Think Pink!

Yesterday while (still) writing my thesis I came upon the color called "Mexican Pink", 'invented' by Mexican fashion designer from the fifites Ramón Valdiosera. Of course, pink is my favorite color so after this and the "Think Pink" scene in Funny Face, I knew I had to do a post on it.

A still from the Think Pink sequence in Funny Face.

As I told you, last weekend I went to an Audrey Hepburn movie marathon. One of the three movies was Funny Face. In one of the first scenes, Quality magazine editor, Regina George, sings about the color when she decides that the next issue needs to be all pink. Think Pink! has beautiful images (see them for yourself below). And so I decided that she's exactly the kind of editor I want to be some day. Probably without the singing.

And then Refinery29 compared Anna Wintour to Regina George (I always get super excited when I get a reference to something) because she supposedly made all Vogue editors wear pink to the Met Gala, which was yesterday. And, which by the way, was co-hosted by one of my favorites: Carey Mulligan.

Some of Schiaparelli's designs with her signature pink on them.

But back to pink, Schiaparelli Shocking Pink, that is. The reason Wintour (supposedly) made her editors do this is the fact that the gala honors Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada's exhibition: Impossible Conversations. Schiaparelli's favorite color was, drumroll please, pink. Shocking Pink, to be exact. So there you go.

There were some pink moments at last night's gala. This are my favorite. (Besides all the photographers yelling, that was the best part of the live streaming).

Model Coco Rocha with pink hair (I need to try this again), nails, and shoes. The jumpsuit is vintage Givenchy and was worn by Elizabeth Taylor, and bought at an auction.

Emily Blunt (who I've loved ever since The Devil Wears Prada) in Calvin Klein with husband John Krasinski. And SJP's dress.

Lena Dunham, of the HBO show Girls, wearing beatufil pink shoes. I love that she didn't go pink all the way but had this detail. And so did Mr. Hamish Bowles (Vogue editor-at-large) with the jacket and socks.

Sarah Jessica Parker wearing Valentino with Mr. Valentino. 

And my best dressed award has to go to Karlie Kloss in Jason Wu. By now you probably know how much I love him but this dress is just too beautiful for words. It's definitely my favorite. 

Please know that I'm now taking donations so that next year I can pay the $25,000 ticket to attend. Meanwhile, think pink!

150/15 by Darcel @ Colette

150/15 is an exhibition of 150 portraits by Australian-in-New-York artist Darcel Disappoints to celebrate the 15 years of fashion, art and design store Colette. Colette is a store in Paris, one of those super cool places that I would love to shop at but certainly can't afford. Still, I like to go on their website and online-window-shop.

Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld. I wish I was cool enough to know him
and call him Uncle Karl.

Anna Wintour. Oh, you know... Just editor-in-chief of Vogue. No big deal.

Darcel has worked with Colette for several years, but his main source of expression is his blog www.darceldisappoints.com. In it he tells through images the misfortunes of his character as someone trying to "make it" in New York.

One of my biggest inspirations in life, the amazing André Leon Talley. Vogue editor and Savannah regular, one of the
funniest persons ever and with more fashion knowledge than anyone else.

Probably my favorite artist of all times: Andy Warhol.

To celebrate Colette's 15th birthday, Darcel made 150 portraits of personalities from the fashion, music, design, photography and art worlds. The portraits will be exhibited in the store during March. And all the images here are from the exhibition... They can be bought for €150 and there's only 15 of each. I chose my favorite 15 out of the 150 to show here, but you can see them all here: 150/15.

Just one of my favorite designers. I also love her because she's BFFs with my girl
crush Gwyneth Paltrow.

One of the coolest persons I've ever seen, Waris Ahluwalia, of House of Waris and Wes Anderson movies fame. He was
at SCAD Style last year and he's just so cool.

Grace Coddington, creative drector of Vogue and redhead extraordinaire.

CC. If I need to explain her, you shouldn't be reading this blog.

Suzy Menkes, fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune. A real fashion journalist
and true inspiration for me.

Bill Cunningham, the original street style photographer. And one of the cutest
men of all times.

Another real fashion critic, Cathy Horyn from the New York Times. Such a critic, she has
been banned from shows.

YSL, mon amour.

I just love the Olsen twins' line Elizabeth and James... And that they really, really don't care what
people think about them.

Alber Elbaz, who recently celebrated 10 years designing for Lanvin. He's just like a Teddy Bear.

*All images come from the 150/15 website. They all belong to www.colette.fr.