The Fashioneur: April 2010

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Shoes, Shoes, and More Shoes

These are some old shoes (don't worry, old-like vintage, not old like dirty and gross) that a woman I know collected throughout her life. She was cleaning out her closet, and she is giving away all the shoes she collected that she no longer wants. These are pictures of some of the many shoes.

Okay, I know what you are thinking-

What?!

I know, they look strange but, they are old fashion beach shoes. Interesting-huh?

YAY SHOES!

40 Ways to Tie a Scarf By: Nordstroms

This is an old booklet from Nordstroms, called 40 Ways to Tie a Scarf. Back in January, I posted an entry titled, 10 ways to wear a scarf on you head and shoulders. After finding this booklet, I realized that my (only) 10 ways to wear a scarf, were not very many ways-at all.

A little poem

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So here is the book,

take a look,

and see what you find,

then keep it in mind,

for the next time,

you find yourself,

after I have posted yet another ryme,

and you are trying to find,

a way to tie your scarf.

Enjoy!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Polyvore!

My polyvore.
Love polyvore.
Look, pretty polyvore.
Look, my pretty polyvore. (Click! Click! Click! You know you want to)

Polyvore is awesome.
Thanks Ramona for showing me Polyvore!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

The Most Important Thing About Fashion

The most important thing about fashion, is that it can be different for everyone. Fashion is art. Some art is different than other art. There is modern art, sculptures, paintings, drawings...
In fashion there is modern fashion, sculpted fashion, painted fashion, drawn fashion...

Fashion and Art Examples:
Modern-
Art

Fashion

Sculpture-
Art

Fashion

Fashion is art. All different.

Pictures:

http://www.iarc.org/~4x1mk/starlock_26K.jpg

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/slideshow/F2010RTW-JCREW?loop=0&event=show2062&designer=design_house3214&iphoto=4&play=false&cnt=5

http://www.yatzer.com/assets/Image/11.november/sculpture_fashion/1.jpg

ttp://www.yatzer.com/assets/Image/11.november/sculpture_fashion/1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.yatzer.com/1351_sculpture_gone_couture&usg=__4d-xSzYll2GHq4il00bc-vej57o=&h=839&w=560&sz=73&hl=en&start=7&sig2=IAyCeD2SN1ixo53e23c8Ng&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=j8sri0Ys6ScKSM:&tbnh=144&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsculpture%2Bfashion%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=28nJS4SCGI_KMKrRiMkE

http://thumb1.visualizeus.com/thumbs/09/03/01/art,peter,coffin,sculpture,spiral,staircase-21098b61425eea7851b5e22b2f4836c5_m.jpg

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Some more confusion.

I know, I know. Confusion. It's so confusing. So, I decided to write a poem about it.

Confusion

By: The Fashioneur

Confusion,

so confusing.

One thing,

the same,

another different,

together the same,

or different.

Everything is everything.

Anything is anything.

Nothing is nothing.

Something is something.

What is everything,

anything,

nothing,

something,

if everything is confusion.

Everything is confusion.

Anything,

confusion,

nothing,

confusion,

something,

confusion.

All confusion.

It's like the difference between fashion and style.

The difference between an inch and a mile.

The same,

a purse, a purse,

yet so different,

fashion, style.

What is in,

and out,

is in,

and out,

so fast you can't be confused,

then back,

when your done tying your shoes.

Your shoes were out,

and back in,

with the snap of a finger,

and a high lifted chin.

Fashion or style you ask?

Well,

why not both?

I say back.

Yes,

both it can be,

like an apple on a tree,

like a star in the sky,

or a swat and a fly.

Just like a blogger and a blog,

a toad on a log.

Together they can be,

or different,

you see?

Fashion is fashion.

Style is style.

I am a blogger.

This is my blog.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Look!

Fashion News!Fashion News!Fashion News!

Under "search my thoughts"

there is fashion news.

Yup.

So read about fashion news if you want to.

Fashion News!Fashion News!Fashion News!

Fashion is Art, and some confusion.

Yes.
Fashion is art.
Fashion is not always style.
Style is not always fashion.
And now, some definitions!

Art, a definition from dictionary.com!
–noun

the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.

the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.

any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.

(in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?

the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.

the craft or trade using these principles or methods.

skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.

10.

a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.

11.

arts,

(used with a singular verb

) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences.

(used with a plural verb

) liberal arts.

12.

skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.

13.

trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.

14.

studied action; artificiality in behavior.

15.

an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.

16.

Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.

and then it goes on and on with a bunch of other meanings of art.

and now,
a definition of fashion from dictionary.com!

–noun

a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.

conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., esp. of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.

manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.

the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.

a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world.

Obsolete. workmanship.

Obsolete. act or process of making.

–verb (used with object)

to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones.

to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.

10.

Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating.

11.

Obsolete. to contrive; manage.

—Idiom

12.

after

ina fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion.

and last, but not least (well, maybe),
a definition of style from dictionary.com!

–noun

a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.

a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting: They do these things in a grand style.

a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.

an elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living: to live in style.

a mode of fashion, as in dress, esp. good or approved fashion; elegance; smartness.

the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that is characteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.:to write in the style of Faulkner; a familiar style; a pompous, pedantic style.

those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed: His writing is all style and no substance.

manner or tone adopted in discourse or conversation: a patronizing style of addressing others.

a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode or form of construction or execution in any art or work: Her painting is beginning to show a personal style.

10.

a descriptive or distinguishing appellation, esp. a legal, official, or recognized title: a firm trading under the style of Smith, Jones, & Co.

11.

stylus (defs. 1, 2).

12.

the gnomon of a sundial.

13.

a method of reckoning time.Compare New Style, old style(def. 2).

14.

Zoology. a small, pointed process or part.

15.

Botany. a narrow, usually cylindrical and more or less filiform extension of the pistil, which, when present, bears the stigma at its apex.

16.

the rules or customs of typography, punctuation, spelling, and related matters used by a newspaper, magazine, publishing house, etc., or in a specific publication.

–verb (used with object)

17.

to call by a given title or appellation; denominate; name; call: The pope is styled His or Your Holiness.

18.

to design or arrange in accordance with a given or new style: to style an evening dress; to style one's hair.

19.

to bring into conformity with a specific style or give a specific style to: Please style this manuscript.

–verb (used without object)

20.

to do decorative work with a style or stylus.

—Idioms

21.

go out of style, to become unfashionable: The jacket he's wearing went out of style ten years ago.

22.

in style, fashionable.

Just to confuse you more,
what those definitions say, are not really true.
Style, does not have to be fashionable.
Fashion is art, and can be stylish, but doesn't have to be.
Yes, it is confusing.
So,
just so it is very clear, because yes it is confusing, and yes it is weird. Why? Because fashion is just weird, as I have always said.

Fashion is not always style.
Style is not always fashion.
Fashion is art.
Style is a look.
Something can be both unstylish and unfashionable.
Something can be both stylish and fashionable.

And just one more thing to completely confuse you out of your mind, around the world, to the moon and back a million times,

a poem about something, nothing, and everything.

Something is one out of everything,

nothing is none out of nothing,

everything is all somethings and nothings,

nothing is never anything at all.

One thing is something,

because it will always be, and was always.

Nothing is nothing,

because it never was,

and neve will be,

nothing is nothing,

not even nothing.

By creating the word nothing,

nothing will ever be nothing,

because nothing will always be something.

Never nothing.

Not now, not ever.

Nothing.

Never.

Always it will be nothing, and never will it be anything.

It is nothing.

It is everything.

It is something.

CONFUSED YET?

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