Waste Time Doing This!

Browsing through Woman's Wear Daily online I came across the most fabulous website. It's a website called Closet Couture that premiered just last week, where members can create a profile of their virtual clothing closet.
Members of the website create their own profiles of the clothes in their closet, taking pictures of each piece and filing them under their specific category such as "skirts." Then after your closet is complete, you can use the "dressing room" option to create an outfit. The outfits that you create can be voted on by other members on the site.
On your profile page, there is a calendar that allows you to make and plan outfits, and also record when you wore something last. With the "packing list" option you can select the clothes that you want to pack for a trip.
When you log in to this website you are presented with the latest fashion news, most recently created outfits, and friend updates. You can go shopping on designer's profiles and create a wish list. You can hire stylist's on the website to select an outfit from your wardrobe, pick out your clothes for a weekend, pick out your clothes for a month, and receive styling advice and recommendations for additions to you closet-this service costing &1,000.
This website, though not the first of its kind is a great addition to the Internet world. Especially for us, the fashion students who can now actually picture all the clothes crammed into our closets. We can plan our outfits and have our friends comment on them. Now, let's run along and virtualize our closets.

Did the true designer come out on top?

Everyone and their mother watched Project Runway last night. But did the rightful designer win?

The winner, Leanne Marshall presented a perfectly clean collection. All of the clothes went together with similar colors, tones and design features. The basic colors were white and beige while several main pieces came with an aqua blue punch.

Yes, she may have included too many petals but they were each presented in different ways. And she was the only designer that had a well blended collection, in my opinion anyway. I think she was chosen because of this, and also because her collection looked clean and professional. But she did not take any risks, and in the fashion world this can be boring.

Korto Momolu is the designer that many feel should have won Project Runway. Her collection showcased many beautiful patterns topped with extravagant design elements. Most of her dresses showed off her models backs and two had simple diagonal straps down the back. The favorite of her dresses however was a green halter dress with one side of the halter being two beaded strands- brillant? I loved it.

So then- who deserved the golden crown? Was it the clean professional collection by Leanne Marshal or the design styles of Korto Momolu?

I could argue either way.

Though one thing is for sure- Kenley Collins was not the winner in sight. Not only did she have a crappy attitude but her cocky persona did not balance well with her "okay" collection. Her collection was.....umm unoriginal, what a surprise. I didn't like it at all but I can't conclude that is was because everything was ugly looking. I think it was because everything was out of place- none of the pieces looked good together. And the color choices were a bit off for the designs- besides the hand-painted garments, many of the outfits had only two large plains of color, like black and green. That's it-everything had either two little color or too much color.

Anyways lets hear some feedback. :)

~Kandy~

Your Fired

If you've been following the fashion world like I have (thank God for the sake of this entry), you already know Alessandra Facchinetti was fired from head designer of Valentino. And how did she find out? By simply reading the morning paper.


Yup. That's about the most interesting thing I've heard all week. One minute you think you're the next big thing in fashion and the next you're being fired by the New York Times.


Valentino says she was fired because her visions were not the visions of Valentino and her fashions were "over-designed." Well-my God it took them this long to figure it out?


Fashion is meant to be creative. Runway shows are meant to be shocking. So what if Facchinetti failed to achieve Valentino's vision, she was able to produce her own.


What I'm saying is, yea her fashions sucked, but at least someone was proud of it.

~Kandy~

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602942_3.html