Guest Curator Feature On FashionStake.com

I had the unique pleasure of being chosen as a featured Guest Curator on online shopping start-up FashionStake.com! As an independent designer and inherent techie, I was immediately drawn to the site not only for their support of new designers, but also the innovative way they operate. Instead of faceless buyers deciding on what they think shoppers would like, users are invited to vote on a wide range of carefully selected pieces. The highest rated pieces are then featured in their "Crowd-Favorites," and users are rewarded if they choose correctly. Top style sites like Lookbook.nu and Chictopia understand the power of user interaction, and it's fantastic to see a beautifully curated shopping destination harnessing that power while introducing fashion's freshest faces.

I particularly like their choice of words to describe me in the banners and preview text, appeals to my dark soul.

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Nicolas Kirkwood Creates Keith Haring Shoe Collection

As respected, revered and repeated as Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat, artist Keith Haring's work has continued to grace us decades after the activist and pop graffiti artist's passing due to AIDs in 1990. His latest art/fashion straddling latest was created by shoe designer and Rodarte darling Nicolas Kirkwood. The English designer takes Haring's iconic interconnected patterns and figures and infuses them with both architectural and humorous shoe designs (knee-high roller skates anyone?).

The artist painting one of his signature patterns

Online fashion, arts and culture site Nowness conducted an interview with Kirkwood about Haring's influence and bringing his work to footwear.

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LOVE / LUST: Stacked Rainbow Platforms x Stud Saturated Boots

LOVE:

Jeffrey Campbell Groovie Stacked Rainbow Platforms - $184.95, Solestruck

Oh Jeffrey, you never miss a beat. Instead of making another made-for-the-masses designer knockoff from the latest season, Campbell went all the way back to 1938, recreating a Ferragamo design made for Judy Garland. While the design may not be as famous as Garland's ruby red slippers rom the Wizard of Oz, the originals were still celebrated in an archival installation last year. I'm torn between Campbell's replicas and the Chica rainbow platforms, which is better?

The $2,500 original (obviously the best). I initially thought they were painted wood platforms, but they're actually wrapped in dyed suede. So posh!

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