Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: In-Kleined To Do So

Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic

The daily chronicle of a fashion-and-beauty obsessed, style-writing, pseudo-Angeleno who made her way from the Great White North to La-La Land -- otherwise known as Los Angeles, California -- and back again. Till the next big city calls out her name, that is.

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I'm a Vancouverite who moonlighted as an Angeleno. My momma is the best in the entire world, and I'll argue you hoarse on that one. I've been in love only once in my life. The East Coast calls me but the West Coast is in my blood. Social butterflies -- and party animals -- are a great species. Fashion and writing will be the death of me, but what a way to go. Carine Roitfeld is fabulous. I would die a painful death if art, design, photography, fashion, music and dancing did not exist. Always kind of wondered why Smurfette was the only girl in town. I can't draw. Absolutely believe everything happens for a reason. I feel so lucky to have the girlfriends that I do. I'm a total sun baby. Think I might be a workaholic. I may have slight road rage. Ice cream and hockey are religions. I buy too many glossy magazines. Nothing beats someone with a killer sense of humor. Chivalry is really not dead. I'm a victim of minor vertigo and a serious lead foot. Always up for meeting people from paths different than mine and crossing paths with old friends. At the very end of it all, I want to be able to look back and say: Yeah, I sure lived a damn good life.

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Friday, February 09, 2007

In-Kleined To Do So

I think Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein is utterly adorable.

Unfortunately, his Fall 2007 collection was not so much.

Call it a matter of opinion, but the collection was drab: no colors (except for two dirty-looking beige shift dresses), shapeless jackets, simpletown silhouettes and a very boring strapless frock to close the show. Fall wardrobes don't have to look so serious!

I always try to find the best in things, so here are Costa's top designs below.

And here's to a more scintillating collection for Spring 2008.