Ladies & Gentlemen, a colourful update for this spring combined very nicely with white and ash grey. Quote a Gentlemen believes ash grey & white hair is always classy and trendy. Plenty of extravagant jewelry, done with aesthetic knowledge is on the top list as well as literature, texture and functionality in space and objects. Spring is up for a new touch so dip your fingers in colours and splash it to your whites!
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Ladies & Gentlemen, it’s been a while since last post, but the Quote a Gentleman team is working hard to get the new web & news site up and running. We will keep you informed here on this site when we shortly are ready to launch. Until then enjoy these über cool & yet very sophisticated ladies in red, white & black. It simply doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. Find the right shaped sunglasses, put on red lipstick – it always works and wear avant-garde black pieces that fit your personal style. Then hit town and enjoy how you make people’s day more vibrant and wild because you know how to dress individually. Talking about dressing individually these days – it’s a whole different subject to be discussed. Until next time – check also our Facebook profile for more trend updates and vintage icons.
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Leopard deluxe beauty.
Floral oversized safari.
Round red shapes.
Wild windy twist.
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Ladies & gentlemen, Loulou de la Falaise (1948-2011) was an eccentric YSL muse also known as “the quintessential Rive Gauche haute bohémienne.” Loulou de la Falaise moved to New York in the 1960s where she shortly worked as a model for American Vogue before returning back to England now with a position as junior editor for the magazine Queen. This was an important move because during this junior editor position she came in contact with Yves Saint Laurent – a long-lasting friendship had started. This friendship led to Paris where the great diva started working for the YSL haute couture house in 1972. Loulou de la Falaise’s job was to bring her eccentric style into jewelry design. When Yves Saint Laurent resigned in 2002, Loulou de la Falaise started her own clothing line and jewelry design that was characterized by the New York Times fashion journalist Cathy Horn as, “The clothing line captured much of her rare taste—well-cut blazers in the best English tweeds, French sailor pants in linen, striped silk blouses with cheeky black lace edging, masculine walking coats with fur linings, and gorgeous knits in perfectly chosen colors”. Loulou de la Falaise was a great muse, diva and style icon that must be kept in our memories. There are still only a few of the real once that really stands out – Loulou is one!
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Ladies & Gentlemen, behind the scene and great work by the trend guru Li Edelkoort. The making of the trend concept and inspiration Summer 2013.
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Ladies & gentlemen, a new season, time for new colours in our home and wardrobe, but where should the inspiration come from this time? We are always looking into new hemispheres to find the now and the next. But will trends continue in the way we think of them today or is it time to rethink the whole system? More thoughts on this subject will continue on Quote a Gentleman’s blog. But until then enjoy the ‘trend’ inspired pictures above.
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The Circus Collection, Elsa Schiaparelli.
Evening coat by Elsa Schiaparelli and Jean Cocteau.
Elsa Schiaparelli: Skeleton Dress, 1938.
Elsa Schiaparelli & Cocteau collaboration.
Elsa Schiaparelli bright pink shoes.
From the past and how a vintage icon can wear a great and humoristic mix of patterns and shades of bright pink, coral colour, dusty orange and faded red.
Ladies & Gentlemen the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli famously merged Surrealist art with high fashion by using fabrics designed by artists Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. Schiaparelli’s early pieces were undecorated but after 1935, opulent embroidery and outlandish accessories became her trademark. Her collaborations with Dali, Cocteau and Paul Delvaux produced clothes that were witty and clever works of art. A unique piece from the hand of Schiaparelli was the hat made in the form as a shoe. Shocking pink was Schiaparelli trademark colour – a colour we have to follow in its many different variations and match in ways and with different colour shades we wouldn’t have thought of a decade ago or a minute ago. Design history develops, what we wear transform into new identity systems and so do the way we look a garments and clothing in general.
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Vintage Hermès luggage.
Hermès kimono jacket.
1930′s Hermès vintage watch.
Hermès vintage silk scarf.
Hermès logo from the 1950s.
Hermès vintage playing cards c.1948.
Classic vintage Hermès belt.
Ladies & gentlemen, The Hermès Group, founded in 1837, designs, develops and markets high-quality products. Hermès specializes in leather, lifestyle accessories, perfumery, luxury goods and ready-to-wear collections. Characteristic for the brand is the logo of a Duc carriage with horse, which the company has had since the 1950s. But how did it all start? In 1837, Thierry Hermès (1801–1878) first established Hermès as a harness workshop on the Grands Boulevards quarter of Paris, dedicated to serving European noblemen. He created some of the finest wrought harnesses and bridles for the carriage trade. Monsieur Hermès earned citations included the first prize in its class in 1855 and the first-class medal in 1867 at the Expositions Universelles in Paris. Hermès’ son, Charles-Émile Hermès (1835–1919), took over the management from his father and moved the shop in 1880 to 24 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where it remains today and where the new leader introduced saddlery and began retail sales. The era of Hermès has had its rise and falls and as one fashion observer noted, “Much of what bears the still-discreet Hermès label changed from the object of an old person’s nostalgic to the subject of young people’s’ dreams.”
Ladies & Gentlemen, an always favorite is the excellent blog Advanced Style capturing great divas and true gentlemen from the streets of New York city. Some of the more colorful and inspiring ladies are Jean and Valerie, The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas who has an aim that dressing should be fun and expressive and not taken too seriously. Notice their great eye for details, pattern mix, layers, ‘the more the merrier’, avant-garde & sophisticated jewelry, hats & sunglasses. Quote a Gentleman wouldn’t mind going shopping with these two ladies. Happy Monday!
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Light my cigarette. Great colours, dusty olive-green, army, chocolate-brown, light skin colour. Classic!
Rest your leg. Red suede shoes, tattoo, army print and dark skin colour. Avant garde!
Hang your bag in the field. Pattern mix & colour match. sophisticated!
Different (man)kind in NYC. Ties, suits, hands, looks. Be aware!
Always be prepared. Mustard yellow, pockets for certain things, watch, lamp. Practical!
Be my floral guest. Floral print on denim scarf. Modern!
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