Sacrifice featuring VPL Victoria Bartlett
Today's designers are creating garments that provoke us to compare current fashion with that of WWII. Do our reasons for fighting against the Axis Powers compare to our reasons for engaging in combat in Iraq? Consequently, are the sacrifices willing to be made then comparable to those we are willing to make now? more...
New York Fashion Week Spring 2008 :: VPL by Victoria Bartlett featuring VPL Victoria Bartlett
Victoria was only staying true to what she has always done, and it is the spring trends that are following suit. Finally fashion is catching up with the VPL aesthetic that blossomed so naturally out of women's undergarments. It makes sense that one would follow design that is so well thought out, consistent, and inspired by leaders, making VPL a leader as well. [Celine Griscom] more...
The Shadowlands featuring VPL Victoria Bartlett
Fashion seems to be a shadow itself, negotiating a culture's former image with its future image, with barely a moment in which the two are reconciled. In 'Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun' Wright wrote, 'The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.' Through examining the fluid nature of our identities, we find that infinite ideas and forward change become possible more...
Skin Deep :: The New Nude featuring VPL Victoria Bartlett
The New Nude
The new nude charts an au-natural course with a variety of shiny, sequined, beaded and transparent fabrics. Accentuated with silver, the palette is warn, neutral and earthy. Beige has never been so sexy! more...