First Fashion: Our Favorites from What's New

Posted by angel at 6:00 AM

Often my fashion taste leaves its comfort zone for something at which I would not normally yell YES! when I first lay eyes on it. Here are a few items in today’s What’s New that have seriously grown on me.
	With soft leather and an embossed heel, the Green boot from Robert Clergerie is equal parts elegant and edgy.
	In signature LaROK style, the Navajo Chain top embellishes jersey with unexpected, slightly punk details.
	Luxury rebel Jean-Michel Cazabat has won me over with the girly cutouts and muted red suede of the Calabra Sandal.

Let Them Have Fashion

Posted by angel at 12:47 PM

On the anniversary of the most famous prison break in western history, I thought it would be appropriate to pay homage to some of France’s best exports.
	In 1981, Robert Clergerie set up shop in the small French town of Romans. Approaching shoe design as he would sculpture, he created his famous women’s oxford and a parallelogram heel now known as the “Clergerie heel.”
	Sophie Albou honed her design skills at Azzedine Alaia and headed the family fashion business, La Garage, in Paris, before giving birth to two sons, Paul and Joe. In 1995, Albou launched Paul & Joe, an irreverent, colorful take on Parisian chic.
	Born in Grenoble, France, Catherine Malandrino strives to blur the line between dreams and waking life; to “enhance a woman’s femininity while cultivating an edge.” She says, “I want to design irresistible clothes that make a woman desirable, clothes that a man just wants to discreetly take off, clothes to keep as a secret, clothes that stay darling to you forever.”
	In 1927, Hubert de Givenchy was born in Beauvais, France, and by age 17 had arrived in Paris, ready to begin his career in fashion. Decades later, the Givenchy name is legendary and conjures images of sophistication à la Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall and, of course, Audrey Hepburn.
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