Eva Internazionale says goodbye

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Dear friends,

This is the last post on Eva Internazionale. From now on, I'll be blogging at dressful.com. As I'm very bad at goodbyes and sentimentality, I just want to say that I've enjoyed working on this blog very much, but I feel that the time has come for a new project and a new story. Dressful is also a fashion blog, so I hope you will follow me there.

If you have Eva Internazionale on your blogroll, I would be most grateful if you changed it to Dressful (I'll set up my new blogroll tomorrow). I'm going to leave this blog exactly as it is, so if you ever feel like reading my old posts, you'll still be able to do that.

Last but not least, thank you for reading, all your comments and your emails. One of the most important reasons I started Eva Internazionale was to connect to people on a similar wavelength, and I'm very happy to say that this blog helped me achieve it.
Eva


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Transitions

1. Cherry Blossom Girl 2. Patrick Leger, After the Heist 3. Alec Soth

Time out.


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Yohji Yamamoto's sailor chic

Not an August has gone by since 2006 that I haven't thought about Yohji Yamamoto's Spring/Summer 2006 RTW collection, the humor behind it and how soothing it feels to look at these garments in summer heat. I see this part of the collection as a very smart take (or even parody) on sailor chic, which we usually associate with navy and white stripes, chunky, preferably gold jewelry and coral red nails. In this case the navy (+ black) and white are there, but the chic is defined by a completely different aesthetic reminiscent of real sailors, perhaps even the ones because of which the idiom "swear like a sailor" was invented, although I don't think the femininity of Yamamoto's clothes is inferior to that of classic sailor chic (a matter of two perceptions, each at its own end of the spectrum). The biggest "sailor chic revised" factor? The rope. Long, weighty and ragged, the kind you see in every self-respecting port in the world. It screams raw, but the outfits remain undeniably elegant. Nothing like a blast from the past after you've gone through the Fall/Winter 2010/11 collections for the n^th time, realizing only a fraction of what was presented tells stories worth telling.


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