Fashion-types are creative by nature. But sometimes they can take creativity to places we lay folks just don't understand.
Model coach and America's Next Top Model star Jay Alexander sat down after the Carolina Herrera fashion show and filled me in on the vision behind Kimora Lee Simmons' over-the-top Baby Phat show, which was too early in the week for me to catch.
"Imagine a plane crashes on an exotic island," Alexander said, in his haughty, Euro-tinged voice. "The models were in eclectic pieces of all the clothing gathered from all the dead passengers. They were in a rainforest. They had leaves in their hair. And the grills in their mouths came from the socialites on the plane. The models, they crushed the diamonds they found on the socialites and put them in their mouths."
Ewwww.
While sitting and waiting for shows to begin (they're always at least 20-30 minutes late), I also learned that we lay folks will soon have two new ways to learn how to dress and live like the fashionable fortunate.
Designer-turned-talk-show-host Isaac Mizrahi has launched a new free magazine, Isaac's Style Book, which will show -- mainly in documentary style photography -- "all the mistakes and embarrasments people make in the pursuit of fashion, travel and cooking," Erika Kawalek, the mag's editor-in-chief told me.
And editor-at-large Suze Yalof Schwartz shared with me that Glamour magazine is coming out with a hilarious, photo-laden how-not-to book called Glamour's Big Book of Dos and Don'ts. The book will detail rules for dressing, as well as show celebrities at their worst -- just to make us all feel a little better.
"The moral of the story," Yalof Schwartz says, "is that you can have all the money in the world and still be tacky."
The Baltimore Sun - Sept. 12, 2006
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