one thing?
If there were one thing you all could do just once what would it be? I just want you to know I have been reading all of your responses, you have all been so gracious. One day we should all sit at dinner and just talk about life and our journey and what we dream for, We can all achieve anything we set out to, I met two students tonight who were so excited to be going to Parson's, they want to be succesful I could see all of my dreams in their eyes. Just remember work really hard be an original create new shapes, use new textures, make it your own, and you can accomplish anything you dream. There was a girl who just wanted a nice birthday. If I could buy you a cake and a million presents, but the greatest gift is that which is inside your heart, So from my heart to yours Happy Birthday. I heard some amazing music tonight, a new cd of a new friend, so moving and melodic.
Do me a favour tell me about one item that you think is the greatest thing you have ever worn. lets keep this G rated, hehe, but what is your favourite item of clothing? My favourite piece in my wardrobe is a Magenta cotton blazer I made for myself. If you ever have a rough day look in the mirror smile and say I am gorgeous, because you are. Have a good nights sleep darlings, I cant wait to hear your responses.
Do me a favour tell me about one item that you think is the greatest thing you have ever worn. lets keep this G rated, hehe, but what is your favourite item of clothing? My favourite piece in my wardrobe is a Magenta cotton blazer I made for myself. If you ever have a rough day look in the mirror smile and say I am gorgeous, because you are. Have a good nights sleep darlings, I cant wait to hear your responses.
posted by malan breton at 9:46 PM
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I hope to have something by you one day soon but my favorite casual combination is my Kara Janx coffee and cream colored Kimono dress over a Jill anderson black lace slip thats long and pretty. The combination of the two is wonderful to me. :) Hope you had a great night, wish I could have been there but just couldn't.. but the wonderful Italian restaurant here in the East Village called Frank has this great big oak table you can fit a lot of people around.. :)
Hi Malan,
First off, thank you for selecting my poem as one of your favorites on BPR. You totally made my day with that. :)
Ok to answer your question, I have really had to think about this.
I'm thinking I want to write about my pink "newsboy" hat. I love that hat and I wear it almost once a week. I thought I lost it, but it mysteriously just surfaced in my closet again. I wear it with so many outfits and I just feel very "me" when I am wearing that pink hat. Sometimes I put a handmade felt/vintage jewelry collage brooch on it that my friend Jenny made.
Yes, I love my pink hat. :)
Glad I found your blog. Miss you on PR.
My favorite purchased clothing item is a Cynthia Steffe dress that has brown lace over a deep sky blue knit lining. It shows my figure to advantage, and I always get compliments when I wear it. My other fave is a pale green silk/wool dupioni evening jacket that I designed and made for myself back in college. It had bouffant (but not pleated) sleeves, a box pleated peplum waist, and black frog closures in front. It's still in my closet; maybe it'll be back in style, or I'll have a daughter who'll wear it one day.
Hi Malan; just discovered your blog. It's wonderful, darling!
My favorite piece of clothing is a beautiful silk Hermes scarf I bought many years ago in London. I love everything about it: the sea-green color, the size, the texture, the way it feels against my neck. So often the simplest and most basic things are the most meaningful.
A simple ivory silk evening suit with a mandarin collar and red shoes (I love shoes). I felt elegant
The best thing I have ever worn was my "Ring Night" dress on April 29, 1988. I was 16, it was a bland catholic school, we got our school rings in this big ceremony, blah blah blah. Everyone wore Laura Ashley, preppy schmattes--all safe and boring. I wore a jet black rouched tube dress with organza "poufs" on the skirt, a sweetheart neckline, and sheer jersey sleeves with rhinestone "cufflinks" at the wrists which were trimmed with satin. Oh, and did I mention my four-inch black suede stillettos? I called it my "Indy 500" look--DANGEROUS CURVES, lol! And yes, I have a picture. Well, my mother almost dropped DEAD she had no idea what I bought, I didn't even warn her. My dad told me to "knock them dead", and I did. The nuns and my classmates gasped as I walked by. Two girls fell out of their high heels going up on stage, but not me, THE 80's Rock Chick. I strutted as I presented my hand for the ring as if I were accepting an Oscar. The teacher was speechless. A girl named Nicole Pernice (oh, how vividly I remember this) refused to speak to me that Monday because her boyfriend went ON and ON about Who Was That Blonde Girl in The Black Dress? Legend has it they broke up! Because of me! I had no idea. As for the one thing I'd love to do just once would be to skate again with my father. He put me on the ice in February 1976, I was barely 4 years old. He used to skate across the Hudson River in upstate NY as a boy, he was so small. He only grew to be about 5 ft 9 inches tall, and we'd do our "Currier and Ives" thing at various rinks in NYC and Coney Island. He died in 2001. It's the one thing he couldn't do when his arthritis got really bad. I like to think he's young and spritely laughing at his zany little girl when I go into my scratch spins. Even though I'm 34! And not so little...hee hee hee
What I like best, however, would be flowing kimono-style tunics of hand painted silk, with or without frog closures. They can be worn over jeans (my favorite form of attire) or a dress. I'm also fond of the occasional bit of 1940s rhinestone costume jewelry--the big bow looks cool on the pocket of my jeans (as if I had any fashion sense at all)--I have all of mother's stuff. And I have a weakness for feathered hats from the 30s, when it was okay to wear feathers (now one runs of the risk of being assault on the streets).
When I was twelve (and 5'7") I bought a black 50s vintage party dress for my friends bat mitzfah for $20. It was a little more than knee length, made out of beautiful, thick black fabric with small black embroidered flowers. I bought the most gorgeous jewelry to compliment the delicate v-neck. For a night, I felt like Audrey Hepburn.
Of course, now I'm 5'9" and can't zip the thing up anymore. But I prey that my children will be girls and so I keep it hanging in my closet just for them.
I just remembered something...there is another thing I'd like to do once: dance with magical creatures! Here's a site that captures everything my heart forgets sometimes. Go to the site when you have a chance and click on the Flash movie "A Knock at the Duir" to see what I mean. It's the Irish in me, I guess. Enjoy....http://www.duirwaighgallery.com/
The mention of colors made me think too how wonderfully you'd handle platinums and silvers and mystical greys maybe an ethereal undertone of heathers. Like a gorgeous mist on a moor coming together to create a garment. *sigh*
Hi Malan. If there were one thing I could do just once, I would like to go travelling around the world with Gemma Ward. 2 days ago i accidentally watched one video on youtube, it's called "Where the hell is Matt?" and Matt(the guy in the video) quit his job to dance around the world. It was very touching. you should see it yourself. oh and why take Gemma Ward with me? haha I don't know. It just feels right. :)
link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiGDSr_DFlE&search=where%20is%20matt
My favourite item of clothing? It must be my Havaianas camo print thongs! I can't remember when the last time was i actually wore a pair of shoes. I feel so comfortable wearing them. I think as long as I feel comfy, I'm happy.
anyway... You have a good day :)
Great post! Hmmm...if I could do one thing only once in my life, I'd love to take the Hokule'a, a canoe handmade by native Hawaiians in the style of our ancestors, across the Pacific. What an adventure that would be! I'd love to know what they experienced on the way to the islands so many, many years ago!
As for clothing...I found two beautiful heavy silk gypsy-style skirts, knee length, in brown and orange, and I've been building my summer wardrobe around them. It's been fun because they aren't colors I normally wear, so it's forcing me to get outside of my comfort zone and explore new combinations of color! For winter, I love the idea of finding a couple of very exotic, jewel-toned dresses or skirts and making some fitted tops for them...have been drooling over the beautiful sari materials at my local fabric store; bright reds, pinks, turquoise blues, and violets, yum!
Hugs!!!
I love imagining all the things you'd do with color and I really think you are one of the few who could take colors people wouldn't quite think of as lovely and make them wonderful- I loved the color of the gown you did on PR it wasn't like a tree, anyway I love trees... but look at this wonderful picture
http://static.flickr.com/59/200384925_8443bde8aa.jpg
Umbers and dark roses and hues of rich earth tones another *sigh*.... I look forward to all you do :) Oh and a modern take on the dress she is wearing I would love. That fairytale feel is wonderful..
I've always wanted to have one of the plays I've written produced. It would be the greatest joy in the world to see it up there on stage. All the actors and the set. Sigh. Maybe someday.
Greatest thing in my wardbrobe? My beautiful Indian print skirt. I wear it all the time. Or, on a sillier note, my Harry and the Potters t-shirt that reads "Save Ginny!"
My vintage royal blue Christian Dior silk blouse. Mostly because I found it at a resale as a teenager in the '80s and it was my first piece of couture.
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i would like to live in iceland and study math. i would also like to see sound and record dreams like videos, but that's not very practical is it.
Malan Breton from Taiwan! How cool that you have a blog and how doubly cool that you live in Queens. I liked that brown Project Runway dress - it did look like a twisted burnt tree stump, but aren't twisted burnt tree stumps exquisite? Yes.
For most of my life I would have said that what I'd like to do more than anything would be to make just one piece of art that reaches out to people and really moves them. More recently I would have said that the one thing I'd most like to do would be have or adopt a kid, but then, oh my god, I did! So I'll go back to the art one.
I don't have a favorite article of clothing, but I do have a favorite "moment" of clothing, which is that point when something is worn enough that it has a sort of overall softness and beautiful interesting textures, but it doesn't look limp or dirty. It's such a wonderful ephemeral thing, but I so wish it could last.
Well, if there was one thing that I could do just once it would be to create a piece of artwork that everyone would just love, especially my mom. I mean she supports my art, but unless its a picture of a flower she doesn't seem too interested in it. I wish I could create something to show in my upcoming art show at school that would just blow everyone's minds away, and I could look at it and be genuinely proud of what I have done.
One piece that I love in my wardrobe would have to be this beautiful silky shirt that I have. Its a halter that ties in the back with a complex bohemian design consisting of off whites, greens, pinks and blacks. I love to wear it because I feel so unique in it, that I dont just blend into the crowd but stand out in a good way.
hope you have a good day
- Amber
Your pictures on BPR look wonderful wish I could have gone but I could not *pout* maybe some other show some other day
:)
If I could do anything just once...well, I am doing something just once here aren't I? I'm living this life the best I am. And I don't think I'd really have it any other way. If it wasn't I wouldn't be who I am. It's late at night so I suppose I'm becoming a bit philosophical.
Favorite article of clothing...I know you said to keep it G rated but I realize to me it's black cotton underwear. I don't know why it's more comfortable than red or white or pink or yellow with blue stars. Cotton underwear that is black! If it were to be anything else I suppose I'd say this green vintage coat that I've been keeping around for a while. It's not a rain coat, but somehow I feel like I ought to wear it when it is. So I do, and it makes me feel happy when I do (and looking fabulous of course).
Marlaina I feel strange doing this saying something to you on Malan's blog but I think he would understand feeling this way- your post was amazing and beautiful. I hope all your dreams come true you have come through so much.
My loveliest and most wondrous garment is a pristine vintage peacock blue velvet swing coat with 3/4 sleeves and a huge, drapey collar that almost functions like a scarf.
I found it in an antique store, and there is an embroidered label inside with the name Elizabeth on it. Which is my name. I knew it was meant for me, and yet I love the sense of history of this other Elizabeth who took such beautiful care of her vivid, luscious coat.
While I certainly am not the siren I was before my 3 children, when I wear this coat I feel like all light emanates from me - like a star!
Back in 1979 I bought a simple cream-colored linen jacket at Macy's Herald Square for $19. It was almost magical in its ability to make me look FAR hunkier than I really was at the time. So naturally I wore it ALL the time I could get away with wearing it! I must have gotten 400 million compliments on that jacket, and no one could believe it was so cheap.
All these years later I still remember that jacket and wish I could find another just like it!
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