Bugs and mosquitoes might be annoying, but nature is showing up on lots of apparel and fashion accessories. Spiders and such aren’t so scary when they’re adorning brooches or printed on shirts, or find the prettier parts of nature, like birds or butterflies, adorning sunglasses and other accessories.
“It’s all in the details,” Vera Wang is often quoted as saying, and that so aptly describes designer Derek Lam. Some designers are invented, then there are those that are, in a sense, manner born to it, as was the exuberant but at once artfully restrained Derek Lam. This former Parsons School of Design graduate and CFDA winner started his career as an assistant to designer Michael Kors, quickly moving on to Vice President of Design for the Kors line before starting his own eponymous line in 2003. His signature pretty, girly and crisp silhouettes caught the eye of Diego Della Valle of Tods and was soon installed as its Creative Director. For those of you who follow his design genius, you know this is a design reign which is truly artistically supreme.
Luckily for all of the fashionistas that can’t quite afford his designer runway pieces, he has developed an accessory line. Um, thank you Derek, as though I needed another shopping obssession. Couture.Zappos.com features his fabulous sunglasses in an array of styles such as the Gemma (Gemma Ward perhaps?), Camille (actress Camille Belle?) and the Venetia (an ode to Tods owner Diego?). Whatever your shade or shape, these sunglasses will elicit the behind-your-back gossip that proves you have truly fashionably impressed!
Goose, Maverick and Ice Man started the trend. Nigo and Pharell made them cool. Kate (as in Moss) gave it status. Both guys and girls can pull off these shades. Marc Jacobs, Kenneth Cole, and Ed Hardy are a few designers who have modernized aviators. Rock them nearly everywhere – outside when it’s sunny, at night so you can, so you can watch me weave (name that lyric!), even in the mall so you look that much more rock star than the teeny-boppers.
