Fashion Corner!! Guess Flip Flops & Bebe Tank Tops
The other day, my friend Katie and I went to the mall and we stopped by Victoria’s Secret to spray “Bombshell” on ourselves. An employee with a big, gentle smile stopped us outside the entrance and asked intimately, “How are you?” and “What are your names?” We were both so thrown off by this that we ended up answering, then standing there thinking in some alternate universe we had made plans with this woman. This is how I think of brand names! Transactional comfort from a stranger, and the girls on the internet are keeping logos cool by putting them next to Barbie logos and plastic. Just look at this to-go cup from the time Starbucks collaborated with Bratz and Louis Vuitton!
This summer, we’re all familiar strangers and I’m ordering a BeBe top from Poshmark!
Guess FLippy FLops in 31 FLavors
From “The Making of a Sex Symbol, 1993” :
Marciano, an elegant, meticulously dressed man with a beautiful French accent, told Smith that he was looking for the next great model for Guess?, which he pronounces “Geee-yess.” Smith leaned over the table. “Excuse me, sir,” she said. “I can’t understand what you are saying.” That evening, Marciano took Smith to the Galleria, where she bought her first Guess? outfits. According to Marciano, Smith took a look around and said, “Y’all make real nice clothes.”
Guess Pink Flip Flops, Size 7 / Guess Sinndey / Guess Platforms with Silver Charms
Bebe Tank Tops
According to Wikipedia: The name “bebe” is derived from the soliloquy from Shakespeare‘s play Hamlet in which the eponymous Prince ponders: “To be or not to be…”[6] Founder Manny Mashouf came up with the name after a conversation at a party he attended in San Francisco during the 1970s, shortly before he established the brand.
Mischa Barton was the face of Bebe’s 2006 ad campaign.
BeBe Tank Top in Black / Stripes / Sport
Roberto Cavalli Scarves
Highlights from a 2009 Vanity Fair article about Roberto Cavalli are as follows:
“Cindy! Where are you, amore mio?” he asked Cindy Crawford, who replied, “In L.A. At lunch.”
“Lenny! Is it true what they write in the newspaper—that you were dancing very narrow with Madonna?” he asked Lenny Kravitz. “Oh, they’re such bullshitting!”
“David Copperfield! Don’t forget: you promised to teach me some of your tricks!”
“Paris! Where are you? In Berlin? Kiss, kiss! Ah, beh-bi, I miss you!”
He handed me the phone, and Paris Hilton said, “I’m just obsessed with his clothes. He knows how to make dresses sexier than anybody.”
When I asked her to name her favorite article of Cavalli, Roberto interrupted, screaming “Underwear!”
“His triumph was cut short in the late 1970s, however, by an antagonist he could not seduce or conquer. “Minimalismo,” he says and groans.”
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“But as he and Eva were getting ready to go off on vacation, he had another brainstorm. He asked himself, ‘How can I make the jeans more sexy? Make the ass of a girl more round, more beautiful?” He landed on the perfect answer: the way to make a pair of jeans fit a woman like a second skin. “Lycra,” he explains, and so stretch jeans—denim with Lycra—were born.”
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It’s 11 a.m. Cavalli has just risen from his wolf-fur-covered bed and said good morning to Boy, his tiger-striped Bengal cat, and Gino, his miniature monkey. At a breakfast table covered with a cloth of one of his swirling bird patterns, on which are placed four packs of cigarettes and two cigars, Cavalli sinks down on a leopard-print cushion. While he eats applesauce and drinks orange juice from Cavalli tableware, he is surrounded by his four parrots and three beautiful publicists.
That odd-shaped lil Saddle bag
John Galliano dropped the saddle bag in 1999 at a wild-west-meets-bordello show. Legend has it that it was a reference to a Helmut Newton photo of a woman on all fours harnessed up, and it appeared under Carrie’s arm soon after. By 2001, the saddle bag was the It Bag in newsprint, pink D’s, leopard, everything, and business was up 60%. The bag has been pretty much back since 2014 because a sexual purse is, I think, hard to find.
Dior Saddle Bag in Pink / Fake / Rasta
Charm Bracelets
I am extremely partial to charm bracelets because they fit the wrist like low-cut jeans. The entrepreneurial businesswomen of the world have made designer logos way more relevant, fun and easy to come by. I’m invigorated by this each time I type “fake Louis Vuitton” around 11 at night. GlamRoyaltyStore run by a woman named Sierra Logan makes pink LVs and orange LVs alongside butterflies and crowns. I am also so attracted to this one by Sokiaaaa.
Designer Charm Bracelet in Pink & Purple / And this one! / Sunny Yellow
