Veiled Desires - Carolina Herrera Spring 2012

Carolina Herrera RTW SS 2012

Sept. 12, 2011 - New York

“Do tell me why I got the feeling that the little angels didn’t delight my company as much as I did theirs?,” pondered the baroness, resting her delicate face against her white glove. (The 25-mph wind was blowing against her rosy cheeks and her sunhat had to be held down by a white silk scarf; she was in the passenger’s side of her fiance’s Morris Cowley.) It was because she was assiduously correcting the invisible dirt and feathers on her thin & diaphanous dresses instead of playing with the children’s budgies and bright yellow canaries. “Just be natural, and try not to ingratiate yourself into children’s lives, my dear,” but her fiance dared not proclaim this aloud, for fear of her feminist brusqueness.

Inspiration

The Sound of Music's Baroness

Moriss Cowley car

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Prada RTW S/S 2012

Prada RTW S/S 2012

Miuccia Prada

Sept. 22, 2011 - Milan

She wouldn’t be sitting on the floor of a man’s apartment if he weren’t married, because contrary fall desperately in love with her at first sight - who doesn’t love a woman in a snazzy car? The hourglass rings one am, but that is all to early for a gal to go to bed: she won’t be beat for another three hours! Instead, she drinks some more champagne, flirting around in her swishing, pleated dresses.

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*50s slang