Law of Relativity???

Yes, I know that discussing/reviewing the shows of SS11 is not only passe but it also borders on social retardation. I mean, how many times are people gonna wanna hear about the "Margiela influence" at Raf or drool at the espadrille/sneaker/brogues at Prada or fanboy over the vintage video game tunes played at Jil???(personally I could do all of those forever and ever.....)and with Paris Fashion Week coming up I figured this might be my last time to talk about them(this will only be a review of my top 6+Prada is coming later), so here. we.  GO!!

I always find myself in love with what Christopher Bailey does at Burberry.

I'm drawn to his ways of making the old seem new.

And the way he makes everything seem polished to a tee.

I love the fact that he practically reinvents the trenchcoat and the peacoat every year and turns it into something worth killing & dying for.

Not one season has passed where I wasn't absolutely head over heels in love.

But this right here............THIS RIGHT HERE, NIQQA!!

This is everything I've ever dreamed of. This is my soul in cloth form.

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS COLLECTION IS ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!

We've alll see trenchcoats done a million times over, BUT NEVER THIS GOOD!!! 

I mean.... the first trench above is like the perfect yellow-y/gold, like the dried mustard that gets stuck inside the cap!!!(thats kinda gross, but its so right in this context!!!)The sleeves on the trench in the middle(looks like leather or something) adds a little pop and a shot of A+ to an already amazingly tailored specimen of trench-ery(yeah, I made that word up. Its what I tend to do when I like something so much and there are no other existing words to desribe how I feel:)).

And the double-breasted SUPER-luxe suede one with the contrasting leather straps and epaulets on the far right....yeah that one..... I WOULD END INNOCENT LIVES FOR IT!!! YESSS!! END INNOCENT LIVES!!!(loljk but there would be a serious moment of contemplation)

AND OMG THE SHOES!!! THE (infamous) GLADIATOR BIRKENSTOCKS!!

(def one of my favorite shoes of the season.)

Inspired by bikers while also retaining the military inspo from last season, Bailey showed naval officer coats and epaulet-ed army shirts  alongside studded biker jackets and leather pants, turning the Burberry boys into a group of leather-clad Cyber-Biker Rockstar Soldiers. I only have 1 question:
Where do I enlist? 

The details were so good. #itsthelittlestuffman 

Burberry Prorsum is a very fitting name for the house while under the creative direction of Bailey. "Prorsum" translates to "forward", and thats exactly where Bailey is taking Burberry.

I felt extremely bi-polar watching Raf.

There was no middle.

No like.

No maybe.

There was only LOVE & HATE.

and a very thin line between the two.

The show had this "90's European Club Kid" vibe to it, with the street-sweeper pants and the sleeveless vests. Its cold and detached while also tradtional.

Masculine and flamboyantly elegant at the same time.

The color pallet was restricted to black, white and a few pastels.

Raf says that the color pallet is paying homage Margiela,

" Exactly 20 years ago I saw my first fashion show, and it was the third show of Martin Margiela, the all white one. It’s in homage to Martin......."

and the shapes and aesthetic, to his archives

 " .......but also revisiting our own past. I wanted it to be about liberation in a way as well."

(Doesn't the last look above on the right remind you of something the Backstreet Boys/N*Sync would've worn in there heydays. They may not be the best style reference point but I really like this look. I think I might get married in it.)

Raf took a break from the JNCO look and relapsed into the skinny silhouette/etreme tailoring we've come to expect from him.The shiny plastic-y sweater on the end gets unlimited love from me.I think about it during the day and I dream about it at night. (Yes, I do realize that it looks like something a weird fetish pornstar would wear, but so what?!! #maybethatsthelookimgoingfor)

Does Ricardo Tisci ever do anything wrong? 

(that was a rhetorical question. The obvious answer is NO!! If you found yourself second guessing Ricky, YOU CAN LEAVE NOW!!!loljk but srsly tho hes NEVER done anything wrong. never/ever.)

The collection played out like a battle. A battle between good and evil/purity and carnality and the realization that it takes a good amount of one to get the other. Animal prints and solid colors seemingly played on opposite sides of the fence but when you look closer you can see that print is actually embossed onto the fabric and cut out of lace, representing "the animal within".
(With this seasons theme being "Victorian Circus", I'm guessing Lea T. is the "Bearded Lady" loljk <3 u Lea)

The hints of leopard-print (a sleeve here, a pair of shoes there) grew into FULL FLEDGED LEOPARD MANIA!!

Three piece suits, track jackets and shorts/leggings combos all donned the print.

(I love the "ManRomper" above on the far right)

Ricardo Tisci has claimed his crown as "The King Of Gothic Sensuality".

The shoes were really good. IDK how I feel about the Leopard print ones.

 The black ones kinda look like minimalist brogues, I loved the 3-Dness of the two on the bottom, they look like textured Rorschach paintings.

This song was playing as the models slink up and down the runway, evoking a sense of sophomoric opulence.  This season Ricardo's gang is a group of  20-something year old super-sexual gothic billionaires. 

THISSSSSSS!! this is so good and so chill. This is exactly what I want to be wearing this coming Spring. I'm a sucker for the  "lazy loner stoner"-vibez (ooh that rhymed!!). 

The colors/vibez/everything at Jil were just so good!!

 This season we witnessed Raf use color like never before. I'm talking head-to-toe seizure-inducing color. In a decidedly "Spring-y" and uncomplicated collection  Raf used retina searing colors to get his message across. 

Raf commented on the show, saying,

“This isn’t a silhouette-driven collection at all, as a matter of fact. I don’t want to compete with nature; I also don’t want to blend in. What I want is to create a tension, a certain friction or electricity, …”. 

The color blocking and mix/matching was so good!!It reminds me of this game that bloggers would play when they would see how many colors they could use in one look while using only solid colors :)goodtimezz(even tho I never played that game lolsadface).

 I'm in love with the 3rd look in the above collage, the colors are just so right.

The presentation was made into a spectacle by Mother Nature herself. The dark, stormy sky ,threatening everyone with rain and hail, made for an interesting background. The clothes, the music and the atmosphere made the vibe a little dangerous. It felt like a setting from one of the "Matrix" films. Neo is gonna run from behind one of these bushes at any moment with a gang of Agent Smiths close behind.

I was feeling the floral prints in this collection. It keeps up the colorful pop-yness of the collection but its also kinda pessimistic, so it keeps the collection from looking like a Xanax-hyped unicorn designed it.  The collection was perfect, even the Gods agreed, confirmed as the last look came down the runway and the sky opened and rain poured.

Ok...... so I looked at this collection when it debuted in June and I LOVED IT!!!!!

Every look was greeted with ultra-enthusiastic "OOOHHHH" ,"AAAAAAAAHH", "HNNNNNG" or "OMFGOMFGOMFG!!!!!"

But now as I look back on it the first words that come to mind are: WTF?

I don't wanna say the pieces are bad and blaming the styling would be to easy, but these looks are awkward and unfortunate looking. Alber said the collection was "An antidote to laziness,"

It was all about action, mobility and urgency, which is why I'm guessing everything had a demented, frayed and wrinkled look. The classic Lanvin tailoring was displaced (definitely not replaced) by bodycon knitwear.

The Lanvin Boys don't have time to focus on there looks, its all about an athletic comfortability. I get it and everything but this is just undesirable and a little annoying.

But everything at Lanvin wasn't bad.

Actually some of the looks were mindbogglingly amazing, things that I would expect from Lanvin under the reign of Alber and Lucas.

 As the show went on Alber and Lucas wanted to showcase the fact that The Lanvin Boys are now used to there daily routine.

They no longer have to sacrifice style for comfort.

They're firm enough within there own edgy agenda to add a bit of luxury to there everyday wardrobe.

These two looks were so ACE!! and they had this weird chemistry/tension that was just so good.(Black Swan/White Swan?? anybody.........Bueller???)  

Extreme emphasis was put on the textures and fabrics at Lanvin. Lucas wanted you to want to touch them. Intimacy was what they were going for, and intimacy is what they got.

I loved the jewelery!! It was something only seen before in Lanvin's womenswear collections. Glad to see it translated over to the menswear so well.


This was a very dynamic and passionate outing for Lanvin.(notice how I changed the font of the word "dynamic" to Georgia to make it all depth-y and meaningful.....hellzyeah I'm a literary gangsta.)(No? ok sry.) I hope that Alber and Lucas only get better and continue to create collections that force me to think about them over and over again.


~Seacrest, out~

Friday night, Always a good night for some Sabbath AKA Fall/Winter 2010

Hey ,
how have you guys been?
besides the fact hat now have to go too school from 11-6(!!!)(get used to that because it describes how I feel about most things in my life.) I've been ok.
I've had almost no breaks from school and any time I do get has been devoted to watching "Freaks and Geeks" and keeping this here bloggyblog afloat. I also have a giveaway planned!!!:))
(look whos getting ahead of himself, hasn't even done an outfit post but is already planning a giveaway....*pffft* rookies never learn.....).
but anyway,
look what I got......
more A/W F/W 2010-11 reviews for that ass!!!
Patrik Ervell
I don't really like Ervell this season, which is a huge shock to me, because last season was so *effing* perfect.





Maybe the references/details were so obscure and minimal that it flew straight over my head.

I mean, Spring was pretty minimal too, but it had amazing little details. This didn't, it was just plain. The color scheme really only consisted of 4 colors(blue, light brown, black, white)(There was some red and grey, but very, very little.)

To me it looked like a British garbageman that fronts for a "The Smiths" tribute band.
(even though I have no idea what that looks like I'm pretty sure it would look like this)
 There were some things I liked, though.
I really like those Meggings(lol), the belted button-up shirt and that AMAZING clear raincoat.
But there is absolutely nothing kosher about that latex scarf and poncho.nothing.
I don't want to wear anything that reminds me of the doctors office/condoms.

(random weird fact about me: I love hospitals, but not if I'm the patient)(what does this mean?)(am I crazy?)
:(
yuck!

Condom Chic for Fall 2010.
(I don't want shit to end like this between me and Patrik. All of his other collections are so effing ACES. Please blow that shit out of the park in September ,Patrik. Please.)

I love you, but you confuse me.....

Rag & Bone

What do Ogres, Onions and Rag & Bone all have in common?

LAYERS!!!
And in Rag & Bones case, really, really rad ones.

I love how the abundance of pattern here don't clash, you would think that if you paired Fair Isle, camouflage and Tartan it would clash and burn(look who's playing with idioms:))) 
but it doesnt. Or maybe it does, but its like, a good clash. 
I also love the fact that its maximalist but its not all COLORSCOLORS/PRINTSPRINTS
(case-and-point: Etro, and I absolutely ADORE Etro, butyaknow, theres a time and a place for everything.)

I really, really like the feel of the collection, its kinda like an Emo Hunter or a Soldier that reads Poe or "Into The Wild" (more so the book than the movie).

Next winter, this collection is exactly what I'll be thinking of when I get dressed.
(P.S. those leather shorts, in the collage above, need to come live in my closet. like, NAO!!! )
Dior Homme
I'm really glad to see that Kris Van Assche has helped Dior Homme graduate from looking like the prepubescent  cokehead that Hedi Slimane was designing for.(note: I appreciate the work that Hedi did at Dior Homme and I honestly like most of the things he did,  but it was better the first few seasons he did it.)

Van Assche has turned the Dior man into a really cool, well-adjusted guy.
The Van Assche Dior man is relaxed and more mature than the Slimane Dior man but hes still the same bad-ass at heart.
He has realized that his clothes dont have to be so exaggerated(or skin-tight) for him to be "hip" and get "noticed".
I loved the grey looks the most.

All of the outerwear from this collection is AMAZING!!! The clothes were good too but I would need a closer look to truly discern. HINT HINT!! PAGING VAN ASSCHE!!
When I look at the complete collection in order I can kinda see a story.
(I won't tell it to you because it will confuse the hell out of you. It involves monks and Edward Cullen.)
There are always a few rotten apples in the bunch and at the Dior Homme those apples came in the form of pinstripes, they were really awkward and I didn't like them at all, (looks 40-45)
but they would totally go with this seasons  Pimpin' Gear.lol

EDIT: I have no idea whats up with those huge spaces at the top of this post, my only explanation is thst the Illuminati is out to sabotage my blog.

Chloe+Chloe

I see what you just did there, MacGibbon.

F*ck Yeah, Spring!!

Spring is here.
Which means that all the EPIC runway things that I was pining over last winter, I might actually see (epic) people running around in.
If you are one of them I hate everything about you.(not really, please be my friend. please.)

and I'm going insane.

Recently, whenever I hear a song, I compulsively match it with to a Spring 2010(which was the first year I actually paid in-depth attention to runway:)*ahhhh memories*) runway look that I really like. I have no idea why. Its actually gotten to an  OCD-ish point, so you guys play 

the shrink, I'll be the patient and tell me if I've offically cracked.


Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan - Patrik Ervell

Right?? this is so Dylan.
It has that, Im-a-stoner-I-make-music-I'm-kind-of-a-douche thing going on but its 
so good and kinda nostalgiaic that you forgive its douche-y stoner musician-ness.
Everything from the Clarks to the Jew-Fro is so MAJOR!!!

Healer - Erykah Badu - John Galliano

I am so feeling this Aladdin/Arabian Nights/We cant all be lion tamers situation that Galliano was pulling last season. Immediatley when I heard this song I thought of the turbans, odd layers and fake tans (I actually really liked "Jersey Shore". SO WHAT OF IT!!??.) it fits this song so well!! I would've posted the collection but I thought this one was the one I'd most likely wear.


(p.s.If you got that "lion tamers" line, you're my hero!!)


Lets Go Surfing - The Drums - Dsquared2

I understand that this collection/look has absolutely nothing to do with the beach and/or surfing and that I would most likely die a slow, sweaty death of heat stroke

but when I heard this song all I could hear were colors and the commands to: RUNJUMPREBELBEFREE!!(I told you I was going insane.)

and DSQUARED2 relayed that same message to me with the amazing color combos and epic styling.

this is a rad look for anywhere, heatstroke or no heatstroke.

(p.s. totez wanna take the Givenchy-esque leggings under shorts look behind a middle school and get it pregnant)

Rock The Catbox  Casbah - The Clash - 3.1 Philip Lim

I read somewhere that this collection was based on the idea of  disarming society's view on traditional masculinity, and the writings of Jack Kerouac and other Beat Gen writers.

I totally see that with the ultra-androgynous shapes on top of drab colors, and this fits the song so well because (I believe) this song is about a guy going up agaist the Israeli Government to defend rock music(plz don't quote me).

(can I just say that I loved this ENTIRE collection and that I would wear every look, no questions asked.Phillip, I love you.)

All-Star - SmashMouth - Y-3

I don't like sports.

I don't think I ever will.

The people that play them are usually assholes and most of the games 

usually end up in someone beeing physically harmed.

plus, they have to many rules and regulations for my ADHD-ed brain to keep up with.

I literally cried when I found out Physical Education was a required course in high school.

I'm the guy that you see sitting in the bleachers w/ the fat chick, debating the social importance of Lady Gaga and how glad we are that SNL is getting better(aren't you!!??).

but........

If I got to wear this EPIC Yohji get-up, and "All-Star" was playing.....I might consider participating in gym class.

 p.s. major nostalgia points to "All Star"!!!!

Live Long and Prosper

(p.p.s. i'm kind of a big deal now)

(all photos: GQ )

Mackin Aint Easy!!!

According to Fashion Science, in the Winter of the year 2010, we will all develop Fur Coat Fever and evolve into the species Majoritis Pimpus. We will all drive big Cadillacs and mack fly hoes,a la The Mack.

Ladies, you too,

all photos : GQ and Style

Fall/Winter 2010 pt.1

So..............I kinda fail at life and thats why I haven't been blogging. I've been being a very bad blogger(I blame the ADD), but you forgive me.............right?

I'm about a decade late reviewing AWFW 2010, but theres so many shows that I wanna talk about, so, here we go.

Band Of Outsiders

Brings Wes Anderson, "Vampire Weekend" and Annie Hall (aka Pretensious, Pretensious-er and Pretentious-est) to mind,  I feel like if I wear this I should go to Columbia and have a friend named Chad and a girlfriend named Muffy and I would play tennis at a Country Club and daddy would buy me a Jag'.
I see no problemz with any of that.
The color scheme is really good, I love that lightblueondarkblue and the heather spackled(I feel like this is a word but I could wrong, I want it to be,its supposed to mean like splattered or something,whatever) grey. I liked Band Of Outsiders when they debuted, but there repetition annoyed the hell out of me.It feel liked every season they do the same richhipsterthatownsaboat thing and this season isnt really different but I like styling and the way it was presented.
(against a woodsy backdrop w/ vintage cars and models hanging from chandeliers)

These are my 3 favorite looks. I would wear these right off the runway,err...whatever.

HELL YES! I want to wear Carrol as shoes!!
D&G

The layered looks totez remind me of when I was little and my mom would make me wear a tank top, t-shirt, turtleneck, sweater, underwear, long johns, pants, a snowsuit,
and a coat(I couldn't put my arms down). But in a good way.

*welived in Wisconsin. During the winter-time. Which is INSANE!!!

This feels so familiar because it's so D&G, 
but it also feels really new at the same time.

I love the MC Hammer/Ski/Trash bag pants in teal and grey(they're all really nice, though). I also really liked the sneakers, they remind me of soccer pads and shoes, like, if I played soccer I could just buy these and I'd be set..

*Yels to mom: Mom, I wanna play soccer. and I know where we could get some great shoes
and shin guards. They might be alittle expensive though.:)*

but anywho.......... I liked the looks at the end but they didn't go with the beginning of the collection, it seemed like 2 different ideas, the first one is kinda like Missoni/Homeless Jetskiing Businessman and the 2nd is James Bond-in-Aspen.

(I'm sorry I just couldn't resist!lol!)

Versace

Versace was very Tron-meets-The Matrix this season
With lots of black leather, metal and wraparound shades.
I love the fact that it has obvious reference points but its not tacky
or costume-y

I also really love that its so minimalist and maximalist at the same time, the colors are so vibrant and the setting complimented the overall vibe and look of everything. me likey.
I never ever, in a million years, imagined that this next sentence would even cross my mind, but, , but...................... I really like those purple latex/leather pants:-l

I could'nt really pick any "favorites", because the whole collection is so effing fantastic, but after a long and grueling mindbattle these are(some of) my favorites

That was fun right............:D

Stay tuned, I'll do more later,
Ciao!!!

All photos: GQ