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NET-A-PORTER-KILT- A-PRINCE

Pompeo Batoni

portrait of

Colonel The Hon William Gordon

it seems each day brings a stuffed mailbox (yes the postman still walks-but does not ring) FULL of SEPTEMBER ISSUES- yesterday-Haper's Bazaar, as mentioned-with the Jennifer Aniston poses of Streisand, I do not like that.
Along with that cover -came the NET-A-PORTER FALL WINTER magazine FEMME FATALE. It is truly a slick savvy look at what magazines are really all about-NO BONES - Selling. NET-A-PORTER , for those of you who are-as one fashionista would say OUT- is a multimillion dollar online design-one stop-shop til you drop site created 10 years ago by Natalie Massenet. She sold her share of the company for an estimated £50m in April but "rolled back in" the day the news broke, investing £15m of her windfall back into the business. She remains executive chairman.

She tells the guardian- Her dream was to become a magazine editor but "I hadn't walked away from being editor-in-chief of a magazine – I'd just created a magazine for the 21st century instead, a hybrid between a store and a magazine that was delivered digitally " & now it delivers the paper too. Though it is all online I think Massenet must know the power of paper as well. The magazine carries a theme IT"S ALL ABOUT, and the most amusing find there is PRINCE CHARLES-full page picture- circa at his best age- KILTED.

It seems the KILT is ruling the runways again.
Again?
-and Charles is its most ICONIC wearer of note. This trumping- of All Clans and Usurpers of..., forget about the real historic figures- we talk of fashion- Sir Sean Connery, (there is a poll to help decide if you should or shouldn't here ), Rod Stewart, Vivienne Westwood, Liam Neeson, or personal favorite Marc Jacobs. see MEN IN KILTS here
No no- none of the above- but THE PRINCE- CHARLES.

Charles and Anne in kilts

on there knees

Charles

posing in kilt, posing in love

then & now

Charles

Still holding down the fort

Charles

working it

FASHION ROYALS

IN
THE KILT

the DUKE

the Dame

Vivienne Westwood

the Madonna

Victoria Beckam ('07) and Marc Jacobs ('09 )split in kilts.

Photos by Getty Images

Together-

VB sans kilt

there is a video- should you go commando with a kilt ? on MTV here

Marc made his mark with KILT grunge in 1992

Mizrahi

Isaac Mizrahi, Stewart Cashmere Flannel Kilt Gown, Fall,1989.

see this dress on the runway in IM's Sketchbook Fall 1989 here

one of the most successfully modern KILT adaptation of all

Alexander McQueen with Sarah Jessica Parker

PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND FALL 2010

MISSONI

Patchwork Knit KILT

I say- I would wear something from either- within reason, Pringle bottom left, or the Missoni-(I use to be a big fan) top left (get me a shirt) I gave up my kilts as the twenties gave me up-the Missoni's as the forties gave me up.

Still got a kilt? Girls? Guys?
so many Men blogging about fashion-design.
so I wonder do they or don't they? should they?

I know IVAN should & his surfing Kings should.

I know BLUE does,
and surely this guy- TartanScot does? (if not, TS-what gives?)
Why yes he does- and the proof is here

I know these Satorialists have a least posted about KILTS, Search them : TOAD MAXMINIMUS the TRAD,

(Lady KENDRA wrote about the lure of the REBEL KILT here)

what about JAMES?

But really I want to know- what about REGGIE, darling?

KILTING LINKS

KILTS in reality? here
guys-there is a KILTMEN.COM here support and advice.
kilt blog (of course) here
ISAAC MIZRAHI Highland Fling here

Tsumori Chisato...RingMaster, having a dress up moment

style.com's Hadley Freeman imagines Tsumori Chisato's mythological birth parents as Celia Birtwell and Vivienne Westwood- Ahhhh! the Goddesses of Britannia hovering over the cradle of Tsumori swathed in cherry blossoms and Japanese silks.

'If Vivienne Westwood and Celia Birtwell had a child, raised it in Japan, and reared it on a diet of manga cartoons and Disney films, that child would grow up to be Tsumori Chisato. With Pierrot dolls, gypsies, and circus performers all jostling in her latest collection as inspirations, resulting in a whirl of stripes, bright colors, and intricate illustrations, hers is not an aesthetic for the minimalist. But a glance at the very colorful audience attending Chisato's show proved that there are plenty of people who are happy to think of their bodies as canvases for clothes, as opposed to thinking of clothes as canvases to flatter the body.

In fact, like Birtwell and Westwood, Chisato can be deceptively restrained with her everything-and-the-kitchen-sink style. Well, mostly. If any woman out there felt that her life was lacking a double-layer ruffled mini cape in orange and purple, this gap is now filled in her wardrobe. Yet, these occasional slips into OTT-ness aside, Chisato almost always thinks carefully about the effect of the clothes on the onlooker. Thus, there were some terrific color combinations once the monochromatic opening section passed, such as a purple jacket with black frogging and a large brown cape with heavily stitched red pockets. A black velvet bolero crusted with gold trim looked particularly good over a paisley playsuit, with the former playing down the intensely patterned nature of the latter, and the latter adding some fun to the sober glamour of the former. Chisato's skill with patterns has attracted the canny attention of Le Petit Bateau, and their collaboration will be in stores in November.

The theme of the collection was circus, which must be up there with rockabilly and the film Belle de Jour as an overused fashion inspiration. But true to form, Chisato used her inspiration as a mere starting point, morphing quickly into hippie gypsies in paisley, and woodland fairies wearing long, luxe gowns. Aesthetically, it was a treat, and it left one grateful that Chisato had found fashion in which to channel her clearly abundant energy and imagination. If she had turned instead to, say, literature, she'd probably be churning out 2,000-page sci-fi fantasy novels.'
all words of Hadley Freeman in italics-

*JAPAN PRINTS-CIRCA 1871: Japanese triptych print shows circus at Yasukuni Jinja, originally called Shokonsha, Tokyo, Japan, with acrobats, trapeze artists, and horseback stunt riders. Done by Utagawa Hiroshige (1842-1894) in 1871. Circus entitled 'CirqueSoulie'/ for Little Augury readers this would have been the period when all things Japanese were the craze in Britain (this post about Oscar Wilde from little augury here
Celia Birtwell post here
Vivienne Westwood here
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Vivienne Westwood's silent movie

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Crazy heightened theatrical makeup aside- Vivienne Westwood's Fall 2010 Collection is beautiful. Envision the runaway with the great Silent Goddesses: Mary Pickford, Zazu Pitts, Theda Bara, Gloria Swanson, Phyllis Haver, Phyllis Dean. I have always loved her flamboyant costumery and her talent at making smart wearable British fashion-
always done with a pinch of nostalgia lingering along the fringes of preWorld War II and taking it right to the edgy 80's Punk.