Nothing Bad could Happen to you There

Tiffany Blue Box

If anyone knows me, one could probably guess my signature color that I use on anything, for everything. Formally known as PMS 1837, this signature color Tiffany and Co. uses to brand themselves since they were founded in 1837, and a color I use for everything. I’ve always found Tiffany & Co. to be classic and timeless brand, feeling more attached to the Tiffany Blue color than the brand itself. For every gift I have received from Tiffany’s, I keep my ‘little blue box’. Even for gifts my mother or friends receive I ask for their box, thinking I could create a “memorabilia” of my own one day.

Recently, Tiffany & Co and their signature color have popped back into the limelight due to recent press coverage from events and television references. During a recent episode of Gossip Girl, the soon-to-be Princess of Monaco Blair Waldorf mentions the Tiffany Suite at the St. Regis Hotel for her bridal shower. Now when I heard Tiffany Suite, I automatically pressed pause on the television (rarely do I ever do that), and googled Tiffany Suite St. Regis into the search bar. There pops up a beautiful, one-of-a-kind St. Regis suite decked out in everything Tiffany Blue from pearls hanging from the chandelier of the Tiffany Blue dining room, to coloured walls adorning the foyer painted in their signature color. Mind you the room rents for about $9,500 a night, and the fact I have never heard about since now, it’s already written down on my bucket list to stay in one day (whether it be for a Bridal shower or not).

Even this past week, Rachel Zoe revamped the Tiffany & Co. windows on 5th Ave in honor of the Academy Awards this coming weekend. Even though the windows brought attention to her own personal brand, it gave every consumer another reason to venture to Tiffany’s windows on the corner of 57th and 5th. These windows designs will travel to various flagship stores in New York, Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, and London featuring the Fleur de Mer broach given to the late Elizabeth Taylor. In the words of Holly Golightly regarding Tiffany’s, “The quietness, the proud look. Nothing bad could happen to you there”, a quote that reminds me time and time again why I enjoy creating anything in the color Tiffany Blue,, “it calms me down right away.

Ciao,

Julia Mickus

A Different Kind of Grammy's

Fashion students not only tuned in to the 54th Grammy Awards this year to see the numerous performances, but also to see who stole the spotlight on the red carpet. Not We not only watched Nicki Minaj being accompanied by a man dressed as the Pope, we also witnessed how celebrities reacted to the sudden passing of a superstar, Whitney Houston. Whitney was never the “fashion icon” you would look upon for fashion sense, but she was the epidamy of a superstar in every way, especially for the Grammy’s. Even with the death of the superstar, many fashion guru’s like ourselves were also watching for the fashion scene stealers and best dressed celebrities of the evening. Here are the top two best dressed and worst dressed celebrities I felt helped bring “positive buzz” to an already sad evening.

BEST DRESSED

Adele: Dressed in a custom Armani Prive floor-length gown with De Beers accessories, the singer “stole the night” in a gown that showed off her figure perfectly, winning six shinny Grammy’s including Record of the Year. To the haters who comment on her figure, as Adele has said “I write music for the ears, not eyes".

Rihanna: Giorgio Armani got all the press Sunday night, since Rihanna wowed in a custom gown by the legendary designer, including Christian Louboutin shoes and Neil Lane jewelry. Though some critics will say her “friends” are hanging out, who else could pull off a dress with slits everywhere, she took a simple black dress and made it "va va voom"

WORST DRESSED

Anne V: Don’t get me wrong, I think Adam Levine is a stud off and on the music charts, but his girlfriend Anne V. looked like she was trying to pull of a sexy slit dress that ended up looking like she was wearing half of a bathing suit bottom. Just because you you have a great body, doesn't mean you have to show your um, thigh?

Nicki Minaj: Personal opinion here, but I did not understand her choice of a head-to-toe Red Riding Hood-esque cape, with a crystallized Versace logo she wore with a Pope at her side. As the stylist.com perfectly stated, “Madonna pissed off the Vatican 25 years ago”. Not sure if she was trying to grab the attention, but a little unnecessary for the circumstances of the night.

What do you all think? Another celebrity that should be on a pedestal or the chopping block?

Ciao,

Julia Mickus

Define: Creativity

Creativity is a heavily used concept in the fashion industry, yet there is no absolute definition of the word. Nonetheless this term is fundamental for any company to grasp, it’s a learning tool to become different from your competition; it’s what makes Chanel different from Versace or Apple different from Windows.

However, the average consumer today almost always look up to a celebrity when she decides what to wear, even though the industry tell us to be “distinctive” or “different”, were still typing into Google “What dress did Blake Lively wore on Gossip Girl on Monday?”. Steal Her Style, a dedicated tumblr account can help the urge, where a younger demographic can find the dress Selena Gomez wore on Ellen DeGeneres just a week ago, or the poncho Kim Kardashian wore while boarding a fight at LAX. This tumblr even adds a link, where you can purchase the identical garment.

If she is an older demographic, a similar blog titled What Kate Wore takes it one step further. They not only can she find items that the Duchesses of Cambridge wore while going to the hair salon just yesterday, bloggers will find coordinating outfits that mimic her style, cheaper versions of her Jenny Packman dress, and inform their followers on fashion updates from Kate's favorite designers. Stylists will become non-existent if the web takes over with similar blogs. Consumers are not only curious, but as stated before, consumers “flood the web to consume anything and everything that was in connection with the movie”, and in this case its celebrities. Now there is nothing wrong with this idea, I’ve been a culprit myself, but how is it that so many industry executives look for the “out of the ordinary”, yet we all look (in one way or another) like the ordinary girl down the street. Where did the creativity go?

Let me leave you all with this, what is your definition of creativity and how do you feel about blogs like Steal her Style or What Kate Wore?

Ciao,

Julia Mickus