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2005-02-15 · 4:35 a.m.

I can't believe I'm up this late, especially since I have to "get up" in three hours. Over winter break I stayed up one night until nine in the morning reading Russell Hoban books and lying in bed listening to folk music with my shades up. Wherever I am next semester/year, I want to have a room to myself so I can stay up all night and read and watch gross gay-man porn and see the sun come up. I love being nocturnal.
Okay blah blah, before I start regressing into a 7th grade goth raven poetess even further:

New York Fashion Week Highlights

(from my bed)

1. Marc by Marc Jacobs is SO BAD for next season, I can't even talk about it. This has seriously shaken my faith in a concept of universal love, beauty and charity. I'm worried about Louis Vuitton's f/w collection (and so annoyed because Paris fashion week [so much better than New York's] is going on right now but there are no free websites covering it! What!) because it is becoming more and more clear that M.J.'s hand is slipping.
2. Trench coats!
3. I'm going to just come out and say it: I only appreciate platform wedges under very specific circumstances, like if the soles are made of cork and you need a floatation device or something. Otherwise, they look like big hippy bricks strapped to your foot. That being said, Terry de Havilland and A.P.C. both make (extremely different) excellent platform wedge-y shoes. My favorites are definitely Terry's because they look like they're made out of snakes that have been eating nothing but solid gold bars for the past thousand years. Or like they were made out of Quetzelcoatl!
4. This whole "bohemian" thing perplexes me, mainly because apparently Sienna Miller is the number one reason for becoming an expensive bohemian. Sienna Miller might have Jude Law's head up her cooch from dusk to dawn every night, but nobody looks good hiking a remnant of hash-stained Persian rug over her bosom and cinches it with a big belt because they're too free-spirited to wear actual dresses.
5. Camilla Staerk! I'd never heard of her before and I actually don't think she showed her collection in New York; I saw a bunch of pictures on some Livejournal fashion community and they're faaabbulous!. It kind of looks a little Calvin Klein '90s-ish with very muted colors and skinny, minimalist fits, but done in soft-looking fabrics and with the awesomest shapes and cuts. And she did a runway show with all her models (Lizzy Jagger and Alex Wek incld.) wearing giant red plastic '80s glasses. Here's her website if you want to see her clothes. They look so good (except for one instance of the dreaded jodhpur) that I'm totally excited all over again about s/s!
6. Peter Som! This guy actually did show in New York. You can find him on style.com if you want to see his runway. Best shoes all week other than the ones that were the only nice part of the Marc Jacobs' collection... and lacy ascots and dickies! The whole thing is very dandy-inspired, but without being totally crazy-insane and ugly like if say, John Galliano were doing it.
7. Pants with paper-bag waists. I'm okay with this. Chloe (and I'm all pins and needles waiting to see the Chloe f/w 2005 show from Paris yo) did them gorgeously last season and I think they're coming back.
8. J-Lo's new line, Honeycakes or Fancyface or Lookatmyass or something. First of all, ugly ugly ugly clothes. She made Naomi Campbell wear a giant white flat floppy fur hat that looked like even Whoopi Goldberg on Star Trek: The Next Generation would turn it down as "too silly." Was she supposed to be, like, a foxy empowered true-to-her-roots moneymaking sexy she-pimp or something? She just looked even crazier than usual. Then J-Lo came clomping down the runway beneath her gigantic "West Side Story" fluorescent sign (best part of the whole show, I gotta say) to prove to us that yes, she is still Jenny from the block, making sure to wear the tightest most ass-enlarging white JODHPURS with crystal decals even though yo she is more than just a giant ass! Didn't she say she didn't want to be called J-Lo anymore professionally? Then why did her giant fluorescent sign say "J-LO STORY" ? She is quite a lady.
9. OH GOD IT'S PAST FIVE AM. Fashion is great, there was more I was going to say about it but my eyes hurt. Maybe later.

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