What does it say about my taste level...

(photo from yahoo. Dress by Balenciaga)

...that I thought the best dressed person at the Emmy's was someone who is probably at most 13 years old (the adorable and talented Kiernan Shipka from Mad Men)?

New article up on CBS Pittsburgh

Go here to read it! And here to check out all my pieces for KDKA.com/CBS Pittsburgh! 

McQueen and SLEEVES!

The biggest winners today. I realize sleeves were requisite for Westminster Abbey. Still I am excited to see such a timeless look on such a high profile bride. I love it even though many seem disappointed.

As the hilarious blog, Kate Middleton FTW says:

Optical Inspirations

Edith Head, Gloria Steinem, and Grace Kelly

I've worn glasses since I was in second grade. Although I also had contacts by the time I was 13, I've always considered spectacles to be a large component of my visual identity. This aspect of personal style became significant to me as a young adult because I was involved in a subculture that valued bookish, studied, intellectualism. It wasn't afraid of being called nerdy.

 Michael Caine and Jean Luc Godard

I was listening to music from the riot grrl and punk scene and began reading feminist theories that taught me about objectification and the politics of looking. 

 

Glasses became a theoretical starting point from where to reject normative standards of beauty.

 Malcolm X and Kurt Cobain 

They allowed me to have more control over not only how I saw the world, but also how I was objectified by the gazes of others. I considered them to provide visual shorthand; a sign that signified my subcultural affiliations and intellectual interests to other likeminded young women and men.

Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Chisholm

Peter Sellers and Marcello Mastroianni

To this day, when I do wear my contacts, it is disorienting. Not only can I see peripherally with the help of the contacts, but I feel like something is missing from my face. I feel naked without my glasses.

 Anouk Aimee

And I continue to draw optical inspiration from the precious and rare bespectacled icons of visual cultural history.