Andrea Perini

Most Stylish Blogger Award and 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

Award Season Starts Early Thanks to Jewels from the Roving Stove Plus, my picks for The Most Stylish Bloggers! Thank you, thank you to the gorgeous and talented Julie Anne Rhodes, aka "Jewels" from The Roving Stove for the Most Stylish Blogger Nomination! I'm more than flattered to get the thumbs up for "constantly amusing " you with the Impromptu Madness videos that Brad Boles and I have so much fun working on. If we had our own TV talk show (hint, hint out there), we would love to have YOU as our resident cooking expert! In lieu of an acceptance speech, part of the the Most Stylish Blogger nomination is to reveal seven things that you did not know

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Rebecca Taylor Fall 2010 Fashion Show Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York

Runway Review: Loaded with layering separates, clean lines and chic faux furs that were right in step with the seasons emergent trends For her Fall 2010 Collection Rebecca Taylor traded out her favored florals, floaty, flirty shapes, dresses and candy floss colors for a slightly more modern, refined feeling line-up of animal prints, tailored tweeds, sweater knits and earth tones. The result was loaded with layering separates, clean lines and chic faux furs that were right in step with the seasons emergent trends. >> More Fashion Show Photos & Runway Reviews Rebecca Taylor fall 2010 One such look featured a bum grazing buttonless cardigan with a ruffled lapel over a button down “grandad shirt” in oyster and ecru respectively and

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How to wear a vintage jacket

YSL leather jacket from the the fall 2003 collection Photo archives via: Style.com Styling tips to make a 7-year old YSL Leather Jacket look modern I have an authentic vintage Yves Saint Laurent black leather jacket that I purchased around 2002 when I worked for the company. The blazer style leather jacket with shoulder pads was very expensive at the time and cost ?2k (over $3,100). Luckily, I was able to use my employee discount. Unfortunately, I have not worn it much since. With the return of the big shoulders this season, I think that I could I get away with wearing it... what do you think? What would you recommend wearing it with? Should I wear jeans and heels

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Fashion: Best of the Decade & Its Defining Style Moments

Fashion designers of the decade and their standout looks that will become the hallmark of 00's fashion Our fashion savants, and vintage experts, Andrea Perini and Naveed Hussain of VagabondNYC are like walking encyclopedias of iconic fashion moments from mid-century to today. The fashion industry kids are a go-to source for what's relevant from the past to wear today. Andrea and Naveed have culled some of their thoughts from the past 10 years and let us be a fly on the wall with this quick-study crib sheet of what influences in fashion they feel are worth your remembering and collecting from the decade and why. Is it fair to call this a decade of heavy revivals? Why so? AP: Absolutely.

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NY Fashion Week: Herve Leger Spring / Summer 2010

Nice and fresh fabrications, treatments and sun-softened beachy palette which evoked a pinch of country sensibility I hustled into the Herve Leger Spring 2010 show amidst throngs of bandage dressed women of all ages. What I noticed first and foremost was that although most of these Leger devotees had overdone it one way or another - moms and their mini-me daughters in matching nightclub ready scuba uber-minis forcing comparisons, loads of make-up, black patent leather, fussy blond coifs and naked flesh at 3pm - the show itself was surprisingly earthy. This is not to say that Max Azria abandoned Leger's signature body-con hubba-hubba I expected to see. He just took his cash-cow formula and reconsidered the possibilities. He exposed it

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NY Fashion Week: Ports 1961 Spring / Summer 2010

Quietly gorgeous, beautifully designed pieces that are right on the money for her many many followers The invite to Tia Cibani's Ports 1961 s/s 2010 rtw show, which she entitled "Fleure" - was an accordion folded geisha's fan and it stood out in a sea of heavy card stock and virtual invites. Maybe it was a little literal, too easy a hint at what was to come, but it worked. And when the lights went down and then up, a nice hushed energy filled the room. The models seemed to radiate from a shadowy zen garden. Cibani invited 2 amazingly talented craftsmen to help realize her take on Japonisme: Julia Lundsten the designer of Finsk - whose moulded stingray pumps

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NY Fashion Week : Proenza Schouler Spring / Summer 2010

Proenza Schouler had a vision of a collection which I think they executed with sincerity and aplomb.They got it right with their beautifully casual Spring/Summer 2010 outing. Runway Review: Proenza Schouler has always been somewhat of an anomaly to me: Their collections are cool adaptations of what many a downtown girl would love to see on herself. Yet, when the clothes hit the racks they look uptown, cut for women of whatever age who live a leisurely life far north of "downtown". This, to me is tricky and a bit deceptive. That said, I understand the difference between the illusion created on the runway and the reality of the bottom line and the fact that not everyone out there can

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NY Fashion Week: Rebecca Taylor Spring / Summer 2010

Rebecca Taylor's spring 2010 collection was one of her best to date. Runway Review Excerpt: For Spring 2010 Rebecca Taylor did not deny her fans her signature flippy silk skirts, romantic mini-florals, and bright liberty printed slip tops, bags and sandals. I left feeling I'd had a balanced meal and imagined how easily it would be to fit those pieces into my own color phobic wardrobe. #NYFW My thing is that I can't wear her stuff because I am afraid of pink and flowers. I've always been more punk than boho. I have an androgynous sort of body and feel most at home in black, navy, charcoal gray and maybe some nude every once in a while. And so it

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The Word: I Hate Hats

The ongoing battle to find the right hat. Qualify... I like hats. At best they are form and function in one neat little package - parts of a greater whole. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Inez and Vinoodh, Cookies and Milk. I am a major proponent of the humble knit ski cap - preferably picked up at Duane Reade for $3 on a freezing night when the cashmere Marc Jacobs beret thing I’m wearing seems over-affected for the circumstances. Also, the cheapest ones are the most malleable - length and width wise - and always come in my favorite colors - black, gray, charcoal, army-green, bandaid . I don’t feel bad if I lose them and they allow me more

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