Fashion & Style

I hope all of you that celebrated the recent holidays are recovering and gearing up for a brand New Year! Over at On Your Toes, we have been? polishing up and getting ready!
This past week Joel, our man on the shoe crew, featured Eponymous Trenchmouth’s Olso boots available at Jeepers Creepers.

I have to agree with Joel when he says, “Great stitching, buckles, straps, and soles give the Olsos a character so thick that you can almost imagine running your fingers over them and feeling both the grit and the softness of the suede.”

These boots are available in black, tan, grey, and brown, and believe me guys, you will catch a lady’s eye in these!

That busy little bee Anessa Stine featured a whole? SIXTEEN different metallic beauties that would be perfect for your upcoming night? out for New Year’s! Yes, you read correctly, 16 different shoes with gold accents and delights. She searched from Armidi to Zhao, and in between to feature just some of her precious favorites.

As Annessa states, gold shoes are? the perfect surprise splash of glitz for that little black dress.?  Take a look and you will find that all that glitters just might be gold!

Speaking of New Year’s, if you are looking for a bit of whimsy consider the 2008 Heels? from She’s So Unusual Shoes!

Stepping out into and onto? 2008, you will have the choice to activate the touch poofer and throw confetti at just the right moment! Perhaps? right after your New Year’s Kiss?

With that said, all of us at the Shoe Crew would like to wish you a happy & safe New Year. I don’t know about you, but my New Year’s resolution is to buy more shoes!?  You NEVER can have enough!

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So a new season rolls in, and you start hearing words constructed with hyphens bandied about.  These mini trend nuggets are designed to be used very liberally for the next six months without much thought as to whether the item of clothing actually encapsulates that word or not, but it’s always best to bung things into trend categories right?  Examples being nu-rave, nu-grave, boho-tec and drum roll please, for SS08, comes techno-tribe.  The Observer fashion supplement by Tank describes this ‘as the most complex trend to emerge’ combining multicultural pillage and 90’s raving lunacy with prints and plumes clashing with dip dye and reflective surfaces.

The former part of this post was really an excuse to rant about trend nugget words but the latter part is far more positive and though people may attribute Toga’s SS08 collection with the aforementioned phrase, I’d rather not think of it as a collection that is simply going with the trend flows but is mixing it up in a very unique way.  Toga is a Japanese label that is little known outside Japan but has three stores in Japan.  Yasuka Furato, the designer created ‘Toga’ in 1997 and no, she doesn’t create draped Grecian dresses every season but rather an eclectic mix of textile research and play on volume. 

The SS08 Trojan Horse collection references not just the Greek myth but also the definition of the term as a ‘concealed strategem’ or a ‘destructive computer program’.  So in other words, a collection with a lot of hidden messages, depth and if you REALLY MUST attribute it with a trend phrase, ‘techno-tribe’.  I love the way fabrics look like they have been selected in a ramshackle way but then pieced together with great symmetry.  Kind of like an clever usage of fabric remnants. 

Sadly Toga is a damn hard difficult label to find in Europe but thanks to Dover Street Market, the situation is not completely destitute.  Apologies if this post went a bit rant-y….just stare at the image and hopefully, it will obliterate all traces of fash-bitch.   

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I just noticed that Fashion Reporters, a blog by RL fashion journalists and commentators has been following Second Life a bit.

The first post is entitled: Real Life & Second Life Fashion, Will They Ever Meet?, and the next post (apparently first in a series) is entitled: Second Life Fashion: Trend-Setting for Real Life Fashion? Part One.

I hope they continue to report how they see Second Life influencing RL fashions!

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Hot new designers to check out, advice for tasteful ways to regift (yes, it can be done!), inspiration for travel escapes, outfits to hide all the gorging you did over the holidays, and more made this the best week on Stylehive since last week! Get the scoop while it??™s hot.

#1 TravelSlides: Christmas Is Over! Time To Get the Heck Outta Town!

#2 StyleAdvice: The 4 Commandments for Tasteful Regifting

#3 BeautySlides: Which Lip Color Was Tops in 2007, Ruby Red or Nearly Nude?

#4 StyleVideo: How To Serve Champagne Like a Champ

#5 Designer to Watch: Dorothy Lee’s Clean Lines and Simple Shapes Have Classic Feel

#6 NestSlides: 12 Designer Desks That Let You Work in Style

#7 StyleSlides: Eco Cashmere for Vintage Fashionistas

#8 Designer to Watch:  Youth World by Therese Rawsthorne

#9 StyleSlides: Hide Those Holiday Helpings In These 10 Concealing Dresses!

#10 NestSlides: Graphic Tableware That’ll Make Even Your Chinese Take-Out Look Chic

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Who could have anything less than a wonderful new year ringing it in with this spaaaaahkly crystal box from Judith Leiber? Effervescent, like a glass of champagne, turned into solid ice.

$1995 from Judith Leiber.

I’ll be back to regular posting on Wednesday, January 2, 2008.
In the meantime, I would like to wish a happy and safe New Year to all the readers of In My Bag, and thank you for making 2007 such a great year.
Cheers everyone!

Love and handbags,
Bagchick

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