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I don’t understand the current popularity of Jil Sander.

{ February 12, 2011 @ 12:54 am } · { Accessories, Celebrity Crap, Clothing }
{ Tags: accessories, clothes, clothing, fashion, jil sander } · { Leave a Comment }

With New York Fashion week going on right now, I’ve been wanting to talk about clothes, and the Jil Sander Spring 2011 collection has been on my mind. (You can watch it here.) For some reason, it bothers me, and the image below is why:

The collection has been highly heralded as bold and exquisite by many and criticized as ugly and boxy by few. I’m in the latter camp. I do not get the appeal. Minimalist is great, although I like glitter and decorations, but this is just lacking on too many levels. I want to try to like it just because it’s so different, but I can’t get past the feeling that everyone clapping at the end of the show is just waiting for some kid to hop up and say that the emperor is naked.

The JS ready to wear stuff is a lot more palatable, also very simple, but doesn’t look like a men’s T-shirt with a few yards of mint-green broadcloth wrapped around the waist.

Much better, no? Check out the profile view below! Very nice. I just don’t get the look on the runway.

Got this from Red Carpet Fashion Awards. This is the FOURTH time some form of this look has appeared at a big red carpet event. (I might add that it's also the most vibrant version of it, too.)

Also slightly relevant: if anyone out there cares,GFY put together a nice slideshow of the accessories at the SAG awards.

A Few Good Hats and some other stuff

{ February 10, 2011 @ 10:40 pm } · { Accessories, Clothing, Crafty Stuff, Eclectic Miscellany, Stuff That I Think Is Funny }
{ Tags: crafting, Crafty Stuff, cute animals, disgustingly cute stuff, hats, knitted hats, knitting, optical illusions, superheroes, wasting time } · { Leave a Comment }

Well, I just burnt up about two hours on The Daily What and Whatever The Geek Site Associated With It Is Called, both of which were entertaining albeit a waste of time. I should be ashamed of myself, but I found these awesome posts and I like them too much to feel the shame.

I’ve mentioned a couple times a certain knit viking girl hat that I want, and since I feel like I should be able to make one instead of paying for it, I am thus far a hatless woman. But then today I saw this!

It’s a deer and antlers hat! Oh, YEAH BABY! The pattern can be bought and downloaded for a mere five dollars! Yay! “Are you tired of trying to grow antlers with no luck?” Oh this is good. I’m getting one as soon as the bills are paid.

There was also this guy that they found… oh, who knows where Reddit or somewhere, and it’s probably even cooler than the antler hat:

Or at least as cool as. Yeah, it was on reddit.

And in closing, here are a few more random things I saw there that I liked. A superhero optical illusion:

and a clip of cute duckies trying to get up a set of stairs.