Pick It Or Skip It: De Kooning Retrospective at MoMA

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Art world brats wet themselves advising other people on shows they should and shouldn’t be seeing (and how they should feel about them). God forbid you mentioned passing on the Andy Warhol exhibit at Nose Up in the Air gallery – you might as well have admitted that you’ve ignored art for the last 50 years! Luckily you have us at FashionIndie to give you advice on what to pick spending your time/money on, and what to skip. This week we tackle the juggernaut that is the Willem De Kooning Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Julianna Margulies models for L’Oreal Paris

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L’Oreal USA is pleased to announce a new addition to the L’Oreal Paris distinguished list of spokespeople. The beauty care company has signed award-winning actress, Julianna Margulies, as a new brand ambassador. “Entering into a partnership with Julianna Margulies is truly exciting for us,” said Cyril Chapuy, Global…

New exhibit at The Met: Modern works by Joan Miró

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Modern Works by Artist Joan Miró Displayed at Metropolitan Museum with Dutch Old Master Paintings That Inspired Them Exhibition dates:         October 5, 2010-January 17, 2011 Exhibition location:     Special Exhibitions Galleries, first floor Press preview:            Monday, October 4, 10:00 a.m.-noon During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Catalan…

New exhibit at The Met: Modern works by Joan Miró

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Modern Works by Artist Joan Miró Displayed at Metropolitan Museum with Dutch Old Master Paintings That Inspired Them Exhibition dates:         October 5, 2010-January 17, 2011 Exhibition location:     Special Exhibitions Galleries, first floor Press preview:            Monday, October 4, 10:00 a.m.-noon During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Catalan …

Wedges For Spring

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Joie’s blush suede lace-up wedge bootie; Diane Von Furstenberg’s espadrille with leather ankle tie. 80%20′s printed canvas and cork geisha wedge; Bettye Muller’s ikat-print espadrille; Farylrobin’s leather-wrapped abstract-print wedge. Claudia Ciuti’s leopard-print wedge sandal; Rock & Republic’s leather-wrapped wedge with screw studs; …

Designer Collections: Michael Kors

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Fall 2010

Michael Kors never disappoints. His fall 2010 collection is packed with classic glamour, season-appropriate hues and plenty of style.

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Olivier Zahm Gets His Heart Broken

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Purple Diary's Olivier Zahm and his modern muse Natacha Ramsay, much to his dismay, have called it quits. Olivier provided a very public, in-depth (and at times absurdly humorous) account of where their love went wrong on his blog. Or to put it more simply, how she dumped his sorry ass.-

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The founder of Purple Magazine has always advocated a “free lifestyle” where love and sex are to be explored and enjoyed openly. With this new devastating turn of events, could this be the end of those crowd favorite's nude pics of Parisien women that Olivier is notoriously known for? Please say it ain't so!

A dramatically captioned pic of their break-up: “Bad news from the stars”

Oh Olivier, when you have multiple lovers, but one girlfriend, who has lovers too, what did you expect?

Check out the entry below. The post is categorized quite appropriately under “End of Love”

To all the anonymous friends who follow my life on the Purple Diary, I have to tell you that I'm in a lot of pain. Natacha Ramsay dumped me on Sunday, She ran away with her lover (with whom she had a long romance that I was aware of and accepted) for a summer of love. She called me to tell me that she loves him, that we are finished. I asked her to come back two times and she said no two times. As you know if you follow the Purple Diary I try to create and promote an alternative love lifestyle (that I used to call French La Communate des Amants). Natacha's decision to leave me so brutally and painfully will certainly be seen by conservative people as a clear feminine revenge against the lifestyle Natacha and I used to share, and think that I'm a dreamer. Right now I'm just a mess. But I will hopefully recover soon and offer you some more pictures of love and sex.

Olivier Zahm

While Olivier ends his rant with hopes he can recover and give his fans the sex and love they so crave.. I couldn't help but think what if he never recovers? What will this mean for Purple Diary's infamous ability to making naked chicks classy?! This could create an entire shift in the blogosphere, and more importantly could cause a drastic drop in numbers of the amount of inappropriate pictures circulating on Purple Diary.. Which is a loss much greater than a girlfriend, who was sorta kinda not really your girlfriend.

Images via PurpleDiary.com

Shop Gap’s New Premium Pants Line Starting Today And Get A Whole New Work Wardrobe

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Gap’s got you covered with work pants–no matter your mood, body shape or day of the week–with their brand-new Premium Pants collection which hits stores and online today. With styles like the Curvy, Modern Boot, Boyfit, and Perfect Trouser, the line caters to pretty much all pants sizes and taste types. To sweeten the deal, I need to point out that the Gap’s 30% off sale is still on through the end of today, so you can apply it to the brand-new line. Just enter SAVE30 and get the discount, plus free shipping. Cha-ching.

What sounds better, if you’re full-figured, than slipping into a pair of these Gap Curvy pants ($59.50) in the morning? Really takes the SPANX and starvation out of the dressing-for-work equation.

Get away with a slim, cropped pant in the workplace with these Gap slim crop pants ($49.50). They are perfect for summer, but will take you well into fall.

I predict that these Modern boot pants ($59.50) will be bestsellers; how flattering is the classic boot cut style on all body types? At this price, grab them in navy, black and gray – and then go crazy with your work tops.

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Ralph Lauren Safari For Women

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I bought my first bottle of Safari by Ralph Lauren soon after it came out because I loved his original Lauren. I also liked the romance behind the name- probably because I was thinking about the imagery in Out Of Africa, Robert Redford and that wonderful scene where he washes Meryl Streep’s hair. In my teenager mind it was the most romantic thing ever (still do, actually. But to this day there has never been a man brave enough to face my 2.5′ of waves and curls). I wanted Safari to evoke just that.

I remember thinking back then that Safari was a little too pretty. I liked it well enough and even finished the bottle (it was the gorgeous lay-down version), but it took me about 15 years to buy another one. Safari didn’t smell like it belonged in the early 90s and I wasn’t sure how it fit with Lauren’s Long Island horsey-set image. It smelled more… French, I guess. The green aldehydic opening, overabundance of flowers and gorgeous chypre base could have easily been a Chanel. Now that I think of it, none of the modern Chanel perfumes from the regular line (not the Exclusifs) has been even half as good as Safari.

I have a few older Safari bottles that are clearly the original formula, including the discontinued parfum. I smell a lot of galbanum and hyacinth which my nearly middle-aged mind translates now as romantic in that heartbreaking, full of longing way. The green and wood notes are dry and crisp and show a lot of elegance and restraint. The patchouli-moss-soft leather base (more pronounced in the parfum) clearly didn’t fit in with the early 90s style- it was too perfume-like in an era of non-perfume opposites: you either had to smell like candy (see Angel and all the horrible mall vanilla and fruit body sprays) or like chemical nothingness (someone please slap Issey Miyake for me). Even the bottle- a vintage looking carved glass beauty- didn’t belong.

It's no wonder that Safari has disappeared from the shelves that sell the Ralph line. For a while it was hard to find except for occasional appearances at places like TJ Maxx. From quick sniffing and spraying the current version at a couple of the discount outlets it's clear that the formula has changed for the very worse. It's a floral something or other without the galbanum, oakmoss or any of the notes that used to give Safari its  backbone. Despite rumors to the contrary, Safari (or what's left of it) is still in production and can be purchased on Ralph Lauren's American website: $60 for the 2.5oz EDP. The notes are listed there as “An exotic medley of floral and citrus notes gently warmed with the essences of Bourgeons de Cassis, Jasmine Italian and Fleur d'Oranger”. I wouldn't bother.

Images:
Safari ads from 1993-1994, couleurparfum.com
Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in Out Of Africa (1985) from ew.com
Verushka in a YSL safari suit by Franko Rubartelli for French Vogue, August 1968

Celebrity Style: Ciara at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

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Ciara should have been a model. Her wardrobe tends to have more hits than her records but I can’t knock the girl for staying out there. This week she attended the closing viewing of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present hosted by Givenchy at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City this week.