Tag Archives: Karl Lagerfeld

Carine Roitfeld is my fashion soul sister! (well, kinda…..)

7 Feb

Well, ok…I haven’t worked at a fashion magazine ever, and I’ll probably never get closer to Karl Lagerfeld than I did when I almost tried on one of the dresses from his Macy’s capsule collection.  But when I read that Carine Roitfeld, former Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Paris,  is planning a new magazine, slated for launch in September and wants to be “the link between the runway and the real woman,”  well, I almost died…

One of the reasons I started High Fashion, Average Woman, is to experiment a bit with fashion journalism to see if a fairly average woman with good taste and personal style could actually write something that other women would find fun and somewhat helpful as they, too try to navigate the crazy world of the fashion and beauty industries.  Too often I hear from women friends of all ages  and geographic locations about how they don’t understand what’s going on in fashion; question why clothes don’t fit nor flatter their figures; and if there is any sense to even trying to look good when everything looks recycled from previous generations’ bad fashion closets.  Granted, I don’t keep up with this blog as much as I should, but my goal has been pretty lofty and I’m not making any money from this particular venture.  So I get to it when I can.

And I think , for the most part, that I’m meeting my goals here…

So, I’m really glad to see that Roitfeld is planning to use her knowledge and experience to perhaps help us navigate what the heck is going on in fashion and beauty.  In the meantime, I’ll keep up my end of the deal and continue to write here.  Who knows what might happen–you know what I mean? ;)

(h-t to Fashionista.com)

Lagerfeld Inspires with 2012 pre-Fall Collection, LeWeb Interview

14 Dec

More often than not I’ll view the video or photos of a fashion show and think “meh” or “omg, that’s ugly.”  Believe me, it’s not that I don’t “get it.”  I’ve been “getting” the whole fashion thing since about 1980.  It’s just that most of it leaves me rather underwhelmed with its rehashed style and retro kink.  Then I peruse the Chanel 2012 pre-Fall collection,  and I find myself having a Wow Moment.  Tim Banks writing for Style.com describes it thusly:

The theme “Paris-Bombay” was a reminder that Europe’s fashion industry has increasingly turned to India to produce extravagantly handworked pieces as it has become prohibitively expensive to make them at home. [Karl] Lagerfeld’s fiendish plan was to flip the equation, so that everything that looked intricately Indian was actually made by Chanel’s ateliers in Paris. That was some kind of tour de force….

All that aside, Paris and Bombay blended beautifully in pearl-swagged tweeds, in a raw silk tunic over leggings (they were actually sinuously bootlike, so we should probably call them beggings or loots), in sheer paisleys, or side-draped asymmetry in ivory silk.

Wow,  indeed!

Now, I might not want to wear an entire ensemble from the collection.  That would be a tad too costume-y.  I could, though, easily add a piece here and there, and bring a little Parisian-Indian elegance to my wardrobe.  Here are some of the complete looks that I would then take a piece from, here and there, to the continuing fashion  Story of Me

And then, my friend Halley Tucker, who was at the LeWeb tech conference in Paris, blogged LeWeb founder Loic LeMeur’s interview with Karl Lagerfeld!  She captured the most insightful moments from the interview.  The stand-out of the interview was Lagerfeld discussing the way he indulges new technologies while never forgetting the importance of the tactile world (something a whole lot of geek-techy types want us to think is unimportant.)  The best, though, is Lagerfeld’s sentiments about social networking overload: “It’s not about being overly connected, it’s about being WELL connected.”

Indeed!