Spring - Summer Trends 2023

 

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Pantone: FASHION COLOR TREND REPORT Spring Summer 2022

 I only liked one particular color.  See what I found at Louis Vuitton that "matches"  that color below.  Post to follow. First, fashion ... next will be our homes, right?!

New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2022

A DIVERSE AND DISTINCTIVE RANGE OF COLORS CONNECTS OUR NEED FOR CALM AND COMFORT WITH FREE-SPIRITED OPTIMISM AND JOYFUL ADVENTURE

Laurie Pressman | Pantone Color Institute | September 8, 2021

Published for the fashion industry by the Pantone Color Institute™, the trend forecasting and color consultancy, this season’s report features the top ten standout colors, as well as current takes on the four core classics we can expect to see as fashion designers introduce their new autumn/winter collections.

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Louis Vuitton:  Planet LV Bandeau

my pick of Pantone color

Pantone Fashion Color Trend

These 10 Colors Will Be Trending in 2022

Louis Vuitton Planet LV Bandeau

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Designer Kate Spade Found Dead

Fashion designer  Kate Spade was found dead by housekeeping staff in her apartment in New York City Tuesday morning.

Law enforcement officials pronounced the 55-year-old dead by apparent suicide at 10:20 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

A note was reportedly found inside the home with Spade’s body, though officials have not yet released the contents of the note ...

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Kate Spade: Gia clutch

Kate Spade

Kate Spade Dead @ 55

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Designer: Marc Jacobs

Loved the years he was with Louis Vuitton!

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Marc Jacobs

Fashion designer MARC JACOBS (Louis Vuitton,  1997-2014) condemned political correctness in a speech at Oxford University in response to criticisms he received last year over his decision to dress white models in dreadlocks.

Jacobs spoke to around 400 students at Oxford University, arguing that it is very dangerous to say: “You can’t use this, you can’t look at that, you can’t borrow from that, you can’t be inspired by that.”

“You know, ‘stay in your own lane.’ I don’t really understand that mentality and I think it’s a very dangerous way of thinking,” he said.

Jacobs was criticized last year during Fashion Week for featuring white models in dreadlocks, a hairstyle that is typically associated with black culture. “I didn’t feel like I was doing anything wrong. I was expressing myself – these were my references and my reasons for being inspired to do it,” Jacobs argued.

In response to criticism, Jacobs has doubled down, arguing that political correctness is dangerous to creativity. “I felt attacked for doing something that I thought was my right to do,” he said. “I do feel that creative people shouldn’t have any kind of border control on what it’s okay to look at, what it’s okay to be inspired by, so I stand by that.”

Jacobs was speaking alongside Edward Enninful, the first black male editor of British Vogue magazine. Enninful told students that he has no problem with cultural appropriation as long as the original culture is given credit.

“If someone appropriates something, as long as they give credit where it’s from and give the history of where it’s from, I’m completely fine with it,” he argued. “If you are going to appropriate, just credit the original.”

by Tom Ciccotta

Link:
Danger of Political Correctness

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Dolce & Gabbana and Melania Trump

I am pleased that First Lady, Melania Trump, loves what I also love (but can not yet afford): anything and everything that is by Italian fashion house, Dolce & Gabbana :

Saudi Arabia: White Dolce & Gabbana paint-suit paired with a ruffled black blouse and Manolo Blahnik black pumps made of snakeskin.

pc: AP Images

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Israel: Black Lace Dress

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Rome:  Custom-made black coat-dress with gold brocade details on the collar and sleeves.

pc: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images

 Italy: Black lace dress

pc: AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca

--- > Saudi Arabian Nights

--- > Melania Radiates in High Fashion

Goyard: a Very Popular Bag

Courtesy of SA Peter

By BILL CUNNINGHAM

Published: December 10, 2006

And the winner of the handbag classic is: Goyard -- by a mile! Picking up speed in the last month, lightweight bags by the 153-year-old French luggage maker outran the heavy, overembellished prestige bags to become the most popular bag carried by women on luxury mile, Madison Avenue and 57th Street. Of lacquered linen and cotton, the bags don’t shout status and there are no waiting lists at Goyard boutiques at Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys. A Goyard tote bag starts at about $855 (extra for ribbons and monograms).

For in him [Christ] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 

And ye are complete in him, 

which is the head of all principality and power

  (Colossians 2)

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