fashion messaging

Vintage Chanel lives rent free in my mind the colors are deep, subtle and magical. Over time, the originally soft textures, become luscious like a lover's caressing touch In college, you dress down, you want to blend in, not stand out gods forbid you flag entitlement and draw envy's barbed compliments. The simple styles bear the twin burdens of camouflage and practicality. In Paris, fashion can be capricious, but elegance is a silent conversation, with its own intricate vocabulary in drape, line, fabric and in painstaking choice. In places where fashion matters - Paris, Manhattan, the Hamptons, it can signal position, the way uniforms signal authority everywhere. A splash of fashion can not only have a fabulous effect on how its wearer feels, it can tell important stories. I’m told that, in back rooms, where fortunes are awarded or lost, fashion can announce arrival, rank, and intent. It can whisper new wealth, in upstart display or a threadbare, silent duel with mounting debt . . Songs for this: The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby & The Range Read Between the Lines by The Bingtones