monumental momentum

this is the last prefall collection i have clipped. and it might be the last i write about this season, seeing as fall-proper starts, like, NOW! (okay. well. new york starts on the 9th. so. tomorrow.) oh, fashion. how quickly you roll along. you silly, beautiful machine.

may as well end with a big name, as we began with one. YSL. yves saint laurent. you've maybe heard of this line? yes. you have. well. the originator of 'le smoking tuxedo', menswear cut for women. a bit of a legend. (and now in the hands of stefano pilati.) and. yes. i love the squareness. the boxiness. the deep-v's which manage to not look overly sexed. (in leather, even!) the coat which is actually a GIANT TIE. the pantsuitpowersuit. well done, and thank you. YSL.

{pre-fall yves saint laurent 2012, photos courtesy of yves saint laurent by way of style.com}

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my brain is not so much with the working. i can't think of what i had wanted to say about this jean paul gaultier prefall. (i am so tired that just now i typed 'john paul gaultier' instead of 'jean' jeeezuz! then i fixed it. don't worry. but then i told you about it. so. shoot. embarrassing.)

i do remember that i wanted to say that those flat platforms make me think of robyn, and i love robyn, so i love those shoes. even though i do not think i would ever in one million years wear them. and i should hate them. but. robyn!

and. i love non-funtional (or semi-functional) cold weather wear. like a hoodie. with inconvenient sections of sheer on the sleeves and hood. for example. good thing there's fur on there!

oh. and. pink! and. red!

okay. you look and have thoughts...

{pre-fall jean paul gaultier 2012, photos courtesy of jean paul gaultier by way of style.com}

us, together

i bet i know what you are dying for. you are dying for a dreamy dream post entirely of dresses i want so badly for to wear to marc&mel's wedding. all completely appropriate for a backyard wedding in nova scotia. (there is no such thing as over-dressing for a wedding.) yayyyyy! i can deliver on that wish you have!

why oh why can't i live in the land of my dreamiverse?!
(also, who is betting that we'll see jennifer lawrence in one of these for the oscars? particularly one of the last three. i am. betting that.)

{pre-fall elie saab 2012, photos courtesy of elie saab by way of style.com}

show me forgiveness

i have a bit of a love/hate with stella mccartney. for me she's really hit and miss, and there are always those pieces where i'm all 'uuuugggh, what? why stella. whatwhy?' and then there are some of my very favourite things there too. being all insane and brilliant. i usually end up thinking that i don't much care for her line. but then i go back, and i remember that, actually, i do. lots. in places. most of the time. sometimes. i am soooo good at decisiveness.

the moral is that there is some pretty stellar (stella!) stuff in this here prefall. like the over-sized-pattern sweater which is just teetering on being jester-y. and the over-seized collar too. and sleeve-holes, for that matter. and all of the boots, but especially the brown ones. and oh-my-GOODNESS that silver on gold tuxedo suit. aaaaaaaaahhhh. oohhhhhhh. ugh. oooof. wow. that is practically perfect in every way. i would put that quite high on the list of things i want to wear to marc&mel's wedding. and also everyday. and then there is the lace which is maybe beyond my powers-of-words, so i will leave it there.

{pre-fall stella mccartney 2012, photos courtesy of stella mccartney by way of style.com}

flinty kind of woman

oh, come now. everybody knows that the straightest way into my heart is to employ a prairie motif. (insert joke about flatness of prairies and trains and straight paths...) sure, it's a little more western usa than saskatchewan canada, but it still pings on my insides. and then there's graphic prints and trees and orange too?

fine. akris. you've pulled it off. you're in. damn this emo prairie heart of mine. i want to go drive through a field now. and have a glass of rhubarb wine at the huderite colony. (although i'm gonna go ahead and say that wearing clothes like these to a huderite colony would probably be deemed bad form. good thing i can't afford any of them. but maybe the loooong grey coat...)

{pre-fall akris 2012, photos courtesy of akris by way of style.com}

have ourselves a time

i don't have anything particularly insightful to say about these two collections - ports 1961 and bally prefall. but i like them. they're wearable and nice. so. you should still look at them, even if there isn't anything particularly word-inducing.

{pre-fall ports 1961 2012, photos courtesy of ports 1961 by way of style.com}

 {pre-fall bally 2012, photos courtesy of bally by way of style.com}