Showing posts with label Verushka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Verushka. Show all posts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Virtual Valentino or Reality Valentino?

"Everyone can reach the dresses with a simple click." Valentino

I don't know about you but as excited I am to look through the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum, I am a greedy girl and still desire the real thing to the virtual thing.  Like this for example:

"This iconic crepe dress in that pure, clear red that became Valentino's signature was modeled for the designer by the socialite Princess Luciana Pignatelli, and Henry Clark photographed it for Vogue.  It is such a significant piece that when Valentino held his 2007 retrospective at the Ara Pacis, is was isolated in its own glass cube on the concourse leading into the museum." Hamish Bowles


It was isolated people in its own cube.  Now, you can see it in the virtual museum.

Or you can look at the image in Vogue of Veruschka wearing the same red dress (with the to die for feathered coat...)


Or you can buy a very similar version from the 1970s at RARE vintage.  Valentino Couture by the way.  And you can purchase it virtually online or buy it at our store on 57th Street.  Ain't nothing like the real thing babies and you can start your own mini Valentino museum!


Iconic 1970s pure red silk Valentino Couture gown.  Size 4.

You can see Hamish Bowles' top picks from the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum here.

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Friday, September 23, 2011

The Mughal: Kenneth Jay Lane

Pauline de Rothschild dedicated her book, The Irrational Journey, to her friend Diana Vreeland.  The dedication said, "You held two keys, discipline and wisdom.  They gave you a vision.  Of the real, of the unreal, of the unreality waiting somewhere in the wings to be made real."

Vogue in the 1960s under Diana Vreeland was a place of dreams: real and imagined.  That is the fun of fashion; you can slip on a pale beige mink, wear beige knickers by Donald Brooks, brocaded sashes by Calderon and a Dynel hairpiece and suddenly you are on Diana Vreeland's high speed train from Kyoto to Tokyo looking like the beautiful Versuhka with a cup of green tea.



This early Kenneth Jay Lane Mughal style bracelet from the 1960s in an apricot enamel with green stones could have been sprung from the imagination of Diana Vreeland.  



Why don't you wear it with...

an apricot colored caftan from Oscar de la Renta from the 1990s (or something similar as this piece has already sold.)


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