Showing posts with label daphne guiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daphne guiness. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Lady Gaga does a meaty number, again...

To be honest, I am getting tired of this woman's antics. She started off by being edgy, following steps set out by style icon, Daphne Guiness, and proved to be able to fill her boots and go beyond that and now she's turned into a hot mess that touches on topics that are, perhaps, far beyond her intentions. It's all getting a little dull! How about sticking to the artistry which you introduced yourself with?

She wore DeGorge couture pieces by the likes of Lee McQueen and Armani (Prive, that is) and made fashionistas (and bloggers alike) to take notice of her... we couldn't wait to see what she'd wear at any event until this came along...

I get it, take a stab at animal rights activists AND, ironically, get some kind of reaction from the Fur-loving/wearing/using people. I get that, I think. It is one outfit that actually taps into the human psyche and allows you to ask when too much is TOO MUCH...

This outfit is no different from her using fur, in fact it's probably better given that the methods of killing animals for meat are much more humane than those of fur (I mean, this could be halaal meat for all we know) and yet there's an uproar that questions her morality - questioned by some fur-wearing, leather stiletto-trotting hypocrite who'd rather see an animal inflated with gases and force-fed before going for the chop to preserve the fur's integrity than to see Gaga wearing a smelly (I can only imagine), meaty number. Doesn't this make you question the moral fibre of our society?


I hate the outfit, do not get me wrong - it is an eye-sore (but so are many people's outfits), tried picturing it in Hessein which would've probably suited this dress more than all the other traditional materials and no, can't see beauty - but I have no problem with it (as with fur - do not gun me on that one)... if she chooses to be ridiculed to make a strong - and hopefully inspire change (be it with the "all for furs" or "all against fur")- statement, then props to her...

but eeuw! a little salt and pepper and a run through a furnace would make this outfit a little more, umm... palatable.

pic source: AP/Reuters via Michael Deacon (Telegraph's TV features editor)

Monday, June 21, 2010

Gaga gone Gaga at a Gala

OKAY, not quite a gala event!

This is the outfit Lady Gaga decided she'd wear to her sister's graduation - huh?! Graduation? Although I am still getting a lot of Daphne out of this outfit (ya'll know my Gaga-drama) - have to give it to the nutty GAGA, this is something else - naturally, I love it! Including the black-veil rice-picker's hat. DEGORGE!!!!

are those Nina Ricci booties I see?


So... would she crack an invite to your wedding (pretend SHE has YOU on speed-dial and remove the celeb-factor)? or funeral? or any event where you're suppose to be centre stage? HA! she just scored two brownie points for this one!

This is what the girls at "the style bitches" had to say:

Imagine for a minute; Gaga is your sister. You’ve seen her in her favourite giraffe pajamas and heard her fart. And she swans up to your graduation looking like a demented Bee-keeper. Wouldn’t you just be like, “Here Stephenie! This isn’t Madison Square Bleedin’ Gardens! Gerrup ouh of it, will ye?

I know, hilarity at it's finest!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Alexander McQueen


The end of New York Fashion Week marked the end of Fashion and Genius' Love child.


There really are no words to describe the loss. 40 year old Lee McQueen was found in his apartment in what was described as a suicide; following a depression when his beloved mother (and best friend) passed on... actually, NO! It's all too morbid to. THIS IS how I choose to remember him:
He was an inspiration and in Thula Sindi's words: "There are very few designers I look-up to but Alexander McQueen was like an Idol to me. A self-made universe." This for me captures his life!
As he rests in Peace, may the much loved label, the much spoken about Armadillo shoes (which adorned the feet of style icons of our time: Daphne Guiness and her watered down mirror-version, Lady Gaga) and one of the leaders in shoe architecture (in my humble opinion) live forever and flourish to new heights in celebration of a man with a vision like no other!




Rest in Peace

(pic source: Lee McQueen - www.freshnessmag.com, shoes: www.bryanboy.com, www.alexandermcqueen.com)