Showing posts with label vogue italia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vogue italia. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

How To Dress Like: Anna Piaggi

With all the recent and frankly, omnipresent focus on Anna Wintour's ability to cooly reign it all in, I can't help but be thankful that there will always be an antithesis to her brand of austerity. Don't get me wrong, I worship a calculating brilliance like any other, but when I can barely manage to put on a bra in the morning that's when I think of Anna Piaggi, the famed mascot of Vogue Italia who is never dressed in anything but head-to-toe costume.

With her penchant for hair dye (she currently sports a light blue bob), cartoonish hats and bright sneakers – she’s who imagine Lewis Carroll would have fantasized about, had there not been so many little girls around…



In true 'How to Dress Like' fashion, let's break down her look!


Step 1: Obviously you’d need to dye your hair. Blue, green, pink or white would do. If this is merely a one day excursion into wild dressing, I suggest colored hairspray...does the trick and goes down the drain as easily as it was sprayed on.

Step 2: Take some lipstick and draw and big circle on one cheek…

Step 3: A strong lip is also quite important to Piaggi's look, feel free to experiment with brights...pink, red or orange work best.

Step 4: If you know any midgets, steal their hats. In the likely event that you don't (unlike Liz Lemon on that episode of 30 Rock!), I suggest a Petit Beret or a Chapeau Claudette!

Step 5: While you can cover them in newspaper to replicate this first look, you might want to keep them as is, for wacky variation's sake.

Step 6: Collect as many newspapers as you can. Tape a few together and then proceed to tape them to your body.

Step 7: Do you have a plate handy? It would make a perfect medallion on necklace, don't you think?

Step 8: Now cover one shoulder with a cape, a table cloth, hell, even the drapes.

Step 9: to further accessorize this look, take a look around your room and grab the first inanimate object you see...lampshade, wine bottle - anything goes! If you can figure out how to attach them to your outfit, then a tiny bowler hat off to you.

Step 10: Take a gym-class stretch around the room. If you don't break any immediate objects then it's off to Margiela with you! BRAVO!






Thursday, May 7, 2009

When Life/Big Budget Fashion Shoots Imitate Art

If you're going to riff on a painting, you might as well go all the way, which I guess was Steven Meisel's thinking behind Vogue Italia's recent ode to Ingres' Odalisque With a Slave. It's actually so bang-on that it's giving me Met cravings (As I've mentioned before, I'm a mess for art history refs...)

Albeit the shoot is more Moroccan than Turkish and Sasha's pose is more fitting with that of La Grande Odalisque, and for that matter...the slave isn't really playing an instrument, unless his mere nakedness is supposed to inspire song. In any case...I lurve this...so much.

ps. we stole these images from Vogue Italia and Wikipedia