{"id":13223,"date":"2011-11-14T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=13223"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:23:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T03:23:36","slug":"nicholas-kirkwood-should-read-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/nicholas-kirkwood-should-read-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Kirkwood Should Read My Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demure is back for fall and spring, declared Christina Binkley in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204190704577024253035434304.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Housewives<\/a>,&#8221; the lead story in the Off Duty section of the weekend&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. &#8220;The most startling thing about women&#8217;s fashion right right now is how perfectly not-startling it is,&#8221; Binkley wrote. &#8220;June Cleaver would approve: skirts swish about the shins, necklines are coy and heels are slim and ladylike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story said that even Nicholas Kirkwood, the British shoe designer known for shoes that look like weapons, has traded details like brass spikes for flowers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13224\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upscalehype.com\/2010\/04\/kim-kardashian-in-nicholas-kirkwood-x-rodarte-pumps-hermes-bag-and-ciara-in-christian-louboutin-booties\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13224  \" title=\"nicholas_kirkwood_shoe_2\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nicholas_kirkwood_shoe_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nicholas_kirkwood_shoe_2.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nicholas_kirkwood_shoe_2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From 2010: Spiked Nicholas Kirkwood x Rodarte shoes. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13225\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashionologie.com\/Nicholas-Kirkwood-Spring-2012-19821257\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13225\" title=\"shoerose\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shoerose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shoerose.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shoerose-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Spring 2012: Kirkwood&#39;s Floral Sketch Slingback. From Fashionologie. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Binkley wrote of Kirkwood:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;He once pledged to never, ever &#8216;plonk&#8217; a bow on a shoe. For spring, he has placed a crisp satin bow on a heel strap. &#8216;Never say never,&#8217; he sighed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poor Kirkwood! If he had read my blog, he would have known that committing to &#8220;never&#8221; is the same as saying &#8220;definitely.&#8221; Why? Because <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/never-is-the-next-new-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Never is the Next New Thing\u2122<\/a>! It&#8217;s the nature of fashion to turn the despised into the desired.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I am gripped by the fear that this trend will somehow manifest itself on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jersey_Shore_%28TV_series%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jersey Shore<\/em><\/a>. What if Snooki learns to cover her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1648667\/jersey-shore-high-five-snooki-doles-out-oneliners.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">cuca<\/a>? What if Deena stops dancing her &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/09\/15\/deena-dances-her-panties-off-jersey-shore-video_n_963851.html\" target=\"_blank\">underwears<\/a>&#8221; off? Whatever you do, don&#8217;t say that such unlkely things can &#8220;never&#8221; happen &#8212; a demure <em>Jersey Shore<\/em> is a sign of impending apocalypse! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demure is back for fall and spring, declared Christina Binkley in &#8220;The Real Housewives,&#8221; the lead story in the Off Duty section of the weekend&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. &#8220;The most startling thing about women&#8217;s fashion right right now is how perfectly not-startling it is,&#8221; Binkley wrote. &#8220;June Cleaver would approve: skirts swish about the shins,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/nicholas-kirkwood-should-read-my-blog\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[565,49,479,31,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion-shows","8":"category-in-the-news","9":"category-never-is-the-next-new-thing","10":"category-shoes","11":"category-tv","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13238,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions\/13238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}