
Angeles.
On this balmy summer day I’m wearing a simple beige, shortsleeve,
batwing cardigan from H&M that is very lightweight, unbuttoned over a
basic black tank top also from H&M. I’m wearing thrifted faded black
denim cutoff shorts, and some thrifted green suede flats.
I love jewelry, and like to wear a lot of it. Around my neck, I’m wearing
a long Triple Triangle Grid Necklace from my jewelry line, The Looksee
Jewelry. On my wrists, I have three vintage costume bracelets. One is
goldtone with little starbursts spaced an inch apart on a lightly textured
background; the other two are thin leather, faux-snakeskin and goldtone
with chainlink accents- one is green, and the other is black. I am also
wearing my wedding band which is a simple yellow gold band with a single
starburst and a tiny diamond chip in the middle. On my other ring finger
I have on a vintage rose gold square signet ring with a small amount of
hand-engraved filigree. It has yet to be engraved with my initials. The
signet ring and my wedding ring are the only constants in an ever changing
ensemble of clothing and accessories.
JANELLE LISA YOLONDA MENTESANA
I’m a fashion illustrator and sometimes photographer. I’m watching fashion tv in my lounge room and looking outside my window to see if the weather is good enough to go out today. I’m situated in Paris, France.
I am wearing PLEASURE STATE lingerie couture range, a pair of black raw denim skinny jean CHEAP MONDAY jeans, plain white t-shirt, a HUGO BOSS baby blue collared shirt over the white shirt, 2 year old canvas shoes I bought from TARGET that only cost $10. YSL Parisienne.
11:17am Monday 21st June 2010, Paris.
WILLIAM MARTIN-GENIER
Working on a cold June afternoon at the Rose Bakery remembering the why and how of an outfit for The Considered Ensemble.
http://bulletproof-stilettos.blogspot.com/
Back in february, the days were short, the weather chilling and the sky had the shade of a black black bird not brushed by the sun since several months. That was the very first morning of a week of excitement, emotions and beauty: this morning was the beginning of mens fashion week Fall 2011 in Paris.
The first show I attended this season was based in a garage in the hip and arty neighbourhood Le Marais, and was given by a Japanese designer. I love fashion, but I love it even better when it is thought after and not in the immediate consumption: my passion for modern architecture, which I had the time to enhance during these long winter days, lead me to like structured garments, making a long a thin looking silouhette.
I chose a top both architectural and blurry by KAI AAKMANN. It was a black cape, in cotton and wool. They say that Parisians love black. I must say this is one of the few sayings that is still true. I put on black slim jeans by MARC JACOBS – don’t get me wrong, the brand did not made me buy those trousers. It was rather that specific look the cotton had – unusually tightened. As much as I love new designers, much more daring than the established Parisian houses, I enjoy having some timeless – and yet modern looking – pieces. I decided to accessorise the clothes with a black and silver HERMES Kelly bracelet. Eventually, let’s be honest and practical: Big bags are too large to be carried at shows, however I had to carry many show tickets for that day. I chose an YVES SAINT LAURENT black pouch from Fall 2010. However I carried it by the top… Not by the wrist strap, that I hid into the bag. Boots, black boots, then I was ready to go.
As I arrived to the garage for the show, the wind was blowing, and I loved that feeling the KAI AAKMANN jacket gave me, that of a perfect unity between the concrete, harsh environment that was the courtyard in front of the garage, the wind and the urban landscape.
Paris, February 2010.
IZZY TUASON
Graduate student in Boston and blogger (www.thedandyproject.com)
I have my hair parted and immaculately slicked-back a la Cary Grant, and I’m wearing a black one-button skinny blazer from TOPMAN, the AMERICAN APPAREL big tank in nude, a long black lambskin ANN DEMEULEMEESYER Spring 2010 necklace that’s supposed to look like thorns, a black rubber CASIO watch, MARTIN MARGIELA bent nail ring, CHEAP MONDAY black skinnies and black vintage cap-toed laceups. I spritzed a bit of TERRE D’HERMES to evoke that dark and debonaire feel.
I’m wearing this to check out a friend’s new place and then go out for drinks after.
INGRID WESTERGAARD
It started raining late last night, a mere drizzle; though already, cold water droplets have condensed on the window pane in my bedroom. I sit cross legged on the soft once-white yet now faded cream carpet; wearing a slightly overlarge pale pink blouse from a neighborhood thrift store. My hair, as it is, has air dried, quickly becoming brittle from last night’s shower and ever the more tangled than usual; a complicated mess that my brush will do nothing for. I have no makeup on and it’s very late at night. The rain has stopped now, and all I see as I gaze out the window; absently drinking hot tea; is inky darkness. There are no stars tonight, and when I unfold my legs from my pretzel like position, my white shorts from the brand LONELY HEARTS catches the dim light from the lamp on my desk, illuminating eerily. It’s an ordinary night, as usual, but something stops me this time from dismissing it casually from my mind. Every night is special.
KRISTINE BIASON
Editor for CIRCUS, the blogger’s bookazine
www.circus-project.org, www.herznote.com
I slept with damp hair last night, which has left it a little scraggly and mis-shapen, wavy strands fall messily on my face. I’m due for a trim and I’ve been eyeing the local hair dresser I pass by every morning. 11 euro for all lengths. I have on a basic V neck t-shirt from SES, a chain store based in Australia. I packed it as one of my basics, assuming it would be worn frequently. On closer inspection there are slight streaks of blue stains, the inevitable result of mixing whites with your colours. The weather is warm enough to wear an old pair of mineral wash AMERICAN APPAREL natural denim runner shorts – in cornflower blue. But since the cool breeze from last night’s first summer storm still lingers, I’ve put on my wooly winter reindeer boots, bought from Big W. Around my neck is a gold necklace with a crucifix pendant – a present my mother gave me before I left home. Every time we speak on skype she comments on how lovely it looks. She insists I never take it off, and I never have.
Mon 7th June, 14:22 pm, Darmstadt, Germany
RHIANNON LEIFHEIT
I live in Atlanta, Georgia and blog (http://www.liebemarlene.blogspot.com) and sell vintage clothing on Ebay for a living, so I’m in thrift stores all the time and only really dress up on weekends. Otherwise it’s always ’90s dresses and brown leather fringed loafers.
I’m wearing a navy blue 1950s dirndl sun dress with a tiny little floral dot print. I haven’t really been into ’50s things lately but this dress is simple and looks more casual without a blouse underneath so I like it. It has a really fitted waist and full skirt and little silver metal buttons that go all the way to the neck, and I usually button things all the way to the top. I have on brown leather SWEDISH HASBEEN sandals to make the outfit look more ’70s than ’50s, and I’m carrying a navy and white striped canvas tote bag from H&M. I have pale blue nails and a big (fake!) turquoise costume ring on my finger, and when I go outside I’ll put on my tortoise cat eye sunglasses from KAREN WALKER even though they always give me sunglasses crease on the nose.
Saturday, June 5th at noon: I’m about to take a day trip to Milledgeville, Georgia to see where Flannery O’Connor lived.
