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Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Azalea pink and Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Azalea pink and light degrade pink feathered, chiffon, tulle, and organza coat on a Gazaar base… complete weightlessness. Over Raspberry micro sequin pants.
Fall - Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look #28: Ice Pi Fall - Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look #28: Ice Pink Double Silk Satin Duchess Tunic with Hand Fringed Sleeves, Hem, Sash, over Narrow Black Silk and Rayon Velvet Pants.
Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Orange Pave Micr Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Orange Pave Micro Cut Bugal Beaded Ankle Length Tube with Nude Silk Chiffon Tied Blouson Torso.
Fall / Winter 2002 Haute Couture. Look #30: Imperi Fall / Winter 2002 Haute Couture. Look #30: Imperial Yellow Matte Double Faced Wool Strapless Gown with Pintucked Tunic Embroidery. Matching Coat with Thread of Life Motif.
Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look # 31: Ellip Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look # 31: Elliptical Gown: Black Tulle Front and Back Tulle Mesh front and back shoulders, Black Matte Silk Crepe Bodice , Black Pave Cut Bugal Beaded Waist, Black Velvet Long Narrow Skirt.
Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look # 32: Black Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look # 32: Black Double Faced Wool Crepe Tube with Rothko panels in Silver Micro Cut Bugal Pave Beads. Cowl and Stole with double faced articulated cut outs.
Fall / Winter 2002 Haute Couture. Look #34: Ivory Fall / Winter 2002 Haute Couture. Look #34: Ivory Braided Silk Chiffon Shell and Kimono over Bias Cut Pearl Gray Cashmere Flannel Pants.
Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. White hammered s Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. White hammered satin jacket— Peter Marino for Rubelli, over white chiffon ling tunic beaded in silver micro sequins and pearls with faceted orange hoop beading, over a narrow long bottom of ivory silk chiffon with embroidered ivory tatters, fringed, pintucks, pleats. @petermarinoarchitect
Fall/ Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look # 38: Nude c Fall/ Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Look # 38: Nude chiffon Oyster cut front and back shoulder/ arm cuts working with black bias cut crepe back satin Spiral Seam Siren Gown.
Look #40: Black Burnt Ostrich feathers over.black Look #40: Black Burnt Ostrich feathers over.black silk chiffon tunic gown. Beneath is a one layer spiral seam black silk chiffon skirt.
Look # 41: Black Gazaar tunic with coral, knots, c Look # 41: Black Gazaar tunic with coral, knots, couching embroidery over a long slim skirt in cinnabar silk taffeta hand braided and knotted skirt.
Look # 42: Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Petro Look # 42: Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture. Petrol Taroni Satin Duchess Cream Puff Tunic over narrow skirt of individual black gros grain ribbons stitched to black tulle and knotted and hand fringed on each side.
Look #43: Fall / Winter Haute Couture. Puce silk c Look #43: Fall / Winter Haute Couture. Puce silk chiffon tunic sari gown with Swarovski crystal concave / convex beading over puce crepe back satin bias under slip.
Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture week….. so I fo Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture week….. so I found Jimmy outside on the terrace while Bil, Jacek, and I were inside working late into the night. I went outside for a moment of perspective and reflexion on my own work, and I asked Jimmy what he thought of the collections, and as I could see since he was in costume, this was going to be a doozy, he looked at me, as if waiting and said: “ E-T phone home….”
Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture… at work. Fall / Winter 2022 Haute Couture… at work.
I think that it takes half of a lifetime to arrive I think that it takes half of a lifetime to arrive at a sense and understanding of reduction and finding the essence of your work. Then, after this exact moment of realization you continue …. Project to project….. vision to vision to continue capturing the language that you were sent here to master and offer. Here, one of sheer majesty, from the Japanese sculpture, the : “Guide Supreme”, Yashinori Yano.
Perhaps a meditation tank in Heaven….. and not e Perhaps a meditation tank in Heaven….. and not even the most visionary design from Paul Rudolph.
Where do I start? Her restaurant was at 88th and S Where do I start? Her restaurant was at 88th and Second, Left side, near corner driver. I heard this every other week, unless “SOMETHING REALLY BIG “ was happening .. something big was Valentino and Giancarlo were in town, Peretti, Eula And Halston were holding court, Rich Little was dining with the great Ali and the entire restaurant starred. Of course the ventriloquist dolls—- Woody Allen and Soon-Yi…..and if you were really , really lucky— Sinatra, Mrs, Liza, Sammy Davis. Mailer, Gay Talese, , maybe Nevelson with that trog: Scassi. So here you have the scene…. THE MOST INCREDIBLE SCENE. Perhaps 1980. I find myself here feeling slightly out of place because I am quite simply not famous. I am brought into the scene by Eve Orton— the woman who discovered me. As I have said— Eve was the fur and fabric editor under editor in chief, Mrs. Nancy White at Harpers Bazaar. Then she worked at Vogue. When Vreeland was fired, Eve left out of solitarily . She went in to groom and grow fashion designers that she thought had promise…. Halston, Scott Barrie, Calvin Klein, Giorgio de Saint Angelo, Ralph Lauren, and me— whom she discovered on the dance floor of Studio 54…..oh, I forgot to mention that train wreck of a white class trash, Zoran. That’s yet another story. So Elaine Kaufman ran her restaurant as a personal club… the entire front room was only vip, and she sat at the bar and intensely studied what was going on. There were evenings that she physically threw out men who were too drunk or over step their social position….. for example, don’t even think of approaching Ben Gazarra and Genna Roland….. royalty. Do I became Eve’s escort constantly. Eve went on to consult and represent Monsieur Valentino and Monsieur Giammetti… her dream as she lived them and their perfection. I remember the hours of conversations when trying to establish the correct blue color that I had to purchase in linen to make napkins for Eve to give them when Valentino purchased his yacht, The TM Blue. So, oddly, Elaine took a liking to me. She came down to the salon and we made her a strict louden wool cape lined with light weight— Female Skins— of mahogany mink. I was seated in the front room,
This is my depiction of the entrance to Heaven. Yo This is my depiction of the entrance to Heaven. You walk an extraordinary mystic entrance of Pagoda gardens and stone homes of Japanese shrines. Perhaps because I relate it to past lives? You are lead by those you know, love, and trust. You are somewhat frightened….until you are brought through the majestic forest to the stark white cathedral. You smell the myrrh, and the sanctity of where you are and who you are about to meet. Everyone is very kind and sensitive to the emotions that you are feeling. Only those that brought you incredible peace and joy are permitted to be with you. Perhaps you go to lunch with one of your mentors before showering and changing before you meet with God and his Son Jesus. OK all right…. This is what Lee said to Andre’.
Right before presenting, I think, one of our best Right before presenting, I think, one of our best collections…. Fall/ Winter 2010, both RTW and Haute Couture. There was not one look that I ever showed in all of the years that Viv did not give her approval.
Historic….. I was wearing white Hanes underwear Historic….. I was wearing white Hanes underwear and black leather construction boots…. With a big black leather and silver horseshoe Elsa Peretti belt on the side. Late into the night, the sunglasses went on. We would also run to our lockers upstairs, on the second level for a dosage of Clarin’s Beauty Flash. You continued to dance or went up to the balcony, but you knew that you were within the gay time capsule of history.
Woodstock was an event sent and organized by alien Woodstock was an event sent and organized by aliens to prevent the downfall of our culture from conservatism and predjuice and evolution. I still hold it in my being even though I was young in 1968. We need another Woodstock. And Vreeland.
I am devastated by her monumental style. Her hair, I am devastated by her monumental style. Her hair, her diamonds….. sometimes she has long diamond necklaces ( real) sewn onto Chanel Couture coats for evening, her voice….. a magic carpet ride of fantasy and reality. HER GRACE. Here is a woman who thinks quite simplistically regarding fashion. She has been dressing in couture since she was a young girl, and now, she designs her own uniforms—- long, narrow sleeve black, high arm hole coats and jackets, often over beaded body suits or 17th Century French Fencing Blouses. She uses the Chanel couture atelier to make everything, But she directs. Recently, I sat next to her during a dinner— totally magic. While dining she dips Under your range of eyesight and whispers to you while sitting side saddle. One hand rests on her lap, and the other holds her fork like a priestess applying kohl…. But the most fascinating motion is that she uses her fork to press down on her food, so that there is no need for a knife, just an elegant motion of moving the food from the plate to her mouth. A ballet for the eyes…. While the symphony in your ears leaves you in awe. Her name is Daphne Guinness.
All that I have ever strived for is cutting clothe All that I have ever strived for is cutting clothes in new ways to echo the biomorphic nature of a woman beneath them, and moving our metier ahead through thought without decoration. A vigor, a restraint, a religion. If some find this tedious, look away. My mentors have allowed me a life long example of timelessness.
It may be the First Church of Boston, but in 1969 It may be the First Church of Boston, but in 1969 it was conceived and built by the visionary, Paul Rudolph. My Saint! Imagine the levels of ascension and spiritual communication achieved within this space…… in all of his spaces. Quite frankly, his brilliance and visionary ability show us that he had to be an extraterrestrial.
An example of how to think and act… HUGE. Cy Two An example of how to think and act… HUGE. Cy Twombly’s : ROMA. One of the beginnings of civilization.
A week after I choose to leave the house that I bu A week after I choose to leave the house that I built with my dedicated staff of brilliant technicians and individual visionaries, The sublime and strong editor in chief of Architectural Digest, Margaret Russell, gave a point on dinner at Sotheby’s for the Mrs. Bunny Mellon auction. Of course it was perfection. My thoughts have been circling around all of tge great ladies that I have been able to call friends, clients, muses, and graces….. but there is only one who I may consider the Consigliere in the past 22 years. I will not go into depth now…. It is only to be the background for what Every Single or Married Man to know….. you are not a man of honor or integrity or character unless you know that WOMEN have given men their Rite de Passage. PERIOD. I am a gay man…. Always have been, and I have had the honor to facilitate and finance 4 abortions in my life. What we have just experienced is an extreme fall from grace ….. from the religious teachings they profess to uphold. Now, since they are so sick, envious, and simply over weight, white, and ugly , will go after the rights of gay men and women. Remember to strike back…. Physically and also to what effects them most….money. That is all that they care about. Also, do not forget that None of this would have unfolded if we were not plague with the virus called Trump, and it’s variations.
Because so many had questions about the dress,… Because so many had questions about the dress,… I give you another view. The dress is made in a slightly bright vanilla eight ply, dry silk crepe( I originally wanted ivory double faced wool, but the bride was concerned about the temperature…. She was correct.) There are sheer tulle front and back yikes. The base of the back yoke, at the very bottom of the spine is a concave shape in silk satin duchess and trapunto concave-convex to echo the curves of the dress. The front buttons over the back with South Sea Island Baroque Pearls. The silk tulle veil is embroidered in my script around the edges with a letter that I wrote to the bride and the groom. This has been a very enlightening experience.
With great, great dignity Elsa quietly bequests an With great, great dignity Elsa quietly bequests and then accepts another honor. Sitting next to her is her great, devoted, Stefano Palombo, who directs and protects With great dignity. But, look at the serenity and grace of Elsa.
I was in Paris for a wedding last week. I do not m I was in Paris for a wedding last week. I do not make wedding dresses. I do not have the correct psychiatric training to become involved with this type of process. This was different because the bride taught me. She is an Angel with the utmost grace, dignity, and kindness.
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