My hat is a Featured Design on the Henri Bendel website!

Click to see my hat design on the Henri Bendel website - and if you like it, click the like button. The winner's design will be created and sold by Henri Bendel stores.

Henri Bendel is a women's specialty store based in the Big Apple and established in 1895. They have locations in Miami, Detroit, Dallas, King of Prussia, LA and more other cities throughout the US.  

The retail store's founder, Henri Bendel, was a milliner (hat maker) by trade and the first retailer to bring the designs of Coco Chanel over to the United States from Paris.

That's why I designed a hat for this contest!


Above is just a cropped shot of my design. Click to see the larger sketch online at the Henri Bendel site. And thanks in advance for your vote!

ViVi magazine scans: Japanese fashion editorial heaven

Hectic crazy week! More on that later.....So once again I find myself talmbout Japanese fashion. Spying a copy of ViVi magazine in 7 Eleven, one of many Japanese fashion publications that I peruse, I treated myself to a copy. It is literally one giant editorial slash catalogue from cover to cover. I absolutely adore Japanese style, having documented it before in previous blog posts on street style when I had the pleasure of gracing the sartorial heaven that is this Asian isle. As they are arbiter of all things style-related [evident by being one of the top luxury fashion consumers on the planet] I thought I would scan my favorite pages/looks for ye readers, natch. And so behold a sea of seventies silhouettes, straw boater hats, and cute little details such as the heart-shaped zipper as seen on the dress above.

I want to go back!

xxx