The Throes of Fashion

Friday, February 22, 2013

Free Yourself | Free People's New Social Media Platform

Free People has launched their new social media app, FP Me.

Here is the official post from the FP Blog, BLDG 25 but basically, its like LookBook meets Polyvore.

Customers now get their own profile where they can post looks, "heart" other people's pictures, add wishlists and create style story boards. Its so easy. All you need is an email address. Once you've joined the site, just take a picture of yourself in your favorite FP gear, then post it on any of the sites product pages. Here are screen shots of my profile and first look.

I foresee a lot of afternoons lost playing around on this site and making new friends.

So what do you think? Is this just a ploy to get more customers or another great place to share your personal style?

Fashionately Yours,

V

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Personal Style | Floral Arrangement

I wore this look to a concert in Brooklyn. I loved how the dress flowed as I moved all evening.

Dress: Thrifted, One Piece: American Apparel, Pants: UNIQLO, Booties: Diba Sumner

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Met Presents | PUNK!

Each year I count the moments until the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute opens their spring exhibition. This May they are presenting PUNK: Chaos to Couture. The show will juxtapose Punk Rock culture and the couture fashion it has inspired since its beginnings in the 1970s up until today.

Costume Institute Curator, Andrew Bolton says, "Although punk's democracy stands in opposition to fashion's autocracy, designers continue to appropriate punk's aesthetic vocabulary to capture its youthful rebelliousness and aggressive forcefulness."

The exhibition will feature over 200 looks from design powerhouses such as Dolce & Gobbana, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs and many more. I am most excited to see the offerings from the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte, Viktor & Rolf and Jun Takahashi of Undercover. The Costume Institute will also be showing looks from a designer that gave them success in the past, Alexander McQueen.

To celebrate the opening of PUNK, the Costume institute is throwing their annual Costume Gala on May 6th. The event will be co-chaired by my favorite punk inspired starlet and Academy Award Nominee, Rooney Mara as well s Lauren Santo Domingo, Co-Founder of Moda Operandi; Riccardo Tisci, Creative Director of Givenchy; and of course, the always chic, Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue.

The show will run from May 9 to April 14, 2013.

Here are a few of my favorite punk inspired looks from designers featured in the exhibition.