Monochromatic Ensembles of Blue

While taking a monochromatic photo shoot of blue implements, I thought it would only be fitting to incorporate monochromatic outfits of blue from the streets of Fashion Week. Below are the pictures I took as well pictures of the all-blue street style, further down. Using hues of cobalt, turquoise, ultramarine, and a light sea-foam, both sets of pictures use monochromatic pallets for a trendy take on blue.

  

Street Style from Fashion Week:

Highlights of New York Fashion Week

Between the 2013 fall trends laid out this week on the runway and the fantastic style thats appearing just outside the haute couture shows, its hard to dig up the best of the recurring trends. Just this week theres been countless new styles of shoes, prints, patterns, and garments with aspects borrowed from 1920's and even 1990's trends. As Fashion Week is now on it's way to Paris, it's time for an overview on the highlights of New York:

1- Runway Shoes!
Mod block booties and reinvented clogs from the 90's, loafer-styled heals and flats from the 20's, and shoes with a shorter, chunkier heal have made their appearance on the runway. This year's vast shoe style diversity has lead to some really different looks. These vogue new shoes have been frequently presented with velvet, jeweled/metal detailing, animal print (largely cheetah), and shiny/metallic scales. (Photo courtesy of Style Caster)

Scaley loafers with low-heal: Tory Burch 

Aligator chunk-heal booties: Kenneth Cole

Aligator low, leprechaun pump: Christian Siriano

Snake-skin lace-up booties: Christian Siriano

Open-toe, lace-up, velvet boot: Kenneth Cole

Low velvet pump with metal detailing: Christian Siriano

Block-heal velvet pump: Oscar de la Renta

Textured velvet lace up boot with mod, chunky heal: Christian Siriano

2- Calvin Klein's Fall 2013 Collection
Based largely on the colored fax fur coats and fur detailing designs, I found that Calvin Klein's Fall Collection was a prime baseline for the most recent runway shows and street styles. Why? With the excessively large fur details as well as a modern shape of the clothes and the use of velvet, it tied 2013's street style and runway fashion all together.
(Photo courtesy of Vogue)

3- New York Street Style
This week has offered some of the brightest (and furriest) looks of street style. With chilly New York wether, street-walkers had to bundle up while still staying stylish. Lots of fax fur coats, two-toned leather jackets and patterned layers were sighted. Contrasting prints were often paired within the many layers of the outfit.
(Photo Courtesy of Style Caster)

An Update

Hi everyone! I just wanted to update you all on the next couple weeks' future posts: as it is Fashion Week (one of my favorite times of the year), the primary focus on February and March's post will be on fashion and the week's style highlights. All Things Art, is just that: a blog sharing the best of all kinds, aspects, and perspectives of art, fashion being one of them. Reflected by the last three posts, there will be more street style, runway reviews, and icons to come!    

Style Icon: Florence Welch

Most widely known as, 'the girl from Florence and the Machine', Florence Welch has (to say the least) made her mark on the fashion world. A sort of aura presents itself when encompassing her; her fiery red hair, porcelain skin, and almost inexplainable style makes for a stand-out figure. Florence's music reflects her upmost personality also shown in her fashion choices. Making countless appearances on Vogue's "10 Best Dressed" list and gracing their cover, she has also been described by Vogue as being "one of the rising stars in fashion."
Her eccentric personality goes along perfectly with her many Alexander McQueen ensembles and Givenchy gowns, displayed below. Florence's style is one that people gaze and can't imagine themselves being able to pull it off. What makes her clothes able to "fit" her is her confidence and upmost uniqueness; something that nobody has to acquire, they just have to embrace it. As cheesy as it sounds, taking the quirky differences is what creates fashion verses average or commercial clothes. Florence Welch is a prime example; not just wearing clothes but having them accentuate herself. 

Photo Courtesy of Vogue

Vogue photo-shoot

Florence sporting Alexander McQueen

On the cover of Vogue

In Marc Jacobs

Wearing Alexander McQueen

In Gucci

Preforming at The Temple of Dendur of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Street Style

With much anticipated fashion shows that include piles of headlines, videos, and reviews referring to the haute couture designs and displays, there still is room for an added light the fashions occurring outside the fashion shows. Even with high magnified focus on the shows themselves, an almost equal eye is put upon the many outstanding street styles in the flurry and commotion of this year's Fashion Week. The embroidery is getting heavier, more widespread; the colors are traditional Spring/Summer with an added infusion of black to the garments. Vogue has covered practically every aspect of Fashion Week so far with its pretentious title and easy first word on it all. Even with Fashion Week green and barely blooming, Vogue has managed to capture the best style of 2013,  and the pictures below (photo courtesy of Vogue) are some of my favorite outfits and details of this year's Fashion Week 2013 in Paris, Milan, London, and New York. As some of you may know, Fashion Week is twice a year; in the fall and spring. In the fall, that year's upcoming Spring/Summer lines are shown while in the spring, the upcoming Fall lines are shown. With that, this month's fashion shows will be previewing the designer's Fall 2013 lines. . . a little bit confusing right? Even so, the streets of this upcoming Fashion Week are showing the upmost aspects of spring and paving new trends for this upcoming season.

Photo Courtesy of Vogue