Celine pre-fall 2013 is a combination of beautiful lines and and an interesting play on proportions, luxe fabrics and
a gamine look that is sober but playful.
Filmed in 1961 it displays the styles prevalent proper to the more simplistic
gamine look of the later decade.
I like
the gamine look, as sported by Audrey Hepburn, and I'm forever buying tops and dresses with Peter Pan collars.
Not exact matches
, such a magnificent jacket, and you
look particularly adorable wearing this
gamine - style outfit!
I'd wear them with cigarette pants or (if allowed by my office) ankle - length pants, for a
gamine, Audrey Hepburn-esque
look.
Instead of my typical modus operandi of buying 3 scoop neck t - shirts in different colors, I intentionally
looked for tops that were either iconic «
gamine»
looks or had a distinguishing «chic» detail or feel to it.
I
looked for styles or cuts that supported my «Chic» and «
Gamine» theme.
Bernard Buffet, for instance, has long been held up as the lowest common denominator in French painting, but, as the current exhibition «Cher Peintre: Painting the Figure since Late Picabia» reveals, a lineup of Buffet's anguished stick figures and sloe - eyed
gamines can
look quite marvelous in the company of Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin.