And it begins

I presume with the new Sex and the City movie coming out on Thursday (le sigh) that we will be seeing quite a bit of fashion from the ladies...

Well it's starting with last nights premiere at Carnegie Hall, and so far it's not looking up.

Maybe it's cause I hate this color, maybe it's cause I hate Charlotte and this is what she would wear, maybe its that Kristen Davis is clinging to her characters identity like it's the last thing on earth. I don't know. But I do know that I HATE this dress.


Kim Cattrall looks Ok. I think it's her hair that I don't like. It just isn't working for me.


I'm sorry SJP, I know everyone else is going to like this. Even the harshest of critics have said they liked it. But I just don't think it's a good color for you my dear. I know you've worn yellow before, and I liked it. But this is just too yellow for your skin tone.

The dress looks like you've been practicing to be on Miss America, and then afterward you maybe could cut it short and wear it for SATC on Ice.


Now this from earlier in the month is lovely. I'm with this 100%, go you.


Now, I would not have expected this from Cynthia Nixon but...girl you look good.

The glam black with the brooch accent?

You win.

Ring around the rosey, pocket full of posey

So socks and heels...

I'm not sure I can pull this look off, I feel like I'm 6 again and on my way to church.

It feels so juvenile to me and I'm afraid I look like a little kid. But it looks so cute on all those models in the magazines...

Thoughts? Are you gonna take the sock/heel plunge?

The little gold man strikes again

I don't usually watch the Oscars, I usually get bored or I don't have the time, but because of the genius of DVR and the fact that I can fast forward through the boring parts I indulged. I liked it, I was shocked at some of it (how after 82 years Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman director to win? what?), I'm glad The Hurt Locker won so many awards, it's a great movie. If you haven't seen it, definitely do. But the fashion, oh the fashion...

I don't care what anybody says, I loved Sarah Jessica Parker's dress by Chanel. It was gorgeous. Pretty color, great shape, and lovely details. I've always been partial to a dress you can eat in, let your belly hang out in and no one knows...However...


Tom Fords face is basically exactly how I felt about SJP's hair. I wonder if he caught a look of her in the camera. Girl needs some hairspray.


Maggie Gyllenhall looked beautiful and the colors in her dress were amazing. It was like a painting.


I don't know why for the love of God Victoria Beckham was there (she should have been banned just on principal for Spice Girls the movie) but her dress was very pretty. I like the shape and the understated color. It looks great on her, good advertising for her own clothes.

Anna Kendricks dress is lovely, pretty color and gasp! Not a strapless. She might be on to something...

Sandy (I feel like we can be on a first name basis, she seems like she's that kinda gal) looked gorgeous. How did they get her hair to look like that? And those lips? Fab. Her dress just tied it all together. She could have just won an oscar for that hair. Period. And besides, her accpetance speech made me cry. I watched it again today and it still gets me. Grace, humor, humility and style, doesn't get better than that.



I know that the top looks like she just put on a full body spanx and then put a floaty skirt over it, but I like the color of Miley's dress and I think she looks pretty. Especially for a girl of her age, it's more classy than I would have given her credit for.


The very bad...
Hillary, Hillary, Hillary...what are you doing? We've really gone downhill here, especially from that pretty long sleeved navy number you wore when you won for Million Dollar Baby. Girl you need to reevalute this dress. You have nice boobs, we get it. Now go put on a real dress. You look like a walking advertisement for that new show "V."


I'd be laughing too if I were Zoe Saldana. The top of the dress is stunning, halfway down she looks like a window display for Anthropologie. Um, no.


BORING. And too dark. Dark hair, dark eye makeup, dark dress. Nicole Richey looks like an extra from Twilight. She needs to stick with color.

I know I'm supposed to like Vera Formiga's dress but she looks like something out of the sea. Like a sea sponge, or coral or something. I'm just not feeling it.

This one gets me every time. Its like just in case she needed a snack she just glued 2 cinnamon rolls to her chest. Rosettes on the boobs, why did we think this would be a good idea? I don't care who you think you are...John Galliano...no no no.

Ok there, my favorite part of the Oscars, judging people.

Have a god day!

Kell on Earth

Has anyone watched Kell on Earth? Kelly Cutrone's new show? Like the Kelly Cutrone from PR and fashion firm People's Revolution, you probably know her if you watched The
Hills, ya know before it went from bad to I'm gonna tear my hair out and eat it if I have to watch these people anymore...

It's good, well more like she's good. I kind of love her. She's a straight up, balls out, take no prisoners, tell you like it is and not care, mega super awesome female. I want to hug her for being so fearless about everything, not afraid to do what she wants or look how she wants and balance the constant demands of being a single mom, and powerhouse without complaining (If she probably didn't hit me for trying to touch her).

It's on Bravo Mondays at 10 (for you West Coasters, holler.)

She's famous for being so quotable, favorite so far? "I didn't think it would be such a big deal (on letting Ashley Dupre, call girl famous for former NY Gov. Spitzer controversy, crash a fashion show) I mean half of the people sitting in the front row are sleeping with men for money, they just might be called their wives."

The interesting thing is, I made the boy watch it and he asked if she was a lesbian...I think it's interesting that a strong minded, brave, hardcore woman, who knows what she wants, and doesn't care what she looks like to others can't also be assumed to be a heterosexual woman. She has to be a lesbian right? Because of course if she isn't wearing a pretty dress, or carrying a baby on her hip, or painting her nails she must be a lesbian.

It's not the boys fault, this is very typical of society that we assume such things. I'll honestly say I've done the same things, we all do. But here's this, I'd rather be able to wear jeans with holes in them, have a tattoo, drink a beer, not painted my nails for years and wrestle with the best of them and be assumed to be a lesbian than how things used to be for women (I'm not sure I could do a corset, it looks awfully uncomfortable).

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This makes me mad

Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer and inspiration to fashionistas everywhere has really dipped below the belt. Westwood's menswear fashion show in Milan this last week featured men in overly priced clothes acting as homeless men. Some carried bedrolls, some were "sleeping" in cardboard boxes, some pushed carts and carried plastic bags. Men were seen wearing what appeared to be makeup that looked like frostbite and walked up and down a runway covered in cardboard boxes.

The Times online writes:

Last night the press release for Westwood’s menswear collection, for Milan Fashion Week, declared: “Perhaps the oddest of heroes to emerge this season, Vivienne Westwood found inspiration in the roving vagrant whose daily get-up is a battle gear for the harsh weather conditions . . . Quilted bombers and snug hoodies also work well in keeping the vagrant warm.”

Yes, because as Westwood would clearly understand, those quilted bomber jackets she makes for ridiculous prices would be the first thing that so called vagrant would wear...not clothes that they picked up at say Salvation Army for free or dug out of a garbage can because they have no other choice.

The Times also adds,

Westwood conceded that she herself had no experience of being homeless. “The nearest I have come to it is going home and finding I don’t have my door key,” she said. “I mean, what a disaster that is, dying to get in your house and you can’t. And what if it wasn’t there any more?”

Good point Vivienne, you're really on to something there. Lets capitalize on it shall we?

Homeless people are not a fashion statement, they are our fellow human beings, moms, dads, sons and daughters and they need help; if you find this so inspiring why don't you go volunteer at your local soup kitchen, or donate all the money you make from this free inspiration to a homeless cause, instead of make a hoodie and play with the "fun" theme of “like they were sleeping rough and they’d got frost in their hair”? I feel that using the suffering of others to make money is not inspiring, it's just plain cruel. I have lived in downtown Sacramento for a while now, somewhere that has had national coverage recently on the homeless epidemic. I see these men and women, sometimes even children every day and they are suffering. They sleep in bushes and under overhangs that smell like urine; they get harrassed by sh*t punks all the time, and it certainly does not look like a fashion show to me.

Based on the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) released by HUD in July 2009:

• Nearly 1.6 million people use emergency or transitional housing programs over the course of a year; and

• On a given night, approximately 664,000 people are homeless. Of those:

  1. More than 124,000 are chronically homeless;

  2. 36.5 percent are chronic substance abusers;

  3. 26.3 percent are severely mentally ill; and

  4. About 15 percent are veterans.

I don't find this something that we should use to our advantage, something we should be able to call "homeless chic." We ignore these people everyday, we assume that they could go do something better so we walk right past them and don't give them the time of day. These people are abused and even die on the streets and you're going to romanticize that by making your fashion show all about it and then paying the men that walk in these shows more money than some of these people will make in their lifetime?! It makes me sick that this would be something that someone who I used to admire, like`Vivienne Westwood would find appropriate and get respect for from the fashion community. Get a grip people and open your eyes to the realities of life.

Rock on Milan

I love this photo from The Sartorialist, these lovely ladies look so fabulous and they look like they're having such a good time. It reminds me of me and my girlfriends. I hope I always look this stylish, happy and put together when I'm older. You can tell they enjoy life. And I enjoy their outfits!

I'm dying for those pink heels, those green leather gloves and those oversized black pants.

Really?! Can they do this?

I was perusing the blogs today and came across this picture posted on blogger Susan Scafidi's website Counterfeit Chic:

Um...
Dear Marc Jacobs,

While I do love your stuff, it's great, I mean really great; are you serious about craftily beading a swastika onto your boho bag? Are you okay with this? And more importantly is anybody else? I'd be a tad uncomfortable if I were you. Maybe you should reconsider.

Yours truly,

Cinnamon

Fashion trends

So 2009 had some good and some very bad fashion trends. Some I found I loved and wear now all the time and some I would rather die than be caught dead in. I broke it down according to my taste, and let me say, if you can pull off the ones I find bad, then girl you're awesome cause it means you look like Kate Moss, and that's epic in my book.

I however, do not look like Kate Moss.

The BAD of 2009:

Over the Knee boots

These are so 80's, like up there with acid wash jeans and shoulder pads (I'll get to those in a second) and unless you have legs that are about 6 feet long and with about as much shape as stilts you should not wear these. Real girls have thighs, these only make them look bigger. That is not a good thing.

Shoulder Pads are back, and not in a good way (as if they were ever good)
This look is only for women who are a sack of bones and want to look wider without eating, or for women who wish they had been on Dynasty and may actually think they still are.


I mean, do you really want to look like this?


But now on to my favorite trends of 2009:

From top to bottom...

Heidi braids were in. I love me some braids. I think it's my inner hippy coming out. They make any look just a little more put together and add something a bit more interesting to a regular updo. I wear braids in my hair all the time and I like how they look.

Boyfriend blazers were in, also an 80's trend but this one is in a good way.


They're a good length on anyone and you could buy one just about anywhere. I got my black velvet boyfriend blazer at a vintage store for $12 and I wear it pretty much everyday. It's adds a lot of character to a tshirt and jeans outfit, the California girls uniform.

The boyfriend jean was also in. This picture from The Sartorialist is a perfect example of how cute they can look without being overdone. Nothing is wrong with a comfortable pair of jeans that also double as stylish and hip.


Ruffles and Romance were big in 2009. It was all about the details, bows, brooches, textured fabrics, big and dramatic without being over the top. I love that you can pull an outfit together and take it to the next level by adding the special details. A little sparkle or a ruffle or two do just the trick.



Chunky knits were also big this last year and into 2010, something I find perfectly appropriate. Drama and warmth all in one, and in bright colors even better.


Oxfords were really huge in 2009. Something I got really excited about. I got these metallic pretties from Urban Outfitters and I wear them all the time. They snazz up my outfits and make a statement without breaking my toes or the bank! Yay! We all win.


Tomorrow, my favorite albums of 2009. Have a lovely evening.