CURIOUSER NEW YORK

Last Friday, May 8 / 2014,  The Metropolitan Museum of Art  in New York City opened a new fashion exhibition -  Charles James : Beyond Fashion .   This inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute examines the career of the legendary twentieth-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978). The exhibition explores James's design process, focusing on his use of sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continue to influence designers today.

You know how you can find out if the summer is almost over? The end of the season sales and the new Fall 2013 collection presence in the stores!

Donna Karan's wedding gown, which looks like it can serve on many other occasions, especially if it's in the creme color. Just the way it hugs the body is just perrrrfect. It's loose where we need it to be loose and tight in all the right places where we can 'afford' it to be tight. It's just absolutely sensual, sexual, feminine and comfortable - all at the same time. Happy Wednesday, everyone. Pass on the love to the other people today, because in the times like this , what we need the most is LOVE!

Last March I've learned that a legendary fashion house that used to be the 'it' to go to in Hollywood and among the most notorious fashionistas around the world - PAGANNE fashion house - is coming back after almost three decades of being 'silent'.   When I learned the history of PAGANNE fashion label, I was mesmerized by how exquisite - and mysterious - and customized the brand, found by Gene Berk, was back in the days. Celebrities wore it. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar featured it over and over again. But not only that, when I started digging in, I found many vintage lovers who up until today have been writing about PAGANNE printed dresses as if they were talking about an 'urban legend'. The fact of the matter is that PAGANNE has taken over the world of fashion back in the 60s and 70s. All the prints that were going into the design of these spectacular immaculate dresses were hand-made and customized and the fabric and the final dress were man...