More hats!

Hats are a very personal thing because a hat that looks great on someone might look like crap on another. So I'm just going to post about some that look good online and hopefully look that good on. I've noticed whenever i wear a hat (of the non-baseball variety) I always get a lot of compliments, maybe because most people don't wear hats.

I have this Ripstop Cadet hat from Urban Outfitters for $24.00. I love it, it's really flattering and I've gotten several compliments on it. I've also seen some guys wearing it so i guess it's unisex.


My sister bought this Twill Cabbie hat with buckle from Urban Outfitters and it looks great on her. Last time she wore this going out on Sunset so many people complimented her. it's also on sale for $11.99!


I really like this Felt Bucket Hat with Button, also from Urban for $34.00. I love the big button, it's a nice detail. For some reason this hat conjures up the image of a girl wearing this type of hat with a pea coat skipping around in the rain in New York. Probably just my imagination though.


I saw a girl wearing a fedora once and it looked awesome on her, very tough look to pull off though. I really like this Eugenia Kim Max Fedora that is on sale for $155 from $235.


Even though it's February this hat would be great during summer. The straw hat on the left is really nice for the beach or if you feel like being a bit breezy while walking down the street in a summer dress. This one is from J.Crew and is called the Classic Straw hat for $49.50. I like it better than the straw cowboy hat trend (on the right, you probably can't tell but that's Teri Hatcher and bunch of other celebs wearing it) that was in style for a while. I thnk the floppy hat is a little classier.



Of course Americans don't even come close to being hat crazy compared to British people. I think when you dress up there you're required to wear a hat or else the outfit seems really casual. It also seems like the weirder the hat the better, what is the deal with that anyways. For example, these are pictures from Camilla and Charles' wedding I saw online, if you look closely, every single woman is wearing a hat, and totally ugly ones at that.


The two possible future queens of England, Camilla Parker Bowles and Kate Middleton are wearing some strange hats here.

Eugenia Kim Sale

As I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Shopping Nerd, I saw that the fantastic hat designer Eugenia Kim was having a sale. She's a super popular hat designer and I love hats so I couldn't pass up this opporunity. I think her most popular design is the Muffy design that comes in different colors and designs.

Here's Jessica Simpson wearing the Muffy 5 in Black Velvet. It's also on sale at the website for $95 and comes in Black, chocolate, navy, and eggplant.


This is the Muffy 3 which is made out of cashmere. I kinda like the white one better actually. It's on sale for $95 from $225.


This is the Muffy 7, camel navy striped wool cap. That's Lindsay Lohan if you can't tell. Again $95 on sale from $175.


Here's the Muffy 1 in brown, I got the gray one you can see on Beyonce on the right. I got the gray instead of brown because I think it would look better with my jet black hair.


This Felt Cadet hat at Urban Outfitters kind of looks like the Eugenia Kim hats. It is $34 and comes in red, blue and gray.


Wow, I just realized that I really dislike every single celebrity who I just posted about (especially Paris Hilton, ugh). Hahaha, oh well, i can't hold it against the hat, I'm excited to get mine.

Another cool exhibition

I went to Breaking the Mode at LACMA today and it was really great. I was surprised at how many Japanese designers were featured. Next week i'm going to go to the Skin and Bones exhibit here at the Museum of Contemporary Art, it sounds even cooler than the LACMA one. If you're in LA you should check it out.

SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES IN FASHION AND ARCHITECTURE
11.19.06 - 03.05.07



Testa & WeiserCarbon Beach House (left) Yoshiki Hishinuma,Inside Out 2way dress (right)

This exhibition explores the common visual and intellectual principles that underlie both fashion and architecture. Both disciplines start with the human body and expand on ideas of space and movement, serving as outward expressions of personal, political, and cultural identity. Architects and fashion designers produce environments defined through spatial awareness—the structures they create are based on volume, function, proportion, and material. Presenting the work of international fashion designers and architects, the exhibition examines themes such as shelter, identity, tectonic strategies, creative process, and parallel stylistic tendencies including deconstruction and minimalism. The exhibition is curated by MOCA Curator of Architecture & Design Brooke Hodge and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Architects and Designers in the Exhibition:
Shigeru Ban
Hussein Chalayan
Preston Scott Cohen
Comme des Garçons
Neil M. Denari Architects
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Winka Dubbeldam / Archi-Tectonics
Eisenman Architects
Alber Elbaz for Lanvin
Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT
Foreign Office Architects
Future Systems
Frank Gehry
Tess Giberson
Zaha Hadid Architects
Herzog & de Meuron
Yoshiki Hishinuma
Toyo Ito
Greg Lynn FORM
Jakob + MacFarlane
Elena Manferdini
Maison Martin Margiela
Alexander McQueen
Miyake Issey
Morphosis
Narciso Rodriguez
Neutelings Riedijk Architecten
Jean Nouvel
Office dA
OMA / Rem Koolhaas
Ralph Rucci
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Nanni Strada
Yeohlee Teng
Testa & Weiser
Olivier Theyskens for Rochas
Isabel Toledo
Bernard Tschumi
Dries Van Noten
Viktor & Rolf
Junya Watanabe
Vivienne Westwood
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Yohji Yamamoto
J. Meejin Yoon / MY Studio

Bi-annual Ron Herman Sale!!

I saw this post over at one of my favorite blogs CaliforniaStyle and wanted to share. I don't think I'm going to go, I can't face the temptation, I must save money for europe. Damn.

RonHerman.com's Annual January Blowout Sale

Starting January 11th 2007, ALL Ron Herman and [mostly all] RonHerman.com merchandise will be marked down 50%. That includes top designers like Proenza Schouler, Dries Van Noten, Chloe, Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Karl Lagerfield, Jovovich-Hawk, Mayle, Wyeth and tons more. The last week of January, all remaining merchandise (as if there will be any) will be marked down to 75% off. This only happens twice a year (if you miss this one, the next one is not until September) and cannot be compared to any other sale in the nation.

This sale is a great way to start to the year as well as treat yourself after a month of buying gifts for everyone but yourself! Mark your calendars!



When: January 11-29
What: 50%-75% off ALL merchandise
Where: RonHerman.com and all Ron Herman locations except for Melrose

If you can't get to the LA store, you can still shop the site!
Happy shopping!

Right on Banana Republic

I LOVE Banana Republic. From their sleek, sophisticated yet a little trendy clothes to their huge sales, I've become a big fan. Plus, if you sign up for their credit card you get extra coupons for your birthday and 25 dollar gift certificates when you accumulate a certain amount of points. Plus i love how almost everything in the store always ends up on sale, bad for them because i never buy anything when it fist comes out, good for me because i get a deal. As I was browsing through their store the other day I took a look at the jewelery section and saw some great, surprisingly trendy stuff for reasonable prices. From what I could see they looked like they were pretty good quality too.

A big trend this season was cocktail rings. They're classic and can be the centerpiece of any outfit, however, it's difficult to get one that doesn't look cheap if you don't want to spend a lot of money. Banana Republic has some that are really pretty in person and although they aren't real stones, they don't look like you got them at Claire's. The splurge cocktail ring on the left is by David Yurman (who i absolutely adore) for $1,025.00. It's smokey quartz with diamond but they also have it in Blue Topaz, mother of pearl, amethyst and a few others. The ring on the right is from Banana Republic for $48.00. It also comes in this canary yellow color but I think that one looks a little cheap.

They obviously look different but I think that they are the same type of style and have the same feeling, if that makes sense.

These 2 rings look kind of David Yurman like as well. The one on the left is the Genuine White Jade and CZ Cocktail Ring and is only sold online at Banana Republic for $42.00. The ring on the left is the Large CZ Deco Ring for $48.00.


i LOVE LOVE this Crystal Flower Ring from Banana Republic for $42.00. So pretty! Looks kinda like a Chanel one i saw in a magazine a while back.


Charm Bracelets and necklaces were also another popular trend this year. Juicy Couture started a jewelery line and they have this Heart Charm Bracelet for $128.00 (+ $60.00 for each additional charm) from Shopbop.com


Banana Republic also has charm bracelets which I actually think are a little classier than the Juicy ones without the juicy sayings on the charms. There's the Multi Charm Bracelet for $48.00. Or the other Multi Charm Bracelet for $38.00.


I also love charm necklaces. Shopbop.com has a bunch of cute ones from this jewelry designer named Gara Danielle. The one on the left, Farm Charms with Leaf Necklace, is $150.00 and the one on the right,the Small Tusk Necklace with Charms and Stone is $161.00.


Banana Republic has also made a few charm necklaces that you can find here. They range from $26.00-$48.00. These 2 below even have similar charms (the dove and the elephant) as the Gara Danielle necklace on the left.


I really like these ones with the charms around the circle pendant thing. That makes them a little different than the charm necklaces I've seen around.


Charm necklaces and bracelets are arguably very last season but I don't really dictate what I wear by that. My philosophy is if you still like it and think it looks good, wear it!

Last weekend!!

If you live in Los Angeles this is your last weekend to check out this exhibit at LACMA. My mom told me it was great and I'm going this weekend, January 7 sure came up faster than I thought it would.

September 17, 2006– January 7, 2007

Hammer Building


Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection


A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) Queen
Yohji Yamamoto (Japan, b. 1943), Woman's Two-Piece Suit (detail), autumn/winter 1993-94, wool gabardine with wool and goat hair canvas trim, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. H. Grant Theis, © Yohji Yamamoto.

Creating clothing, for protection, profession, or spectacle, has undergone dramatic change over the past twenty-five years. A number of designers have introduced subversive elements into the fashion system, examining and deconstructing its entrenched conventions and changing the rules about what is aesthetically pleasing and fashionable. Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection will present designers who found traditional criteria and solutions obsolete – designers who challenged the canons of the body’s fashionable silhouette, revolutionized methods of garment construction, rejected the formulaic use of materials and techniques, and exploited new technology in textile production.

The recent dynamic changes in the forms and surfaces of fashionable dress will be featured in this comprehensive exhibition, which will include over 100 examples of contemporary dress drawn exclusively from LACMA’s collection. Among the contemporary designers whose work will be exhibited are Jean-Paul Gaultier, Rei Kawakubo, Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Thierry Mugler, and Yohji Yamamoto, with historical examples by Gilbert Adrian, Christian Dior, and Charles James.

This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was supported by the museum's Costume Council. In kind support was provided by Neiman Marcus.

Curators: Kaye Spilker and Sharon Takeda, Costume and Textiles.

Headbands

If you're like me and don't have time to do your hair in the morning and make it look all fabulous, you can't go wrong with a headband. I literally wear a headband to work every day because it's so easy. When you're having a bad hair day, just throw on a headband, stick your hair in a bun or ponytail and voila, ready to go. I know practically every fashion blogger writes about headbands but here's another one anyways.

Headbands have been in for a while so that means there's a lot of options. Chains and chain prints were very popular this season, I don't know if they'll become a fad but I know I'll be wearing mine for a while.

I love Cara Couture headbands. My favorite is the double chain link headband which i have in gold with Brown and Ivory ribbons. It's comfortable and more importantly, stays on to your head like it's glued to it.


I like these Cara Accessories headbands with the chain print $38.00 (left)


There's also the ol'faithful way of wrapping a scarf around your head and then bobby pinning it so it doesn't slip off. Sometimes that still slips off and is annoying so there's some headbands that just looks like scarves tied around the head but are headbands so they stay. Amici Accessories has some really cute options. There's the one on the left, the Black Silk, Chain Reaction headband, the same pattern as the clutch i posted about before if you want to match. It is $32.00. I really really like Pink Swirl Headband because it looks very much like a Pucci scarf $32.00.


Amici also has some other headbands that are really cute. The Brown Herringbone headband(18.00, left) is perfect for wintertime. Black and White headbands are great and spruce up any outfit with black, white or gray in it. I have a couple of them and wear them all the time. The one on the right is cute, it's the Revamp Radius headband $20.00.



If you want something without print then I really like tortoise shell headbands. Franceluxe has a great website with lots and lots of options, and also some scarf/printed ones too. I have the Hollywood Links headband ($40.00 , left). It's handmade in France and is really good quality but doesn't quite go down as long below my ears as I would like, mabye i just have a long head. The Seven Circles headband is another nice alternative ($40.00, right). These headbands come in a lot of different patterns that are really pretty. Mine is the black and white one with little squares, I think it's called Opera Silver.





I also got a thin black headband to wear when I put my hair up like Sarah Michelle Gellar did here. I got the one on the right for $20.00 from France Luxe. This one is great, it's very tight and sticks on my head and is the right size.



J. Crew also has some great headbands with more pretty prints, but I couldn't find any pictures online. Forever 21 also has some great really cheap options ($3-$5) but I couldn't figure out how to save and upload the pictures from their website onto Imageshack. If anyone knows how to do that please let me know :)