new summer heigths in the city hurt

photos by Carl Posey

Even if you are not in the fashion business or particularly fashionable, there is not a chance in the world that you could have missed the trend in new heights of the womans shoes. And if you live in New York City, you have been lucky enough to have enjoyed the amusing sight of a woman trying to make her way, over deep dark pot holes, dusty gravel, block wide vent grids, good old gobble stone streets and what not, stylishly and seemingly without any distress, cross town in her brand new platforms!

Not that those shoes were not in style before in the 1980's and the early Nineties and even the 70's actually, before the American sneakers stole the show and designers like me proclaimed that sneakers are even to be worn with evening gowns. Of course platforms are not new, but they are definitely in style again, actually they are the only old school shoe that seem new at the moment.

You have not bought yourself a wedge shoe yet?! Get going and get some band aids with them too, as, unless you spend a half a fortune on a high end wedge sandal, you'll get scratched. No matter how stylish you look and how good you manage walking down the bumpy roads, you will get hurt, let me tell you.

I experience it myself every single day of this Summer 2011 so far.



Well, it 'aint so pretty now 'aint it? I am now longing for the days when the good old Air Nike sneaker comes back in style...

betty rocks!

Voila! Here's the new tote bag which is currently rocking my Spring world (Can't wait to take this to the beach this Summer)! Check it out:




Buy the Betty Rocks Bag!

channeling andy warhol

Andy Warhol rocks, we all know it. My clothing designs are frequently featured in those compilations called 'treasuries'. This is a treasury by Etsy seller PianoBenchDesign. I love it - It's a good one!


The Velvet Underground Tie Bubble Top is pictured with other fabulous pop artworks - Happy Spring!

even a fashion designer has got to eat

I have always been a gourmet really. It is easy for me to whip up even the most elaborate meals and I find pleasure in it. So it is not rare that I pop in a pizza or even bake a cake in between making clothes... cooking takes my mind off it all and clears my brain cells. I love it and if I were not in fashion, I might follow into the footsteps of Martha Stewart - believe it or not - I am already growing my own veggies ;) How hard can it be?



But, no worries, there is much left for me to do in the fields of fashion and it is my first big love. But let's get back to my dinner last night: Hawaiian pizza!

Love all those sweet and spicy flavors mixed together! Usually I prefer my own dough, but it's time consuming (who has time for that?) and they have these convenient pre-made one's at my Traders Joe on 14th Street. It is not as good as my own, but almost as good and they have whole wheat too.

So, I am just going to post the pics and you can figure out the recipe. Questions? Just let me know...



... and with a mixed salad this dinner rocks!

anna wintour hair then and now

...anna wintour circa 1970's...

Anna Wintour, the editor of the American fashion magazine Vogue is a recognizable person all over the world, with her trademark bob and bangs haircut, which I always assumed was a wig (well it could still be a wig) due to its unnatural thickness. The other day I ran across this photo of Anna from the 1970's and I am more than ever unsure about if she wears a wig. This photo kind of suggests otherwise as it displays her hair being rather think and she already wears her trademark bangs, back then. If it were trimmed at the ends to chin level, it would be the Anna Wintour hair of 2011!


Well, I guess who cares if it's a wig or not, the style works for her and she knows it!

cutest lil wayne skirt

Awww! It's the cutest thing I've seen in a while - The Lil' Wayne skirt! So cute. I had a constant chuckle going on while making this skirt and even before listing it for sale in the online shop I had to forward it to several of my friends, because I could no longer wait to share this adorable piece! Here's a preview for you:

...lil' wayne skirt coming soon to a shop near you, most likely in the hip hop clothing category...

Previous post about the hottest MC in tha game!

valentine's a la nyc

...here is my whole raw heart...

Leave it to New York City's club kids to come up with the most unusual Valentine's imagery! Although the club kid days are long gone, Patricia Fields still manages to revive them every year for a night and fill a ball room with drag queens and women in lingerie!

Swiss native nightlife impresario Susan Bartsch was present.

Even if it was only for one night, club kids left their mark this Valentine's day. Happy Valentine's day!

ny fashion week is under way...

...Lincoln Center, New York City, February 11th, 2011...

For the second time at Lincoln Center, the newest in fashion is currently presented. I will personally report from the Skybox on Monday the 14th, so look out for tweets and posts - Enjoy!

karlheinz weinberger does rockabilly

Karlheinz Weinberger, Zurich am Limmatquai, 1962. Courtesy the Estate of Karlheinz Weinberger.

I ring in NY Fashion Week Rockabilly style with this promising exhibit of photographer Karlheinz Weinberger "Intimate Stranger" at the Swiss Institute!

Karlheinz Weinberger, Lone Star Camp, Gossau ZH 1967. Courtesy the Estate of Karlheinz Weinberger.

of sid and nancy and piggy on the blanket

I love discovering things and the internet is a fabulous place to do so!

I am sure you are familiar with Etsy treasuries, right? The collection of items within a titled theme. My items are frequently added to treasuries (thanks a lot!), I even featured some here on the blog in the past. The newest treasury is called Love Kills and my Sex Pistols skirt is featured. It's a great collection period, but one item stood out immediately: The Sid and Nancy crochet puppets - Dope! Including studded belt and fishnet stockings! 95 bucks and they both (plus the knife) are yours to keep...


So that very crafty crochet lady from the slightly darker side goes by the name of Shove and her Etsy shop is called Croshame.

Gotta love the craft but I also admire the messages she's communicating. For example what about this burger?

...labeled 'very rare indeed', this cow burger rocks!

For 70 bucks you get the bun, the cow, the lettuce, the tomato and cheese! Go figure.

...unassembled cow burger...

And last but not least, here is the piggy on the blanket. I'd love to have this place setting for everyone of my guests when they come to my house for dinner.


Shove keeps engaging us with a macabre lamb chop and, and, and... I hope you enjoy! And for those that - like me - can't get enough, visit Shove's blog Doomed To Live, which she manages with her partner in crime Chuck. You'll see behind the scenes of 2 creatives. I would have loved to be invited to their Ginger X-Mas Bash for example!

craving spring

Aawwh! Come on, this is simply too much snow!


Of course I remember a many harsh winters in New York City, but what we are recently enduring is out of this world. Since weeks things have been buried under ice and I was not surprised to see this "sculpture" the other day. It says: " This is simply too much snow!"



We are trapped! We are going under! Shovels are all sold out (Already went through our 4th this season, none of them surviving more than a day or 2 of ice action. China - your manufacturing may be on point for many things, but stop making snow shovels, they are not sturdy enough for this weather) and they do no longer carry my size winter boots anywhere, I checked.

Well, well, it's mother nature, so we've got to hang in there I guess... by now, I really crave Spring.

wonder woman pop's up

...The cosmetic/comic shop...

You've got exactly 10 days - until February 10th - to snatch up a Wonder Woman piece of cosmetics at the Spring Street pop up shop!


For me it's all about the “Wonder Woman” logo bearing the package designs (we already know that M.A.C. cosmetics are great). I can be a kid all over again, that's pretty darn exiting!

...becoming Wonder Woman...

Now we can all be Wonder Woman in real life!

1/11

So the new year 2011 came upon us and yet no new post on my beloved blog until today! Well, I have been finishing up work from the end of last year (yes there are a few dresses that did not make it to the post office yet) and just basically tried to find spirited ideas for the new one. There are indeed so many things that I have to and would love to work on and I just basically have to figure out which one to do first. So prioritizing, that is what I am doing, sorting through a vast array of things to do.

I am going to be doing some web design, besides clothing design, yes. There will be a lot of new fashion design too. For example, I have a Betty Boop print in front of me that is so amazing! It's Betty as a hippie girl on a brightly colored tie dye... Carl stepped by the studio today and saw it and said: "That would make a great bag!" I have to say, yes, it would! And I think I will follow his intuition and make a bag out of it, besides the dress that I already have in mind... it'll be amazing to wear this Summer, with lots of glittery jewelry and fringes... is this going to be another Summer of Love?!

O.K. so as I do not have anything to 'show' you just yet, I wanted to at least fill you in on this new Idil Vice portrait by Carl Posey. I love it! It's my new facebook profile picture too... BTW, did you see The Social Network? Amazing! So driven! I want to see it again and again!


Carl is working on a fast forward photo slide show/film which is putting several version of this image in motion so to speak and yes, it is an amazing piece of work... will be posted shortly, O.K.?

I am wearing a vanilla cream colored button down shirt from Uniqlo under the psychedelic Jim Morrison Denim Jacket from my own FashionRocks collection. Plus I am holding over my eyes my signature Swissair eye mask hairband in royal blue.