okay... enough is enough.  i am closing shop.  just building more debt.  people are not buying or shopping.  really no choice left.  going to need a job to pay off the debt.  i thought of it as a career when it started.  i wanted to make it a success.  it became a hobby.  not easy to make money. formula is always changing.  now it is just a burden, financially and emotionally.  time to cut losses.  sad.

okay i was not completely right about the paris shows.  dries van noten renewed my faith in fashion and style once again.  his was the most beautiful i have seen of all the designers.  not surprising!  he is my favorite....  absolutely fabulous!!!!

the paris shows are just as disappointing.  the silhouettes are hideous.  does any woman with any self confidence really want to have giant shoulder and walk on giant shoes.  the artistic point of view revolves around aggression and bondage.  none of the "men" designers seem to have any fondness for women and feminine beauty.  they want to twist us, heighten us, exaggerate our form into grotesque monstrous silhouettes no longer resembling women at all.  sad!

the fall shows for paris just started, yet the fashion industry forces us to buy before the lines have

even been presented.  f***ed up.  the ny runways were filled with stupid 80's looks and harshness.

where is the lighter, simpler, truly beautiful designs we need?

i am sick of beautiful clothes with "whatever" designer names displayed on the outside.

does anyone have an identity of their own???????????????????????????????????????

leonardo da vinci concluded......

       "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

favorite COCO CHANEL quote

style bubble

"fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do 

with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

COCO CHANEL