Comme Des Garcons: Blood, Guts and Glory

Now, there is a title that I never thought I would write for a fashion post!  But Comme des Garcons Spring 2015 was all blood, guts and glory.  Rei Kawakubo sent out a bloodied almost disembowled collection - it was bizarre and oddly beautiful...

xo, Juliana

Sunday Style: PLAY Converse Lo-Top by Comme des Garcons

Because woman can not live by vintage alone... or in heels 24/7... or in Ugg slippers ; )

It is usually a shoe like this I fall head over heels in love with:

Oscar de la Renta Spring 2012

But today is Sunday.  A day for catching up on reading - the pressure is on!  February magazines are about to come out and I am still on January.  Doing a little hand wash, thinking about the Golden Globes - I can't ignore it any longer: Awards Season is here!  So that means thinking about dresses and I always feel like we either have too many evening dresses at RARE vintage - or not enough...  And walking my big behind over to Organic Avenue because all of New York seems to be doing a post holiday January cleanse - and my behind does feel rather large...

So since I won't be walking over to Organic Avenue in Oscar's gorgeous-gotta-have-em spectator pumps in pink leather and PVC, I will wear my Comme des Garcons Converse sneakers.  Which I love and are a really fun update of a vintage classic!  (and just $100!)

Ashley Olsen in RARE vintage

Ashley Olsen was in one of my favorite looks at last year's Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a long sleeved white gown from The Row unadorned except for a plunging back which she accessorized with an incredible lizard necklace draped down her bare back.  She was covered and bare at the same time and wore something completely unique from what everyone else was wearing.  

 

Women with incredible and enviable style always do and wear what they want and this is what makes them trendsetters and is one of the reasons there are so few women with truly great style.

At the preview at the Brooklyn Museum for American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection there are wonderful clothes by the great Elsa Schiaparelli worn by the great woman of style and jeweler, Millicent Rogers.  One of the most impressive things about the Brooklyn's Schiaparelli collection is that of the nearly 250 pieces nearly three-quarters belonged to Millicent Rogers.  And what impressed me the most was that it was noted that she had the confidence to wear some of the most extreme examples of Schiaparelli. 

 

 

Shiaparelli Pagan necklace gift of Millicent Rogers to the Brooklyn Museum.

 

So in celebrating individual style here is a photo of Ashley Olsen in vintage Comme des Garcons  at The Art of Elysium from RARE vintage!  Hmmm Ashley Olsen and Millicent Rogers seem to have an affinity for crawly things in common!