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Chic Simplicity

a penchant for the delicate nuances of style & refinement. sometimes, it's uber-luxe/pricey... http://chicsimplicity.blogspot.com/
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the fashionable Italian race
By: Chic Simplicity    0 days 16 hours 11 minutes ago
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I was going slightly berserk. I thought the smarter folks who derive immense (and disturbing!) pleasure from waiting in queues had gone and bought up all the copies of the highly anticipated Italian Vogue to spite me!! But alas, no. According to the WSJ, the magazine isn't even available in Italy yet!! Apparently the all-black models edition doesn't actually come out in Italy until tomorrow, and will be available here in the US next week.

Couture bliss (punctuated by an uneasiness that I've developed an insatiable need for all the clothes!!)
Reviews tomorrow :)







Sugar kisses from my nutcracker suite.
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l.o.v.e spells lagerfeld
By: Chic Simplicity    2 days 12 hours 20 minutes ago
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I'm very tough on things (and people) that I choose to love.
I. love. Chanel.
Accordingly, I hold the revered House and Mr Lagerfeld, natch, to very high standards, albeit mutely. Ha!! (I don't even know how I would begin to measure these standards, I'm but a lowly not-even-fit-to-call-myself-a-critic critic and no one that matters cares what I have to say, at least, not yet. Haha.)

Anyway, with fashion calendar's new comer well settled in, and over, Resort season was a delight especially against the seemingly frequent! overcast backdrop of the recent summer rain clouds. While Mr Lagerfeld and three or so other designers unofficially showed Resort pieces a fortnight earlier in mid-May (to coincide with the opening of the Chanel store in Miami), I was apt to wait until the end of the showings to indulge myself and review all the collections. Laerfeld's 74-piece collection four or five men (some in shorts :)) thrown in for good ogling measure was inspired easy elegance.
I have wholeheartedly accepted that I will always be blown away by Mr Lagerfeld's pieces for Chanel (especially).
And, I'm glad.
Someday, even my cats will wear Chanel. Okay I will never own cats!! Eeck!!

In light of this agreement, three things:
1. I dream of Chanel jackets and costume pearls.
2. I just want to sit quietly by Mr Lagerfeld (he doesn't need to know I'm there) for two mintues outside on a bench la Place Vendme (creative genius, osmosis, yada yada...)
3. I want to be Mr Lagerfeld when I grow up.
Aside: Did you know I started accumulating Fendi belts Well, that may not be the right word, but they cost such pretty pennies, I feel like I'm accumulating them. And who's behind those Mr Lagerfeld, again. Genius, I tell ya!!

Chanel Resort 2009:











Beautiful double kisses.
[Enjoying the Paris couture shows via Style.com :)]
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say 'pepper and pistol'
By: Chic Simplicity    2 days 12 hours 54 minutes ago
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Even though the first thought that popped into my head when I saw it was, "of the pastel variety: the UK flag on acid", I'm just smitten with this sequined dragonfly top by Pepper and Pistol. Even more than this quintessence of utter prettiness, I love the label name Pepper and Pistol!! By no means a rocker chick, I'm thinking I could, however, play-pretend; flaunting my undoubtedly invalid smattering of rocker chic knowledge with a mere whisper of the name 'Pepper and Pistol' would be a dream. Seriously, how cool would you think yourself saying your top's by Pepper and Pistol. (In my case, it'd be a terribly short, close-to-baring-my bottom dress.)
Sheer delight!!








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[I] never carry an umbrella. [I] prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. Alfred E. Smith (edited)
By: Chic Simplicity    7 days 18 hours 41 minutes ago
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...But I just may be willing to change considering these chic, avant-garde beauties.
All available at Takashimaya NY.

I'm not sure why all the umbrellas are listed underneath "men's" however.
Unless of course, it is subliminally implying that the man should always hold the umbrella (for the lady.) In which case, carry on daarhling (said to imaginary lover holding the red tandem umbrella over my pretty little head.) *Contented sigh*









Wet kisses.
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a little indiscretion. oh, is that my bum you see
By: Chic Simplicity    10 days 12 hours 55 minutes ago
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Believe it or not, I'd been eyeing a pair of knee-length or short leggings at my Euro-chic haven SevenNY1 forever. Yikes!!

When leggings resurfaced as the bane of many a woman's unfashionable existence two summers ago, I vowed never to give into the sartorial ''hip"pyness of it all. Of course, I convinced myself that Ghesquire's gold-plated 3-D gladiator leggings for Balenciaga weren't just leggings, and Peter Pilotto's Techno hologram leggings were a wearable metaphor for the glowing transparency of one's soul, so I allowed myself to admire these extraordinary pieces from a distance.

Last week, I went a step further than my singular permissible mistake of a pair2 which I got for on sale for barely twenty bucks. I actually got another pair (more than twenty bucks too!!) These short leggings by German designer Doreen Schulz's c-neeon are a rarity and I love 'em!! They are a relatively moderate pair, and yet spectacular; especially if you don't mind flashing a bit of bum to the world, no Okay, so I have no idea when or why exactly I'll wear this, but I'm just so happy about it. Yes, I've done a mental check over and over again; my neurons and synapses seem to be making the proper connections, so I'm not completely berserk!! Besides, I am writing this piece coherently, aren't I When I do adorn this enticing piece of clothing, I'll take a pic, perhaps. H.A.!!









Sugar frosted kisses and truffles.


Footnotes:
1. I can't tell you how much I love this store!! Where else can you find pieces from Preen and J.C. de Castelbajac?!! Seven is possibly the hippest fashion store in NY (which makes that all of America). It's the only place where I can get my very Euro-chic fashion fix, you see; I always come up with pieces that make me feel exceptionally pleased with myself as I tread the very delicate balance between avant-garde art and fashion, trendy chic and style. Ah, the pleasures of the fashionably shallow mind...
2. A pair of leggings should not cost more than twenty bucks!! In 99.99% of the cases in which it is worn (I'll get back to you on the dev points on that), the sordid piece could very well not have been worn. And it is not lingerie, either!! Since I'm such a doll, I'm willing to hear any justifications for this wretched piece of clothing (other than I didn't shave my hairy legs, or le Tour de France has been moved to the middle February!!) And sorry, cashmere leggings with their laughable price tags do not make a difference to me.
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