Harper's Bazaar November 1996 VS. Vogue April 2013

A study more than a rivalry.

Both editorials photographed by Demarchelier and styled by Goodman.

Each starred the supermodel of the season.

Both simple.  Both graphic.

And both prove easy and fresh resort looks really are timeless. 

Issue: Harper's Bazaar November 1996
Story: On Course for Resort
Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier
Stylist: Tonne Goodman
Hair: Didier Malige
Make Up: Dick Page

VS.

Issue: Vogue April 2013
Story: Smooth Sailing (not in it's entirety)
Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier
Stylist: Tonne Goodman
Hair: Jimmy Paul
Make Up: Christian McCulloch

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Jun Kaneko's Tanuki instalation opens in Millennium Park in a couple weeks, but I introduced myself to the creatures of mischief a little early.

cut & sew men's button down/ y-3, shorts/ jordan 28s/ comme des garçons, bag

photos by @thingsthatguydoes

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Dove right into mixing prints with this Mark McNairy/Heather Grey Wall tee and Julien David cardigan.  

Regular mix master.

SOEN May 2013

Nonchalant pattern mixing skills.

I will always be on an eternal search for this specific talent.

A talent I was reminded I will never possess when I came across the below editorial.

Issue: May 2013 SOEN
Story: Standard Pattern Border & Stripe Dot Check
Photographed by Jiro Konami
Stylist: Mitsuru Kurosawa
Hair & Make Up: Yoshikazu Miyamoto

Pitch Perfect

The mix of elements is perfect.

Hair and make up.

Sexy and minimalism.

Girly and androgyny.

Denim and heels.

Issue: Harper's Bazaar May 1995
Story: Shrink Fit
Photographed by Craig McDean
Stylist: no credit given
Hair: Eugene Souleiman
Make Up: Pat McGrath

Perfecto Jacket (rsf.19)

There are always those pieces you know you have always wanted.  

You know it will be a wardrobe staple, but you wait.

Wait for timing, wait for the right season. 

Or you wait for it to fall right into your lap, when you walk into the Levi's Store during mark down heaven.  The Schott 'Pefecto Jacket' hanging there at a price you just can't believe its still hanging there.  

Don't bother going to look for one of your own.  It's gone.

You waited too long.

Paris Fall 2013 Collections

Paris Fashion Week is over, and the grand finale of the tomboy trend.

And like no other city, Paris masters the allure of androgyny. 

Acne Studios 

Haider Ackermann 

Vanessa Bruno 

Chalayan 

Dries Van Noten (above and below) 

Christophe Lemaire 

Paul & Joe 

Zadig & Voltaire

Fast & Easy Style Advice

Bend over, flip your jeans into the fattest cuff possible, and you have the freshest outfit on the block.

Free of charge.  

Instant cool.

Chalayan Fall 2013

Androgynous Lull-A-Bye

There are not many tomboys walking the runways of Milan.

The models at Jil Sander were the closet, but beautiful brows and eyes sparkled with femininity.

Even the gamines at Emporio Armani were rouged up harlots.

So I am going to guess androgyny just doesn't fly in Milan.

But here comes Tilda to the rescue!  

Not in Milan but in a video along with Andrej Pejic, Saskia de Brauw and, wait for it, BOWIE!

Well, it is a Bowie video for his single The Stars (Are Out Tonight).  But when you add Tilda to the credits the video instantly becomes a film and glorious.

Ports 1961 Fall 2013 Collection

Tonight Chicago is reported to accumulate over a foot of snow for the first time this winter.

Since snow has waited so late in the season to show up, I had already moved on with picking out spring and summer pieces to add to my closet.  

So with my mind on Spring, I will most likely have a dilemma when I wake up tomorrow morning.  I'll be reaching for cotton pastels, knowing very well I need to pull out the woolens.  It might cause a brain freeze.  I'll change 20 times, miss the train and then be late for work.

Worrying about this scenario while browsing through the Fall 2013 Milan runway shows couldn't have been better timing.  Coming across the Ports 1961 show helped all my anxiety melt away.

I now have three options to reference in the morning.

1.  Wear a crisp white button down under those grey woolens with a SKIRT.

2.  Wear short sleeves and cover those bare arms with gloves.

3.  Mix up colors.

Getting dressed into my hybrid spring/fall outfit will be a breeze!

I can still day dream of Spring without consequence while facing the great white tundra of Chicago.  

London Fall 2013 Collections

Well, androgyny found its way over the pond onto the runways of London Fashion Week.

And it couldn't feel more natural than in the land where Ziggy Stardust rose and fell.

Thomas Tait 

Paul Smith 

Richard Nicoll 

Peter Pilotto 

Eudon Choi 

J.W. Anderson

New York Fall 2013 Collections

Oh, androgyny....this is your moment.

It couldn't be a bigger moment unless Bowie, The Eurythmics, and Roxy Music announced a world tour AND Tilda Swinton tagged along as the MC.  That would be a moment.

But that is just a young girl's dream and what we are witnessing today on the runways is reality.  The New York shows were loaded with tomboyish models in checks and plaids in drab colors, heavy fabrics, and over sized silhouettes.

Straight out of the blocks American women's wear designers nailed the masculine aura.  I'll be hoping Milan, London, and Paris can keep the boy-meets-girl momentum going, and going, and going.....  

Thakoon

Theysken's Theory

Rag & Bone 

3.1 Phillip Lim 

Thom Browne  

Band of Outsiders 

Alexander Wang 

Billy Reid 

Rachel Comey

Richard Chai Love

The Row