Vedge Restaurant, Philadelphia: The World's Greatestby Randi / September 4, 2013
The annual Vaute Couture preorder sale is going on now! As the most beautiful cruelty-free fashion line celebrates New York Fashion Week, it is offering lucky customers the chance to preorder coats, dresses, skirts, even sweaters from the new collection, and order coats from last season, at up to 50% off, with the percentage decreasing each day for the next week.
Vaute Couture is changing the face of high fashion in favor of the animals. For those of you who can afford to support the amazing company, do it now while you get such a sick discount!
Click here for the Cold Weather Outerwear sale
Click here for the Vaute Collection Preorder
Below are my favorite picks available right now. Nothing beats the original Audrey coat (in white) in my book, but until that comes back, I’ll enjoy looking at these pretty things with envy too. And if anyone feels like being my wealthy benefactor, I’d love any one of these as a present.
Vaute Couture is changing the face of high fashion in favor of the animals. For those of you who can afford to support the amazing company, do it now while you get such a sick discount!
Click here for the Cold Weather Outerwear sale
Click here for the Vaute Collection Preorder
Below are my favorite picks available right now. Nothing beats the original Audrey coat (in white) in my book, but until that comes back, I’ll enjoy looking at these pretty things with envy too. And if anyone feels like being my wealthy benefactor, I’d love any one of these as a present.
Constellation Dress. This dress is mastering the whole grown-up yet adorable thing. I love short sleeves on dresses. And it looks like it could be a flattering cut on a variety of body types. Want! 
Lori Coat in Bark. I love the skirt, and the color can work in so many different ways. 
Musicbox in cobalt velvet. I can’t even! How adorable is this? I love the color, the cut, the material, everything (except the buttons)! 
Airs Coat in pink. So sweet and fun! |
Kristina Dress. I love the white underlay; you can see it poking out at the bottom. How fun would it be to twirl in this? 
Musicbox Coat in Dove. I love the color, and that it has bow on the back. However, I’d probably replace the star buttons (not my style) with black lacquer. 
Heart Dress, white satin. There’s no way in hell I’d be able to pull this off, but how cute is it?! 
The Audrey, in black. Of course it’s sold out, as always. |
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New York Fashion Week, Part 1
As the first half of New York Fashion Week ends, we have some standout designs, some great moments, and more than a few misses.
Lela Rose will probably be lauded for actually including more than one black model in her runway show. I think I counted 6/39 looks worn by models of color. It’s a big deal in this insanely racist industry. Too bad the clothes were generally unexciting. Not one item came down the runway where I thought “ooh I want that.” I did love this dress but not in this limey color. Blimey.
Lela Rose will probably be lauded for actually including more than one black model in her runway show. I think I counted 6/39 looks worn by models of color. It’s a big deal in this insanely racist industry. Too bad the clothes were generally unexciting. Not one item came down the runway where I thought “ooh I want that.” I did love this dress but not in this limey color. Blimey.
I like this construction but not the color. (Lela Rose)
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Do not want. (Lela Rose)
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Derek Lam, who made the only pair of shorts I actually like wearing, featured an interesting but unflattering mix of checkered patterns, cowboy fringe, and what looked like burlap. The show featured a few mildly pleasant looks, like the white dress below, but it seemed out of place among the rancher-at-the-office theme. Models of color: on 4/30 looks.
Should be holding a lasso. (Derek Lam)
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This is the nicest thing from the collection, which says a lot. (Derek Lam)
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Tocca had a few nice pieces, but overall it looked like a collection of flimsy undergarments that ballerinas would wear to class, and a few for performances. I mean, look at these pictures. Who wears that? Ballerinas. (And teenage girls in London who hate pants.) From my cursory review (and obviously making huge assumptions), I counted zero models of color. But that makes sense, because ballerinas can only be white.
WHAT. (Tocca)
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I do want this (Tocca)
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I’m not very familiar with the avant-garde group ThreeASFOUR, but after seeing their spring/summer 2014 collection I’m pretty sure they are Lady Gaga’s outfitters, and I’m kind of obsessed with the cray cray. 3/21 looks were modeled by models of color, and every single model had a burnt orange wig on, as the designers paid weird tribute to Project Runway’s Jeffrey Sebellia.
Gaga wore this on SNL that time. (ThreeASFOUR)
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What the what. (ThreeASFOUR)
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Speaking of Project Runway, Chrisian Siriano’s collection was exactly the mix of random and crazy that we want and expect from him. I personally liked one thing, but most of it was too odd for me and for most normal dressers. This collection wasn’t as fun to look at as some of his have been, with too little cohesion and too many boring prints. (And more b&w checkers, which apparently are in, but ugly). 6/38 looks on models of color.
I’m the green fairy! (Christian Siriano)
This reminds me so much of Diane Lane’s 2003 Oscars dress by Oscar de la Renta. (Christian Siriano)
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I actually love this. (Christian Siriano)
Oscar de la Renta 2003
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I usually abhor cutouts in all variations, but Yigal Azrouel’s show surprised me with a few pieces I liked. However, there were some dental hygienist outfits that I just don’t understand. And the vast majority of clothes looked very baggy on the models. Impeccable fit is one of the most important qualities to convey in the show, and unless they were going for baggy, this was egregious oversight. 4/31 looks with models of color, I think.
I’ll be a dennnntist! (Yigal Azrouel)
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I don’t entirely hate this. (Yigal Azrouel)
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Monique Lhuillier focused her palette on pinks, oranges, and creams, offering a few wonderfully fresh evening looks but too many frumpy, lacy, collared things. I’m obsessed with the dresses below, though. 7/39 looks worn on models of color.
If these sleeves were full length, I’d be really giddy over it. (Monique Lhuillier)
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I like these colors together. (Monique Lhuillier)
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Favorite look by far. (Monique Lhuillier)
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The most talked about moment, of course, happened in Victoria Beckham’s show. Not because of the clean but somewhat boring collection of black, white, and a bit of pink, but because of the this picture! Adorbs!! ANNA WINTOUR IS SMILING! AT A BABY! Best moment of NYFW. Harper is so cute, as is her unknown father.
