You stay classy, San Diego. I'm Ron Burgundy?

No- today's color is not burgundy... it is actually Piquant Green. But that's not what has me inspired this morning either... I have been pouring over the new resort wear collections that have just rolled out. Resort wear, as a category is a unique thing...considering we, as Americans, don't really live that live that life style anymore- we barely take vacations anymore, let alone need a separate wardrobe in the middle of winter for it. Many people misconstrue Resort to be jumping the gun on spring fashion but in fact it is it's own season of fashion- designed for the jet setters that take off for warmer weather mid winter. And this year- I'm loving the anchor!

Now I know you are wondering why am I on a fashion tangent... It is all about the trickle down...


" 'This... stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff." -Devil Wears Prada


Well it doesn't end there... the trends that really stick in fashion keep on coming and end up as interior design trends... and just as Meryl Streep's character, Miranda Priestly, famously sights Yves Saint Laurent, I too am putting my money on their resort collection sparking new trends for next spring's home trends...

YSL's resort collection featured 2 trends- Anchors and Poppies- I'd put my money on both making it into home design trends but today's about the anchor...

Now nautical theme is nothing new for interior design, or fashion for that matter- and that's why I like this trend... a new take on a very very old classic!

Fresher takes on nautical are already popping up in lighting and accessories...

gorgeous materials like hand rubbed brass are being used...

with more sophisticated approaches to giving the nautical feel- giving it a less thematic feel

My prediction stands: In the next 12-18 months we will see this collection trickle down into the home market, we will see nautical done in a whole new light- sophisticated, clean and possibly with a new color palette (something outside of the old navy, red and white combo)

"Fashions Fade, Style is Eternal"

-Yves Saint Laurent

These are a few of my favorite things...

My senior year of college I had to do a final project on the life and influence of a single designer and after a study abroad in Paris the choice was clear (and because Coco Chanel was taken) The one the only Yves Saint Laurent! He is one of the most fascinating men I have ever studied, he had a stint in the military and stint in a mental hospital all before taking the helm at Christian Dior- did you know that is were he started? He captured the essence of women and combined his mastery of the female form with the drama of the art world. In 1965 he rocked the worlds of both fashion and art when his now infamous Mondrian dress strutted down the cat walk.

Many years before I fell in love with the styling of Yves I fell in love another graphic pattern...Elmer the Elephant. A hugely underrated kids book, it is the tale of an elephant that is different from the other elephants and I love him! What's not to love- the graphic pattern and the bold colors...I can't look at Elmer and not smile!

So I have found a way to combine the two!!! I adore adore adore the Mondrian inspired wainscot - I am dying to do this for a nursery or a play room- how could this not inspire creativity in a child?


And while that is a major project to undertake perhaps I will go with one that it a little easier on the budget and the back...Flor Tiles! These square carpet tiles get mixed and matched to make a rug or wall to wall carpet- and even better- they require no giant commitment of permanent carpet glue or staples!

And when I hit it big...I plan to make people smile up and down the highway with the Paul Smith edition Mini Cooper!!! I would love to see the expression on the cop that tries to write you a ticket with this car- the cutest car ever has met a fashion icon and the result is traffic stopping...

 

And oh yes... the stripes continue inside too!

photos: Instyle, HGTV, GlamChic,CoolHunting, Elmer the Elephant, Flor