Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: Yay, CFDA!

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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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Yay, CFDA!

It's basically the Academy Awards for the fashion set.

The CFDA Fashion Awards -- hosted by T-Mobile Sidekick and underwritten by Swarovski -- was held last night at the New York Public Library in the hustling, bustling city of the Big Apple, with all the requisite glamour, Serge Normant-slash-Oscar Blandi coiffures, fashion crowd and haute couture.

For the first time ever, two (well, three) designers snagged the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year: Oscar de la Renta and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler. Oscar, so I hear, looked a bit surprised to be sharing the award but, hey, there's a first time for everything, no?

The CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year went to Ralph Lauren, who also received the first-ever American Fashion Legend Award from presenter Oprah Winfrey. Derek Lam accepted the CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year award. And I was beyond excited to learn that Loeffler Randall -- congrats to Jessie Randall, who is expecting and though she looks ready to pop, appears glowingly happy! And why not, with her shiny CFDA statue...

I'd go through the rest of the recipients, but you can peruse the list on today's Fashion Week Daily.

I always wonder at these fashion events just how much money is wasted on food, because surely the duck foie grass and lemon-rosemary seabass sprinkled in truffles are pushed around plates to feign the appearance of being consumed.

But I bet the champagne almost always runs out and the outside patio is filled clouds of cigarette smoke.

That darn model's diet.

I'm Lovin' it: This frock by Phillip Lim 3.1. Makes an ethereally beautiful wedding gown, not that I'm looking or anything.

I'm Over it: No love for me and the Holt Renfrew gala opening tonight. Boo hoo. But I am going for a catch up dinner 'n' drinks session with my girlfriend Phyll C. at Section 3 in Yaletown anyway.

Book of the Day: Streetwear: The Insider's Guide by cool cat Steven Vogel. It's pretty much a go-to source for anything streetwear-related, from designers to brands to stores to websites -- and all coming from a pretty. hip-to-the-street fella. Unfortunately, it's only available through Amazon UK till this coming fall, when it hits our shores.