OUR TAKE ON DVF SPRING '13

Proud to be breaking out some orange in the name of autumn. You guys probably think we're crazy for continually stressing the fact that orange has been very 'in' these last couple of seasons. And we're sure you won't be surprised when we tell you that it was ALL OVER the runways for spring 2013. Yeah no surprise there. Here's our take on an orange and navy pairing seen at Diane Von Furstenburg  2 weeks ago. And if you haven't been able to tell yet, that cuff is quite the favorite of mine at the moment. People are rarely seeing me without it these days.  Top, thrifted; pants, H&M; bag, Aldo; shoes, Chinese Laundry.

COCKTAIL ATTIRE

We wish we had this dress for stage. It's quite the perfect cocktail attire wear. Of course we forgot to ask her where she got it. Not the greatest move on our part. But regardless, it's quite pretty.

MOAB

Alien Planet

The Hummer Tour 

(yes, that's right. over rocks)

 that is not a road.

(those are tire marks)

 (you can't quite tell)

(but the incline in this next picture is almost completely vertical)

 Sister's cute outfit

 

Sperry: the way to go

The Grotto Concert

 The River Trip (to the Grotto)

 Arches

Ok So I'm not going to lie. I packed horribly for this trip to Moab. Here I thought I was doing so well too! I realized I had nothing other than my jean cut offs (how did this happen?) and a white pair of shorts for multiple occasions. I thought I dressed well for one of the evening concerts (in a theater), but when I showed up, I realized I was OVERLY dressed...it's MOAB gosh dang it (one day we'll have to show you what I wore though...it was very much inspired by Dolce and Gabbana...but I digress). Back to the jean cut offs...they were definitely getting old by the end of the trip. On the early, cold (let's don't forget that) - morning of the hummer tour I asked my sister what she was wearing, "jeans." My text back to her consisted of "good gosh I didn't even bring any long pants!" So she ended up looking all cute and I looked like I only brought one pair of pants (which was pretty close to being accurate). OK and then there was the fedora. I knew we'd be doing crazy things and instead of just pinning my hair back, I decided "hey! the hat will just cover the mess." I ended up at the Grotto concert (a REALLY cool natural amphitheater on the Colorado river) wearin' my trusty hat. Well, after the concert it was time for...you guessed it, pictures. Not just any pictures either; pictures with notable people (like Leonard Bernstein's daughter, the heads of Steinway and Sons, the founders of the Moab Music festival, and a particular shot with Juilliard musicians that was supposedly getting sent to the heads of The Juilliard School). And guess what...I frantically pulled off my hat, got right in my sister's face and said..."hair?" Her reply face said it all. The hat went back on. And so, there is a cute little fedora that made it into every more official picture that day. So it pains me to include more pictures of jean cut offs and fedoras, but alas, it was the Moab uniform.

EMMY HIGHLIGHT

OK so we kinda like this dress. We saw it on the Christian Dior Couture runway for the Fall collection, but couldn't include it here because the top was so sheer. But now Julianne Moore has taken it on and we're excited we can post about it. The nice thing about this dress is that most that are more covered in front and have long sleeves like this are usually completely backless. This however covers all around, which is pretty unheard of in the design world (one of the rules of thumb is if you're covered in one area, you're uncovered in another). But we have to admit we don't think it photographed as well as it looked as she moved in it on stage. Are we off of our rockers in liking it? What do you guys think?

FALL TRANSITION

Here's a great fall transition outfit. We love the plaid boucle skirt with the striped t-shirt. Throw on a motorcycle jacket (like she has in her arms) and some heels and that's quite the killer outfit. 

OUR TAKE ON ROCHAS RESORT 2013

You saw us post about Rochas Resort and now you get to see how the final dress (here) was obviously a direct inspiration to this look of ours. We loved the cream t-shirt under the black that we couldn't wait to recreate it ourselves. Although we think this works best with strapless dresses, we created our look with a black tube top, black full skirt and cream t-shirt (if you're using a tube top, like we did, make sure whatever is on bottom matches the top so it looks like one complete dress). So many modest dressers pair their tank tops and spaghetti strap dresses with t-shirts underneath, and we have to admit we don't really love the look. But somehow we think the strapless dress with the t-shirt works well (we also LOVE using sweetheart necklines). We've seen it done multiple places over the last few seasons with dresses similar to Rochas. We'll give you an example with this dress from Temperley London. You can totally recreate the idea with this awesome peplum dress paired with this ivory t-shirt. Think of the possibilities! Here are the specifics of our look: J. Crew belt, Tiffany chain bracelet,  H&M skirt (older), Shade tee, Michael Kors shoes, and Aldo bag.