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Fashion or Art – Flora or Fauna?

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In my daily style blog perusal, I came across a lovely little confection of a dress on Ada & Darcy. Having never heard of the designer before (fashionista wanna be’s do not fashionistas make), I checked out their site.

Camilla offers a line of fanciful dresses and tops inspired by kaftans.

Here are some of the images that initially caught my eye:






Ethereal is the word that comes to mind…

I’m also crazy about these little tops:


The drama of these shots makes for some of the most artistic fashion photography I’ve ever seen.

Like the clothes or not (and I’m on team “Like”), you can’t dispute that they look beautiful in the photographs.





Some of the models actually look like butterflies:



But I have to admit that a few looks and their styling was a bit out there for me.

There were some pieces that pushed the envelope of “conceptual”…


I’m not exactly sure what this looks like when you don’t have one arm extended at a 90 degree angle while trying to yank your pony tail off the top of your head with your other hand…

Then HELLO! it’s Hammer Time:


Quite honestly, I’m a little perplexed by these diaper pants. I can’t think of anyone other than Denise Huxtable circa 1984 who would wear them. Although I’m sure that if such a buyer exists, she’ll be featured on The Sartorialist.

Finally, I’m left speechless by this one:


Okay – I’m not. I do have one comment. I think they look like back up dancers from the cast of Staying Alive.

So there were a few misses for the sometimes a-little-too-conservative DC Miss (who would be me). But – final verdict? The flowing fabrics are gorgeous, the diaphanous silhouettes are like something out of a dream, and aside from a few Tropical Barbie pieces (that could appear that way due to styling/photography), I’m utterly enchanted.

I’m Well Connected

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Don’t you just love being able to say, “I know her!” Or him, or them…whatever – just saying that you are connected to someone famous. Or kind of famous, or just really well liked…whatever.

Well, that happened to me a couple of days ago when I was perusing my Google reader oohing and aahing over design sites and wishing I didn’t have so many favorites (seriously – I open my reader and see thousands of unread posts – yikes!)

Anyway – one of my favorite favorites (there are tiers you know) is coco+kelly. And as I was breezing through a lovely little wedding pictorial, I had one of those, “I know her!” moments.

See these pretty little raspberry numbers?


They were designed by my friend Kathlin Argiro. I love Kathlin’s work and always feel very proud (and maybe just a bit smug) to show off this connection of mine.

It’s hard to see the dress in that tiny image, but here is a better view in a different fabric:


I would wear this to a garden party. And of course I would tell everyone who gave me a compliment (which would be everyone) that I KNOW the designer. Yes – I’m very well connected…

Do you have any interesting connections? Feel free to brag in comments.