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I lovelovelove lace and I've been noticing it popping up here and there. What do you guys think about it? I find it gorgeous 
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I love lace. It's a way to counter-act the tomboy and messy looks with something classic and feminine.
It seems like it's been popping up as the 'must have thing' in magazines for awhile, but I haven't seen it in stores and on people until recently.
It seems like it's been popping up as the 'must have thing' in magazines for awhile, but I haven't seen it in stores and on people until recently.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1581061,00.html
Not sure whether this is relevant here...
There was an article in the Observer newspaper magazine about lace, shame the photos aren't included in the website as the work was beautiful.
The joy of lace
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Forget frilly doilies and pillowcases, something exciting - and even a little bit saucy - is happening in the world of lace-making ... Liz Hoggard meets the women leading a craft revolution[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Sunday October 2, 2005
The Observer
[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Karen Nicol
The catwalk loves Karen Nicol. As well as supplying handmade lace and embroidery designs for clients such as Chloe, Julien Macdonald, John Rocha and Matthew Williamson, it was Nicol who, earlier this year, sent out models in 'skull-and-crossbones' lace for Clements Ribeiro's 2005 autumn/winter show.
'I love the idea of spending time on something almost throwaway, like taking old bits of sack and adding pearls and lace,' she enthuses. 'I worked on a lace dress for Antonio Berardi which was designed with all the bobbins hanging from the bottom as you walked. We got the lace made in Italy and it took the whole village three or four weeks. In the end the mayor gave it to him because they couldn't begin to price it.'
Now Nicol has designed her own contemporary collection - funky hanging embroideries to be worn over jeans or dresses. The collection, 'A Dash of Spirit', goes on show in London next month.
Although Nicol learned the centuries-old techniques of lacemaking when she trained as an embroiderer (she is now a senior lecturer in mixed-media textiles at the Royal College of Art), this collection is about new ways of making lace. The skirt pieces are made from threads and fabrics from flea-markets and junkshops. 'I find the quality and weight of old-fashioned haberdashery so beautiful,' she says. As the lacy template of the 'skirt' builds up, she paints areas or incorporates mixed-media elements - dogs, birds, flowers, plastic toys.
Thanks to fashion's current love affair with ladylike dressing - black lace from Miu Miu, Valentino and Versace, Victoriana at Yves St Laurent - Nicol's design studio is frantically busy, producing 1,500 garments a year. Her next job is for the erotic boutique Coco de Mer. So why the sudden demand? Simple, says Nicol: 'Lace makes you feel special. Women behave differently when wearing it.'
Danica Maier
Danica Maier is showing me one of the installations she has created using her grandmother's collection of vintage lace. The ribbon lace, taken from lingerie, dresses and collars, is held in place using dressmakers' pins. When you step back you see the bigger picture. The 3D patterns are line drawings of fairly explicit sexual antics.
Maier's laceworks are frank but feminist (one critic dubbed them 'nymphomaniacs in the parlour'). Sometimes the 'outline' is hidden in the delicate web of the lace: you glimpse a breast or a leg or a nipple. Or it is the area 'removed' from the fabric that makes it so erotic: in 'Knee Trembler', the male body is an area of white space.
Inspired by her conservative Christian upbringing in Delaware, on America's east coast, Maier's work questions traditional ideals of womanhood. She admits she has a love-hate relationship with lace making. 'I'm fascinated by the way historically it was the only creative outlet many women were allowed, it was the only thing they could do to keep their minds and their hands busy, and stop them growing crazy.'
Maier trained as a painter but, in her late-twenties, moved to the UK to study textiles at Goldsmiths College, where she found herself fascinated by lace.
Maier laughingly says she was raised to be a 'housewife with a picket fence and a baby and go to church every Sunday,' and now thinks of herself as a 'Fifties housewife who is rebelling in her own way'. Some rebellion. Maier's lace images come from top-shelf magazines (mostly Readers' Wives - 'the most real'). She admits in the early days she used to find buying them terrifying. 'I'd go to the counter with art magazines, so people would know it's for my work, not for me.'
Miranda Whall
From a distance, Miranda Whall's powdery drawings mimic 18th- and 19th-century Flemish lace patterns. But look closely at these pastoral landscapes and you'll see that the patterns are made up of hundreds of minute auto-erotic self-portraits. Using the 'innocence' of lace to investigate her own fantasies, the designs are inventive and funny. Camouflaged within lacelike patterns, Whall appears naked amid animals, plants and drapery. She bestrides farm machinery, caravans, even a vacuum cleaner.
'I suppose my drawings are about the clandestine journey at night where fairies partake in various activities,' says Whall, who has been compared to the Victorian 'faery painter' Richard Dadd.
Whall studied fine art, sculpture and performance in Cardiff and then at the Royal Academy Schools. Her lace fascination began when she inherited her great-aunt's collection of hand-made lace. It turned out to be a revelation. 'I was shocked that women like my aunt would have spent years making this stuff, but there was nothing of them in it. Lace was always made to men's patterns so there was a complete absence of any self-expression or autobiography. Such a waste. I felt strongly that I wanted to do something about that.'
She joined a lace club to learn how to make pillow lace by hand, but found it 'incredibly time-consuming'. Instead she now works digitally - first scanning her drawings, then repeating them to form what she calls a 'wilderness of spiralling orgies, held within the confines of the lace pattern'.
Whall, shortlisted for the 2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize, now lives in Berlin, where she is developing her drawings as short films. She shows me a new lace triptych called 'Sue Lawley'. The mind boggles but it turns out to be named after a species of rose. 'There are roses called Sue Lawley, Hannah Gordon and Felicity Kendal. I like the idea of these women as archetypal English ladies.' · Danica Maier and Miranda Whall's joint exhibition, 'Adam and Eve It', is at London Printworks Trust, Unit 7 Brighton House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London SW9 (020 7738 7841) until 25 November. Karen Nicol's 'A Dash of Spirit' show is at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 28 Charlotte Street, London W1 (020 7436 4899) from 14 November to 10 December[/font]
Not sure whether this is relevant here...
There was an article in the Observer newspaper magazine about lace, shame the photos aren't included in the website as the work was beautiful.
The joy of lace
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Forget frilly doilies and pillowcases, something exciting - and even a little bit saucy - is happening in the world of lace-making ... Liz Hoggard meets the women leading a craft revolution[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Sunday October 2, 2005
The Observer
[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Karen Nicol
The catwalk loves Karen Nicol. As well as supplying handmade lace and embroidery designs for clients such as Chloe, Julien Macdonald, John Rocha and Matthew Williamson, it was Nicol who, earlier this year, sent out models in 'skull-and-crossbones' lace for Clements Ribeiro's 2005 autumn/winter show.
'I love the idea of spending time on something almost throwaway, like taking old bits of sack and adding pearls and lace,' she enthuses. 'I worked on a lace dress for Antonio Berardi which was designed with all the bobbins hanging from the bottom as you walked. We got the lace made in Italy and it took the whole village three or four weeks. In the end the mayor gave it to him because they couldn't begin to price it.'
Now Nicol has designed her own contemporary collection - funky hanging embroideries to be worn over jeans or dresses. The collection, 'A Dash of Spirit', goes on show in London next month.
Although Nicol learned the centuries-old techniques of lacemaking when she trained as an embroiderer (she is now a senior lecturer in mixed-media textiles at the Royal College of Art), this collection is about new ways of making lace. The skirt pieces are made from threads and fabrics from flea-markets and junkshops. 'I find the quality and weight of old-fashioned haberdashery so beautiful,' she says. As the lacy template of the 'skirt' builds up, she paints areas or incorporates mixed-media elements - dogs, birds, flowers, plastic toys.
Thanks to fashion's current love affair with ladylike dressing - black lace from Miu Miu, Valentino and Versace, Victoriana at Yves St Laurent - Nicol's design studio is frantically busy, producing 1,500 garments a year. Her next job is for the erotic boutique Coco de Mer. So why the sudden demand? Simple, says Nicol: 'Lace makes you feel special. Women behave differently when wearing it.'
Danica Maier
Danica Maier is showing me one of the installations she has created using her grandmother's collection of vintage lace. The ribbon lace, taken from lingerie, dresses and collars, is held in place using dressmakers' pins. When you step back you see the bigger picture. The 3D patterns are line drawings of fairly explicit sexual antics.
Maier's laceworks are frank but feminist (one critic dubbed them 'nymphomaniacs in the parlour'). Sometimes the 'outline' is hidden in the delicate web of the lace: you glimpse a breast or a leg or a nipple. Or it is the area 'removed' from the fabric that makes it so erotic: in 'Knee Trembler', the male body is an area of white space.
Inspired by her conservative Christian upbringing in Delaware, on America's east coast, Maier's work questions traditional ideals of womanhood. She admits she has a love-hate relationship with lace making. 'I'm fascinated by the way historically it was the only creative outlet many women were allowed, it was the only thing they could do to keep their minds and their hands busy, and stop them growing crazy.'
Maier trained as a painter but, in her late-twenties, moved to the UK to study textiles at Goldsmiths College, where she found herself fascinated by lace.
Maier laughingly says she was raised to be a 'housewife with a picket fence and a baby and go to church every Sunday,' and now thinks of herself as a 'Fifties housewife who is rebelling in her own way'. Some rebellion. Maier's lace images come from top-shelf magazines (mostly Readers' Wives - 'the most real'). She admits in the early days she used to find buying them terrifying. 'I'd go to the counter with art magazines, so people would know it's for my work, not for me.'
Miranda Whall
From a distance, Miranda Whall's powdery drawings mimic 18th- and 19th-century Flemish lace patterns. But look closely at these pastoral landscapes and you'll see that the patterns are made up of hundreds of minute auto-erotic self-portraits. Using the 'innocence' of lace to investigate her own fantasies, the designs are inventive and funny. Camouflaged within lacelike patterns, Whall appears naked amid animals, plants and drapery. She bestrides farm machinery, caravans, even a vacuum cleaner.
'I suppose my drawings are about the clandestine journey at night where fairies partake in various activities,' says Whall, who has been compared to the Victorian 'faery painter' Richard Dadd.
Whall studied fine art, sculpture and performance in Cardiff and then at the Royal Academy Schools. Her lace fascination began when she inherited her great-aunt's collection of hand-made lace. It turned out to be a revelation. 'I was shocked that women like my aunt would have spent years making this stuff, but there was nothing of them in it. Lace was always made to men's patterns so there was a complete absence of any self-expression or autobiography. Such a waste. I felt strongly that I wanted to do something about that.'
She joined a lace club to learn how to make pillow lace by hand, but found it 'incredibly time-consuming'. Instead she now works digitally - first scanning her drawings, then repeating them to form what she calls a 'wilderness of spiralling orgies, held within the confines of the lace pattern'.
Whall, shortlisted for the 2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize, now lives in Berlin, where she is developing her drawings as short films. She shows me a new lace triptych called 'Sue Lawley'. The mind boggles but it turns out to be named after a species of rose. 'There are roses called Sue Lawley, Hannah Gordon and Felicity Kendal. I like the idea of these women as archetypal English ladies.' · Danica Maier and Miranda Whall's joint exhibition, 'Adam and Eve It', is at London Printworks Trust, Unit 7 Brighton House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London SW9 (020 7738 7841) until 25 November. Karen Nicol's 'A Dash of Spirit' show is at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 28 Charlotte Street, London W1 (020 7436 4899) from 14 November to 10 December[/font]
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I noticed the topic got changed to S/S 06... just out of curiosity, what does S/S stand for? I'm so clueless 
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VintagePearls said:I noticed the topic got changed to S/S 06... just out of curiosity, what does S/S stand for? I'm so clueless
Spring/Summer
My favorite lace so far (to wear) was at Tracey Reese and Gianfranco Ferre.
Ferre, from voguevanity.it
Tracy Reese, newyorkmetro.com
^ what i was thinking as well......
but if it's lace..... you're talking about ... ..i am liking this trend.. but not on clothes... more like tiny details here and there..... like high mesh socks with lace detaling on top..... not big bold pieces though....
but if it's lace..... you're talking about ... ..i am liking this trend.. but not on clothes... more like tiny details here and there..... like high mesh socks with lace detaling on top..... not big bold pieces though....
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pics from style.com:
valentino
chloe
chloe
hermes
hermes
hermes (there was tons at hermes)
kenzo
chanel
chanel
chanel (also lots at chanel)
valentino
chloe
chloe
hermes
hermes
hermes (there was tons at hermes)
kenzo
chanel
chanel
chanel (also lots at chanel)
Kimkhuu said:^ what i was thinking as well......
but if it's lace..... you're talking about ... ..i am liking this trend.. but not on clothes... more like tiny details here and there..... like high mesh socks with lace detaling on top..... not big bold pieces though....
agreed. all over lace can very easily become tacky and cheap looking, but a few details here and there are nice. I do worry though that when interpreted for the mainstream masses, any references to lace will become cheap looking...
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utopia, that's very possible and kind of disheartening. a lot of things when translated for mass sale lose their charm.
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source: telegraph.co.uk
Make sure you're ready for the lace race
(Filed: 12/10/2005)
Lace is more versatile than ever this season - if you follow the simple rules. Clare Coulson explains
Lace is plagued by preconceptions. In the wrong hands, it can look tacky, cheap or, sometimes, just too sexy for its own good. But, this autumn, Miuccia Prada - who has an incredible talent for making us see things in a new light - has shown just how wearable it can be. In her Miu Miu collection, she used heavy black lace for prim shirt-dresses, boxy tops and sedate cocktail dresses, which all look sophisticated and incredibly cool.
The trick with lace - aside from steering clear of anything synthetic - is to master the context. The Miu Miu pieces work because the shapes are demure and the lace is heavy - giving it an old-style elegance. Focus on just one lace item, rather than trying to match a skirt to any of the gorgeous lace shoes around. And, keep accessories - especially showy ones - to a minimum.
Shirts and dresses
While there are lots of girly prom- and flapper-style dresses around, there are plenty more grown-up styles, too - including silk dresses with lace panels or detailing. Tara Jarmon, edgy London-based label Future Classics and Topshop have all produced very wearable silk dresses that incorporate lace.
A lace pencil skirt is also a very sexy yet sophisticated way to wear the trend; contrast with a silk or satin top, or tone it down with a fitted cashmere T-shirt. Alternatively, look out for skirts that feature just one lace detail; Rebecca Taylor's sultry black wool version at Fenwick (£185; 020 7629 9161), for instance, has a flirty, deep lace hem.
Tops
The current trend for Victoriana means that there are lots of little blouses and sleeveless tops with lace collars and pretty, fluttering sleeves. La Redoute has a grey voile butterfly-print top with black lace cap sleeves and neckline (£18; 0870 0500 455). Jigsaw, meanwhile, has diaphanous organza tops with antique-looking lace collars (£68; 020 7491 4484). These look great when contrasted with a different texture such as a pair of wool trousers, or a chunky, cropped knit - a look that was shown on the Chloé autumn/winter catwalk to great effect.
Tights
Good quality lace hosiery can look fabulous with really elegant stilettos (Christian Louboutin has some of the best this autumn), but avoid wearing them with anything too short or revealing - they always work best when worn with a simple black pencil skirt, or a sleek shift dress. Look out for tights from La Perla, which has used beautiful "Leavers" lace in its latest collection (£33; 020 7291 0930).
Accessories
Accessories are the least challenging way to incorporate lace into your wardrobe. A pair of lace shoes, such as Giorgio Armani's nude, open-toe sandals with satin bows (£345; 020 7235 6232), or a lace-covered clutch bag, can work with pretty much any evening outfit. If you want to wear lace evening shoes, pair them with simple, sheer black tights. This season, even jewellery has been given a lacy effect; Lanvin's beautiful, lace-covered pearl necklaces have spawned lots of imitations, including versions at Coast and Marks & Spencer.
Lace drop-waisted V-neck dress with bead detail, 8-16, £150, Oasis Vintage; 01865 881986. Silk slip, 10-14, £89, Luna Diseta Pura at Fenwick; 020 7629 9161. Sheer tights, £7, Cette, as before. Diamanté vintage bracelet, £85, Musa, as before
Silk dress with lace trim, 10-14, £149, Malene Birger, at Fenwick, as before. Pearl cluster choker, £171, Lily Gardner at Nude Contemporary Jewellery, lilygardner.com
Fifties lace dress with black bow centre and nude underslip, 8-12, £329, Sara Berman at Urban Outfitters; 0207 629 9161. Black round toe Mary -Janes, £350, Christian Louboutin, as before. Double diamante floral drop earrings, £20, Jon Richard at Debenhams, as before.
Mustard silk v-neck with lace trim, 8-16, £45, Jigsaw; 0208 392 5600. Diamante stone drop earrings, £15, Jon Richard at Debenhams; 0161 946 4400.
Lace is more versatile than ever this season - if you follow the rules
Silk top with lace back, £237; lace skirt with underslip, £237, both Wyeth, Matches; 020 7580 8644. Tights, £7, Cette; 01297 625 888. Pearl charm bracelet, £68, Musa; 020 7937 6282
Cotton/lace/silk blouse with front ties, 8-14, £125, Vanessa Bruno, at Harvey Nichols; 020 7235 5000. Pencil skirt with fishtail bottom and bow, 8-16, £250, Mulberry; 020 7491 3900
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^ I like it as tiny details too! Nothing too big (like a whole jacket made up of lace)... Maybe the trims and the collar =)
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I loved Balenciaga's lace... so beautiful 
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