J. Crew People Gazing

Ok I'm milking this for all it's worth.  Just had to write one more post about J. Crew.  It was lots of great people-watching!!! So see for yourself:   (And scroll down, I saved the best one for last)


Here is Jenna Lyons, President and Executive Creative Director of J. Crew with Mickey Drexler , chairman and CEO of J. Crew Group and Glenda Bailey editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar.

 

Jenna Lyons, Glenda Bailey, Mickey Drexler

Joe Zee

Elle's Creative Director and  host, mentor and Svengali of Sundance's All on the Line: Joe Zee.   I had no shame, just flashed one in his face as he was flashing in someone elses.... Hope he didn't mind.

Nina Garcia ( the blurry bit)

And Nina Garcia,  Marie Claire Fashion Director and Project Runway Judge -  Clearly I have to figure out how to work my camera so that I focus on the actual person instead of the Ray- Banned head of hair  in front of me... something about depth of field.....

Not sure who she is but looks so familiar.

    Saw these guys snapping pics of the girl with the enormous blossom in her hair...turns out it was Peony Lim, blogger for http://peonylim.blogspot.com/

Peony Lim, blogger

And drum roll please:  Now J. Crew covers the gamut from Michele Obama to BEYONCE ( I know there's an accent on the last E but beats me how I can get it on there) Apparently her sister Salonge is a big J. Crew fan and wore one of the J. Crew pieces by Prabal Gurung.  Guess Salonge thought it would be fun to bring here sister along.... it was sure fun for all of us snapping away but I'm too short to get a very good pic of Beyonce. This was the best I could get!!

So this ends the J. Crew experience for now. It was lots of fun to see and be there for all the excitement.

My Youngest on the Sartorialist!!

 

So I've been meaning to post about NY Fashion Week but  time is not in abundance these days.
 In the meantime, I was tickled to see my little one on the Sartorialist !!  Here she is working away.... I was lucky enough to attend the J. Crew Fall 2012 presentation this past Valentine's Day and so were my daughters.  I figured a once in a life-time opportunity for them so missed a bit of school that morning. They were in awe of all the goings-on around them and loved looking at the clothes up-close.  Downside is that I didn't get to inspect the clothing  nor photograph as they had my camera and I was following them around!!

Here are a few pics from the perspective of a  4' 5" little person.

A few people have asked what she (the kid not the models)  is wearing: a polka-dot mini skirt from crewcuts and the rest is a combo-platter of what she consider fashionable.  Always interesting. 

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J. Crew Shines for Spring 2012 - Part Deux

For those in the Fashion business these posts would be much to late but for the rest of you out there I thought it would be fun to drag this J. Crew thing out and show you some more of the color stories from their show last week during Fashion Week:

I love this color palette:  Navy, mint, yellow and flax/linen.

And some details:

I  have always loved shocking pink.  Especially a hint of it somewhere. This is more than a hint and it looks great with the other bright blues, greens and corals too.

For another color story from J. Crew go to my first post on the show.  Some more fun photos of fun people and ensembles to follow.

[J. Crew under the Tents at Lincoln Center ]

This past Monday was my birthday.  Lots of happy birthdays on facebook (so fun!) phone calls, dinner  and some very imaginative gifts this year.  The most surprising was a car and driver for  3 hours so, instead of schlepping my kids to and fro' after school I was able to pick them up, dash to the library, pediatrician, and pinkberry (have you tried the new salted caramel ? ) and more. 

And the icing on the cake was this invite:

It was  Fashion Week in New York   As a former J. Crew merchandiser many moons ago I still have friends there and was able to snag an invite to their first ever presentation during Fashion Week !!!   I am forever a romantic about the  Fashion World and dopey as it may sound I love the excitement  and anticipation of a Fashion Show.

Walking in, the models were on a platform wearing their J. Crew best!   First group was persimmon reds (wink-wink, at least I tried with the naming)/ blues and whites.

As I walked in this is what I saw.

As I walked in this is what I saw. A beautiful combination of fabrics, prints, stripes, and dots (heart -shaped that is) mixed with the J. Crew chinos, denim shirts and other icon pieces from the brand. Each model wore their clothes with the Crew attitude and as always the styling was aspirational, inspirational and quirky!! I love that they put leopard with this  Crew-ified classic color palette. 

Indian Block Prints with
Stripes and Denim

I want both ensembles....

Since there was no runway it was great to get close to the clothes and see the details, texture and colors that separate J. Crew from the rest.

What I love is that you don't have to buy every piece to get the look. The styling is inspiration enough to buy the really special pieces that can be mixed in with your own basics at home. And throw in a bit of leopard to throw people off!!!

Next week- more color stories, details and people watching from the J. Crew Spring 2012 Presentation.

Love, love , loved it!!!

Garland everywhere and it's not Christmas Sista!

Yesterday my kids decided they would create little fairy party houses so that their personal fairies could visit, have a snack and leave a little somethin' for the girls.... It was hinted to me numerous times before bed... Anyway I played  along and decided to try my hand at making garland.... First I started with little scraps of fabric and ribbon and hung that on one of the little houses. then for the other I had scraps of printed paper and a butterfly punch.  They sailed beautifully through the sewing machine...   and here's how they turned out:

You might have noticed there's a lot of garland/hangy things  - and not of the Christmas type.... but garland made out of everyday and not so everyday items.   I just found this post by CreatureComforts where she has a DIY Garland Roundup.   Lots of fun ideas.

J. Crew  recently opened a  Crew Cuts just around the corner from us in Tribeca. They seem to have caught the garland bug as well.  Here are a couple photos:

Even the curtain for the changing room has fringe!

The  garland-fringe  and pinatas are creations  made by the team at  Confetti System.  You might have seen their work in the Winter CrewCuts catalogue .

I've also been seeing them lots in the magazines and other websites .  These are just a few photos I've collected on Pinterest.  Check them out... It's great way to file your bits of inspiration!

Source: translate.googleusercontent.com via Suzanne on Pinterest

Source: mrsboho.blogspot.com via Suzanne on Pinterest

Source: housetohome.co.uk via Suzanne on Pinterest

Well- you get the point. Fringe, Garland, hanging stuff. Lottsa fun!!