Designer of the Day | Sally LaPointe |

Sally Lapointe is in the ascension phase of what will likely be a long praised career. She's doing it quietly and the American fashion press never knows what to do with that so you are forgiven if you haven't been paying attention. Season upon season she fearlessly explores what has seized her imagination which can lead the overly casual observer to the erroneous conclusion that she doesn't have a signature. This look backwards over her past five seasons should rebut that notion. Sally plays with volume and shape, flow and structure. Her silhouettes seek balance between movement and stillness and always do so in very luxurious and compelling fabrics. She has, and always has had, a very refined palette. She will continue to be increasingly ingenious and impressive whether or not the press notices. 

Spring '12

Note the layered structure in two different fabrics.

Fall '12

Another example of flowing volume on top with a more structured pant.

Spring '13

More advanced play with structure and flow. The pattern for the blouse creates a very sexy focal point around the breasts.

Fall '13

The use of gorgeous and luxurious fabrics continues. The subtle diamond shape panel in the blouse is a refined touch.

Spring '14

The level of complexity and the attention to detail is astonishing. See how the center line is emphasized by the curled peeling away of the fabric at the hem of the top skirt.

Designer of the Day | Giorgio Armani Prive

Armani Prive Fall '13

Eschewing the luminous fabrics of his recent past couture collections Mr Armani turned his fiery imagination to delicate fabrics. The result was sublimely magnificent. 

Armani Prive Spring 13

Mr. Armani and his atelier's construction abilities are among the very pinnacle in modern fashion.

Armani Prive Fall '12

To execute a waist that requires such stiffness in such a supple manner is extraordinarily difficult.

Armani Prive Spring '12

Perfect proportionality from breast to foot in a design that so easily could go wrong.

Armani Prive Fall '11

To know that there must be strong under construction, perhaps even boning to achieve that waist but not to be able to see it; a mark of mastery to be certain.

Armani Prive Spring '11

Sex, lust, power, and money, made into clothing.

Designs of the Day | Natacha Marro | Anastasia Radevich | Kei Kagami | Mihai Albu

Anastasia Radevich

As poetic and literary a shoe designer as has ever been. Anastasia communicates through footwear. 

Mihai Albu

Here's hoping the Romanian star becomes a global star.

Kei Kagami

A visionary artist whose medium happens to be shoes.

Natacha Marro 

Deliciously fetishistic but make no mistake there's a seriously talented artisan at work with Miss Marro.