Spring 2015 Couture Street Style Trending: The Sneaker

Comfort thy name be the Sneaker.  Look how great and oddly polished the sneaker can be...

The sneaker goes to Paris and to the haute couture:

xo, Juliana

Best Dressed Street Style Paris Haute Couture

I am pretty much over the clowning it up to clamour for the attention of the street style photographers.  Originally the whole street style movement was about getting some great ideas for everyday dressing by fashionable and chic men and women who work in the fashion industry.  They tend to be risk takers and to mix up seasons, designers, new and vintage... then it spiraled out of control.  

I thought the best dressed girl I have seen so far is Princess Mathilde Melusine dei Principe Ruspoli at Giambattista Valli.  She was season appropriate, loved the tights, the t-strap platforms and the vintage-y looking cape made it all so perfect!

Melusine Ruspoli at Giambattista Valli haute couture spring 2015.  Photo from Style.com

xo, Juliana

We'll Always Have Paris: Street Style Edition

Looks like this Acne Studio wrap with its two large snaps and graphic black and white swirls is the street style accessory of the season...  

xo, Juliana

Best of Paris Street Style

I guess what I love about my favorite street style looks from Paris is that it looks like all of these women actually own these clothes (which is not true of some street style favorites posing on the streets) and the clothes look like something they would actually wear off the street style runway too...

I am getting obsessed with the idea of a slouchy suit - don't you love the scalloped detail?!:

The fab Dries coat with feather detail:

I don't recognize these sunglasses but they seem to be popping up on quite a few women...

Great details:

love, kisses and street style looks, Juliana

The Chloe Girl: The Barefoot Boheme at RARE vintage

Isn't it wonderful that the Egyptian-French founder of Chloé, Gaby Aghion, 91 years old, was able to celebrate 60 years of the Chloé label with an exhibition, Chloé Attitudes,  at the Palais de Tokyo?!  The Chloé girl is a barefoot boheme, a free spirit. We are celebrating the house of Chloé at RARE vintage with this spectacular Memphis-style print silk dress with a flyaway panel on the back.

The Chloe woman has been photographed by Guy Bourdin

Photo by Guy Bourdin.  1979

Inspired by the erotic art of the Victorian artist, Aubrey Beardsley

She loves a light, casual chic frock, inspired by the Bauhaus or the Memphis Art movement.  And we are thrilled to have this late 1970s/early 1980s Memphis-style print silk dress with a fluttering flyaway panel on the back of the dress in yellow with a pink and blue trim.

"Chloe's fashion director at the time, Karl Lagerfeld, turned to art books for inspiration: he tore out a page whenever he found a cubist or floral motif that he liked.  Then four draughtsmen were in charge of reproduction, before the silk and wool merchants carried out their meticulous work.  I found scarves that as a child I stole from my Mom's wardrobe to dress up my Barbie dolls.  I thought they looked much prettier and much more elegant dressed up in Chloé."   Helene Schoumann.  Daughter of the owner of the Chloe boutique.

A few images of the barefoot boheme Chloé girl from the Assouline book, Chloe:

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Balenciaga in Paris

I am in one of my favorite cities, Paris, for a bit of work and a bit of play.  And one of the first things I wanted to do was to go see an exhibit of one of my favorite designers: Balenciaga.  It is a tiny eclectic show.  A cabinet of curiosities collected by Balenciaga and designed by Balenciaga...

It is a show that combines some of the textiles, laces and embroideries that Balenciaga collected for his own personal collection (and exhibited for the first time) with some wonderful designs from Balenciaga.

All photos by Andrea Cairone for RARE vintage

Cristobal Balenciaga: Collectionneur de Modes
April 13 - October 7 2012
at Les Docks - Cité de la Mode et du Design
34 quai d'Austerlitz

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On Coats in Paris

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Are you still wearing your  coat with your arms in the sleeves??  That is, like, so last year.  Just take a look at the ladies in Paris for the shows

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now I have this Celine leather jacket too and I think she is choosing to wear it like this because the sleeves are cut so narrow, you feel rather like a stuffed sausage in it.  But that said, it is the coolest, most perfect leather jacket and everyone loves it.  Sometimes we must suffer for our fashion.  Or we can just wear it like this

you see another one!

all photos by Tommy Ton on style.com