SingulEar

"Once you've dressed, and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off."
Coco Chanel

Words to live by don't you think?  And if you buy, like I hope to, the earring that Camille Miceli designed for Louis Vuitton Fall 2014, you (and I : ) will already have one thing taken off.

I just hope they are not too heavy because I do want my earlobes flipping and flopping around when I get older...

Camille Miceli single earrings for Louis Vuitton Fall 2014.  Photo by Camille Miceli.

One of my style icons, Tina Chow, often wore a single earring of her own design.

Tina Chow wearing a single earring of her own design.

and I think she is wearing a single pearl earring here too:

and I was lucky enough to have had one of Tina Chow's single earrings at RARE vintage awhile back... and cross my fingers, we will have more Tina Chow pieces soon...

Tina Chow single Tibetan turquoise earring from RARE vintage.

So, ladies, single file as we line up for the wait list for the LV earring please!

love, kisses and single earring obsessed, Juliana

DESIRE: Louis Vuitton Spring 2013

Desire.  Love.  Lust.  are mere words to describe one's obsession for fashion.  Maybe Yearn.

Desire.  Love.  Lust. What I am yearning for...

Sophia Coppola's beaded gilet in the Louis Vuitton Spring 2014 ad campaign...  so modern Lady Mary...

love, kisses and vintage, Juliana

What Catherine Deneuve Would Bring to the Himalayan Mountains

A Louis Vuitton embellished bag.  I love this bag not sure if I would take it to the Himalayan mountains but to each her own...

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...

Are You Scared of Sweetness? Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2012

Nice.  Fragile.  Vulnerable.  Tender.  Beautiful sheer fabrics.  Guipere lace.  Looked like little clouds.  Kind colors.  Floating.  Magical.  Lovely.  Like the carousel in the Tuileries that happens when spring happens.  Love is a possibility.  Sweetness.  Under currents of fetish.  Sugary Sweet.  The cherry on the cake.

Overheard at the Spring/Summer 2012 Louis Vuitton show.

You've Been a Bad, Bad Girl

So you might as well wear this:

Style.com

Wonder what is inside her bag?

Maybe these?

Twitpic posted by Bryanboy