Anna Dello Russo (January 2008 - September 2010)

[mikeijames]

backstage at marc jacobs....

source: style.com

 

[MissMagAddict]

Awww she's w/Bill Cunningham

 

[lelaid]

not so sure about this whole curly hair look. it makes her look like a little girl, little bow peep comes to mind. i dont like that they are so tight looking, a much looser style would be much more appropriate. oh who am i kidding, she could be wearing a deer carcass that is still bleeding and i would love it (and im a vegetarian!)

 

[JuliaC]

ooh, Anna ♥ she's hilarious, and sounds so nice. I like that she doesn't take herself too seriously.. I wonder in which part of Milan she lives..

 

[FashionPower]

YAY!Here she is
What is she wearing?The jacket reminds me of V&R FW09 but I'm not that sure...

 

[FashionPower]

getty

 

[hautechild]

And here is that outfit from the back (because it's Tommy Ton and you can see the boots better )

style.com

 

[Bird of Paradise]

^^ Beyond amazing!

 

[Lolajazz]

Old pic

AllThePrettyBirds

 

[mikeijames]

backstage at derek lam...

style.com

 

[Lackuiew]

Gorgeous Marc Jacobs coat....I'm so glad she refined her style..less drama but more sophistication

style

 

[Platinum Blonde]

The pink Marc Jacobs coat is so gorgeous for me. I'm so happy that she choose to wear it. It looks great with the black belt that she added.
I adore the way she dresses. Thanks a billion for all the pictures in this thread.

 

[mikeijames]

front row at rodarte....

style.com

 

[hautechild]

More snow pics from style.com

 

[Lackuiew]

She looks CUTE

 

[Ciao!Manhattan]

I love both of her outfits. I love the pink coat, she looks like a cute Little Pink Riding Hood in the snow

Anna Dello Russo at the Marc Jacobs show last night.
Photo: Patrick McMullan

Anna Dello Russo’s Thoughts on Personal-Style Bloggers

New York's spring fashion issue includes a Q&A with Japanese Vogue's fashion director, Anna Dello Russo. In the magazine she discusses her immaculate wardrobe and obsession with fashion. In this special extension of what you'll find in the issue, she discusses the personal-style blogging phenomenon.

What made you want to go to Milan to pursue a graduate degree in fashion?
Because it’s not just about dreaming or making a choice between a pair of shoes — it’s more complex. It’s really a professional job. That’s what I started studying really seriously. After that I started my really long, long training in Condé Nast with Franca Sozzani — to become a good professional journalist. If you have passion for something that you’re doing is one thing, but to make it your career is a completely different thing.

You gained a lot of recognition through your wardrobe by appearing on blogs like the Sartorialist.
I find all the new generation to this blog — the thinking, "Oh it’s so easy come in fashion, be visible." The young people, they really thinking it’s enough — pictures in Sartorialist or whatever — to be visible. But it’s not like that. It took me twenty year working really behind the scenes to make my style, my career, my personality so high. I spent at least fifteen years just working so hard to understand the language of designers or images. I never miss a show — never, never, never miss one season show. Always be there with all the information and working with photography, working with the magazine, and understanding. That’s what really make a change for me — I was a kid with dreams and now I’m a professional. That’s at least fifteen years working really, really hard to understand what fashion means.

So many successful blogs are built around people who mainly just post pictures of themselves in their clothes.
Sometimes I get surprised by the young people, want to have the result sooner and they’re thinking now everything changed, you can be noticed, you can be someone immediately because you have great style. Great style, okay, is something, but it’s not enough to be really a good worker. Your style is part of your imagination, but beyond your style has to be a deep experience also, a deep knowledge about fashion. Sometimes I notice no one remembers the last ten years of fashion. We can say it’s a young profession, but if we already have 50 years full of designer, full of history, no one remembers at least the last five years. The young generation doesn’t know.

But I never, never forget the preparation it took me. For fifteen years I was invisible because I was working behind everyone — the photographer, the camera. That’s also part of my style because I can recognize every different flavor of fashion. I know very well the last twenty years of fashion. Sometimes you say, "Oh that’s a fantastic look," but this look is just a copy of some other look.

For me, fashion [is] also geology — you cannot understand now if you don’t know anything about last ten years of fashion at least. Someone doesn’t even remember Tom Ford, what that means. It’s so easy to forget in fashion. "Oh, this is brand-new." It’s not brand-new, it’s just an evolution of what it was.
nymag

 

[missnyc]

Hey guys, can anyone id those gorgeous Anna's babies? I'm in love


foro famous people


Thanks!!!

 

[hautechild]

They are Tom Ford for YSL from 2003 I believe

 

[christrinity]

^^ They are YSL, as far as I remember from Tom Ford's last collection?

 

[missnyc]

Thanks!!! Those sandals are a dream!