ISAAC MIZRAHI - Vintage Sportswear

Sometimes you are feeling playful and yet your fashion closet seems to hold nothing but serious style. If this is true, don't you think it is time to seek out something that just makes you smile each time you reach for it. No one puts a smile on your face quite like Issac Mizrahi, always quick with his wit be it vocal or in his creative designs. Here he takes a colorful cartoon print linen and creates a great fanciful jacket sure to make anyone smile. An additional reason to smile is that this jacket can also be found in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Isaac Mizrahi
American - C. Fall 1989
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FROCKOLOGY Style Tip:

When wearing a bold print let it take center stage and use your accessories to direct attention to the print. This is easily accomplished by contrasting the print with a solid color that compliments but does not match exactly. Use this shade to make all your other pieces harmonious but not an exact match.

Example: Beige,Khaki,Smoke,Brown
Celadon,Leaf,Grass,Mint

You get the idea, now give it a try. It is a great way to make a bold print pop.

ANNA SUI - Modern Vintage Sportswear

Spring is in the air and Anna Sui is always ready to catch it, and make it her own. Whimsical, playful and with a touch of femininity is always the muse that inspires Sui to design her rocking collections. What every girl wants when her thoughts turn to casual comfortable fun in the sun.

Anna Sui
American - c. 1990s
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FROCKOLOGY Style Tip:

Casual is never an excuse for sloppy. It is even more important to think through your look when you are going casual. When dressing casual think accessories, a bold graphic piece of jewelry, great shades or a big colorful straw bag. Think of things that go POP when dressing in a simple comfortable way and let your accessories do the talking. Count on this, if you whisper you will never be noticed. Spring is the time for great statements and not just burning rubber in a 68 mustang convertible.

BILL BLASS - Vintage Couture

When it comes time to wear the green under that old devil moon, reach for this perfect example of Irish luck. Bill Blass takes an Irish linen and trims it with pearl detailed pewter shamrocks. It is the only way to be chic while you wear the green for St. Patrick's Day.

Bill Blass
American- c.1960s
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FROCKOLOGY Style Tip:
When celebrating a holiday never dress for that holiday in an obvious manner. Always remember that if the comment is " I love that holiday whatever your wearing" that was not a compliment. Subtle will always be the way to go when dressing for a holiday occasion.

FROM US TO YOU

FASHION ICON - Farewell to the McQueen

"May flights of angels sing the to thy rest!"

The world says goodbye today to one of the fashion world's most innovative creators. A unique thinker who captured his muse and reflected her to the world in the most vivid examples of creative conceptualization made all the more powerful by his mercurial wit.

Alexander McQueen
British
1970 - 2010

HALSTON - Vintage Couture

HALSTON will always be the go to designer for elegant feminine clothing that appear simple in detail but are always geometric in cut and construction. His work was always a touch tongue in cheek in the sense that his shapes were almost always found in Americana of the past and then turned upside down and made completely his own. Collect his work always but also wear it as well, it will always deliver a sensual comfortable elegant feeling of modernity.

HALSTON
American-C.1970s
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FROCKOLOGY Style Tip:

Lets talk shirtwaist, I know you are thinking can it get more old and dated. the answer is nope, think outside the box and discover a great new dress shape. Take the matching sash and pull your hair back and then add a great modern shape belt and undo a button or two from the top and bottom and let the good times roll. It will make you feel like a woman but more importantly make you walk like one......trust us men love that idea.

Shirtwaist does not equal house dress.

CALVIN KLEIN - Vintage Sportswear

Calvin Klein is the American designer who took a minimal sensibility and used it to maximum advantage. His creations are always comfortable and easy to wear but also sensual and body conscious. Now aren't you glad he did more then just undies and jeans. Wear his early designs and discover why his fashion muse will always remain modern then, now and forever.

Calvin Klein
American-c.1980s
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FROCKOLOGY Style Tip:

Wear linen anytime for just about any ocassion. It isn't just for casual times it actually cleans up well, so try it with bold gold accessories and an evening box and see for yourself. Nights aren't just for sparkle and silk.

THINK MODERN!

VINTAGE COUTURE - The Couture Process

The Couture Process from FIDM Museum on Vimeo.

COUTURE FALL OUT - What's Going on at Dior?

What is going on at Christian Dior? It is a bit sad to be viewing couture that prices in the stratosphere in a plain, brightly lit white box. The beauty as well as desirability leaves something missing, taking away the mysterious lure of couture and shines a light of desperation and asks the question...... is it really worth it?
Dior please won't you at least give us the excitement of past couture shows and while you are at it, you might get Galliano to design something someone actually might want to wear, in this day and age it can really be an expensive ego stroke to play dress up for for a bow without any($) WOW!

FASHION HYPE - Tavi Tells Us True

Tavi, the 13 year old editor of the blog STYLE ROOKIE, who hails from the burbs of Chicago manages to stir up a big controversy by just wearing a several seasons old Stephen Jones Bow on her head. We suspect the problem came more from placement then the cartoon like head gear. Sitting front row at the Christian Dior Couture show, at 13, a mere child with a blog of herself wearing quirky clothing and head wear, for most long term fashionfiles this was enough to raise blood pressure, add the over sized bow on the head causing sight line problem and you have a great receipt for what we like to call total FASHION HYPE!

The other fashion blogs (those who take photos of their own egos and publish) are up in arms due to a back lash they say is starting to happen against all fashion bloggers. This sounds like sour grapes more then an affront to fashion bloggers worldwide. You blog, they blog, I blog, does that makes anyone of us more or less of a fashion authority then the major names in fashion? NO, because what is fashion is a completely arbitrary opinion, and everyone is allowed one.

What strikes us as the most comical aspect of this is that Tavi is one quick study, she totally understands the HYPE of modern fashion. It does not matter the quality of what is being hyped only that the name is out there, and the way to do that is to stay in the press. Christian Dior wants as much press as possible because you know those clothes aren't selling and you can't live on handbag sales alone,so they invite a child blogger with a bit of quirk because that will get more press then the clothes. Tavi (or her handlers), no fool be they, has already discovered how the hype works and decides to put her (their) knowledge to work. Stick an over sized bow in her hair sit her front row of a major couture show and bang TOTAL HYPE.