OK,
there
was a
lot that
we have
to dish
about
...
especially
when it
comes to
fashion
trends
in 2008.
I'm not
sure
we're
talking
about
the
greatest
year
when it
comes to
setting
the
world on
fire
style-wise,
but
there
were
some
interesting
developments
that
caught
the
attention
of our
pop-culture
crazed
society.
Here are
my picks
for the
"most-significant"
trends
that hit
the
fashion
radar;
you be
the
judge of
the
"best
and the
worst!"
— The
Death of
Yves
Saint
Laurent:
To a
fashion
follower,
the
initials
YSL were
the
equivalent
of the
height
of
fashion.
If you
owned a
piece of
his
inspired
clothing,
it was a
collectible
— you
never
culled
it from
your
closet.
Even
thought
I only
owned a
jacket
from his
"Rive
Gauche"
label, I
always
admired
the man
behind
the
Paris
runway
models
who year
after
year
presented
his
sophisticated
uniforms,
which
brought
him
international
fame.
His
answer
to a
question
in 1968
summed
it up:
"What
item of
clothing
would
you like
to see
represent
your
work in
the
Costume
Museum?"
His
reply:
"A pair
of pants
with a
safari
jacket."
— "Sex
in the
City,
The
Movie":
Yes, the
fashion
was
incredible
with
hundreds
of
wardrobe
changes
for the
girls we
had
grown to
love in
the HBO
series:
Carrie,
Samantha,
Charlotte
and
Miranda.
The
movie
brought
us even
closer
to the
real
fashion
lives of
all our
favorite
characters.
There
was
something
to love
(and
want to
wear)
from all
of them,
even if
it was a
Maggie
London
dress
($170)
that
Miranda
wore in
one of
the
street
scenes.
My
favorite
"takeaway"
from
Sarah
Jessica
Parker —
her love
of
mixing
vintage
bargains
with
designer
finds; a
real
creative
fashionista.
— It's
the
Economy,
Stupid:
There's
an old
fashion
adage
that
when the
stock
market
dips so
do the
hemlines.
And,
yes, we
had a
few
designers
who
tried to
make the
longer
maxi
skirts
work.
But
thank
goodness,
most of
us
didn't
go for
the low,
low,
low.
While
miniskirts
weren't
on the
rise,
either,
we're
still
optimistic.
The most
popular
hemline
this
year?
Right
below
the
knee.
How's
that for
taking
the
middle-of-the-road
trend?
— Sarah
Palin:
How many
times
did
public
relations
companies
call me
wanting
me to
write
about
"the
glasses"?
And how
many
times
did I
try to
ignore
the
hoopla
about
the
superficial
fashion
trademarks,
hoping
that
there
was
something
more to
the
whole
package
besides
the
"hockey
mom"
exterior
with
blinking
eyes
that
might
someday
actually
be in
line to
run our
country's
government?
—
Michelle
Obama:
How
about a
"real"
woman
who
steals
the show
in
simple
yet chic
clothes
that we
wish we
all
could
wear?
We're
talking
someone
who's
not
afraid
to wear
color
and
those
little
sheath
dresses
— don't
we wish
we all
had
those
arms?
Obama's
claim to
fashion
fame
lies in
the next
few
years
ahead,
but
we're
thinking
she's
out to
"change"
the
scene
for the
better.
— Hannah
Montana,
Britney,
Oprah,
etc.:
Celebrities
have
always
had a
special
place in
our
hearts
when it
comes to
what
they
wear.
After
all,
some of
us tend
to
emulate
them and
think
that if
we bare
our
bellies
or
jingle
our
bells,
then we
too will
be
famous
...
well,
you'll
become
well-known
for all
the
wrong
reasons.
Unless
you're
under
the age
of 13,
you
should
care
less
about
what
Hannah
Montana
wears.
And if
you're
over the
age of
50, then
you
should
relish
in the
thought
that
Oprah
loses
weight
and
gains
weight —
and,
hey, she
still
looks
great in
her
clothes.
Sharon
Mosley
is a
former
fashion
editor
of the
Arkansas
Gazette
in
Little
Rock and
executive
director
of the
Fashion
Editors
and
Reporters
Association.
To find
out more
about
Sharon
Mosley
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