Tag: vintage
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The Micro-Trends of 2022 that I Loved
I ‘aught’ to tell you: some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. I wear mine all over my body. It’s a canvas of things I love, from people I love, and a time I bittersweetly, have feelings for: the early 2000s. I grew up in the early and late aughts, trying to figure out […]
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Fashionable Creativity | The Chic List
I’m jealous of water fountains. You read that correctly. I want my cup of creativity to overflow like that. But not spill out onto the floor and disappear forever. I want my writer’s flow to include a pump that moves the fluidity upward, back into my veins, through my heart and into my brain–and take […]
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How to avoid ruining your new Gucci Skirt
The cover had the words “Gucci” printed on it in a promise. It was fashioned in burlap, the cocoon of a butterfly with interlock-G’ canvas wings. The pattern was a particular branch of logomania: legacy imprint: I’m talking about my new Gucci skirt. At last, after two months of hanging the piece like a prized […]
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THE ’90S SUIT WITH A TWIST | ON-CAMERA STYLE
It was the best of times, it was the simplest of times: The ‘90s. The finale to the 20th century was also the era I was born. The prologue to the new millennia was full of minimalist fashion. But it wasn’t this concept of doing “without” something. The neutral pinstripe suits with high-waist trousers, that […]
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Gucci Goes Hollywood: A Look Inside the “Gucci Love Parade”
Hollywood Boulevard, a sidewalk with stars that line a street of dreams. These are the aspirations, realized, cemented into the ground iconizing actors and musicians who have “made it.” The Walk of Fame also represents the hopes of aspiring creatives and legends in the making. As Creative Director of Gucci, Alessandro Michele points out in […]
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Last Minute Halloween costume idea for the vintage girl at heart
The fact that it’s Halloween tomorrow is ‘S’wonderful, S’marvelous!’ That is, unless you’re still scratching your head and scouring every costume store in your city that is overcrowded with fellow procrastinators for props and garments that will transform you into another person for the night. In my case, that other person is someone that I […]
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How to wear: Regencycore | The Chic List
To quote Duke Simon Basset: “to have a beautiful wardrobe is one thing, but to wear your best outfit in the most beautiful of wardrobes is something entirely apart.” Okay, maybe he did not quite utter those words, but close enough, right? I’m about to share with you some outfit editorials that would be the […]
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Christmas in the Krischic Crib – The Chic List
I’ll not be home for Christmas…you can count on it. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams this year. That is the reality of being an on-camera journalist. Sometimes, you must work holidays so that your viewers who are home for Christmas have something festive on their television screens to enjoy! My […]
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Silver Belle: Winter Wear Inspired by Little Women
Jo March of Little Women once said that she likes “good strong words that mean something,” and as a journalist and blogger, I have to say that I resonate strongly with the sentiment. That’s why when I sit at the keyboard and prepare to type up a blog post for you all, I put pressure […]
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Midnight in Beverly Hills
A cobblestone street dotted with lampposts enchants me. This strip lies at the center of the luxury fashion flagships that lines downtown Beverly hills and attracts visitors from all around the world every single day. As I walk past those well-curated shop windows and step onto the cobblestones with my floral open-toed heels, the wind […]
Keeping it Krischic 