Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Kate Lanphear

Carine Roitfeld If a girl can always start by placing it in the heart of all series mode is now at Scott Schuman and Tommy Ton is discovered that the new figures to follow. These are not models, but designers, journalists and artists have in common and a unique look. Fashion editor at Elle US, America's Kate Lanphear is one of the darlings of the neo-generation of photographers ...

Kate Lanphear could have remained a name among others in the organization of the offices of The US survey anonymously and keep the Rue de Rivoli in Paris during fashion week. However, the advent of photography "street style" has somewhat changed.





With its cut blonde tomboy and her androgynous figure, Kate Lanphear has indeed not left indifferent photographers - amateur or not - regularly attending events around the mode, looking for looks strong. Admittedly, his style grunge finely the halo of a rare elegance, while the androgyny of her outfits underlines its fragile femininity.

Lanphear also consists of its looks with such precision - near-perfect dark minimalist chic - that it's hard to imagine that he could one day be otherwise. However, before the woman whose photographs raise a plethora of rave reviews, Kate had the strength to impose his style, both within his family and professional ...

Born into a Catholic family of Irish origin, Kate grew up with a sister she defines as a pure "American Girl", not by swearing that Abercrombie jeans and Old Navy sweatshirts, and a mother enamored of twin-sets and coordinated outfits. The family must then attach to the bag with his shoes ...

For her part, Kate covers the walls of his room posters of Axl Rose and begs his mother to buy her ultra skinny jeans bleached with acid. Once obtained, it is quick to support them in shapeless boots and a leather jacket max. No resemblance to that of preppy teens of Virginia, draws his young hard rocker did not go unnoticed ...


Once in New York, Kate landed a job as an assistant in a fashion magazine. Soon, the "pressure dress" is colossal. She tries to get into the mold by trying to adopt the style of the girl of the moment, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. The operation was a total fiasco: Kate feels horribly disguised ...

One day, however, the turning of a vintage shop, she comes across one of those famous skinny jeans "Acid Wash". She saw the "reunion" as a revelation and decides to reconnect with the slims of his adolescence. Kate finds its style and began gradually to assume full ...


So when it landed an interview for a position of "fashion editor", she goes ultra bleached denim, and transgressing the unwritten dress code of the environment. This does not however prevent him to win the job, her confidence with a hit to the editor ...

Kate Lanphear then understand that what is important in style does not match the standard, but rather to agree with yourself (even if at family gatherings at Aunt Bunny, she prefers to opt for a look wiser leaving his studs in New York ...).


In everyday life, Kate has become an unconditional jackets Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga shoes, and a devoted cult following at Givenchy and Alaia. This does not prevent him from creating his pieces decorate T-shirts loose, and jewels of skinny where the nails, leather and spikes have the spotlight.

We are left to wait in February and early again for fashion weeks - through pictures of Jak & Jil, or Sartorialist - take some lessons in style with the Kate frail. Unless you prefer simply to follow his advice to the letter: "That's the thing about fashion: You Can use it to hide, But It's only magic When you use it to express Who You Really Are" ...

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