After doing copious amounts of research - i love that you can trawl through tFS and the selby for 'research' for you blog, research for my uni essays requires hours spent in musty libraries and checking out so many books on 'Hohenstaufen Literary Culture' that you end up splitting your bag open hmmph - I have come to the conclusion that the American Fashion Editor comes in Two Sorts.
Sort 1 - Polished Perfection
Sleek as a bullet, Slim as a cigarette, Rich as a Rockerfeller (which, lets face it, some of them are). Not a hair out of place. Cocktail dresses and spindly heels and long lines and hermes bags. Sure, they run around in Proenza Schouler and Thakoon too, but it's a polished look, not a mary-kate olsen look, if you know what i mean. It's Glamour - but not the magazine Glamour, because it's Vogue.
E.G LAUREN SANTO DOMINGO - Contributing Editor, Vogue US
Sort 2 - Mixology Master
A little bit UES prepster, a little bit downtown grunge, a little bit vintage cool, a lot of designer labels. Leather and colour and fur and bling and studs and utility vests and chanel 2.55s and... drop crotch pants? Similar to the pure craziness and off-kilter fash of an English Fashion Editor but slightly reined in by a New York Blow Out and the sheen of the big city that you can never quite wash off, no matter if you live off Bowery or off 5th.
E.G TAYLOR TOMASI HILL - Style Director, Marie Claire US
All pictures from tFS
When Sort One gets married they wear HAND MADE Olivier Theyskens for Nina Ricci gowns that take over 180 hours to hand-embroider.
When Sort Two gets married they wear Alaia shoes to offset a gown of frou frou perfection.
Sort One's favourite colour is NUDE:
Sort Two's favourite colour is EVERYTHING, but especially COBALT BLLUE:
I must say I like elements of both, but, of course, I lean heavily towards Taylor's incredible mixed up style. The girl has the best eye in fashion for pulling together things that, quite simply, should not go together, but on her (and with that swingy mane of fiery hair) they look incredible. LSD has the class and elegance of a deb, but Taylor has the midas touch!
Give me some of that, if you please.
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