Yves St. Laurent said that '...what is important about the dress is the woman who is wearing it.' I agree, but sometimes it's the dress that takes on a life of it's own and transforms the woman. In fact, the yellow dress below did just that to me.
I was a freshman at Columbia and at a Black Tie affair at St. Anthony Hall. Everything was intimidating from the older girls clinking their champagne glasses to the boys sitting lazily on the dark green leather club chairs smoking cigars. I was in this yellow dress.While I was in the Newport warehouse getting inspired by dresses that have been handed down to me and collected for most of my life, I came across this one. Color's a bit dull, and it nearly disintegrated in my hand, but I will forever remember this dress for its lessons it gave me 'in attention to detail.'
This dress will never be worn again unless I'm looking to streak at a moments notice, but it reminds me that a dress may have many incarnations - from transforming a girl to a woman, or reminding a designer that its what's inside that counts.
-Awaiting my Next Transformation,
Bradley
Bradley
I went to Newport for the FIRST TIME EVER this past weekend and was meandering down a side street and saw your CK Bradley suburban. If you heard a girl shrieking at 4 am on Sunday: UH SHE ONLY INVENTED THE RIBBON BELT! I apologize. I can be so obnoxious.
ReplyDeleteWow. Well you can come on back! Hope you were salty from a late night swim....
ReplyDeleteThe excitement's building...XXOO
ReplyDeleteHas anyone ever told you that you tell a fine story... The story of you and the life that you live... this is inspired, and lives side by side with the soul of CKB and fashion melts into the times and expreiances you share.
ReplyDeletethe daily notes of your life over these last many years that you place from creative mind, with pen and laid down on paper ,should become your first Book... keep writing, sharing... and telling your story... the best is yet to come....
JSG
It sounds like YOU too should write...
DeleteCK is a storyteller like her dad! Lol
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