The Fashion Inquisition
Carrie Bradshaw and her Doppelganger Sarah Jessica Parker
In ‘I-Sould-Have-Seen-This-Coming’ News
Sarah Jessica Parker will be on the cover of May’s Vogue.
Oh, hope I didn’t ruin that ’surprise’ for you. But then again every other detail about the upcoming Sex and the City movie has been leaked.
Yes, after Gisele Bundchen and Lebron James for the Shape Issue, Sarah Jessica Parker will grace the cover for the Over-Rated Fashion Icon Issue. Okay so the month of May does not have a special title for it’s issue, but if it did, this certainly would be it.
All last week, people frequenting the Upper East Side could catch SJP, Chris Noth, Annie Leibowitz and a crew of about 15, stopping traffic trying to recreate the impractical reality that is Carrie Bradshaw’s life.
See the reality is, there IS NO Carrie Bradshaw. She is a fictional character played by Sarah Jessica Parker. Unfortunately, many people have a hard time making this distinction. Of course we at Fashion Indie, try our best to point out “fakes” as much as possible so I am here to help see the difference between Sarah Jessica Barker and the fictional character she has been so appropriately typecast as, “Carrie Bradshaw”
This is Sarah Jessica Parker. Notice the jeans and tee shirt. Ya see, it’s hard to look glamorous all the time, especially when you’re juggling kids, a husband, and a career. Sarah Jessica Parker’s look is laid back and simple. She doesn’t blow her rent checks on shoes, she’s not a trend starting fashion icon, she’s just an actress who was blessed with a role of a lifetime.
This is Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw tripping on her long designer gown on the steps of Lincoln Center, something Carrie Bradshaw would have never let happen! See, it’s not easy being fashionable. It takes years of training and the grace of a Russian ballerina.
Now I’m not saying that this issue is going to bad. This looks like it’s actually going to be a decent month of Vogue. But then again it’s pretty hard to mess this up.
I suppose the problem I have with this is not the subject itself, but rather it’s affect. I can only imagine the gaggle of women from Staten and Long Island who will clutch this issue, like they’ve found mecca, explaining to their boyfriends why they are more like Carrie then any of their friends. And clogging the streets of SOHO on Saturdays, walking four in row each putting on their best Carrie face in their Nine West shoes. Wake up ladies, although it is sad to say, Carrie does not exist.
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You’ve heard about Faux-Fur, Here’s Faux-Anna
This is an alt-fashionista’s wet dream!
While 2006 seemed to be the year of Anna Wintour, 2008 is turning out to be the year of the fake Anna Wintour. The real Anna’s gonna be pissed!
I’ve heard through the fashion grapevine that the Lanvin show was crashed by an Anna Wintour look-a-like. And nobody stopped her!
What does one do when they have no invite? We now have the answer! Dress up like the most famous editor in the biz. And really is it that hard? The problem with an iconic look is, it can easily be copied. The impostor dressed in a fur like coat, large glasses that covered most of her face , and of course the bob haircut. That’s evidently all you need to do. Oh, and be cold and aloof. Think marble statue.
And when someone mentioned to a Lanvin rep that that couldn’t be the real Wintour, as she had previewed the show hours ago and just hopped a flight to New York, the rep snapped “You don’t think I know Anna Wintour? I know how to my job.” Sounds like somebody’s going to get fired!
And who is this woman, who has become my new hero? Mademoiselle Agnes, but of course! Mademoiselle Agnes is a French television personality. I should have guessed! The French do it better! And what does Mademoiselle Agnes have to say for herself? “It’s an homage, we are doing a story on it and every season we do an episode called ‘See Anna’”
the real, fake Anna Wintour
I must say, I am a little jealous I didn’t think of this first. Here’s to more fake-Anna Wintour’s in 2008.
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an homage to an homage
Here at Fashion Indie we can’t get over these genius photos of Village Voice mascot Michael Musto making fun of the Lindsay Lohan’s homage to Marilyn Monroe.
For someone who just wants to be taken seriously for their acting, she’s doing everything in her power to seem like a narcissistic-vapid-jackass. And as we know that’s what Rumer Willis is for.
Want people to take you seriously? Stop doing things like this, that make it so easy for people lampoon you. Less time on E! News and more time on Charlie Rose!
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A Letter to Lindsay Lohan
Lohan vs Marilyn
Dear Ms. Lohan,
Stop. No really stop.
There’s something that can be said for self-control, and you obviously don’t have it. What you saw as an ‘artistic’ endeavor, in recreating Marilyn Monroe last sitting with Bert Stern (in this weeks New York Mag), has actually ruined the beauty of the original images. As you must know, since you’re such the Marilyn Monroe aficionado, in 1962, Bert Stern was given the assignment by Vogue magazine to photograph Ms. Marilyn Monroe. Stern met Monroe at the Bel Air Hotel and proceeded to photograph her for three days, producing an astounding 2,500 photographs. The original photographs, which range from fashion shots to nudes, speak volumes about Monroe’s emotional and professional downfall. That’s the beauty of the photographs.
At first glance they appear beautiful, but if you were to look at them a little longer you would see how sad these photographs really are. The years of drugs and emotional abuse had aged her face way beyond her thirty-six years. At the time of the photoshoot she had just been fired from her latest film for her erratic behavior, making her unhireable to any other studio. Don’t you get it Lindsay? These are photos of a BROKEN glamour icon, on the cusp of realizing that her career in Hollywood was effectively O-V-E-R. So what are you trying say? I mean really?
Sincerely,
Lauren
Fashion Indie’s Resident Critic on all Things High Fashion
P.S.Don’t worry I won’t hold this whole ‘Marilyn-Monroe’ thing over New York Magazine’s head. As they have balanced out this glaring error in judgment by also featuring a nice long article about my idol Carine Roitfeld.
Photo credits: all bert stern.
lindsay lohan via just jared
marilyn monroe via the fashion spot
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Lauren and “The Fashion Inquisition”
Lauren has been invited to provide her witty diatribes on fashion matters for Fashion Indie. Watch Lauren as she vents her frustrations about fashion and a myriad of pop culture topics. Some may think that her writing is mean-spirited, not the case she says. Her point of view is one of a fan. She believes that designers, editors, stylist, photographers have a responsibility and an opportunity to create something extraordinary. To Lauren when fashion is done right, it should look like an art piece. However sometimes, okay most times, these people fall short of doing this and its Lauren’s job to keep these fashion people in line.
Lauren is a student at Parsons School of Design and a freelancer at a fashion corporation that shall remain nameless.
Loves: Carine Roitfeld, Diana Vreeland, French Vogue, French Playboy, Large Public Libraries, Vampira, The B-52’s, Vintage Stores and Flea Markets.
Hates: People who come to New York believing it will be like Sex and the City or Friends, Brand Whores, People with lots of money and no style or class, unintelligent and ignorant people, and unintelligent and ignorant People who behave as if they are intelligent.
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They Let this Man Blog about Fashion?!?
Over Fashion Week, MAC cosmetics paid gossip blogger extraordinarie Perez Hilton to blog live at their booth in Bryant Park. Here at Fashion Indie our only comment to this photo is: couldn’t they have given him some cover up?
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Golden Oldies
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