Seasonal Wrap-Up:S/S 2009

Yes, It's really over, but I thought before we continued with our normal posting I'd share some of my thoughts on the season overall. For starters, in a very broad sense it was far from great. A lot of the routine favorites underperformed this season. Blame it on the economy if you want, but I was bored by a lot of it. Save for Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, and (in my opinion) Prada, the greats weren't in true form this season. But I'm not being a pessimist here, because I kind of thought it was a good thing! It made room for other designers to steal the spotlight. My favorite collections were, in no particular order: Stella McCartney, Emanuel Ungaro, Dries van Noten, Givenchy, Gucci, Pollini, Prada, Blumarine, Etro, Karen Walker, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Gianfranco Ferre, Armand Basi One, Lanvin, Ann Demuelemeester, Veronique Branquinho, Max Mara, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Blugirl, Topshop Unique, Luella, Todd Lynn, Ralph Lauren, Zac Posen, and Jason Wu, although I have a feeling I'm forgetting some from New York. All that aside, I loved these collections, and very few of them were one of the really "big" ones.
The main theme that I noticed this season was continuity.Designers embraced an "if it's not broken, don't fix it" mentality and decided to forgo drastic changes and instead modify their greatest hits. Sometimes it worked (see Lanvin) but other times it tasted a little sour the second time around (see Balmain.) Overall, I'm hoping the designers will take the hint next season and use Fall as a launching pad for new ideas.
On the model front, things weren't as diverse as they were promised to be. Other than the predictable (Jourdan, Arlenis, Sessilee, and Lakshmi) there wasn't a real influx of color. But I am glad to see that at least we started to see something new. There weren't a ton of breakouts, but Imogen Morris-Clarke and Katie Fogarty were two who I plan to look out for in the future.
Now that this season is officially behind us, Meg and I will be returning to our previous, more diverse and sporadic posting. After doing this for almost a month I feel refreshed and I'm hoping to reinforce the fact that this is more than just a fashion blog, although fashion is obviously my topic of choice. I hope that anyone who started reading this for fashion week updates will keep coming back, and at the very least know that I am definitely planning to do this again with the Fall shows. See you around!


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Monthly Wrap-Up Post:August 2008

Hey everyone! It's the end of August. It's been an awesome month, except for when Joey went a little crazy towards the end. But otherwise we've had some great stuff happen to us, like getting an interview with Liam Kyle Sullivan,getting over 100 hits in a day, and getting over 100 friends on YouTube! Thanks to everyone who's subscribed, and if you haven't, do so. Now, as amazing as this month has been, the future is bright for September! It's a very important our site, with big events like Spring Fashion Week and TV premieres! We'll be covering both extensively, plus we're branching out! We have plans for more videos, more interviews, more theme days, and DIY projects. So keep coming back to read all this and more, and while you're at it, Subscribe!

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Monthly Wrap-Up Post:July 2008

Hello everyone! Welcome to our monthly wrap-up post, which we're hoping to do every month from now until our little blog is no more. First off, congratulations to us! It's about a month since we started this site and we're just starting to get in to the swing of things. I don't have much to say this month, except that you should definitely keep coming back because we're putting a lot of effort in to it!
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Thats right Joey. Hey everybody! Im back from vacation and ready to get to work. This month we're getting excited about posting things we've been considering all of last month but never got around to. For instance, we're introducing themed days. Now im still waiting on YouTubers for my post, but apparently Joey is more successful in the interviewing field... Still, we're also going to try to make another video on YouTube, and suggestions are more than welcome!
Thanks for reading! Happy August!

--Meg

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