Style in Print: Carine's World

While we're on the subject of Style Icons (see earlier Daphne Guinness post, please, if you will), I stumbled upon this.

Probably old news to ThoseIntheKnow, Barney's is releasing 100 limited edition copies of Carine Roitfeld's visual memoir, Irreverant. With that copy comes a Mario Testino print signed by Carine herself.

As if there are any that aren't already spoken for.

But for we Little People, our little peak into the branded Carine's World (because who in love with style wouldn't want to be a part of that world?) is available in October.

Hmmm. My birthday happens to be in October.

Thank you to The Window at Barney's for the image.

Style in Film: Bill Cunningham New York

I'm doing this for the Infinitesimal Readership not in DC. Because they've already torn this from our grasp. Its run ended here on 12 May. Pooey.

Last night, I was privileged - and I mean that sincerely - to peek into the life and mind of an icon: Bill Cunningham.

I won't wax poetic about the film, nor about the man. Plenty of folks (including this great piece at Slate) have already done so. I will say just a few things.

If it's anywhere near you and you haven't already seen it, Go. Now. If it's not, get thee to Netflix or YouTube or whatever other means you can to see it.

When you do see it, you will laugh, and you will cry. And you will be inspired.

It's not often you get the opportunity to try and understand a contemporary monk. This film grants you that opportunity.

It's not often you get the opportunity to view a much-viewed place like New York City through a different lens. This film grants you that opportunity.

At 80+, it's possible we won't have him with us much longer. And I'll be on the first plane, train, or in the automobile, The Bean in tow, to pay homage to him in whatever way they let the public do so.

On a little bit of an aside, I was thrilled to have H as my arm candy last night (and meet up with two online gems, Ally from Wardrobe Oxygen and Elizabeth from So Much to Smile About). He can't rave enough about the film (rather than movie, btw, because it's that elevated). He's been quoting since we left:

His runner-up favorite, in which Bill explains why he tore up many a check for his work, especially the one when the original Details, of which he was an integral part, sold out, "If you take money, then they can tell you what to do."

His favorite, which occurs as Bill is showing his press pass to a Paris runway show flunky guarding the door at some prestigious show - and who doesn't recognize the man who has been documenting clothing since the 1960s. Another flunky - complete with greying ponytail - notices, and pulls Bill past the ignorant flunky, saying, "Don't you know this is the most important person on earth?"

Sent just now in an email to me about attending the next The Front Row event tonight: "have a great time tonight – and always remember that, 'fashion is the armor to survive everyday life.'"

Which is, my friends, the sum of it.

In Honor of Liz (1929-2007)

Thank you, Liz, for lots of things...

...for supporting the influx of women into the workplace with clothes that work for you, rather than work you.

...for being a woman in a business not often welcoming of women.

...for being an icon.

...for being what many of us aspire to be, an entrepeneur, a business woman, your own woman.

...for changing the way women - and the world - look at work attire.

...for, as Robin Givhan writes, leaving your "mark on the fashion industry because of [your] respect, admiration and empathy for working women. [You] changed the nature of department stores, cracked the Fortune 500 and successfully took [your] company public in 1981. And [you] never shied away from the notion that celebrating personal style is good for business."

Take a break from work to honor her today by tuning in to the Post's chat, "Remembering Liz Claiborne," at 3pm.