Oh, this cape. It is something to behold.
See more Copenhagen street style at Copenhagen Street Style.
Posts Tagged ‘fashion’
Caught My Eye
Monday, January 25th, 2010how would you like your style?
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Isaac Mizrahi’s name caught my eye, I got giddy and I felt it was incumbent upon me to check the book out: How to Have Style .Mizrahi used to have a show on Lifetime a long time ago, and the first bunch of episodes were fantastic. He interviewed women he found interesting and shared his ideas about fashion and designed dresses and had fittings, all on tv– it was awesome. I was hoping that I’d see Mizrahi’s style process in this book too, but mostly it’s about getting women to accentuate their positive features and feel beautiful.
I guess I should have judged this book by its cover. Duh, it says How to Have Style, and I’m looking for fashion sketches and artistic insight. This is a book about how to dress a regular woman. It has some tips, but mostly it was boring to me and I only read a couple pages. And did a cursory flip through the rest of the book, halfheartedly. If I didn’t think I had a personal style, I guess it would be more interesting (I’m not defending my fashion sensibility, but I do actively choose what to wear based on some fashion tenets I have, and I’d love to have Mizrahi’s advice if he would only come over to my house and look in my closet).
My summary: boring.
The most delicious drawing book
Friday, January 16th, 2009This is the book at the top of my Want To Own list: Fashion Sketchbook by Bina Abling. It’s a textbook on fashion design sketching for apparel students.
Bina’s technique is phenomenal and the way she describes and illustrates her process step-by-step is superb. I have a collection of art and craft ‘how to’ books, and this is far better than anything I currently own. She shows the best way to angle a model to show off clothing features, the way to describe the all kinds of fabric weights and textures, how to draw models that are toddlers, tweens, men, shoes, belts… everything. It’s so comprehensive and well executed I feel like I am learning much more than fashion drawing from her text.
I have to warn it is a giant hard-covered spiral bound book and the pages are thin. It’s big like a coffee table book but there’s no glamour to the binding. Other than that, I give it 10 stars; a must-read.
