more tees

I saw this shirt at Barneys the other day when I went to see if they still had the Alexander Wang goddess dress (they didn't). I just wanted to see the object of so much worship and longing sighs in the cloth. I have to admit though, I too am under the dress' trance.
While I was there, I noticed this Rogan top among their "Barneys exclusives."

There's something distinctly trashy about wearing a shirt with mesh side panels - or at least something very Eurotrash about it. I remember seeing an SNL skit (dear god) years and years ago that had some bit about how sexually off-putting mesh shirts are. Nonetheless, I find this shirt oddly attractive. Actually, given my taste for sheer fabrics and open weaving, the attraction would seem obvious.


I also noticed while on Oak (and also Revolve) a couple of royal/lapis blue shirts that I'm quite fond of by Kain. Of course, it being Oak, the models are contorting themselves and throwing their hair around and not necessarily showing off all of the different angles of the items.

I don't normally wear much blue but I rather like these. Probably because the blue is so intense and rich. They're still available at Revolve, and probably a few more places. The alternative of course, is American Apparel, but they don't seem to have any tanks or sheer burnout tees in lapis. Of course, maybe I just like these tees because they're the closest thing to Yves Klein Blue available.

American Apparel Deep V Neck and Yves Klein's Victory of Samothrace (which I think I saw at the Reina Sofia)

I had a drunken conversation at Socialista (back in the day, obviously) with a girl who had majored in Art History and whose favorite artist is Yves Klein. At the time I thought she was just needlessly pretentious and wrote her off completely, but the more I look at it, the more I have to admit the appeal of the color. I can never really come to a satisfactory explanation of why he limited himself to blue - rather than pink or gold, his other two favored hues - but it apparently has something to do with the Virgin Mary (understandably - blue pigment, being the most expensive in the Medieval period was reserved for her robes), impregnation, and, according to this equally drunk Art History chick, something about being the distillate of the color of pure, sublime happiness. In any event, there is something undeniably compelling about the color, and I would assume that somewhere it's still available for purchase (though I haven't had any success with my superficial Googling). I will admit that I've always hoped Chanel (or someone) would issue a limited edition IKB (International Klein Blue) nail polish. If I was their director of cosmetics we certainly would.

P.S. As mentioned in the Wikipedia article, computer screens can't display true IKB, so the photo is only an approximation.

sources: barneys, oak, american apparel, yvesklein.de