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Why do we love Anna Dello Russo?
What with all the snow, the transport chaos, the freezing toes and the general air of Britain-in-crisis, your fairy godmother, FS, has decided to whisk you away from it all.
In a puff of glitter and swoosh of feathers, we're going to a wonderful sparkly world of multiple outfit changes, crazy hats and bonkers rules of dressing - somewhere that public transport is something that happens to the staff. Frankly, if Anna Dello Russo didn't exist, we'd have to invent her.
So who IS this Dello Russo, we hear you cry? My, if you haven't come across her before, what a treat lies in store for you. Once described by Helmut Newton as a "fashion maniac", Dello Russo's day job - if the word 'job' can really be applied to her - is editor-at-large and creative consultant for Vogue Japan.
No, we don't know what that actually means either, but it involves a VERY large wardrobe. But really, Dello Russo is not about anything so unfashionable as work. No, she exists purely to bring joy and happiness to our lives. Her sheer exuberent bananasness (it should be a word, don't quibble) is downright endearing - and that's not something we could ever say about the Other Anna. To celebrate our new icon, then, here are FS's top 10 Dello Russo facts.
1. She writes a blog using RANDOM capitalisation, a habit FASHION Statement may consider ADOPTING. Her Twitter feed does the SAME. With added pictures of her dog in a Louis Vuitton collar. Face it, the woman's DOG is better dressed than you.
2. She owns more than 4,000 pairs of shoes. That is over 1,000 more than even the most inflated guess at Imelda Marcos's notorious collection. Respect.
3. She's going to be 50 next year. She dresses like this. More respect.
4. She has just launched a perfume called 'The scent of Anna Dello Russo'. Enough said.
5. Her rules for Christmas party dressing, touched upon by FS last week, include number five: "Wearing lots of JEWELLERY. the sound of JEWELLERY banish bad thoughts and bad ghosts."
6. She wore a watermelon on her head to New York fashion week. All together now, "I carried a watermelon ...?"
7. You can email her your fashion-related questions and this modern-day oracle will respond. Sample question from Gabriella: "Do you ever stand in front of your closet before going to an event and feel like you have nothing to wear?" FS answer: The woman has 4,000 pairs of shoes. What do YOU think, Gabriella?
8. Her front-row rules include a very firm number four: "DON'T WEAR SUNGLASSES, IF YOU NOT ARE VIP (VERY VERY IMPORTANT PERSON). IT'S IMPOLITE".
9. She has made a video of her fashion world tour that makes Ugly Betty look like a gritty documentary series.
10. She declares that "FASHION is such stuff as DREAMS are made on [sic]..." And oh, what dreams she must have.
Text By Kate Carter
Source: Guardian
What with all the snow, the transport chaos, the freezing toes and the general air of Britain-in-crisis, your fairy godmother, FS, has decided to whisk you away from it all.
In a puff of glitter and swoosh of feathers, we're going to a wonderful sparkly world of multiple outfit changes, crazy hats and bonkers rules of dressing - somewhere that public transport is something that happens to the staff. Frankly, if Anna Dello Russo didn't exist, we'd have to invent her.
So who IS this Dello Russo, we hear you cry? My, if you haven't come across her before, what a treat lies in store for you. Once described by Helmut Newton as a "fashion maniac", Dello Russo's day job - if the word 'job' can really be applied to her - is editor-at-large and creative consultant for Vogue Japan.
No, we don't know what that actually means either, but it involves a VERY large wardrobe. But really, Dello Russo is not about anything so unfashionable as work. No, she exists purely to bring joy and happiness to our lives. Her sheer exuberent bananasness (it should be a word, don't quibble) is downright endearing - and that's not something we could ever say about the Other Anna. To celebrate our new icon, then, here are FS's top 10 Dello Russo facts.
1. She writes a blog using RANDOM capitalisation, a habit FASHION Statement may consider ADOPTING. Her Twitter feed does the SAME. With added pictures of her dog in a Louis Vuitton collar. Face it, the woman's DOG is better dressed than you.
2. She owns more than 4,000 pairs of shoes. That is over 1,000 more than even the most inflated guess at Imelda Marcos's notorious collection. Respect.
3. She's going to be 50 next year. She dresses like this. More respect.
4. She has just launched a perfume called 'The scent of Anna Dello Russo'. Enough said.
5. Her rules for Christmas party dressing, touched upon by FS last week, include number five: "Wearing lots of JEWELLERY. the sound of JEWELLERY banish bad thoughts and bad ghosts."
6. She wore a watermelon on her head to New York fashion week. All together now, "I carried a watermelon ...?"
7. You can email her your fashion-related questions and this modern-day oracle will respond. Sample question from Gabriella: "Do you ever stand in front of your closet before going to an event and feel like you have nothing to wear?" FS answer: The woman has 4,000 pairs of shoes. What do YOU think, Gabriella?
8. Her front-row rules include a very firm number four: "DON'T WEAR SUNGLASSES, IF YOU NOT ARE VIP (VERY VERY IMPORTANT PERSON). IT'S IMPOLITE".
9. She has made a video of her fashion world tour that makes Ugly Betty look like a gritty documentary series.
10. She declares that "FASHION is such stuff as DREAMS are made on [sic]..." And oh, what dreams she must have.
Text By Kate Carter
Source: Guardian
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