You're My Butterfly: Valentino Pre-Fall 2014

Kudos again to Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli for another wearable and wonderful, true to the codes of Maison Valentino and modernity, collection.  

The pieces I am coveting... Valentino, you're my butterfly, sugar, baby...

Valentino Pre Fall 2014.  Photos from Style.com

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

Fashion Will You Still Love Me, Will You Still Need Me When I'm 65? Part #8

I love The Row.  I never would have guessed, when I first heard that the Olsen sisters were designing a fashion collection, that I would want to wear it, would really love it and that the label would even last.  But it is the quiet elegance, the quiet wearability of their clothing that makes it a keeper.  It is not inexpensive so I try to load up on their tees and tanks when they go on sale.  The pants are just perfect... whether it is the leather leggings or my other favorite, the cropped stretch pant, that just slips on with a little flair.  So modern Jackie.  Great with a loafer, a short boot, a little sandal... 

But it not just the modern simplicity and wearability of their clothing that makes Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen so brilliant but the casting of their most recent pre-fall collection that is notably remarkable for two young women 27 years old. 

The Olsens cast Linda Rodin.  65 years old.  Ex model.  Creator of Olio Lusso (which I also love)!

Linda Rodin in The Row Pre-Fall 2014 collection.  Photos from Style.com

Linda Rodin's Olio Lusso in my salle de bain

love, kisses and vintage,  Juliana

Dear Alber Elbaz,

Dear sweet Alber Elbaz,

I will meet you in Paris at midnight.  I will be in a Peugot Type 176 car and I will be wearing this:

We will meet up with Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald and, of course, have a few drinks before Fitzgerald takes us to meet Hemingway - and we will, of course, have more drinks... and I will wear this:

We will return home, giddy with excitement and disbelief.  Alber, the next evening we will meet again at midnight.  And I will wear this:

and we will meet for a late dinner with Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein.  Gertrude, will ask me about my dress and I will tell her you made it for me and she will immediately insist, you make her a dress but not to mention this to Pierre Balmain.

And when we leave Alice and Gertrude, a horse drawn carriage will be waiting outside their door to take us to Maxim Paris where we will meet with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gaugin and Edgar Degas.  They will argue who gets to paint my portrait (well, you know, this is my fantasy after all : ) and I will be wearing this:

And in the morning when we return to work, I will wear this:

and will remember our incredible nights together.  Thank you for the memories Alber!

love, kisses and vintage,  Juliana

*Letter to Alber Elbaz inspired by Woody Allen's film 'Midnight in Paris' and the too lovely for mere words Lanvin Pre-Fall 2014 collection.