#TBT: Outrageous Sheerness

So Rihanna has gotten a lot of flack for her sheer custom Adam Selman at Monday’s CDFA Awards.

She is hardly the first to wear a daringly sheer look down the Red Carpet… and I have a feeling she most definitely will not be the last. Today’s throwback we look back at all the radical sheer looks that have become iconic in their own right.

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HALLE BERRY In an Elie Saab gown at the Academy Awards in 2002.

BEYONCÉ In a Givenchy gown at the Costume Institute Gala Benefit in 2014.

Cher in Bob Mackie at the 60th Annual Academy Awards

CHERYL COLE In an Alexander McQueen dress at her 26th birthday party in London in 2009.

ANGELINA JOLIE In a Versace gown at the premiere of Inglourious Basterds at Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

Ciara poses on the red carpet in sheer feathered dress at the 2013 MTV VMAs in New York

Fergie in Jean Paul Gaultier at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards

ELIZABETH HURLEY In a Versace dress at the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in London in 1994

EVA LONGORIA In Y Anina gown at the Global Gift Gala in Paris in 2013.

DIANE KRUGER In a Valentino dress at the Annual Academy Vanity Fair Party in 2014.

GWYNETH PALTROW In an Antonio Berardi dress at the premiere of Iron Man 3 in Los Angeles in 2013.

KATE MOSS Attending a painting exhibition in Beyoglu, Istanbul, in 2008.

BEYONCÉ In a Givenchy Haute Couture gown at the Costume Institute Gala Benefit in 2012.

Cher in Bob Mackie At the Met Gala, 1974

Jamie Alexander in Azzaro gown at “Thor: The Dark World” – Los Angeles Premiere

JENA MALONE In a Christian Dior gown at the The Hunger Games- Catching Fire film premiere in Los Angeles in 2013.

Kate Bosworth at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Mortons on March 5, 2006

JENNIFER LAWRENCE In a Christian Dior gown at the The Hunger Games- Catching Fire film premiere in Los Angeles in 2013.

CHARLIZE THERON In a Dior Haute Couture gown at the Snow White and The Huntsman premiere in London in 2012.

Rose McGowan at the 1998 M.T.V. VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS IN L.A.

JENNIFER LOPEZ In a Versace gown at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2000.

KATE MOSS At the Elite Model Agency party in London in 1993

KATE MIDDLETON At the St Andrews University Charity Fashion Show in 2002.

RIHANNA In a Stella McCartney dress at the Costume Institute Gala in 2011.

KELLY ROWLAND In a Georges Chakra Couture gown at the Grammy Awards in 2013.

KRISTEN STEWART In a Zuhair Murad jumpsuit at the premiere of Twilight Saga- Breaking Dawn Part 2 in London in 2012.

Lady Victoria Hervey in Gurar Gupta at The Golden Globes After-Party

MARILYN MONROE Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to President Kennedy in 1962.

Miley Cyrus — in pasties and all!

RACHEL MCADAMS In a Marchesa gown at the Midnight in Paris film premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2011.

Rihanna in Jean Paul Gaultier at The Grammys

JENNIFER LAWRENCE In a Tom Ford dress at the Annual Academy Vanity Fair Party in 2014.

Toni Braxton at the Grammys in 2011.

 

Which look is the most memorable to you?

11 Signs That You Are {or secretly wish to be} Veronica Mars

Happy Throwback Thursday! If you are anything like me, the anticipation of the Veronica Mars movie is too much to handle. Tonight we are heading to the premiere of the film, fulfilling a dream of us “Marshmallows” 7 years in the making!

Through the record breaking kickstarter campaign, which raised a whopping $5,702,153 with a goal of only $2,000.000; we welcome Ms. Mars and the gang back to the screen, this time, the big one! If you have been waiting for this as ling as us, hopefully this will get you excited for the big event. Or if you have never seen V.Mars, let this be motivation to start!

Also it has been said you do not need to have seen the show before to enjoy this movie — so fun for all to be had! So here it is, 11 signs that you are {or secretly wish to be} the one, the only, Veronica Mars:

1. People are constantly asking you for help.

2. Your deepest desire is a PONY!

3. The bad boy is just so much more appealing!

4. You have an incredible relationship with your father.

“Who’s your daddy?” – Keith Mars

5. You have the greatest couple name EVER: ‘LoVe!’ c’mon!

6. You live in a town called Neptune, and frequent places like The Camelot.

7. You are quippy and make sarcasm work for you.

Veronica Mars Quote Art Posters from Chicalookate’s Etsy shop:

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8. You like to stay positive:

9. You have a Dick.

10. Your life has awesome guest stars!

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Amanda Seyfried

Aaron Paul

Adam Scott

Alyson Hannigan

Armie Hammer

Charisma Carpenter

Dianna Argon

Ed Begley Jr.

Harry Hamlin

Jane Lynch

Jessica Chastain

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Joss Whedon

Kevin Smith

Krysten Ritter

Leighton Meester

Lucy Lawless

Max Greenfield

Melissa Leo

Michael Cera

Paris Hilton

Paul Rudd

Rider Strong

Steve Guttenberg

Zachery Ty Bryan

11. You are a “Marshmallow”

Throwback Thursday: Fashion’s Family Album

Check out these wonderful, vintage photos of some of our favorite fashion icons:

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Victoria Beckham | 1992

Anna Wintour | 1970

Cindy Crawford & Christy Turlington | Marc Jacobs Fall:Winter 1986-87

Claudia Schiffer & Yves Saint Laurent | Yves Saint Laurent Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week 1997

Diane von Furstenberg & first husband, Prince Egon | 1970s

Grace Coddington | 1970s

Grace Jones and Andre Leon Tally | 1980s

Gisele Bundchen | 1994

Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Piaggi | 1978 {l} 1977 {r}

Kate Middleton | Mid-80s

Kate Moss and Alexander McQueen | 1991

Michael Kors | 1989

Marc Jacobs | 1990

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen | 1990

Tom Ford & Rupert Smith | Studio 54 in 1979

Naomi Campbell & Vivienne Westwood | London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 1994

Sarah Jessica Parker | 1987

Stella McCartney {with Paul and Linda} | 1976

Rachel Zoe | 1989

Tyra Banks | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; 1993

Zac Posen and Natalie Portman | 2002

Throwback Thursday: Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland has been one of the most influential people in my style and approach to fashion. Her column in the 30s for Harper’s Bazaar entitled “Why Don’t You…” is the very essence of who Diana was. Why not do the extravagant? The extroidinary? The eccentric? After watching the documentary detailing her fabulous life last year, my fascination of Vreeland grew. She have inspired me to feel unsatisfied with the ordinary, the mundane, and most of all that which is safe.

I hope her words and her work inspire and influence you the same.

Some of the most fantastic from here “Why don’t you…”  column:

… tie an enormous bunch of silver balloons on the foot of your child’s bed on Christmas Eve?

…paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys’ nursery so they won’t grow up with a provincial point of view?

… use a gigantic shell instead of a bucket to ice your champagne?

… cover a big cork bulletin board in bright pink felt, banded with bamboo, and pin with colored thumb-tacks all your various enthusiasms as your life varies from week to week?

… tie black tulle bows on your wrists?

… own, as does one extremely smart woman, twelve diamond roses of all sizes?

… bring back from Central Europe a huge white baroque porcelain stove to stand in your front hall?

… wear violet velvet mittens with everything?

… have an elk-hide trunk for the back of your car? Hermès of Paris will make this.

…wear, like the Duchess of Kent, three enormous diamond stars arranged in your hair in front?

… have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful—a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

… wash your blond child’s hair in dead champagne as they do in France?

… have a yellow satin bed entirely quilted in butterflies?

… turn your child into an Infanta for a fancy-dress party?

… turn your old ermine coat into a bathrobe?

… hide your hips in an accordion-plated jacket?

… give someone an enormous white handkerchief linen tablecloth, and in different handwriting and colors (black, acid green, pink, scarlet and pale blue) have embroidered all the bon mots you can possibly think of ?

… stick Japanese hairpins in your hair?

… twist [you child’s] pigtails round her ears like macaroons?

“I was always fascinated by the absurdities and the luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone. Very few people had ever breathed the pantry air of a woman who wore the kind of dress Vogue used to show when I was young. But I lived for that world, not only during my years in the magazine business but for years before, because I was always of that world — at least in my imagination.” —   Excerpt, DV by Diana Vreeland

“Red is the great clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.”

“All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.”

“There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself”

“You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It’s a way of life. Without it, you’re nobody. I’m not talking about lots of clothes.”

“In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room – no other woman existed.”

“The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.”

“Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.”

“Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.”

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{Memos: The Vogue Years | Diana Vreeland} {Balenciaga Floral Jacquard Full-skirted Dress}
{Yves Saint Laurent Vintage Reversible Necklace}
{Alexander McQueen Stained Glass Knuckle Duster Clutch} {Boohoo Amy Turban Hat}
{Chanel Two-tone T-strap Shoes} {Andrea Incontri Coat} {Purple Velvet Gloves}

 

Throwback Thursday: The Andy Warhol of it all

“Fashion, … wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore. It was the whole reason for going.” – Andy Warhol

So my sister has been asking me to feature Andy Warhol in one of the Throwback Thursdays, so this one is for her. I have always been fascinated with Warhol and his muse Edie Sedgwick. This weeks look is a hybrid look inspired by their relationship, and how they evolved fashion in the 60s, and still continue to influence the face of style to this day.

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{MARC by Marc Jacobs Classic Q Percy Bag} {Proenza Schouler Striped Slub-cotton Jersey Top}  {Co Leopard Fur Coat} {Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner}

{The Warton Silver Circle Tassel Earrings} {Kate Spade New York Goreski Glasses Ring}

{HUE Super Opaque Tights} {ModCloth Define the Scenes Flat in Turquoise}

{NARS Andy Warhol “Flower” Eye Palette}

{Rolleicord V Vintage Camera Twin Lens circe mid 1950s}

{Butter London ‘Pop Art’ Nail Laquer Trio – Limited Edition}

“It’s not that I’m rebelling. It’s that I’m just trying to find another way.” Edie Sedgwick

Throwback Thursday: David Bowie

This week’s Throwback Thursday I decided to go eccentric! And one of the most influential icons of eclecticism in fashion is the one and only David Bowie. Pushing the boundaries of fashion from days past, and inspiring designers to date, Mr. Bowie is a wonderful package of fashion delight. With the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, he challenged the world of music and style. This look is inspired by him as a person as well as his style.

“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie

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{Replay Paulina Jacket} {Seven For All Mankind The Skinny Gold Reptile}
{Cue Wide Stripe Shaped Hem Top} {BooHoo Mia Suedette Gold Insert Lace Up Boot}
{Betsey Johnson Ring Me Crossbody Bag} {Marc by Marc Jacobs Lightning Bolt Stud}
{Kate Spade Turn the Corner Statement Necklace}

                              

“I re-invented my image so many times that I`m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.” – David Bowie

Does your love for Ziggy Stardust run eternal, as mine does?

90s Throwback Thursday: Beverly Hills 90210

The other day I was shopping with my sister and we were surrounded by dresses we wore in the 90s. I have noticed on blogs and trend reports the mention of them, however I was flooded with the emotion that came with the purchase of my dress just like this. I was in the store Mariposa, where all the girls at school shopped. It was a blue floral print dress, the ones with the tiny floral print. I loved that dress. I felt like a woman in that dress.

Now I have been immersed with the 90s of late. I know that my obsession has been made evident, but it is undeniable. I have been watching a lot of Beverly Hills 90210 (the original) and I am binging on 90s fashion, bad hair, and worse hair!

Since watching I have not only seen those little floral dresses, but many other outfits, I would love to have in my closet! (Of course there are definitely some that can stay in the time capsule they buried at West Beverly High)

Here are some of my favorite looks inspired by 9-0!

COMBAT FLORAL

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{TOPSHOP Autumn Floral Tea Dress} {American Eagle Cable Shine Knee Sock}
{Steve Madden Troopa Boot}  {Forever 21 Heartbreaker Dangle Earring}
{Forever 21 Oval Locket Necklace} {BCBG Lazer Cut Lace Floppy Hat}

THE KELLY TAYLOR

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{Chloé Crochet-Wool and Crepe Top} {Rag &Bone Jean Cut-off Short}
{H&M Triangle Bra} {Guess Tylae Wedge Bootie with Straps}

                                                

THE BEVERLY HILLS BEACH CLUB

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{Weekend by MaxMara Stripe Scoop Neck Top} {Rag & Bone Charlie Crepe Shorts}
{Aldo Kares Wedge Sandal} {Michael Kors Glam Rock Pyramid Stud Earrings}
{Tory Burch Logo Belt}

                                        

THE BRENDA WALSH

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{Forever 21 Off the Shoulder Crop Top} {Forever 21 Street-Chic Moto Jacket}
{TOPSHOP Vintage Moto Light Highwaisted Jeans} {Rag & Bone Moto Boots}
{Target Chunky Chain Dangle Earrings}
{Marc Jacobs Lovemarc Lip Gel in Neo-Noir Cherry Red} 

                                 

THE DONNA MARTIN

 

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{Stella McCartney Bianca Dress} {TOPSHOP Sheer Tights} {Charlotte Olympia Lavinia Bootie} {Gucci Watch} {Michael Kors Thin Pave Bracelet} {Aeropostalé Heart Rings}
{Essie Nail Polish in Watermelon}

                               

Throwback Twiggy

Happy Throwback Thursday all!

When I think of 60s fashion, the first set of eyelashes that pop in my head belong to Twiggy. In this era the British Invasion was the hottest thing, which made way for this fresh new face from London. She is an icon for all things mod, and my muse for today’s look.

Here is a look inspired by the mod-god herself. Sidenote: I am DYING for this coat!

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{TOPSHOP Marigold Dress} {Gianluca Capannolo ‘Twiggy’ Coat}

{Paul Smith White Leather Boots} {Coach Mod Bubble Ring}

{WILDFOX Deluxe Mirror Sunnies} {Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner}

 {Twiggy Watercolor}

                         

 

Things you may not know about Twiggy:

1. She is a friend of Fran Drescher and it was Drescher’s interaction with Twiggy’s children that was used as the basis for Drescher’s hit show “The Nanny.”

2. Twiggy started a clothing line through Great Universal called the Twiggy Collection for Spring/Summer 2006.

3. She didn’t get her ears pierced until she was in her early twenties, and after she’d retired from full-time modelling.

Which model pops into your head when you think 60s fashion? Jean Shrimpton? or Peggy Moffat? Marisa Berenson? perhaps Veruschka?