Style Bubble

YSL Departure

Yesterday, as I was supposed to be leaving San Francisco, I managed to squeeze in the press preview for the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition at the de Young museum.  In my blase travel gear, (Converse, oversized slouchy tees and skirt), I hadn't realised that YSL royalty was going to be there in the form of Pierre Bergé who was there to introduce the exhibition and say some words which I badly recorded below.  He requoted his famous quote of Chanel giving liberty to women and YSL gave them power but also said this...

"I don't know if fashion is art.  But I do know you need to be an artist to create fashion."

I have mountains of images to post but that will come post jet lag laggedness... I will however post this one image of Betty Catroux, one of Yves' muses, who also was there in her black clad-icy blonde glory

Dogs and Berries

Yay for exceptions and surprises.  A lot of comments/emails came my way that the style in SF was mostly laid back and bad layering.  Someone did say there were flashes of brilliance.  I think this was one of them.  Excuse the short post as I have to go to hunt for medicine in Walgreens but Nicole here perked me up yesterday as soon as I saw her Viktor & Rolf for H&M tights (I don't wear them half as well...) and her berry brooches...

...and she has the perfect pooch...the kind that doesn't growl/poop (I'm not really an animal person...)

The Fred Butler Palette

"Missing out the cracks in the pavement, and tutting my heel and strutting my feet..." is a lyric that comes to mind when I see these images of set/accessories designer Fred Butler which were shot for a DD My Style feature by Mishkin Mishkin and as decided by the accessory designer herself, she wanted to paint the street many colours, clashing/matching with the pretty pastel houses behind her.  She also makes me think of Chupa Chups, the good kind of soft toys, Rainbow Brite and other smile-inducing things and I need a smile or two right now.  She gives many style affirming statements in her Q&A including this one which also make me grin...

"The other major factor is that I wear clothes to put me in a good mood and enjoy a day. I wear strong colours to brighten up the gloom of modern city life. It provokes a mixed reaction of either smiles in appreciation or jeers from the stereotypical small-minded souls. "

Right on, Fred!  If I lived on pretty pastel house street (aka real estate heaven in London...), I'd be wanting to do top to toe monochromatic vivids as well...I also don't have enough matching handbags and shoes...  I'll work on that...