It is 1:00 am on Saturday morning....
I could be doing something productive like studying, but instead I am looking online at Prada, Neiman Marcus, and Kate Spade. BTW...if you get a chance you must look at Kate Spade's fashion bag line this year it is amazing!Kate Spade has been a designer that I have admired from afar for sometime now, but it is only recently that have begun to admire her work from an artistic POV.
Kate has always been known for her classic modernist Jackie O. styles, with a bit of urban funk tossed in the mix. The Sam, Sydney, and Claire bags are a great example of classic simplicity, while her fashion line is marked with shiny bits of city glam, as modeled in the Marina shoulder bag and Maddie satchel bag styles. This season's Kaleidscope Maddie is exquisitely done. It is a bright, multicolored print on soft Italian velvet with a chocolate leather handle. The design shows the side of Spade I love to see, simple, functional, minimalist. The materials shows the decadent, adventurously safe side of Kate's work.
Earlier this year Spade introduced a home deco line that can be found in select department stores(you can find it at Nordstrom and Saks in PDX). Upon entering the home deco area, I spotted it before I knew it was her. I saw the chocolate circle on the vanilla colored bedspread, and I knew it was my beloved Kate. Her home designs, like her early accessory work, are marked with the same unpretentious flair of a true urbanite.
In addition to her new line, she was a contributing editor for Architectual Digest this year, which definitely means she has made her mark on the world outside of fashion.
Now that I have spend the last hour looking online at the Marc Jacobs line...I should go to bed.
posted by Kat @ 1:56 AM
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