Found Fashion Snaps

It’s Fashion Week in NYC--as good an excuse as any to run these anonymous snapshots from eBay. Gone are the identities and any personal connection to the subjects. The clothing has taken over as subject matter, much as an old car or landmark might.

This girl might very well be showing off a creation of her own, as these popular circle skirts were often homemade. Here's one for sale on eBay now!

Sure, it was junior's bar mitzvah, but mom was not

about to be upstaged.

Man after man promised they would make

her a famous movie star, and she

always believed them.

The Princess Di look to a tee.

Clearly, about to make the scene ...

Career gals

Wonderful button passages.

There was a time when young girls weren't allowed

to wear animal prints or black.

iPhone Fashion Sketches

Last week was Fashion Week in NYC and stunning models were stopping traffic everywhere. This week’s traffic choke-hold is the UN General Assembly meeting. From the ridiculous to the absurd, I’d say.

I’m finding the Brushes app for iPhone quite addicting. I still have sketches from my trip to Croatia to post, but I figured these Spring 2012 looks have a much shorter shelf life.

Marc Jacobs


Max Azria, BCBG


Oscar de la Renta


Bill Blass


Rodarte


Calvin Klein


Ralph Lauren

Ugly Tomatoes

What better way to honor Fashion Week in NYC, than to showcase some really ugly tomatoes? These particularly hideous heirloom specimens were grown at Taft Farms, a 200 acre, family-run farm in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Friendly and fascinating Farmer Dan doesn’t even expect to sell these, so he just cuts them open for customers to try. Next thing you know, you are searching for the most monstrous-looking ones in the pile to bring home.

It’s too early to pass judgment on the Spring 2011 collections, but I as far as tomatoes are concerned, these misshapen models represent the absolute pinnacle of good taste.



Top photo (the ugliest, for sure) by T. Rosen