The Glamorous Granny and Dries van Noten Fall 2015

The dreamy Dries van Noten fall 2015 collection was like raiding your glamorous grandmother's attic and finding trunks brimming with treasured bits and bobs: silk flowers and feathers from the 30s, long burgundy gloves worn to a ball, duster coats brushing the floor, dresses from the early 1900s gilded with brocades and damasks, beading and embroidery...

My favorites - I really want it all!

Dries van Noten Fall 2015.  Photos from Style.com

See you in Dries' granny's attic, Juliana

We'll Always Have Paris: Dries van Noten Edition

For Spring 2015 Dries van Noten was inspired by John Everett Millais' painting, Ophelia.  

as always with Dries, there are lots of wonderful pieces here...

xo, Juliana

Fred and Ginger and Dries

When I was little and watching my Saturday morning routine of old movies, I always loved when a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie came on.  Boy could she dance!  But, of course, I was really more drawn to the gowns.  One of my favorites was the feather dress from  Top Hat.  I am not sure if you have ever worn a feather anything but if you have, you will know that feather pieces tend to 'molt'. You leave a trail of fluttery feathery bits everywhere you go.  

So I can imagine that Fred was none too pleased when Ginger showed up - unexpectedly - in this feather gown which, when they rehearsed the scene, saw feathers fly into his face, against his tuxedo and onto the dance floor.  But Miss Rogers was not to be deterred from wearing the gown and it  became one of their most famous and striking dances.

But there was also one part of me that wanted to be able to bust the moves like Fred Astaire:

So I was super excited that for Fall 2013 Dries Van Noten, one of my favorite designers,  was inspired by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers mixed up together, a little masculine, a little feminine and, of course, a whole lot of feathers...

Images from Style.com and Tumblr

My Heart Goes Boom, Boom, Boom. Paris Fashion Week. Part Three. Grunge is...Dries Van Noten.

Grunge is... being 19 and waking up in the morning, grabbing your boyfriend's soft, worn plaid shirt, and wearing it with an anonymous 1940s  sheer floral chiffon dress you picked up in some five and dime vintage rummage bin and maybe pulling on your own long sleeve striped tee to layer if it is chilly.

Grunge is... Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis 1992.  Grunge is infamous and inflammatory.  Grunge is expensive and beautifully made.  Grunge gets you fired from designing for the house of Perry Ellis.

Grunge is... resurrected by Dries van Noten for Spring 2013.  I personally think every wardrobe should include a little Dries each season.  It is always so wearable, so well made, so somehow personal. The Dries girl/woman is smart, sexy and creative.  And the Dries girl/woman is a little grunge this coming Spring 2013. 

Girl meet Woman meet Dries meet Grunge...  happiness ensues...

coming Spring 2013