Jason Wu Spring Ready to Wear 2011

Jason Wu Spring Read to Wear 2011

I love young, asian, male designers. They take off at the speed of lighting when they finally emerge from the sea of aspiring fashion designers. They're also pretty damn adorable in the fact that they get inspired by pasta like Jason Wu was for this collection. Lucky for me Jason wasn't a flop for spring like Alex below (it still hurts to say things like that). Jason and Alex are perfect character foils on the runway and in person. Jason is shy, romantic, whimsical, and obsessed with things like bows and flowers. Alex is charismatic, edgy, avante-guade, and obsessed with breaking the rules.  Between the two of them they fill my needs quite perfectly.

Jason Wu Spring Ready to Wear 2011

 Jason actually warned everyone before showing his collection that it was going to be "more dangerous". I'm sure Alex would giggle at such a proclamation for as you can see it is nothing short of being incandescently charming. Perhaps he was referring to the turbans? I really want to get my hands on a turban. I've been craving one since Prada did them in Spring 2007. It's also interesting how Jason Wu and other designers are really focusing on revolutionizing women's work wardrobes. Fashion is always influenced by the world and in return influencing it back. People claim that fashion has no depth, but there is no denying its societal impact. Fashion is and can be very political.


Jason Wu Spring Ready to Wear 2011

My favorite look from this collection is the tuxedo coat-dress above. I hope to see more designers trying this look out. I would love for it to become a trend. I'll cross my fingers about the turbans too. 

(pics credited to style.com)

Alexander Wang Spring Ready to Wear 2011

Alexander Wang Spring Ready to Wear 2011

Things were starting to get really good, and I mean really really good, between Alex and I, but then like a typical man he had to go and screw things up. In an attempt to mix things up and have us all questioning if we really know the man, Alexander sent us some sort of Jedi-Tribe curve ball this past fashion week.

Designers...always trying to reinvent the wheel. I'll have you know Alex that I liked the damn wheel. The wheel was perfect the way it was.


Alexander Wang Spring Ready to Wear 2011

How do I even begin reviewing this collection? It breaks my heart just to look at it...doodle prints, metallic duck tape, CAMEL TOE -these are not a few of my favorite things. I guess for starters I can quote fashion reporter Tim Blanks who had this to say: "First thing you notice: no black". The second thing you notice of course is that it's a f-ing disaster. The wool plunging and cropped sweater above looks like something you might find at your local Salvation Army. I can't believe I'm mocking Alex's work. It seems cruel and unusual....like telling your own child they're ugly.


Alexander Wang Spring Ready to Wear 2011

This first look to the left looks like something you get put in for a pap smear at the doctor's office. There is just nothing wearable about this collection. It's about as appealing as the model's painted dreadlocked hair. I am being a Negative Nancy though, which I hate so I'll stop now. On the bright side Alex is becoming more confident. He's trying to find himself. At least it's not as painful to watch as Taylor Momsen. I really hope Alex returns to the darkside next season. He was so deliciously sexy and office goth last collection below.

It's okay Alex. I won't give up on your geometric genius just yet.

Alexander Wang Fall Ready to Wear 2010



(pics credited to style.com)

Chicisimo Fashion Week Contest

Coat: Guess?

Bag: Aldo

Shoes: Ralph Lauren

This week I am participating in a fun Fashion Week contest over at Chicisimo and this is my entry! The contest asks for what you would wear to fashion week in your own country and the above is exactly what I would wear to any fall fashion week show in Canada. Red is one of the top trends from Fall/Winter 2010 RTW collections and it's Canada's signature color (also happens to be my favorite). If you have a few seconds please wander over to my entry and give me a vote! No registration is required. Thanks! XOXO

Iris van Berne by Damon Baker in Domestic Disturbia

Domestic Disturbia

Photography:  Damon Baker

Model: Iris Van Berne

Styling: Garden in Hell

Eccentric couture meets meat packing district meets pretentious suburbanite; replete with fire engine red stripper heels, ill advised back combed hair, and 36 inches of porcelain leg. An exotic kind of ordinary.

Ladylike

Earrings & Heels: Vintage

Dress: Foxy

I have been sick for the past few days, but I managed to pull myself together for a new post today. I've been using my mother's camera which confuses me greatly. I have no idea why, but the amount of light used in flash mode varies and then I have to work with different levels of brightness/contrast in my photos. I tried to adjust them in photoshop, but they're still quite different. I feel like I have a motherly glow in the last shot haha oh well.

I always pull this Marilyn Monroe look out of my closet when I need some perking up. It's very delicate looking and it evokes the most charming solicitations and reactions from men. I get called Miss and they will go out of their way to open doors for me. The usual offensive cat calls are replaced with whistles (cat calls are those random comments/names that men shout out at women when they drive or walk by). It's interesting how we're programmed to respond to social cues with such alacrity. I enjoy taking full advantage of it. Like they say: act like a lady; make a man be a man. 

This reminds me of an article I once read written by Steve Harvey. He had the most chivalrous things to say including:

"I teach my sons that they cannot get in the car until their mothers and sisters are in the car. I teach my sons that if I turn around and you are in that car and your mother and sisters are not in that car, I am crushing you because suppose something happens -- a dog attack or something -- and we are in the car and the girls are not, how can we protect them? So that can't happen."

That has got to be the sweetest thing ever. We need more men like Steve!

Fashion Freelance Writing

I'm published! Woo!!!!!!!!! I have just started writing for The Fashion Spot and I am pretty psyched about my first publication Fashion Bloggers Cashing In, which I have noticed a little late (it was published on August 30th). Andrea Grant the Managing Editor reported it was a popular article too so that makes it twice as cool to report. My full last name I am using for my freelancing, although I still want to be known as Tracey Quo professionally. I'm just tired of people looking at my last name and having to take a deep breath before stumbling awkwardly between the vowels (it's pronounced ma-core-ca-dale in case you were wondering).

I have actually been writing on the TFS forum for many years now; almost 8 to be exact. I first came across it when googling Sienna Miller to discover who this supposedly new Kate Moss was in all the tabloids. I've been a frequent poster ever since and have watched it evolve tremendously. It now has an estimated 2,056,400 monthly visits. And as a poster who has accumulated approximately 35,000 posts on their forums, I honestly believe I helped the forum's growth quite a bit when it was first developing (it was launched in 2001). It's interesting to go back and read my fashion insights as a 16 year old, like looking back on my growing obsession. TFS definitely fed it.

Anywho, woo! Yay me and all that good stuff :)