Spring 07 Fashion Week

Happy fashion week! Since I'm working a crazy amount of hours this week I've hardly had time to keep up with all of the collections being shown at Olympus Fashion Week. Today I got off at a reasonable hour so my evening has been spent planted in front of my laptop for the last three hours catching up on everything. I won't bore you on any more details of my personal life, on to the good stuff!

So far Marc Jacobs is the obvious standout collection thus far. Like many of the other lines that were shown, Marc used a lot of white and neutral colors, however I didn't feel like I was looking at the same short white trapeze tank dress again and again. Everything had a very whimsical feel to it, from the catwalk which looked like the yellow brick road on acid to the huge, crazy hairpieces (I don't really know what to call them!). While I wouldn't say that I loved each look that came down the runway, at least each one felt interesting, fresh, and/or fun.


I also really liked Proenza Schouler for the way they incorporated colors and stripes in with the use of black and white/dark and neutral.


Some trends that seem to be very prevalent- bubble hems, trapeze dresses, lots of volumn, t-shirt dresses, black and white, neutral colors. As for accessories- skinny belts, big necklaces.

More to come for sure, but right now I need to get some sleep. Ciao!

Keep It Simple- Audrey Hepburn & Gap

It's hard to ignore the new Gap "Keep It Simple" ad campaign which seems to have taken over the world overnight. Two days ago I was about to hop on muni on my way to work (which is at the Gap!) when I noticed that the walls of the muni station were literally wallpapered with ads displaying "The Skinny Black Pant". The same goes for the rest of San Francisco. As much as I love Audrey Hepburn and appreciate Gap for making a serious attempt at bringing better, more sophisticated clothes (instead of all that ugly, obnoxiously colored crap they carried for summer), the ads are overkill.

The only thing that saves this campaign is the seriously brilliant commercial of Audrey dancing to ACDC. Since I don't watch TV (with the exception of Project Runway on Wed. nights) I just went ahead and logged on to gap.com to watch it. Watching Audrey's dance from the classic Funny Face to the three most famous guitar chords in rock-n-roll was mesmerizing, I couldn't take my eys of the screen. Go watch it if you haven't seen it yet!

And I bought the "Audrey" black twill pants, the fit beautifully. Of course I got them with my employee discount but even at $48 they are a bargain for a timeless, classic piece.