Guess Who's Back!

Hello dear readers!


Well, it's been a while hasn't it?


Let me begin by wishing you all a Happy belated New Year! May this year bring you health, love, happiness, prosperity, and success. I hope you all had a good one!


I, as per usual, overindulged and unfortunately, my sensitive tummy paid a hefty price. I saw my bed more often than I desired. Why you ask? Well, I was relegated to the foetus position as a lay there in pain for the better half of the day following Christmas, damning that scrumptious boxes box of Scottish caramel shortcakes I decided to gulp down, as if the elaborate Christmas four-course meal (and seconds) I savored the day before hadn't been enough! Worst of all, being the glutton for punishment that I am, no sooner did I recover from my digestive malaise that I was back at it again, sucking up those addictive caramel-y pieces of heaven! And, well, you all know what comes next, so onto the actual subject of this post!


As promised, today I bring you the new and improved( well, you be the judge) Monochromatic! As of now, for regular updates on matters of fashion and style, interspersed with my neurotic penchant for rumination and interrogation (like a member of Parliament during Question Period minus the unruliness of course!), please go to:


lemonochromatic.com.


I do hope you've enjoyed this blog so far, and hope you will enjoy the new site even more, so much so that you'll keep coming back!


I bid you adieu Monochromatic, and look forward to a new year of blogging at Monochromatic 2.0 (I think I love the word monochromatic too much. I must have mentioned it a trillion times by now!)


See you all on the other side, (a pity I can't bring the gorgeous and stylish beach-goers pictured above. I'll miss you, you sexy hatted specimen you!!)


Bisou


K 

Monochromatic on Hiatus

Hello dear readers,


Please note that Monochromatic is on hiatus as of today, during which time, it will undergo a much-needed makeover. While turning this blog into a bigger, and better platform for all matters of fashion and style has been a hair-pulling exercise thus far (html, css, what?!), I assure you that the new Monochromatic will be up and running within a month's time. Yes, I'll be working on this baby during the holidays! Please stay tuned for more fashion news, tidbits, analysis, and discourse to come in January 2011. In the meantime, I wish you all a great holiday season, full of cheer, love, happiness, plus succulent, sugary, fattening, tooth-decaying treats (just kidding!), and of course...fashion!


Bisou,


Katia  

White walls, white curtains, and a white gown. Here, the color white comes to symbolize death. Interesting how symbolic representations of clothing of any one color sometimes differ from one culture to another.

The Unwritten Law of Dry Cleaning (Needs to be Rewritten!)- UPDATE

                                                                                                                                                                           

Alas, the unwritten law of dry cleaning remains, and while my local dry cleaners failed to retrieve my missing skirt, they reimbursed me for it, at which point I quickly joined one of my girlfriends for a shopping jaunt downtown and snatched up a cute black pencil skirt with a faux-leather waistband. But classic, layered skirt, you won't soon be forgotten...

Fashion as Art?

Art: n. A visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill and imagination. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Is fashion art? If we base ourselves on the above definition, then it is safe to surmise that yes, it is. While traditional definitions of art have been challenged over time to include contemporary forms of art, namely video, and installations, if there is still any doubt as to whether fashion deserves inclusion into the spectrum, the gradual increase of exhibitions showcasing the work of couturiers here and abroad testify to its legitimacy as an art form. 


It's certainly refreshing to see renowned art institutions pay tribute to the aesthetic contributions of the fashion world, whether it be a retrospective of Yves Saint-Laurent's career spanning 40 years, a showcase of the wardrobe of one enduring 1950s style icon, Grace Kelly, or a melding of fashion and architecture, as shown through the recent exhibition of the intricate works of Quebec fashion virtuoso Denis Gagnon. And with more exhibitions of the like to come- the MBAM is slated to showcase Jean-Paul Gaultier next- is it still necessary to ponder the question of whether fashion is art?

photos via montrealgazette.com, and froufrouu.