Author: Louis Dell'Olio

…………………PINK DENIM…….on the left…..worn by the outrageously beautiful DANIELLA…….She moved to Florida from Italy with her husband, and She has lived in Florida for years with her family. She sells upscale real estate…..She is wearing the 3/4 length pink denim jacket over a pink denim zip front dress…….On the right the SUPER MODEL….YASMEEN….wearing a button front denim jacket with a white cotton shirt, a pink T shirt and a white denim short skirt………”PRETTY IN PINK”

………………..The PERFECT LIME………..On the left, on Ludmila, is the Lime silk BIG SHIRT tied at the waist, and worn over a white T shirt and a Lime Denim short skirt……At the top center the Lime zip front denim dress……and on the extreme right….Christy is wearing a Lime denim jacket with custom GOLD BUTTONS…….and a white shirt over a Lime cotton T shirt. White slim jeans finishes the outfit…………..LIME………….TART & TANGY.

………………..The Pink, Lime, & Apricot Leather….mixed with Denim, and Boucle….These colors came from the tweeds I developed in France, and I had the solid colors dyed in a variety of fabrics…..LEATHER…..STRETCH DENIM…..WOOL CREPE….SOLID BOUCLE……SILK…and KNIT WEAR……..From left to right…..The Pink leather 3/4 zip front, jewel neck jacket worn with a pink leather zip front weskit, and a pink boucle skirt……A Lime leather zip front , short fitted jacket with the Lime leather weskit….worn over a white T shirt and a white DENIM SKIRT………The Apricot short leather zip front jacket with the Apricot leather weskit, white T shirt…all with Apricot denim jeans…..All of the elements could be dressed up or worn for casual suiting…covering everyone’s lifestyle.

……………..Since Spring is quickly transitioning to summer, only days away, I thought it would be fun to post a retrospective of my second to last Spring collection I did for Anne Klein…This Spring 1992 collection was especially fun to do……Developing the special tweeds in France was like working in a candy store……Tissage Des Chaumes opened their business in 1908, and were known for their fancy tweeds. Chanel was one of their main customers. The main buildings were two stories tall, long and made entirely of wood. I remember thinking it was like a set from “Taming of the Shrew”, when Burton was chasing Liz from room to room in these old wooden building. There were rows and rows of different types and colors of yarn in tall wooden bins. It was a rainbow of yarns….They had rows of large OLD wooden hand looms that they made many of their fabrics upon. I would select a combination of yarns and they had them quickly put on a small loom to give me an idea of what the combination would look like. We worked on many ideas, patterns and weaves….If I liked it we would continue with other color combinations. They then made “blankets” like a patch work of different combinations for me to choose from. Each patch work was numbered and these blankets were sent to NY for me to select from. I built most of the 1992 Spring collection around these tweeds…..I even did a denim and leather group in these colors.  The factory was on the border of France and Belgium and we had to fly there…..I also remember thinking it looked more Flemish than French……..like an old master’s painting……The following posts to come are from my “1992 ANNE KLEIN LOOK BOOK”.

……………….Happy Father’s Day in Heaven Dad…………..I love the picture of my Dad on the far left when he was in his 20s. I never saw my father with hair on his head!…..and he had a lot of it!!….When I was in my 20s I had the same head of hair!…Knowing my father, and what a dandy he was, losing his hair must have been hard for him…….The three photos on the right are of my dad, my mother and my two older brothers…..Mauro the oldest, and John…The two photos on the left are  of me and my dad….what geek!……My mother was the love of his life, and he pursued her and pursued her until she said YES!…..My father loved music, and had an enormous record collection, which no one seems to know what happened to? He had well over 1000 albums……Every night, after dinner, he would go down to our finished basement, and listen to his music and have a drink…….Sometimes I would join him, and he would give me a cordial glass of Raspberry Liquor! I loved it, and still do…..My father wasn’t a very huggy kissy type of person, which was strange, because his father was the opposite. My grandfather would always give us bear hugs and smother us in kisses………but………the important thing was that I always knew he loved me, and when I got older and was on my own……I knew he respected me……He had a long good life, and passed away at the age of 95….less than two weeks after my mom passed away…..Have a wonderful Father’s Day in Heaven Dad!!! I’m sure you are giving Mom lots of bear hugs and smothering her in kisses.