The Museum of Textiles is poised to open a silk museum and lend select treasures from its vast silk collection.
Along with crimped hair, Friday's show offered tulip skirts splitting open over silk trousers, sheer blouses over bras, and an organza dress with not one pouf but two — right around your waist.
But although all of her styles have a braided rope sole ("That's what makes it an espadrille," she said) and most have canvas uppers, she said she was open to silk, to wedge heels ("as long as they're comfortable") and even to tiny floral prints.
"I know what this thing needs," she said, opening her silk shirt clear down to the sternum, the better to show off the necklace.
While I lie next to him, astounded by his presence still, he opens my silk robe and touches my cunt as if he were Adam just discovering Eve's pussy.
In Calcata, for example, it is bad luck to name a newborn girl Clarice after, in 1557, a 7-year-old of that name died a few weeks after opening the silk sack containing the Holy Foreskin.
Christof wore leather sandals, that white linen suit, and an open-collared silk shirt.
Karl Lagerfeld "Brittany" cotton-jersey bomber jacket: Was $365, Now $110; Tibi open-back silk crepe de chine jumpsuit: Was $495, Now $99; Finds "+ Italia Independent" round-frame metal sunglasses: Was $305, Now $61; MIH Jeans "The Breton" denim-paneled striped cotton top: Was $160, Now $80; Eugène Riconneaus "Inez" printed canvas sneakers: Was $310, Now $62.
My oldest item is probably a Spitalfields silk open robe from about 1770.
When Steve Navaro throws open the thick silk drapes framing the large windows in his Paris pied-à-terre, he enjoys a rare luxury in this tightly packed city: a lush garden.
