When Craft Meets Insight
There are men who design the clothes that women would like to wear, and there are men who simply fashion garments that speak to their fantasies of how women should present themselves. Alber Elbaz was thankfully and quite wondrously in the former camp.
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His creations were never boring, yetstill looked as if they belonged on a real woman rather than a mannequin; waistlines with room for a post-lunch bulge and not a soul-destroying corset in sight.
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There was colour and comfort, sophistication and satisfaction - an indefinable luxury without the louche looks of the "trying-too-hard-brigade".
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Now that death and disaster have brought us to our knees and we out of necessity have eschewed glamour for simplicity, it's become apparent that moving forward we simply want to be ourselves.
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Once-taboo naturally grey hair, foundation-free faces, and that particular lockdown favourite - jogging pants - are now firmly entrenched in our sartorial psyches, artifice seems like a bad joke. Albeit one that we'll keep laughing at anyway.
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Am I forgoing lippy and a dash of mascara? Heaven forbid! But the patches of white hair are growing on me and my tottering days may just be over.
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The designer's wise words echo in my mind:
"Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend."*
True. Truer. Truest.
Ta-ta six-inch heels, hello again kittens!
You were right, Alber. The view from down here isn't bad at all!!
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You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvellous—how well I know it.
Psalms 139:13-14 NLT
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#BodyPositivity
#CurvesAreNotSinful!
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