OBSEDIA

Tisci you’re killing me. Givenchy’s new OBSEDIA will be available in February 2011 (just in time for my birthday…) and my palms are already itching to hold it. It’s a little less 30-something career woman than the darling Celine box bag and more early 20’s trophy wife in training on the prowl and I LOVE it.

Now, to find a suitable well-suited suitor to arrange the finances and get this baby clutched.

CARRY ON

Searching for a carry-on luggage alternative to the standard rolley bag for the imminent Euro trip, I’ve chanced upon the holy grail. Putting all sacks of backpack style to shame, the GIVENCHY NEOPRENE NIGHTINGALE TROLLEY is finally materialising in stores after being the biggest tease in the collection shots that were released late last year.

Okay so the bad news. Money isn’t an issue; I got a shiny new credit card in the mail today. The problem? The bag is only available from late October. Perfect timing for me to return home to Sydney with an empty wallet and an ugly carry-on companion full of pretty items that aren’t THIS.

Image from L’INDE STORE. If you want you can buy it at that link too, but I’ll probably hate you.

LEONOR SCHERRER

“Death has become banal,” proclaims Leonor Scherrer, the daughter of the French couturier Jean-Louis Scherrer and the mind behind one of the ghastliest start-ups since the Grim Reaper: Leonor Funeral Couture.

Scherrer is building a fashion line to outfit the bereaved that harks back to a time when “a widow’s mourning dress was closely observed,” as in Goya’s painting of the Duchess of Alba. Her line even comes complete with its own fragrance, Maximilia, named after Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish friar who took the place of a condemned man at Auschwitz.

Scherrer’s lavish youth is a roman à clef waiting to happen: Catholic school, a caretaker named Guigui, her father’s boutique on the Avenue Montaigne, which, she notes, was once called “L’Allée des Veuves” or “Widows’ Way.” Lately, she’s been dabbling in music, and one of the tracks off her forthcoming album is a cover of Schubert’s “Death and The Maiden.”

Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci digs the six-feet-under-obsessed Scherrer, featuring her in a recent ad campaign. “I’m completely in love with her,” he told Women’s Wear Daily. “For me, she represents France in all senses: the elegance, the aristocracy” — and, évidemment — “the darkness.”

–Taken from T MAGAZINE, written by Stephen Heyman.

Pictures – tfs