July 10th, 2011 by Annabelle Lemberg
With the first of those warm, sunny days finally making an appearance, we’re just itching to rock the warm weather classics and fresh trends we’ve been eyeing all winter long. From peek-a-boo crochet to hippie chic tie-dye, these are the styles that will take us through the season of barbecues, bonfires, seaside retreats, and all of the other warm-weather activities we’ve been looking forward to. That’s why we’re bringing back our ideelSTYLE series, which is full of the covetable pieces you won’t be able to live without this summer.
Kicking off this month’s ideelSTYLE series is our White Out sale, which has everything you need to stay cool while looking—dare we say—white hot in summer’s go-to color: white! The surprisingly Read full post…
July 9th, 2011 by Sophia Wardlaw
Several weeks ago, in our post on chic Ivy, Bruce Boyer left a comment saying that the vibe of the outfit pictured made him think of Marcello Mastroianni at Princeton.
The iconic Italian actor never attended the university, of course, but we wondered what he might have looked like if he had been a student during the heyday of the Ivy League Look.
Now, thanks to the Photoshop skills of New York-based photographer Brian Felix, we can all visualize this imaginary collision of Continental cool and American collegiate.
Over the next several months, Felix will take us on a tour of all eight Ivy League campuses, and speculate on what 50s and 60s icons of cool would have looked like as students.
Marcello is pictured above in a charcoal worsted suit from Langrock, blue university-striped oxford shirt by The English Shop, and Brooks Brothers #3 rep-striped tie purchased at a trunk show.
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July 8th, 2011 by Rebecca Hull
A denim hub discovers Kate’s selling power…
Touring Canada isn’t all about Erdem and Roland Mouretdresses, you know. The Duchess of Cambridge, usually a stickler for prim shifts and LK Bennett pumps, relaxed with J Brand skinny jeans for engagements on the royal tour of Canada—three days in a row.
She first wore the dark indigo skinnies for a dragon boat race on Monday, slipping into them again to board a float plane the following day. And yesterday, Kate dressed up the jeans by pairing them with the navy Smythe blazer that she wore on to board her transatlantic flight.
Kate (Windsor? Cambridge? Middleton? We’
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July 8th, 2011 by Rebecca Hull
Kate Middleton looks equally comfortable in Malene Birger (L) and dressed down in jeans.
The duchess in Canadian designer Erdem (L) and in the Catherine Walker “Kensington” dress.
The duchess in her trusty trenchcoat (L) and an Alexander McQueen dress.
An outfit by UK company Joseph.
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July 7th, 2011 by Annabelle Lemberg
Listening to NPR this morning I caught a story about a pair of sisters–Claribel and Etta Cone–who recently donated their vast collection of turn-of-the-20th-century art to the Baltimore Museum of Art. It wasn’t until the interview turned to the subject of how the Cone sisters could afford to buy such treasures, that I made the connection to the sisters’ surname. Cone sisters=Cone Mills, the denim giant in Greensboro, N.C. Ah-ha!
Among the sisters’ collection is the Matisse above and the two below, which remind me of an exhibition I saw several years ago–Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams His Art and His Textiles–at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A
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