Hello Everyone!!
I hope you all had a great Holiday! Nothing.... I mean nothing like celebrating this great nation of ours! It got me thinking again about personal style. I realized that I am classic with a bit of cheap chic added in. I love to have fun with Fashion but I must remain true to myself, my comfort zone, what works for my personality doing this allows me to feel beautiful and confident. However, what I am most proud of and what I wish to portray through fashion is that I am American. My wardrobe may be a melting pot of designers from all over the world but the core of who I am is American Style! I remember visiting Italy with my grandmother in 1990 and I remember walking down the street and everyone knew I was American! At 17 years old that made me proud! and still to this day it does! Because through all the revolutionary changes that took place through out history American women remained true to the love they had for their country and paved the way for American Style! Their inspiring designs from past eras really do stand the test of time.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute hosts it's big summer exhibition! This year it is entitled: American Woman: Fashioning A National Identity (running May 5th- August 15th), the exhibition explores the fashion styles and trends that defined the first half of the 20th century in the United States. I smell Road trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The shows poster and book are available through the met store. To see many of the images from this beautiful collection flip through the Museum's Virtual Fashion show enjoy!!
The Gap... ( and you can't get more american than this retail chain) is sponsoring the exhibition. They designed a kid's t-shirt called 'Rosie to the Rescue" $30.
Earlier today I was reading the July issue of Marie Claire magazine.
and Lizzy Dunlap wrote... What we love about the USA. Barbecues, blue jeans, country music, Jazz, Rap, 4th of July fireworks, Lady Liberty. We invented the lightbulb, the hula hoop and the Superhero! Flip flops, route 66, Baseball. Corn on the cob. Tex-Mex. Lacrosse. Surfing. 2,584 Olympic medals. No metric system! The Hollywood sign. Literary Greats Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison. Our national anthem is set to the tune of an old drinking song. All-American style, from Levi's to Proenza Schouler. Ooooooo Love that!!!
I feel the best way to portray American Style is to simply be American!!! God Bless the USA!!!
XO Kimberly
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