Wednesday, September 25, 2013

I Wear Your Grandma's Clothes......I Look Incredible!!



Everyone is talking about trends that never go out of style and vintage pieces that are coming back........well, get ready for the new look that combines the two:  Millennium Retro Glam!!!  Follow La Puma's advice, and you will be looking spectacular with this new style. Mind you, this is no fad, because we have borrowed classic basics and then do what I call "install" key eccentric pieces, that have remained statement accessories throughout the decades.

The equation to achieve the Millennium Retro Glam look is fundamental:  one or more Classic pieces + one Vintage handbag + a pair of Modern Shoes!  Just so there is no guessing in designing your daily ensemble, let's characterize each element.  


Classic:  segments of a wardrobe that have remained as basic staples that never go out of style.  One example that immediately comes to mind is jeans!  Yves Saint Laurent once said about jeans, "I wish I had invented blue jeans:  the most spectacular, the most relaxed and nonchalant.  They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity- all I hope for in my clothes." 

 I always keep a pair of jeans, nude color pumps, and a white button up and down dress shirt in my trunk, just in case I am over OR under dressed, which brings me to the next prototypical piece that Lauren Hutton has made timeless:  the basic (men's) white button up and down shirt.  
Other classic tendrils would be:  the little black dress by Coco Chanel and


the cashmere turtleneck that Marilyn Monroe declared an abiding go-to luxury......."we're so rich in love, we're rollin' in cashemere" -Luxurious by Gwen Stefani.