Costanza on what is Rare

If you read the RARE vintage blog regularly, you will remember I did a post on the fabulous Italian born fashion editor for Vogue Brazil, Costanza Pascolato.  She loves fashion, dresses very fashionably (in the latest from Miu Miu, The Row, Alexander Wang, Carven, Prada, Valentino) but does so with great polish, great chic and always age appropriate.  

And by 'age appropriate' I don't mean old lady clothes.   It just means knowing what looks good and what does not look so good.  It means that your look evolves.  Even my daughter's look has evolved as she turns the ripe old age of ten.  So, when you are 60 or 70 you don't want try to dress like a 20 year old.  I see it all of the time in New York and it is always sad and sometimes a little scary.

But back to Costanza - who always looks amazing.  The equally amazing Garance Doré's latest episode of Pardon My French is a chat with Costanza about the evolving world of fashion.  And what I love is that she speaks about what is rare and the loss of discovery in fashion.  

It is one of the reasons I am always drawn to mixing vintage in my wardrobe.  I don't want to have what everyone else has.  If I am going to pay a lot for something, I don't want to see a hundred other women in the same thing.  I want to be the only one : )  I also find it very depressing that no matter where you go in the world, you see the same things, in the same stores.

You know we are all about what is rare and the joy of discovery at RARE vintage.  

Here is Pardon My French with Garance Doré and Costanza Pascolato.  Enjoy!  Thank you Garance for the wonderful interview!

I Heart Marc Jacobs Fall 2010

Because woman can not live by vintage alone and because a good man may be hard to find but a great ready to wear collection is even harder to find, I am ending the week that was New York Fashion Week with a belated Valentine to a good man, Marc Jacobs,  who presented an absolutely incredible collection of  actually, totally wearable day clothes.

Be Mine

This coat will be mine.  So, don't even think about telling me that it is not being produced and was only for the runway!  I still have not gotten over a gorgeous Louis Vuitton silk flapper inspired dress that I knew would be my perfect every day dress until I found out it was not being produced.  Cruelty thy name is Marc Jacobs!  (I am obviously still working through some issues here!)  But here is the coat of my dreams:

Sweet Talk

This collection whispered in my ear sweet nothings about the wardrobe that Faye Dunaway would have worn in Bonnie and Clyde.

It whispers, Faye would have worn this with silk tap pants and a garter belt. It whispers, yes!  you can have your Bonnie Parker dream wardrobe.  Now, if I could just get those red lips from Chinatown...

It also says these are skirts you can wear with an actual panty instead of just a tanga (which is the cute Italian word for thong).   I love a good tanga but sometimes you just want to be, well, ahem, a little more comfy.  That is a problem with extremely short skirts.  The other day when I was having a pedicure, I had a full view of a girl's behind when she bent down to get something out of her bag.  It was a very nice behind but I think that you should be able to pick up something out of your bag without sharing everything.

You Frock!

In a granny boot:

In a little daytime gold:

In something sweet:

In something with wonderful details:

One of my favorite blogs that I obsessively check every day, yes, every day!  But you will too if you don't already because she has an amazing eye for unique and stylish women and her writing is witty, amusing and I look forward to reading her blog as much as I enjoy looking at all of the photos.  It is the blog of Garance Doré.  Garance just posted a video of the front row at the Marc Jacobs show which you can see on her site, http://www.garancedore.fr/en .  Enjoy!  And if you have not been to her blog before be ready to spend hours looking through the archive!