http://almostgirl.coffeespoons.org/?p=908 Where Plato and Prada Meet Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:59:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://almostgirl.coffeespoons.org/?p=908&cpage=1#comment-11054 final fashion » fashion weak. Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:47:57 +0000 http://almostgirl.coffeespoons.org/?p=908#comment-11054 [...] … and some of it sweet, but too familiar, too self-consciously “on-trend”. The man-tailored shorts, baby doll dresses, pegged and bubble silhouettes, lacy ladies, are all still there. The dull runways mean that I’m way more interested in Julie interviewing the press veterans, the insider juice from Style Bites, candids from The Sartorialist, and expert makeup analysis from The Beauty Newsletter than actually sucking back the fashion shows. And I know that Julie is running around exhausted trying to upload all the photos, but I don’t actually feel I can add much value to the coverage from way over here in Toronto, other than to point towards coutorture where all the best is helpfully aggregated. [...] [...] … and some of it sweet, but too familiar, too self-consciously “on-trend”. The man-tailored shorts, baby doll dresses, pegged and bubble silhouettes, lacy ladies, are all still there. The dull runways mean that I’m way more interested in Julie interviewing the press veterans, the insider juice from Style Bites, candids from The Sartorialist, and expert makeup analysis from The Beauty Newsletter than actually sucking back the fashion shows. And I know that Julie is running around exhausted trying to upload all the photos, but I don’t actually feel I can add much value to the coverage from way over here in Toronto, other than to point towards coutorture where all the best is helpfully aggregated. [...]

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