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Two more days until this fabulous educational fashion exhibition closes for the season! Check out the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Courtesy of the Anna Wintour Costume Institute.

Marlene Dietrich's tuxedo in "Morocco" has caused quite a stir in Hollywood and across the art community, as one of the first women in film and in real life to prefer trousers to the conventional women style of skirts and dresses. Dietrich's tuxedo later inspired Yves Saint Lauren to design his Le Smoking collection. The current exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York "A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk" explores the LGBTQ community contribution to fashion from the 18th-century England to the present-day America. It is the first museum exhibition to explore in depth the significant contributions to fashion made by LGBTQ individuals over the past 300 years.  Long before the macho street style of Castro district in San Francisco came about, there were  Molly and Garçonne  gay fashion styles that were the first fashion trends among the members of the 18th and 19th Century of LGBTQ community. Click her...

Why, WHY do they have to be so expensive! I'm lusting after these absolutely fabulous and awesome in so many ways -  Chanel Espadrilles . My favorite colors are white/black, black, and beige.  Chanel never seems to cease to amaze me...

White shoes!

It's getting hot in here... There are a few people out there, who are still not sure how to feel about the recent Chanel ad that features Brad Pitt.  

I think I was the last one to learn - regretfully and sadly - about the death of this iconic woman.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. There's absolutely nothing not to adore this woman for. She founded one of the oldest and most prominent fashion houses in the world. She defined what classic, proper femininity is. She made clothes, accessories, footwear and perfume that made a woman, a girl - a true lady. She was the muse of many poets, writers and the inspiration to many designers to come - for decades to come. And on top of that - she was one witty woman with a lot of simple, but deep truth to what she was saying...

I love when I can just stop by a store to look for one thing - [and for someone else...] - and leave the store with a few new finds that I did not expect to get at all...For myself . I thought I spotted Karl Largerfeld 's collaboration with H&M store the other day. I was quite surprised to stumble over what looked like VERY KARL LAGERFIELD - VERY CHANEL clothes, shoes and accessories at an H&M store on Fifth Avenue . I thought I could recognize his signature style, but it wasn't. Although, it did look like HIM... Oh la la...