You are looking at a photo from the Marc Jacobs show held in New York earlier this week. Some things I’d like to share: 1) According to the New York Times, Marc Jacobs refused to follow a new Council of Fashion Designers of America guideline to only use models over the age of sixteen. 2) He said, “I do the show the way I think it should be, and not the way somebody tells me it should be.”  3) Clearly. To me, this looks like what would happen if Steven Tyler mated with one of the Golden Girls.  4) However, most fashion critics seemed to love this show. 5) How did the Council of Fashion Designers of America react to Marc Jacobs (a CFDA Board Member, by the way) blatantly ignoring their recommendation and using two models ages 14 or 15? 6) With the following comment: “The guidelines are suggested recommendations. They are not mandatory requirements. Each season we hope designers will follow them but it is really up to the designers to decide.” 7) Okay, designers? Don’t f#$% around with the CFDA. Those folks are tough. (Photo vogue: Marc Jacobs Fall 2012, Photographed by Evan Sung)

You are looking at a photo from the Marc Jacobs show held in New York earlier this week.

Some things I’d like to share:

1) According to the New York Times, Marc Jacobs refused to follow a new Council of Fashion Designers of America guideline to only use models over the age of sixteen.

2) He said, “I do the show the way I think it should be, and not the way somebody tells me it should be.” 

3) Clearly. To me, this looks like what would happen if Steven Tyler mated with one of the Golden Girls. 

4) However, most fashion critics seemed to love this show.

5) How did the Council of Fashion Designers of America react to Marc Jacobs (a CFDA Board Member, by the way) blatantly ignoring their recommendation and using two models ages 14 or 15?

6) With the following comment: “The guidelines are suggested recommendations. They are not mandatory requirements. Each season we hope designers will follow them but it is really up to the designers to decide.”

7) Okay, designers? Don’t f#$% around with the CFDA. Those folks are tough.

(Photo vogue: Marc Jacobs Fall 2012, Photographed by Evan Sung)

Who said, “I find the idea of the super rich quite disgusting”?

Give up? It was shoemaker to the fairly well off, Monolo Blahnik, in the Wall Street Journal. 

“I find the idea of the super rich quite disgusting. I recently turned down a lot of money to create a mass-market type product. I don’t want to make that sort of money if I am polluting my brand.”

I hate to rain on Mr. Blahnik’s Don’t-Show-Me-The-Money Parade but this makes less sense than my four year old talking in his sleep about… Well, I couldn’t understand him but I think it had to do with dogs. Or flowers. Or ice cream. I don’t know. It didn’t make any sense at all. 

Excuse me?! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! Not ONE of my children’s birthday parties was included on this list?! I demand a recount. P.S. In this photo, Sarah Jessica Parker is telling Anna Wintour about her idea for hand necklaces. “So, if you’re not doing anything with your right hand, you just cup it around your neck like this…. and boom, it’s jewelry. Now, if you need your hand, to, you know, light a cigarette, you take off your necklace and light up. When you finish, your hand can go back to being worn as a necklace. I think you should cover it for Vogue. It’s recession chic.”

Excuse me?! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

Not ONE of my children’s birthday parties was included on this list?! I demand a recount.

P.S. In this photo, Sarah Jessica Parker is telling Anna Wintour about her idea for hand necklaces. “So, if you’re not doing anything with your right hand, you just cup it around your neck like this…. and boom, it’s jewelry. Now, if you need your hand, to, you know, light a cigarette, you take off your necklace and light up. When you finish, your hand can go back to being worn as a necklace. I think you should cover it for Vogue. It’s recession chic.”

I know this isn’t the usual Mammalingo kind of post, but let me tell you that I happened upon the most complex, exquisite do-it-yourself project I’ve ever seen. (Okay, that I’ve seen recently.) In a million years, I couldn’t figure out how to do this even WITH INSTRUCTIONS, but if you can, more power to you. If I were the woman who makes these, I would sell them for lots of money. Is that terrible to say? That’s how I roll I guess. Anyway, if you make them or have any other awesome craft projects to share, comment away.  (From Tutorializer) Jewel Embellished Shoes - DIY Tutorial (via …love Maegan: Maeg-it Yourself Jewel Embellished Shoes DIY Fashion Home Lifestyle)

I know this isn’t the usual Mammalingo kind of post, but let me tell you that I happened upon the most complex, exquisite do-it-yourself project I’ve ever seen. (Okay, that I’ve seen recently.) In a million years, I couldn’t figure out how to do this even WITH INSTRUCTIONS, but if you can, more power to you. If I were the woman who makes these, I would sell them for lots of money. Is that terrible to say? That’s how I roll I guess. Anyway, if you make them or have any other awesome craft projects to share, comment away. 

(From Tutorializer) Jewel Embellished Shoes - DIY Tutorial (via …love Maegan: Maeg-it Yourself Jewel Embellished Shoes DIY Fashion Home Lifestyle)

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I’m closing out the week beating the topic of fashion to death. Thanks to New York Magazine, I learned that the retailer bebe launched a new line of clothing. It’s a line of work clothes. Clothing that a woman would wear to work. At a job. Pictured is Tuesday’s look. It is called, “The 9 to 5 Dress.”  (I guess that bebe is leaving it to you to decide where to put the a.m. and the p.m.)

I’m closing out the week beating the topic of fashion to death. Thanks to New York Magazine, I learned that the retailer bebe launched a new line of clothing. It’s a line of work clothes. Clothing that a woman would wear to work. At a job. Pictured is Tuesday’s look. It is called, “The 9 to 5 Dress.” 

(I guess that bebe is leaving it to you to decide where to put the a.m. and the p.m.)

Interesting fashion news from the Wall Street Journal: ”Teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is offering to pay Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino not to wear its merchandise. The company has ’deep concern’ over the association between Mr. Sorrentino and the brand. A&F offered up a ‘substantial payment’ to Mr. Sorrentino ‘to wear an alternate brand.’”  In other fashion news…. Well, it’s not really news, I wrote a piece for Babble about being a fashionista. It’s a bit tongue in cheek. It’s already been called a waste of cyberspace by one commenter. You can go see for yourself. (How’s that for a compelling offer?) Photo: MTV

Interesting fashion news from the Wall Street Journal: ”Teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is offering to pay Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino not to wear its merchandise. The company has ’deep concern’ over the association between Mr. Sorrentino and the brand. A&F offered up a ‘substantial payment’ to Mr. Sorrentino ‘to wear an alternate brand.’” 

In other fashion news…. Well, it’s not really news, I wrote a piece for Babble about being a fashionista. It’s a bit tongue in cheek. It’s already been called a waste of cyberspace by one commenter. You can go see for yourself. (How’s that for a compelling offer?)

Photo: MTV

This is not a sweatshirt from 1982. It’s a Givenchy satin pullover that’s currently featured on Style.com. It’s $1500. No decimal point. Fifteen hundred dollars. I’m trying to decide what Michael Kors would say about it if an unknown designer created it on “Project Runway.” It’s a toss up between: “That looks like something you’d see at the Hallmark Store nestled between the Beanie Babies and the Precious Moments’ figurines.” Or, “Grandma used to throw that on when she went out back to feed the cats.” Do you like it? What do you think Michael would say?   

This is not a sweatshirt from 1982. It’s a Givenchy satin pullover that’s currently featured on Style.com. It’s $1500. No decimal point. Fifteen hundred dollars. I’m trying to decide what Michael Kors would say about it if an unknown designer created it on “Project Runway.”

It’s a toss up between: “That looks like something you’d see at the Hallmark Store nestled between the Beanie Babies and the Precious Moments’ figurines.” Or, “Grandma used to throw that on when she went out back to feed the cats.”

Do you like it? What do you think Michael would say?