The New Hype.

Maybe your old enough to remember Hyper Color by Generra. Those magical t-shirts made of color changing fabric? They would react to heat/body temp and change colors on your body. I remember thinking how funny it was when they would change color in the armpit area, a dead give away if you weren't keeping you cool. A year ago or so, Azevino & Florence re-introduced this magical fabric into their collection. And now American Apparel has jumped on this bandwagon as well! I kind of expected them to do it sooner. Read more about the Hype at M.I.S.S.

Here's some of the O.G. (Original Goods!) from the P.C. (Personal Collection)...Unfortunetly the "hype" doesn't last forever...this bad boy ain't changing color for nothing these days, hot and bothered or not.





The new new...

Testing 1-2: The Goods! x Jay Perez

Last month I got together with my friend Jay Perez, to shoot some fashion flicks for one of his classes at the Academy of Art College. He said he had a donkey mask and a tiger mask and I went from there. I instantly thought of fanciful dresses and frills and lace! And of course some 80's elements. I have some older pieces in my collection...Victorian, teens and twenties and I've always wanted to use them esp. since they are literally disintegrating! Not my fault, it's the way I found them but some fabrics, esp. silks, do not stand the test of time unless stored in an archival fashion...which can be very costly! But, that's another post. So here's what we came up with and some of the behind the scenes antics!

Jay's final work...




And some behind the scenes action...

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H&M's Tribute to Marimekko

Today the H&M Tribute to Marimekko dropped in stores world wide. Marimekko is a Finnish textile company that's has been around since the 50's. Their textiles can be noticed by the bold patterns and often times bright colors. The H&M design team dove into the massive archive at Marimekko and created a 70 piece collection for men, women and children. It has been said that fashion icon Jackie Kennedy put Marimekko on the international map when she wore their dresses during her husband's 1960's presidential campaign. See some of my favorite picks from the H&M women's collection and a couple of the Original Goods! from my personal collection circa 1980's.

The Goods! at Girls Love Shoes

Girls Love Shoes or GLS is a retail store and archive located in NYC's Lower East Side. Owned by sisters Zia and Dana Ziprin, they have taken a ladies love for shoes and created an dreamland of wall to wall vintage shoes!! I am pleased to be apart of this vast collection of shoe goodness and hope you can experience it for yourself on your next trip to NY. If you can't make it to NY, lucky for you they recently launched there on-line store, so you have no excuse! See the bounty of shoes I just brought out on my trip to NY this past week.