Monday , November 16, 2009
Excitement: Gryson for Target / Lady Amanda Harlech
Nitrolicious is reporting that, following the upcoming Loeffler Randall collection, the next accessories collaboration for Target will be Gryson, they of beautifully crafted and designed handbags and the like. Some may be going "mmmmm...who?" But Joy Gryson, the head designer, was a former head accessories designer for the one and only Marc Jacobs, during what I think of as the Stella era -- which to me is the best MJ accessories era because the Stella is really the best MJ bag, hands down. (Yes, the Stam is lovely, but I would rather just get a Chanel bag if you're going in for quilting.) Bag talk aside, Gryson's designs have an emphasis on hardware and detail, so if you're looking a dose of "It-ness" on the cheap, do check it out when it hits stores.
And to go to something else entirely unrelated, there's a fun article about the ever-fantastic Amanda Harlech in The Telegraph. Harlech is one of my favorite "characters" in fashion: the sort of beautiful, spirited, free-thinking displaced-aristo with an insanely glamorous life. (I always thought of her in the vein of Countess Ellen Olenska from The Age of Innocence.) She's got a suite at the Ritz in Paris! She's works for Chanel! She rides horses! God, who really lives like this? Still, I love her for her style, which is always elegant, impervious to trends and individualistic, and I love her more because she turns the whole sexist "muse" notion on its head: she's the type of character that usually has novels written about her, but the woman would rather write the book herself. And that is always eternally cool.
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