{inspiration: garance doré + vogue paris}

. . . adore this scrapbook layout of photographs intermingled with garance doré's wonderful sketches and beautiful handwriting for vogue paris . . .

{p.s.} the full layout here + here

{runway inspiration: lanvin, paris}

. . . elegant leather detailing, glamorous jeweled embellishments, and form-fitting bodices perfectly complemented with luxurious and fluttery fabrics on the runways of paris . . .

{style.com}

{sequined socks + a few things . . .}

. . . after yesterday's fantastical floods of inspiration, taking a few moments this morning to get caught up on a few things before dashing out for thursday's customary late lunch, shoulder-grazing waves and warm sable lipstick, socks & heels and the still-lingering scent of gardenias . . .

wishing you a perfect morning & à la prochaine until we meet again,
xo

{as promised, a few new & beautiful things:}
* details: marble & gold
* a glimpse: balmain, paris
* simply pretty: champagne & vermillion
* elegant neutrals: rees roberts
* décor inspiration: black, white & ballgowns


{p.s.} the very last day to enter this week's give-away: an exquisitely beautiful crystal & 24 karat gold tray

{photography by tommy ton for style.com}

{runway inspiration: karl lagerfeld + milan}

. . . the runways of milan were wispy pink, ivory and ecru, in linen and tulle and ruffles and frills, all mixed with softly frayed edges, loosely piled hair and high, high heels wrapped in bows . . .



{p.s.}
* more wispy loveliness at the side project
* aren't the perspex clutches stunning?

{images: style.com}

{mostly london + a little new york}

. . . ending London Fashion Week with softly falling metallic confetti, Burberry Prorsum's reinvention of the trench coat in shades of camel and nude was luxurious, short, and draped loveliness . . .



. . . and for a last look at New York, more draping at Reem Acra, mixed with soft, floaty silks and satins and handfuls of princess jewels . . .

{images: style.com}

{inspiration: new york fashion week}

. . . bursts of tulle and organza mingled with structured yet playful shorts suits and all "with a little something to make you dream" at j.mendel . . . and ruffles and beautifully blurry silk prints from childhood memories of cherry blossoms at erin fetherston . . .


{images: style.com}

{runway inspiration: j. mendel, new york}

. . . one of the very few designers that could rival affections for monique lhuillier, {with the exception of chloé and stella mccartney}, would be j. mendel, whose purely romantic sensibilities are impossible to to resist, and whose spring collection was an ethereal dream of mousseline and tulle, exquisite hand-pleating and ruching, and stunningly elegant draped silk chiffon . . .

{style.com, more of this collection at the side project}

{runway inspiration: monique lhuillier, new york}

. . . a longstanding love affair with monique lhuillier for as long as can remember, and couldn't possibly choose between such a stunning array of beautiful things from the spring 2011 collection, and so, not one, but two glimpses, the first, strewn in magnolias on silk and chiffon and belted in gold . . .

{style.com}

{runway inspiration: derek lam, new york}

"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."

~ Yves Saint Laurent

. . . a little sad to gracefully decline so many new york fashion week invitations as we've only just returned, but still and always wonderfully exciting to pore over the spring 2011 ready-to-wear collections for new work by favourite designers such as derek lam . . . there were clean lines and floaty dresses, linen twill blazers and silk crepe blouses, but most of all, there was that wonderful seventies sophistication that am so adoring these days . . .

{p.s.} more sexy seventies style:
* blouses & blazers
* scarves & pencil skirts
* fedoras & leopard print
* stripes & secretary blouses
* turlenecks & tweed

{images: vogue}

{runway inspiration: alberta ferretti}

. . . sensuous satin and fluttery chiffon, glittering necklines and pure romance at alberta ferretti . . .

{via a glamorous little side project}

{fashion inspiration: tulle + runway reviews}

. . . the spring-like weather this past weekend and a perfectly wonderful late-winter thaw have filled the afternoons with wisps of balmy air, making things feel fresh and bright and filled with thoughts of light-as-air frothy little white dresses dreamed up from swaths of tulle . . .

{ a few more ny fashion week favourites:}
* more vb
* mulberry
* sophie theallet
* rodarte
* marchesa
* vera wang

{marchesa autumn/winter 2010 via a glamorous little side project}