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Marc Jacobs is hands down my favorite designer. Anything and everything he touches makes me want to fork over my rent money and bow down. My man Marc is up for the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award, and of course I want him to win:)

He was featured in a WWD pull out out Tuesday (which I just got today!) I just had to post this statement from Marc…

“The presentation is a form of entertainment. The clothes are shown in a
theatrical environment, which is the only time they ever are, because after that,
they are just shirts and skirts and blouses and dresses in a shop, and they take
on a completely different life. It’s become more interesting for me to
present them in a more elevated way or say something differently with them in a
show concept.”

It annoys me so much when people bash designer runway shows. You know- “Why is it so crazy, no one dresses like that!” People don’t seem to understand that fashion is far more than what you wear on your back, its a form of expression. Designers pour their little hearts out creating fabulous clothing. It doesn’t come from thin air, there is inspiration and hard work- they deserve their showcase and I deserve to watch and enjoy it. Okay- finished ranting.

Move over Manolo! The man with the red sole is in town….

If you haven’t heard Christian Louboutin is the new ‘it’ shoe; you have definitely been sleeping under a rock. Every celeb under the sun is wearing these ultra sexy platform shoes and with prices in the $700 range you need to be a celebrity to afford them.

With any trend comes a slew of knock-offs! Steve Madden typically the first to take a crack at re-making the designer duds. But this season everyone is up to bat and it is just getting pitiful. With all the knock offs around it makes the real thing so less than special (which makes Fashion Kitty sad) Check out this list of knock off’s I am putting together and please feel free to add to the list in the comments section.

• Steve Madden ‘Lusta” Pump
• Jessica Simpson ‘Barb’ Pump

• Steve Madden ‘Lalo’ Pump
• Urban Outfitters Peep Toe Stacked Platform
• BCBG ‘Chas2’ Pump

• Jeffery Campbell

The holiday weekend inspired some ridiculously hot weather. Summers in the D.C. are mega hot and humid, yesterday the temp was about oh…87 degrees. I then realized Billy Blanks, Carmen Electra’s Strip aerobics, and Yoga every so often need to be paired with a healthier diet.

I am not a junk food junky by any means ( except for the occasional cupcake and cookie. As a woman, I am always conscious of my body- especially when I have to bear it all in a bikini.

Yesterday I cleaned out the fridge and pantry- got rid of anything that could put my figure in jeopardy. Dusted off the old South Beach diet book and started planning meals. This summer will be about fruits, veggies and seafood. It will also be about less take-out! Fashion Kitty will be in the kitchen cooking.

I like to change my scent each season, for the summer I am going with Bobbi Brown “beach”. Sounds a little Seinfeld, I know…But this stuff is great. It smells like…Well the beach. Here is how Neiman Marcus describes of the scent…

If one scent could capture the atmosphere—and attitude—of summer, Bobbi’s light fragrance is it. Designed with a combination of sand jasmine, sea spray, and mandarin, it’s wearable anytime, anywhere.


Hurry out to purchase this, it is selling out of the smaller bottle at Nordstrom and Neimans!

Everyone knows what a “wife beater” is, right? The ribbed white tank that can make some look like a total slob and others a simplistic bomb shell. But what’s with the name? Kind of well… Nasty.

Splendid, Liveawear, and Intermix are on a mission to eliminate the term “wife beater” from the fashion vocabulary. Support the cause by purchasing the shirt. Its $40, some of the proceeds go towards the cause. Hey you gotta fight for something.

OMG- I hope she doesn’t win. She is a horrible snob, and look at that poor innocent dress. What did that dress do to her? She looks like a sausage over stuffed into its casing. The dress is actually kind of pretty if you can picture it minus the rolls and puckers. Oh the horror…I am not even making sense I am so distraught.

Go TAYLOR HICKS!!! WIN, WIN, WIN!!!!!!!!!!

Just when you thought the craze was over…you know the crystal studded everything. You couldn’t walk two steps without getting hit in the head with a crystallized blackberry (Naomi Campbell…I am looking at you)

Well Naomi has some fresh ammo, jeweled desk accessories. That’s right folks, for about $100 a pop; you can staple, tape, and click your mouse in style. Comes in four delicious colors, and the crystals are the oh-so popular Swarovski.

Mouse has a three button design and is Microsoft/ Intel compatible. Now go ahead and make those co-workers jealous! Get em at Neimans.

Also for this and other techie articles, go to www.mechietechie.com where I will be writing techie fashion articles.

Fashion is hardly ever new, it’s typically a reincarnation of something old; but is fashion always better the second time around? Are we taking too much from the past and not starting a new fashionable future?

These days, (at the tender age of 25) I feel as if I am traveling through a time machine. Am I simply not accepting the fact I am getting older (yelp) or is fashion running through the decades faster than Rosie O’Donnell through a box of Krispy Kremes?

Think about it. In just these past few seasons we have covered quite a few decades. Right now I am feeling very reminiscent of my elementary school days; with the leggings, the layers, the belted and oversized tops- so 1980’s.

The fall 2006 runway is mirroring my bad memories of middle school; the 1990’s grunge era. I can remember my exact wardrobe- Oh the pain. I was so out of touch. I wanted so badly to wear the hottest trends, even if it meant wearing the same grungy pieces over and over again. I had a terribly hideous plaid long vest- it was blue and gray with a flannel ‘print’. I also rocked a flannel (real) shirt with matching burgundy cords, Limited Too (which was a big deal at the time) I begged my mother to buy me the outfit for my birthday.

‘Grunge’ fashion was mirrored after Kurt Cobain, who was the coolest. The look was meant to look unkempt and messy (and messy I was). As horrid as the look was, it had some sort of meaning- represented a time and a generation. Now 10 years later, the grunge look is reappearing on the runways- from Marc Jacobs to Diesel the grunge look will soon be a fixture in fall 2006.

While these trend reincarnations are all fine and good…are designers (dare I say it) at a loss for inspiration; or is just that we are out of interesting people/ events to model our fashion after. I do know this; we are running out of decades people! So let’s get it together and come up with fashions to mark this decade.