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flaunt the imperfection
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is this the way of the future?
nytimes article...
there are certain to be fleece items galore if her collab with everlast was any indication...
maybe the time has come for the queen of sweats to resume her reign?...
thoughts???...
any other pics of sweatshirts styled in an interesting way....
B)
* i think that turning the sucker inside out is KEY...
nytimes article...
with Norma Kamali poised to launch a line for Walmart...
Playing Dress Up With a Sweatshirt
ONCE, in the late 1970s, Norma Kamali bought gray fleece to make a swimsuit cover-up, then proceeded to make an entire collection out of it: blazers, rah-rah skirts. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Let’s do an evening gown!’ ” she recalled. But her novel idea of “sweatshirt dressing,” which preceded the ’80s fitness craze, proved immensely influential, cropping up through the years in collections from Vivienne Westwood, Martin Margiela and Calvin Klein. (It also earned her the unfortunate title “Queen of Sweats.”) This season, Stefano Pilati of Yves Saint Laurent took a stab at it. The result was a collection so strong it made the idea of reworking the comfortable, inexpensive fabric in clever, elegant ways seem absolutely right again. He used gray fleece to construct an impeccably tailored jacket, trousers and one covetable nipped-waist cocktail dress. He also proved that with proper styling, the mundane sweatshirt can indeed look chic. “It’s like a T-shirt or a pair of jeans — a good basic that you can dress up,” said the stylist Aleksandra Woroniecka, who, for this page, modeled two looks she pulled together with a sweatshirt from Adam Kimmel (a designer known for his sweatshirt tuxedo). “You wear a Chanel jacket with a ruffled shirt, and you look like an old lady,” she said. “But with a sweatshirt, it looks balanced. It just looks right.” In look No. 1, center, she wears it with an Isabel Marant fur vest, Tripp jeans and a Lanvin necklace. In look No. 2, she wears a Chanel jacket, Balenciaga pants and a Lanvin cuff. Adam Kimmel sweatshirt, $360 at Bergdorf Goodman and Jeffrey New York.
Photo: Matthew Peyton for The New York Times (middle and right)
there are certain to be fleece items galore if her collab with everlast was any indication...
maybe the time has come for the queen of sweats to resume her reign?...
thoughts???...
any other pics of sweatshirts styled in an interesting way....
B)
* i think that turning the sucker inside out is KEY...