Posts Tagged ‘A very stylish girl’

Lynn Yaeger is a fashion reporter for The Village Voice, having worked for the paper for 30 years. Her column, Elements of Style, was recently renamed “Frock Star” (Feb 2007). Yaeger is also a regular contributor to T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and countless antiques & collectibles dealers.
Lynn recently won first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
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Mademoiselle Gabrielle Chanel
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Photo David Bailey 1968
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored. (Catherine Deneuve)
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Always Vreeland.

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Lady Gaga’s loving the bows. First the hair bow, now she even has them painted on her nails! She sure is paving the way for a cute signature style.

Lady Gaga looks almost unrecognizable without her signature underwear as outerwear look. I am absolutely loving this hair do, very Minnie mouse, and her white onesie is super cute.

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Anna Piaggi is an Italian fashion writer and style icon. Anna Piaggi has written for fashion magazines such as the Italian edition of Vogue and, in the 1980s, the avant-garde magazine Vanity. She is known especially for double page spreads in the Italian Vogue, where her artistic flair has been given free expression in a montage of images and text, with layout by Luca Stoppini. Since 1969, she has used a bright red manual Olivetti typewriter for her work.Piaggi has a large clothes collection, including 2865 dresses and 265 pairs of shoes, according to a 2006 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She dresses in an exuberant, unique and eclectic way, never appearing in the same outfit more than once in public. Such is her influence and knowledge in the fashion world, Manolo Blahnik has dubbed her ‘The world’s last great authority on frocks’.

Her associates in the fashion world include the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (from the 1970s), who has often sketched her, and Manolo Blahnik, who is the designer of many of her shoes. She is the muse of British milliner Stephen Jones. She is also an admirer of British clothes designer Vivienne Westwood. She has lived in New York and has visited London and Italy periodically since the 1950s. Piaggi was married to the photographer Alfa Castaldi in 1962 in New York. Castladi died in 1995.

“Red is the great clarifier—bright, cleansing, and revealing. It makes all other colors look beautiful. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red—it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.”

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Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel
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Carine Roitfeld Editor in chief French Vogue
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