Fashion Will You Still Love Me Will You Still Need Me When I'm 64?

First, Charlotte Rampling for Francois Nars and now Jessica Lange was just announced as the new face for Marc Jacobs beauty with a smoky eye and a peachy lip and a whole lot of mood.  If things keep going like this, pretty soon, I will not even have to ask fashion will you still love me, will you still need me when I'm...

love, kisses and vintage, Juliana

Pre-Fall 2014 Favorites: Louis Vuitton

Sniff, sniff... Marc Jacobs has left the house of Louis Vuitton to focus on his namesake line.  I have always been a Louis Vuitton girl.  I found the quality of the pieces they produced to be demi couture and the production small.  As much as I love Celine, you see rows and rows of it in every store you go but with Louis Vuitton, its just a few pieces, in a few stores.  And not many people are buying it.  LV is more about the bags.  I have a very nice collection of Marc Jacobs LV tucked away in my closet and I know I will continue to wear them and my daughter will look forward to raiding my closet one of these days too soon.

So now we are in transition time; waiting to see what Nicolas Ghesquiere will do for his first collection in March - and I have no doubt that the LV ready to wear woman will continue to have special, beautiful, beautifully made pieces to choose from.  The one thing I worry about is that the collection will get even more expensive.  You may remember just how expensive the runway NG's Balenciaga pieces were...

In the meantime, Louis Vuitton presented its 2014 pre fall collection here in NY yesterday and it is just what I love about Vuitton but this collection was particularly wearable.  Is wearability a new trend?  

Hello Gorgeous!  Can I wear you every day?!

You are gorgeous too.  Are those net socks?  Part of the shoe??  Style.com, where are the detail photos??

Day to night...

and for skiing in St Moritz and having a Bretzel at Hanselmann apres ski...

and for when you are feeling a little 1960s Balenciaga...

Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2014.  Photos from Style.com

love, kisses and vintage,  Juliana

It was a Belle Epoque: Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuittton

The Louis Vuitton Spring 2014 show was a dark, romantic, tattered version of the Belle Epoque with jet embroidered jackets, some tasseled and a mise-en-scene reminiscent of a dreamscape Folies-Bergere.

It was also the last collection to be designed by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.

I have always been a Louis Vuitton girl.  I love the small production, the little brown cards that came with each piece often noting the fragility, the handwork, recommendations to hang your LV piece on a padded hanger or folded in a drawer, fringing made by hand...

Will Nicolas Ghesquiere go to LV?  I think he could be the perfect choice to carry on the dress making for the Louis Vuitton girl...

RARE vintage Weekend Style and Inspiration: If It's Not Vintage, It's Not In Fashion

From Harper's Bazaar 1966 

Or is it Alexander McQueen Fall 2012

Or Louis Vuitton Spring 2013

If it's not vintage, it's not in fashion!

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

King Charles II and Marc Jacobs

Say what?!  Inspiration can come in the unlikeliest places...

King Charles II 

and Marc Jacobs 

 Marc Jacobs Fall 2012

and King Charles II

#FF@RareVintageNYC

I've wanted to start a new section on our RARE vintage blog for awhile: my #FFs - but instead of meaning Follow Friday, it will mean my Friday Favorites.  There is a lot that I will be posting on our new column but I thought I would start with the fabulous and fabulously talented Stella Lee who is one of @RareVintageNYC 's favorite stylists.

Stella Lee recently styled a story for Fashion Gone Rogue and the wardrobe came exclusively from yours truly: RARE vintage.  As gorgeous as our Schleppi mannequin is, it is a real treat to see our vintage on a real live model styled brilliantly by Stella Lee and photographed by Angelo d'Agostino.

Thank you Stella!!

#FF @RareVintageNYC:

Marc Bohan for Christian Dior

Pierre Cardin Couture suit with leather detail

Galanos crepe and lace black gown

John Galliano polka dotted pajama Le Smoking ensemble

Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis beaded ensemble

Oscar de la Renta silk dress

You can see the entire story here.  More #FF RareVintageNYC next Friday!!

PURCHASE

INQUIRY

Infamy Forever! The Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis Collection

What would John Singer Sargent be without the infamous Madame X painting?  Well, still a great artist.  What would Yves Saint Laurent be without the infamous and famously loathed Forties Collection?  Well, still a great designer.  What would Lindsay Lohan be without her infamy?  Well, if she can get the past the scandal, she will return to also being a good actress with a bit of good old fashion infamy tossed in.  Remember Mean Girls?  

So, what would Marc Jacobs be without the infamous Grunge Collection for Perry Ellis that ended with him being fired? He would still be a great designer.  Scandal is for now, infamy is forever.

Marc Jacobs was inspired by Yves Saint Laurent for a part of the  infamous Grunge Collection.  He is still inspired by YSL - just take a peak at the spring collection on Vogue.com - I felt like I was watching fabulously coifed girls with big flowers (hello Alison!) in their hair try on Saint Laurent at RARE vintage!

Here is a rainbow colored Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis silk chiffon tie-dye rainbow top.  And I am sure there will be a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow☺!

 Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis Silk Chiffon Rainbow Top with beaded strings

PURCHASE

INQUIRY

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!

Ultimate Fashion Moment

Here is a photograph of Michelle Trachtenberg at the opening of superheroes at the Met in vintage Yves Saint Laurent from RARE vintage with its matching belt by Goossens for YSL sharing a moment with Marc Jacobs and Amanda Harlech. Since Marc Jacobs is one of our most creative and important designers and Lady Amanda Harlech is a fashion world legend (in addition to having been muse to John Galliano early in his career and since 1997 has been working with Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel) we think that this definitely qualifies as an ultimate fashion moment!