Because you hate to see us go but you love to watch us leave, we offer a few parting shots from the DailyCandy Dossier launch party at The Hall at the most fantastic Palihouse. Thanks again to our event sponsor JetBlue, and the tasty, most generous likes of St. Germain, Bandit Wines, Peroni, and Fiji Water, too.
As the Dossier comes to an official close, we realize that sometimes the so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen rigamarole just doesn't quite cut it. Here are a few songs that convey our sentiments, exactly, or rather, approximately.
Owner of Heist boutique Nilou Ghoudsi cops to a few of her summer and fall faves.
DC: You love _________ so much you would marry them.
NG: This season Isabel Marant's coats make me weak at the knees.
DC: Summer lovin'?
NG: MM6 cotton halter tank dress in bright Mediterranean blue. It makes me feel like I'm in St Tropez.
DC: The quality you most admire in a pair of jeans?
NG: They have to give good bum. The darted back pockets on James jeans are an amazingly subtle but genius detail.
DC: The most virtuous accessory for fall?
NG: Sofia Loren, Sarah Jessica Parker, and European women in general.
We love designer Jenni Kayne's ostrich belts, purple suede heels, and boyfriend suits. She loves ...
Runway? These trends don't need no stinking runway.
Can't get over all the totally lovey-dovey, cutesy-whootsey sweetness of fashion avant-gardists/love bird couple Isabel and Ruben Toledo. She is currently working on a line for Anne Klein (and a return to powerful silhouettes). He is wrapping up a book of illustrations for Karl Lagerfeld. Together, they are mentoring students at the Otis College of Art and Design.
At the Pacific Design Center's SilverScreen Theater, the designing duo (who fell in love in middle school) talked about their creative collaborations in art and illustration, their life as balanced opposites, and their love for "scathing fashion absurdities."
Shhhhh. Listen closely to the sweet-meets-serious Guy Baxter fall collection. It might be a little tough to make out at first, but listen closely and you can pick up on the din of old Moscow, the wives of wartime, and designer Turya Nations's infatuation with the eensy details that always make the hugest difference (nice football buttons).
No better place to be inspired than the Rose Bowl flea market, home to bandana collectors, metal-detector hobbyists, and thousands of unclaimed vintage ganja patches.
Also the birthplace of "Hey! What's in Your Flea Bag?" The game where unsuspecting treasure hunters reveal their favorite purchases of the day to two strangers with a point-and-shoot camera.
There were stylish locals, Japanese tourists, thrifty resellers, bloggers galore. Even the amazing, out-of-left-planet designer Jeremy Scott (who you may remember from such unconventional looks as the one-legged pant) fresh from a Paper Mag party celebrating his latest Lindsay Lohan stylings. Scott scored a pair of motorcycle boots that would make a Hell's Angel weep like a hormone-frenzied preteen.
Others struck gold:
A glass of Whiskey Blue's exclusive Rose Sauvage designed by Viktor & Rolf? A trusty old gin and tonic? Or a Gisele, the new Agua Luca cachaca and champers drink at Kumo? Whatever you're drinking, let's toast to Monday morning.
Cheers.
There was a lot to see on our stroll downtown with Geren Ford designer Geren Lockhart, the man in head-to-toe red and black down to his choice of forty, the strangely enticing dollar Zenchiladas (editor's note: no part of that description is a typo). But by far the most fascinating was Lockart's take on fall: a mix of strong lines, ethereal silks, and colors to make heads turn in a good way.
DC: Tell the story of your latest collection in six words.
GL: Long day. Long night. One dress.
DC: How'd you approach the season?
GL: While spring is really whimsical and less serious, fall turned out to really be about bringing back the craft with texture, embroidery, or screening on silk. It's still chic, easy, luxurious, and totally wearable, just a little more special.
DC: What's the new silhouette?
GL: Volume. It's not the babydoll anymore, and it's not truly tailored, either. The dresses are cut with the seams closer together in the front to create volume in the back like that amazing high fashion rounded shape -- but good for day-to-day life.
DC: What's the key to Geren Ford dressing?
GL: You don't need to wear much more than one accessory. There are details like scarves, sheer panels, or grosgrain ribbon suspenders and exaggerated fold-over, pleated, or ruffley collars. You can just throw it on and go.
DC: Photos? Movies? Music? Books?
GL: Old Edward Weston photos. Ruth Asawa scupltures. Sotheby's art catalogues. Famous jewels from Christie's auction books. Architecture everywhere -- especially buildings Henry J. Hardenbergh, Marcel Breuer, and Jean Nouvel.
