Let's talk about Louis

As everyone on earth obviously knows the Louis Vuitton show was yesterday (there was a solar eclipse, the earth shook a little, babies stopped crying blady blah-blah).  Like my post about Chloe's show I want to fawn over what I like mostly.  Some issues of FAIL need some hypothetical ink spilled also.

An open letter to Marc Jacobs, Head Bitch in Charge at LV:

Dahling Mr. Marc;

I recognize your eminence as a deity in the land of  the FASHUN gods and your contribution to style and the modern woman and blady blah-blah, however dahling, I think you need some brief feedback on your latest collecSHUN for Louis V.

Firstly, love the modern take on retro, but I think it misses the realities of the lives of most women.  Not a pair of pants or anything at all practical in the lineup.  Perhaps that was the point.  Question mark.

Secondly, let's discuss cut.  Mid calf skirts look good on almost no one.  Especially full mid calf skirts.  Ask yourself if you'd wear it (we all know you like skirts) and get back to me.  Frump for the fail!  

Critiques aside dahling I really enjoyed how you put a little diversity on your runway.  I'm not talking about THAT kind of diversity, we all know the fashun world fails at that, but rather that you put women in your clothes with TITS and ASS that fill them out and look beautiful.  Sure, they're all alum of Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated, but FIERCE for the win!

Xoxo

Fan Grrl

P.s. Dahling love your hawt new bod and the zexy suit you bowed in!  Nice change from the jeans/sneaks you usually do.  I suppose if you're going to put the lay-dies in frou frou frocks might as well rise to the occasion. 

For the win:  

Laetitia Casta for the win!  The aesthetic had a "traveling in Italy/France/Whatever in the 50s" vibe.

 A slightly less literal, more modern take on retro.  The skirt, being more fluid and less fulll, is definitely more forgiving than most of the FRUMP fail.

The idea (practical knit, full skirt, shades) could easily translate to IRL. 

This has a Sound of Music quality to it, but is actually rather sexy.  If I was a Lady who Lunches I'd sport a slightly toned down take on this in Paris, Geneva, Milan or indeed New York (for the latter very toned down). 

This hot little number defines FOR THE WIN.  A lot of the collection had a frump quality to it, but this is pure SEX and therefore pure WIN.  Also, Vicki's Secret models for the win!

I'm not generally a pink wearing kind of girl, but the cut of this is actually one of the more practical ensembles.  Except that type of neckline is perennially FUG.  You need TIT or turtleneck and nothing in between.

Karolina Kurkova for the WIN!  I love how she's coming BACK.  I missed her.  This is what I'm talkin' 'bout.  Life needs more TIT.  

Elle Macpherson for the win!  I really like it when designers put models of varying ages on the runway.  It makes a statement about beauty and aging and that you don't need to be young to be beautiful and blady blah-blah (are you listening Mom?  It's me, Erin).  Me loves faSHUN statements!

Also, the dress is kinda nice (and as stated I don't so much favor pink, especially on grown-ass women).

Now, before getting to the fail, lets sweat the (for the win) small stuff:

It was a good call on such an old school collection to go modern and sleek on the hair.  Good call, good call.  You'd have been deeper on my shit list, Dahling Marc, had you frumped out the hair.

I didn't picture in full what looked like a mediocre dress from far away.  The details on this are actually quite stunning.  Although it could be very old school in theory, seeing the money shot makes me want to wear it to an oligarch party in Moscow or St. Petersberg (uh-huh cuz that's soooooo my life ;).  This also illistrates how hard it is to critique fashion when you can't see so much detail in the pictures and can't touch IRL.  Don't you just want to get your hands all over it?

 SHOE PORN.  For the win, obviously.

I'm not 100% sold on how pointy the toe appears from here, but dear God look at the heel!  How zexy is the arch of the foot?  Also, I like the leather/wood combination.  I'm not a frilly type and even I like the bow (mostly because it's not a frilly bow.  Frilly bows = OUT).

 

 
As much as I love the line a good (i.e. ridiculous heel) makes, this is still ZEXY, but something I would actually buy (in theory anyways ;).  Also, notice the slight shimmer on the heel?   I can't tell exactly what it's made of from here, but WIN.

For the Fail: 

When you make a size 0 look large UR DOIN IT RONG. 

Prom dress UR DOIN IT RONG.

Prom dress UR DOIN IT RONG.

Why is Bar Rafaeli (whose hotness and dating Leonardo should qualify her for the win!) on the shitlist?  Well, two reasons.  Firstly, she skipped out on her Israeli Army duty (this in itself requires its own post).  Secondly, and more on topic, this dress illistrates my overall complaint about the collection.  While inherently beautiful, I can imagine few occassions (besides perhaps an old school garden party or a Betty Draper halloween costume) where this would be practical in the lives of women.  Also, mid calf skirt FAIL.  This is the kind of dress that will be beautiful on the pages of Vogue, but less so in reality.

The small stuff fail:

BAGS.  Um.  Where to start?  At least it wasn't in jean, like LV has done so tackily before, right?  It must be noted that in general I am not a fan of LV bags.  I think they are overdone and often tacky.  Not always, but often.  Although the quality is quite nice, if I was going to drop that much $$$ on a bag, I'd guy something less overdone.  It was hard to choose as there was so much shitlist to choose from, but these examples encapsulate my problems with the bags overall:

This looks cheaper than it is.  The design is also boring.  It looks like something I saw in a teen fashion magazine 10 years ago.  And the 2000s arnt cool again yet.  Dear God, I hope the 2000s are never cool again.  

Also, this looks cheap.  I take particular offense to the purple-y gray top part that looks like cheap padded patent.  Also, the design lacks inspiration.

Who the fuck am I kidding?  I'd wear any and all of it, including the FRUMP and FUG, IRL.