DAMN, YOUR STEPPING YOUR GAME UP JOHNNY!
First of all, do you see this fabulous bag? Too wonderful...It's a limited-edition Johnny Cupcakes handbag with full grain leather. I'm so in love with this bag. Add your email to the mailing list to be first to purchase this bag when released. I know I will!
VERSACE BRINGS THAT SEXY SILHOUETTE BACK!
I've always been a huge Versace fan! I love that Donatella never changes her design style. And I'm so sick of the matronly shifts and the rest of the, as of late, big and curveless clothing. Let's just stick to sleek and sexy looks please this spring/summer. Thanks.
[PRESS RELEASE] CHIC CHICAGO: COUTURE TREASURES FROM THE WINDY CITY FLY TO THE MUSEUM AT FIT
Visitors to The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will have a rare opportunity this fall to view 50 examples of haute couture from the Chicago History Museum. Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum, on display October 12 through January 5, will showcase fashions ranging from Gilded Age gowns of the 19th century by Worth and Pingat to modern masterpieces by Chanel, Vionnet, and Chicago's own greats, Mainbocher and Charles James, who opened his first hat shop there in 1926 at the age of 19."The wealth of haute couture in this collection testifies to the style of generations of Chicagoans," said Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT. Highlights include a black velvet Balenciaga evening gown worn by Clare Booth
Luce; an off-white silk crepe wedding dress trimmed with lace, net, and silver lamé by Lanvin, worn by Mrs. Robert McCormick Adams, wife of the publisher of the Chicago Tribune; and several lavishly embroidered Callot Soeurs dresses from the wardrobe of Mrs. Potter Palmer II, artist, social leader, philanthropist, and wife of Potter Palmer II. Other highlights of the exhibition include a white velvet Chanel evening gown with rhinestones and crystal bead trim worn by Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, granddaughter of George Pullman, inventor of the Pullman railroad car; and a red silk taffeta Dior cocktail dress, worn by the choreographer and dancer Ruth Page.
For more info: www.fitnyc.edu/museum.
Ciao ladies & Gents!
