Thom Browne‘s latest women’s collection was set in, what looked like, a pool locker room. The collection was a profusion of trompe l’oeil Stepford Wife suits and dresses in pastel shades and flashes of the signature red, white and blue stripes. What I loved about this collection was the trompe …
Read More »Buns of Steel
The Shiridashi Butt Reveal Underwear . These are Japanese-made underwear made to reveal a trompe l’oeil butt. I guess this one is a unisex butt because it looks like it could be a man butt or lady butt. And why is that dude jogging in underwear?? Anywho, I wonder if I …
Read More »Mary Katrantzou- Fall 2012- Sci-Fi returns
Mary is usually the queen of trompe l’oeil, but this season, she decided to go more science fiction than the lanai in a Boca retirement home. It had elements of Alexander McQueen’s collection that made the armadillo shoe so popular. You know the one where the models had cable car tracks …
Read More »Moschino Cheap & Chic- Pre-Fall 2012- Prim and Punk
YES!!! I love this collection from Moschino! It’s whimsical, punky, and girly at the same time. My fave has to be the trompe l’oeil sketched on details in the 2nd and 3rd photos. It’s so cartoony! I did that to a few shirts a few years and they remain to …
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