TWENTY ELEVEN

2010 in my nutshell of WHHOOOAS and NOOOOOOOZ!

A must see duuuhhhcumentary is that of the late great Yves Saint Laurent. August 1, 1936 to 1 June 2008. THere are 2 segments. the first, depicts his rise to the top of the highest fashion game aka the world of Couture and being hand picked by Christian Dior to be his right hand man only to become director to the Dior house shortly after Dior's death at the age of 21. Let us not forget that is was 1957…to be noticed and accepted in the fashion capital of the world, Paris, and be young blood as well as, a homosexual is actually unreally real. part 2 showcases his last collection before his retirement in 2002. the romance in watching the process of a collection being born at this stage in Yves' life is both beautiful and sad in that it is visible that Yves extremely sensitive character and angst are what made him so brilliant but at the same time develop his handicap, the coping of himself.


1. Young and Dumb

2. Everything in fashion is influenced by something even if it's nothing. Sometimes it just goes too far such as when gardening shoes become shoes that are worn from the grocery store to clubs in smaller cities and are named after the nickname of a reptile OR when slippers from Australia are worn outdoors in the American Winter climates and become soggy street salt collectors OR when tights for the gym, that cost more than a good pair of jeans and are made up of 2 seams that take 10 minutes to sew, are paired with kitten heels and a bar top for the clubs OR the gross invention of jeggings that are only flattering on models and were once made with a flare in the early 00s and were being sold at stitches are now, in unreliable sources, considered 'high fashion'.

3. For everyone else, Lady GAGA

4. Drizzy, Young Money, Drake

5. Going from a teen to having our first smokes, coolers and horrible sex moments to being invited to weddings and being asked to be godparents…shootout to the kids of the early to mid eighties.

6. Disgusting T.V. that could be a list longer than this mac will allow but for recent reflections of our society:
Jersey Shore
The Real Desperate Housewives of Anywhere
My Sweet Sixteen
MTV LIVE
The women who put her 8 kids life on tv from diapers to tooth losing to her transformation of plastic surgery
Sarah Palin in Alaska and everywhere else
Every B to Z celebrity having cameras in their plastic faces at all times to air their dirty classless laundry
The News
Any recent family sitcom
Anything to do with the Kardashian's

7. Brazilian vs. Bush

8. Fast Fashion

9. Bloggers having mayor fashion status and revealing another side of the fashion world that we would never know about sans them.

10. Alexander McQueen, on the morning of February 11th (p.s. also Brandy Norwood's birthday), I just pulled another all nighter before my first solo show in February and at the very moments of Alexander's breakdown I was recalling his SS 2003 collection which was for me, one of the most important of this decade. I could go on forever…but he is still very much alive to me and it is one of the biggest loses of our decade and not just for fashion as he was an important figure of our generation is many other aspects.

11. Michael Jackson, a man who gave his life away for fame and is one of the best musical artists to ever walk the planet. I don't care about his personal life, that was never truly personal to begin with. I listen to his music and how many people can have you dancing with every song they've ever recorded yesterday, today and tomorrow…genius. His personal style from the 80s was so ahead of its time that we are only now mimicking it and failing.

12. Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief for Paris Vogue has announced her retirement with the magazine after a decade of directing. There is NO WAY that this is the end of her in the fashion world. Why? because, she is simply too fucking sexy, too fucking parisian, too fucking smart and has too much ACTUAL style. Ears and eyes peeled Carine!

12. TECHNOLOGY AND THE DEATH OF ROMANCE

LOVE, the trick word that has been used and abused in too many circumstances…for the year 2011, I hope you find it…