All I'm saying is - she looks amazing...
The fur debate rages on. I LOVE that Carine Roitfeld, while openly hating handbags, is happy to wear fur. A don't-care attitude is crucial for the truly creative. For the rest of us, who must dwell in the school-child-going, friend/relation-not offending, conscience prickling world, the don't-care attitude is hard to achieve. I'm a deep admirer of genuinely bohemian, creative folk, rich or poor. My boundaries are too entrenched in 'normal' to not care but hats off to those who dare.
La Carine's detestation of the handbag is an open secret in the fashion world, now all over the web. The Bag Industry is huge and yet, while you can't argue with a Balenciaga Lariat, most of everything else is getting tawdry, embarrassing and ultra-revealing of too much wannabe in the wearer. Don't worry, I'm lamenting this as much as the folk at Louis Vuitton. Heaven knows Style would be a lot easier to accrue if you could buy it for $5000 a pop in Barneys. Fashion insiders know you can't though.
One of the most stylish people I know, a trend forecaster and mini-fashion-icon in her own world has NEVER owned a designer handbag. Yet I also admire the whole idea of buying new, hand-crafted or gorgeous things if you've worked hard for the money to pay for them. Fashion is such a complex beast with so many faces...from the Kardashian-inspired Bling-ette to uptown Annas, perfect Gwyneth and Alexa-style shoppers and Chanel-loving popstars, there is not a lot of originality in such looks. Instead, fashion insiders lead from within by stealth. Throwing out handbags, giving up jobs, wearing naughty things and just not caring at all. I love that.....
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