Pretty Ugly

No mask needed!
Ajuma Nasanyana at Victoria’s Secret. All photos via nymag.com.
Alexandra Agoston at Jean Paul Gaultier.
Alexandra Tomlinson at Sue Stemp.
Alexandra Tretter at John Galliano.
Aminata Niaria at Proenza Schouler.
Ania Trublaska at Ossie Clark.
Anna Selezneva at Diesel.
Anna Selezneva at Yves Saint Laurent.
Anne Vyalitsyna at Moschino Cheap & Chic.
Anne Vyalitsyna at Nicole Miller.
Backstage at Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.
Bette Franke at Christian Dior.
Coco Rocha at Zac Posen.
Dazed & Confused, December 2007.
Edita Vilkeviciute at Lanvin.
French Vogue, December 2000.
Suvi Koponen at Dolce & Gabbana.
Tanya Dziahileva at Dior.
Taryn Davidson in an Italian Marie Claire, October 2008.
Tasha Tilberg at Viktor & Rolf.
Tatyana Usova at Badgley Mischka.
Toni Garrn and Karlie Kloss at Marni.
Velvet, January 2009.
Vlada Roslyakova at Alexander McQueen.
Yulia Kharlapanova at Dries van Noten.
Happy Halloween, darlings!
xoxox,
CC
P.S. CC is in NYC with DG so won't be commenting this weekend, but promises to get back to you on Monday!

Head Games

With Halloween less than a week away, CC can’t help but post some of the costume-y runway looks of late. Today’s focus is the fantastical headdress. Even if you wouldn’t wear these feathered fripperies to the club, perhaps they can inform your Marie Antoinette costume?
At right, Daphne Guinness, courtesy Paul Pincus.
At left: a plumed headdress at Chanel.
Comme des Garçons' cottony pouf. Runway pics courtesy style.com except where noted.
John Galliano (at right and next three, below)


Gloria Swanson, photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair, 1924.
Junya Watanabe cornucopias, via nytimes.com.
CC loves Hussein Chalayan’s angular net headdresses!
Photo trio courtesy zimbio.com.

At Ralph Lauren’s Spring 2009 show, the turban was all the raj!

Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair to benefit Village Care of New York in May 2008.

These three photos via fashionwiredaily.com.

CC leaves you on this somewhat dreary Saturday with a gorgeous, inspired collage by Fellow Fashionista Neon Stilettos.