Va Va Voom

he New York Times Magazine this week profiled Ken Downing, the fashion director and senior vice president of Neiman Marcus on the advent of the store's 100th anniversary. He shared some of his picks for the season.


Included amongst them are these kitschy cat-eye sunglasses from the Christian Dior Resort 2008 Collection by John Galliano:

John Galliano’s resort collection for Dior paid homage to the irreverent, load-it-on aesthetic of the style mavens (and Downing heroines) Peggy Guggenheim and Dodie Rosekrans. “You can picture Peggy wearing these sunglasses as she stepped into a gondola outside her palazzo in Venice.”

Models from Left to right: Tanya Dziahileva, Erin Heatherton, Tanya Chubko, Ana Mihajlovic, Milagros Schmoll and Sofi Berelidze. Click image for larger view.

[Source: NYTimes, Style.com]


Downing couldn't be more on target with his Peggy Guggenheim comparison, as seen at right.

Campy or not, I loved this Dior show. And this backstage photograph of Dita Von Teese and Kylie Minogue!

Today in the Sartorialist

love this girl's look in The Sartorialist's "On The Street.........Mid-Afternoon Sparkle, NYC."

[Source: Sartorialist]

Thanks But No Thanks

'm going on the record here and listing these Oakley wayfarers as a DON'T. Sorry, Hayden Panettiere.

[Source: GossipRocks]

The Last Beautiful Girl

ngelina Jolie and her main squeeze were helicoptered from Manhattan to the Hamptons earlier this weekend to attend a charity dinner.


What other celebrity's paparazzi shots look like outtakes from a high fashion shoot? Not one. There is simply no one else who works a helipad like her.

And, of course, the Dolce & Gabbana DG 6035 sunglasses look great too. They are available on Otticanet for $208.

I think these photos of Angelina wearing them rival the ad campaign starring Coco Rocha. What do you think?



[Source: SuperiorPics, Visit4Info]

Ashley Outtakes

h-ha! Just as I suspected. The Chanel 5018 sunglasses worn by Ashley Olsen in Marie Claire are the mogul's own.


The Marie Claire "Behind the Scenes" feature proclaims:

She brought the best accessories -- her own Lee Morris cuff and half-tinted Chanel sunglasses.

[Source: MarieClaire.com]

Elle is for Lohan

inally got my hands on Lindsay Lohan's profile in the newly revamped Elle: "Girl on Fire". I signed up for an annual subscription shortly thereafter.


More on La Lo to come, but for now, here she is adorned in YSL Muse sunglasses.

[Source: Elle.com]

See Also: YSL Muse Ironically Inspires Sunglasses; Muse on the Loose.

Ashley Olsen is Cute.

t seems like Nicole Richie is not the only one to get their hands on Chanel's Spring/Summer 2007 runway sunglasses.

Ashley Olson dons them in her September 2007 profile in Marie Claire.

[Source: Marie Claire]

Fall Recap: Valentino

ith each of these Fall Recap posts, it becomes more and more apparent to me that summer is winding down and its time to stock up on some chunky knits.



On the Valentino runway, models Natasha Poly and Lily Donaldson prove that bigger is still better.

[Source: Style.com]

Fall Recap: YSL

ore Fall 2007 review: Yves Saint Laurent. I'd love to see Nicole Richie start wearing these.


Models Lily Donaldson (left) and Diana Dondoe (right) model the YSL sunglasses.

[Source: Style.com]

Angelinos and Their Sunglasses

s always, love Style.com. Below, highlights of their "Street Style: California Sweet" feature.


Style.com

Star Spangled

poiler alert: Victoria Beckham wears her own sunglasses.



[Source: victoria-beckham.biz]

Here she is taking the kiddies on a boat ride earlier this week, wearing DvB Style Oversized Plastic Sunglasses. Shopbop.com has them for $250.

She's No Olsen

he new face of Badgley Mischka is Teri Hatcher. The ad campaign kind of reeks of crazy.

Even Prettier in Glossy

loved seeing Angelina Jolie's lovely visage in the new St. John campaign when the images hit the web last month, but seeing the Mario Testino shot in its two-page glory is something else. However much they're paying her, its not enough.


[Source: St. John]

Chanel a Deux

his week in New York: Nicole Richie has been making the Mercer Kitchen rounds donning the standout sunglasses of Chanel Spring/Summer 2007 runway show.

[Source: People, People]

They are the Chanel 5018's.

Nicole is cute these days, but Agyness Deyn wears them best.

Speaking of Chloé

fter reviewing the Chloé eyewear collection, it occurred to me that I had seen several of them on our resident sunglasses junkie, La Lo.


At left, 7/17/07: Lindsay is wearing the Chloé chocolate oversized aviator sunglasses with metal details. At right, 7/4/07: Chloé red metal aviator sunglasses with leather details in Malibu.


[Source: LohanPictures.com, Chloé.com]

Fall Recap: Chloé

s we find ourselves with September bearing down upon us, I have the urge to recap the Fall/Winter 2007 Ready to Wear shows. Chloé's runway show gave us a nice update on the wayfarer trend.

I want...

[Source: Style.com]

Bottega Backstage [F/W 2007]

hhhh, to be adorned in $1,500 shades and born in 1989. I'd be looking as smug as Chanel Iman does backstage at the Bottega Veneta Fall/Winter 2007 show.

[Source: Style.com]

The Continuing Saga of Kanye's New Shades

hose foolish, non-functioning white Alain Mikli sunglasses of Kanye's just will not go away. They are now considered so essential to Mr. West's look, that they have been included as preliminary album art for his new record, Graduation.

Courtesy of New York Magazine:

"The just-released cover for Kanye West's Graduation shows Kanye's trademark bruin, manga-ized, being launched out of some kind of floating university in the sky. As a statement of purpose, it's a little confused and busy; what is Kanye saying, exactly? That's he's finally ready for the world? Surely that was true two blockbuster albums ago. That he's boldly sailing into the unknown? As space age as these tracks might be, we don't think they're going to sound so unfamiliar to fans of Kanye and his contemporaries.

All Graduation's cover really says, we think, is that Kanye's copped a new style. Created by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami — who curated the revelatory "Little Boy" show at the Japan Society in 2005 — the cover reflects West's recent stylistic infatuation with contemporary Japanese art and anime (an infatuation made clear in the "Stronger" video, which is peppered with anime-influenced visuals and scrawled Japanese characters). But if that's all his cover was going to say, we sort of wish he'd just stuck with the iconic promo art Murakami created for him earlier this year, of the bear in Kanye's venetian-blind sunglasses. Now that's a cover that says something: specifically, "Check it out, I got some new shades!""

[Source: NYMag]

For further FlashyShades coverage of Kanye's and Alain Mikli's collaboration, click here.

Katie is the Cutest Soccer Mom on the Block

eople Magazine wants you to know that Katie Holmes, like, totally loves her Giorgio Armani 397 sunglasses.


[Source: People]

And she does indeed love them.

At right, Ms. Holmes was photographed wearing the Giorgio Armani 397 sunglasses at L.A. International Airport.

For $203, you can Really Love Your Giorgio Armani shades at Otticanet.com.

[Source: SuperiorPics]

For further proof that its all love between Holmes and Armani, see also: Posh and Katie Cruise Will Always Have Paris.

Dollar Dollar Bills Y'all

imes are tough, y'all. And shades are spendy.


Courtesy of August's Harper's Bazaar:

[Source: Harper's Bazaar]

WWD.com also profiled the costly sunglasses trend in "Accessories Now: Turn Up the Price Points".

Call me crazy, but fifteen hundred bucks for sunglasses is just much too much. Chanel Iman looks cute in them, though.

In my opinion, these Bottega Veneta BV55/S sunglasses with antique brass for $350 are plenty nice. Available on bottegaveneta.com.