Teacups & Couture A Fashion Blog by Roxanna Bina

Viktor & Rolf decide to raid the craft department at Micheal’s and build a couture collection fit for an angsty tween who listens to K-Pop. I’m saying YES to all the pastel colors! I’m also saying YES to all the tulle! Tulle is one of my favorite all time fabrics. …

What a gorgeous collection! Not much to say, except BRAVO, Elie!! photos: Vogue

When I first heard one of my favorite artists of all-time ,artist extraordinaire Mark Ryden, was going to collaborate with a ballet, I dropped everything and bought tickets before it sold out. I drove 3 and half hours to see the show in Costa Mesa, CA at the Segerstrom Center …

This one time I went camping in our backyard. It was one of the single most dreadful experiences of my life. The ground was hard, the sleeping bag was all twisted and it was balls- to- the- wall cold. I was paranoid about small animals and bugs nesting in our …

These are some incredibly intricate designs by one of my fave designers, John Galliano**. Some of it is a deconstructed mess, but some are really incredible! Like the jacket in the 2nd to last photo…. the tulle creates a face! Dayum! To me, that’s a wowie wow wow! Anywho, this …

Francesco Scognamiglio pulled a Maison Margiela with its bejeweled face mask, but still managed to hold his own with beautifully crafted gowns for his latest haute couture collection. My favorite look is the first look  with the motorcycle jacket with lace detail. Leather and Lace can never go wrong together …

Fluffy and foofy was the theme of the Chanel couture show this season… Karl blah blah blah-ed about how he wanted a ‘clean’ collection and it sure does look ‘clean’- as in ‘lots of feathers for dusting and swiffering’, right?? Maybe that’s not what he meant. Anywho, I think my …

If there ever was an outfit to wear during an epic bitch smack, Grateful Dead groupie designer Walter Van Beirendonck has got it covered! His Fall 2017 collection featured over-sized man-hands attached to winter jackets. These hands could also be a diversion to using an iPhone every minute of the day…. consider …

A collective of three designers made up a show called “MAN” in London for fall of 2017. It was pretty out there, which I enjoy for entertainment. But, if I saw dudes running around the street in an adobe chimney or a patriot fish costume, I’d probably take my children …

Israeli artist Tamara Kostianovsky created a series of work called  “Actus Reus”. She took pieces of clothing and created butchered meat for the series. Here is her (F)artist statement: “The material connects our bodies with the ones in the work, bringing violent acts into a familiar realm. My intention is to confront …