When Kate Moss attended the Glastonbury Festival earlier in the year wearing delicately beaded capelets and boleros, we suggested that a 20s/30s vintage revival was on the way. It took a little longer to catch on than the PVC pants did, but the renaissance we predicted is finally here.
Kate continues to be the main driver of the trend, pushing it through her Topshop collection, and most recently starring in a photoshoot for December Vogue UK styled with hat tipped to the same era.
Kate Moss in December Vogue; Kate Moss for Topshop beaded flapper dresses and cape; The Great Gatsby; Coco Chanel.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.