Oh, what fun!! Great fantasies, Angie.

I’m not asking for much, just a Chanel suit, in cream or black. Oh, and a trip to New York to buy it! Followed by dinner out at a fabulous restaurant so I could wear the suit. Oh, and I’ll need shoes …

I can see how this fantasy thing could snowball!

And as the mom of two little boys, I can only dream that Angie would be a baby wear buyer for Gap (particularly for boys. It is so challenging to find cute boy clothes). I join you in this fantasy!

You fantasies are so fun. Here are a few of mine, not as exciting:
- Meet Manolo Blahnik and get to pick out 20 pairs of shoe perfections from his collections.
- Make my own clothes (I know it’s not that glamorous, but I hate when I want to have a certain piece of clothing, and no store is selling that)
- Meet Anna Wintour. Yes, the Anna Wintour. She seems so cool, composed and remote, and I would love to spend some time with her and see how she does it.
And my biggest fantasy is:
- to be able to wear whatever I want without having to worry if it’s work appropriate etc.

This is pretty pragmatic for a fantasy, but fantasy it is, since we’ll never really know how these things happen:

To expand on Angie’s point, why some fashion trends catch fire and spread and some don’t, and how to know (not just guess) which will be which?

The psychology behind any individual fashion buying decision–how does any one consumer fall in love with a garment or accessory at retail and take it home, especially at full price?

I do have a full-blown fashion fantasy, which is to get my hands on (feet into) a pair of these ankle boots, which date from about 1815: http://www.songsmyth.com/actua.....fboot2.gif

I fantasize about standardized sizes!

- make and sell handbags from home (this is a new one, and I’m working on it!)
- work wardrobe full of st. john knit suits
- my own personal on-call cobbler (so many boot ideas, SO unwilling to pay $500+ per pair to bring them to life…)
- All Saints shopping spree!

I love your fantasies, Angie! Very fun post.
I would love to learn how to design clothes.
I would have a Greenglove line that catered to the artistic, eclectic and sometimes edgy customer. I would love unlimited access to all the textiles of the world and a top rate seamstress to make them. (I do not want to sew). I would attempt a timeless style that was not always influenced by the current trend although always stylish.

Have every Frye boot ever made and custom made cognac round toe funky pumps that were heeled, 12 hour shoes and were good for my back.
Have a custom made moto-jacket.

I also would love to meet Vera Wang and hope to be as stylish as she is at her age- I am getting close to being her age.

Angie- I had a foreign interior design student ( I cannot remember what country she came from) who had that Valentino bag in black. She dragged it around art classes as if it were any old bag. I asked her about. Her mother had sent it to her. Amazing.

- I, too am curious about who decided what trends will happen. Is there a secret clan somewhere that gets together and plots this all out?

– I’d like a personal stylist that will help me put together outfits for me every day. Every morning I stand in front of my closet and I shut down.

– I’d like to go back in time to when I had a personal style. I knew exactly what I liked, how to express myself and what I needed to pull it all off. There used to be a time when someone would hold up an article of clothing and say “this is so YOU”. That doesn’t happen anymore. I had a small, efficient wardrobe that expressed myself perfectly.

– I’d like garment manufacturers to make clothes for women like they do for men…various sleeve lengths, pants lengths available…who came up with the idea that all women have legs that are 28″ OR 32″. And all our arms are the same length? Oh, and I’d like them to start tacking down the facings inside shirts and jackets so they don’t flap out when I’m wearing them.

How fun to hear so many different takes on this question! Mine were much more industry related I guess because I’ve worked in the industry forever and have an inkling as to how it ticks.

Laura, I’ll add a Valentino frock to your fantasy list. I know you want to wear one at a carpet event

Danja, Anna Wintour intrigues me too. I’m definitely seeing that movie that is about to come out with her in it (“The September Issue”). Love the fantasy about wearing what you want to work!I’d also like to design a line of one to two inch heeled shoes that look fabulous and are extremely comfortable.

Greenglove, nice list! As for your art student who carries around a $3000 hand bag – WOW.

What a great idea! I am sure I will think of more later on today.

I would love to go back in time and spend time with movie costume designer Edith Head. I love the looks she put together for Hollywood.

Have a FAB signature bag. Something classic that would last the rest of my life but also be perfectly stylish and up to date forever. Hermes?

What an awesome blog post! As being a fashion designer is my dream, I have so many (and that’s probably not even all of them):

-Meet Alexander Mcqueen, Karl Lagerfield, John Galliano Azzedine Alaia and the Mulleavy sisters. I’d love to get to know them, and learn about their design process and how they got to where they are. Of course, front row seats to all their shows and perhaps and internship?

-Have lunch with Christian Louboutin in his palace and talk shoes

-Be able to afford all the silly designer stuff I could ever want! Even if I got fabulously rich that would probably never happen. ;p

-See a day in the life of Anna Wintour. I know about the movie The September Edition, but it would be so much more interesting to actually experience her life.

-I would also love to listen in on some trend forecasting. I’m sure there’s a lot of fascinating sociology and history that has to be taken into account.

-Wear clothes literally RIGHT off the runway

-Be the next big designer! My absolute dream is to be the next head of McQueen, Chanel, Rodarte or Galliano. And naturally have my own line as well!

What a great post. I don’t think I’d be able to answer that question now, though. I’ll have to really think about this. Haha.

One think is for sure, though, I’d love to meet Stella McCartney.

-meream

fantasies!
Here is the beginning of the list:

Produce a tightly edited capsule (5-7 pieces) collection every 6 months and sell it out every time!

Custom made shoes that give me some height, don’t hurt, and are good for my back.

Start an organization to increase the visibility of the middle-aged female consumer to designers, and retailers.

While I am at it I’ll take on the Petite-Plus consumer too!

Fund someone to make cute, not sleazy tweener girls clothes.

Can I add, to be rich and famous, but if I succeeded in all that I would be!

That is an incredibly beautiful bag. I rarely see a designer bag that would tempt me, but that one does. In red. Gorgeous.

I’ll have to think about my fashion fantasies! But access to the kind of affordable custom clothes-making and tailoring that I hear about people getting in Asia is pretty much most of it for me.

My fashion fantasies are similar to Marlene’s. Here’s my ‘list’ :

* I need someone to go shopping with me and help me figure out what looks good on my shape, with my colouring and so on. I wish I had a personal stylist.

* I’d also like the same thing re: hairstyle – it’d be nice if I felt like my stylist had some idea of what looks nice on my particular face shape and with my particular colouring. Wish my stylist would say something like, “You know what would look really fabulous on you? ” and the explain why he thinks this. I’d love to have that kind of expertise.

* I’d love to have some expert advice on what to buy now, at the tail end of my weight loss – which things to spend money on, and which things to wait on.

* A ‘therapist’ or ‘coach’ type of person who can get me out of my ‘fat head’ stuff – so I stop reaching for the too-large sizes in stores, and someone to blast me out of my Mom jeans and boxy polo shirts. It’s unnerving – I need someone to help me find a jolt of courage, and stop sticking to the same-old, plain-Jane basics all the time.

* Maybe a book or even a blog post that helps with these kinds of major changes. Yeah – I could use a manual or something – something called, “Now That You’ve Lost Weight…” or some such. How to tell when your clothes are getting too big, which things are still too small, how often to get re-fitted for a bra and so on.

* Ultimate fantasy? Ship me a bunch of clothes every few of weeks – picked out just for me, in the sizes that work – the best colours, with ‘outfit’ recommendations – what to wear with what. If I don’t like some of it, come and pick it up at my house when I phone the 24hr 800 number to say so. Send jewellery and accessories too. Based on what I keep and what I send back – build a style profile – and eventually tell me what you think my ’style’ is, and the shipments keep on getting better and better. Oh, and can you send someone over to ooh and ahh too?

Hmm…what else?

* When I pick up an item of clothing in the store – can it please flash at me the size I should try? Or maybe when I walk into a store – can I go through some sort of scanner thing that’ll tell me what size to buy in the different brands/items in said store? Furthermore – can this imaginary system recommend brands specifically for me?

If not so high-tech – can I get the same service in clothing stores as my husband does when he goes shopping for a suit? Someone to just handily come up and take all my measurements and start pulling out clothing for me? Ideally, this person would know what colours work for me as well, and offer up stunning accessories too.

That’s all – I don’t ask for much.

Fabulous question!! I’ve thought of this many times. I’ll ditto you on #1 – a front row seat at a Chanel show and a vintage Chanel anything would be awesome!!! I saw your Valentino bag in the new Neiman Marcus and remembered it from YLF

2. Taken from “What Not To Wear”. I’d love to be given $5000 to shop and a stylist to do it with! I’d spend it on really nice quality long lasting pieces. They also once did a $50,000 show in Paris for real designer wear! That’s my real fantasy – $50,000 and a trip to NY for me. I see Chanel, Manolo Blahnik, maybe a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes, 10-ply cashmere sweaters, leather boots as soft as butter, some gorgeous accessories like belts and scarves.
3. A Rachel Zoe type effort for a stylist to find me the perfect dress to wear to my son’s bar mitzvah (you can tell I watch a lot of fashion reality shows – guilty pleaure). I’m sure I could think of more, but I’ve got to get on with my day.

Thanks for putting a smile on my face Angie, by allowing me to fantasize about all this!

Having a personal stylist, shopper, tailor, hair dresser and make up artist on staff so that I always look my absolute best.

Having a computer program like Cher from “Clueless” to pick out my outfit combinations for the day – when my “staff” is off duty, of course ;o)

Own my very own Hermes Birkin Bag

No sizes – just magical one size fits all clothing!

Own a handbag and jewelry collection to rival Mariah Carey’s shoe collection!

To have a beautiful closet walk-in closet to rival Mariah’s Closet (can you tell I love her closet?)

Clearly, a shopping trip with Angie.

Also, a stylist to style my hair every morning. I would also love to learn how to design clothes as well and either have an excellent seamstress or magically be able to do it myself, perfectly. And that magical cobbler who can make any shoe comfortable.

And right now, I’d really love to have Heidi Klum’s Emmy’s black maternity dress and an occasion to wear it to.

I would love to:
own a simply fabulous wardrobe of clothing that was specificly designed for me….color, cut and style.

to get the European way of life….quality is better than quantity….into my closet. To own some truly timeless pieces of fashion art: a great trenchcoat, awesome heels, and a Vera Wang dress.

Mine are pretty simple. Like Maddy, I’ve always dreamt of a Hermes Birkin bag. My only other fashion fantasy is to be a personal shopper for 10 or so very wealthy women. I cannot even imagine being paid to shop. Now that’s a fantasy!!

Also, I’d also love better access (e.g. websites and low or no shipping costs) to fashion from other countries.

I’d like to be on What Not to Wear, or better yet, Trinny and Susannah’s new show, but I’d like it to be private and not aired on TV. (not do-able, but nice to fanasize about.)

I’d like to own fewer items, but have each item I do own be of the utmost quality and perfection of fit. (I’m working on this one. But $5000 coats aren’t in the budget.)

I’d like to own all the beautiful shoes I want and never feel guilty about it. (I’m pretty much there on this one.)

Hmm, well my first dream was a shopping day with Angie, and that came true!

I also have often wondered how trends come about. Do the designers meet in secret and discuss it over cocktails in an undisclosed location? It’s so strange how they always seem to be on the same wavelength.

My other dream, honestly, is to go back in time and change my major from graphic design to fashion marketing, which I almost did before school started. I regret not doing so now. Sigh.

I have no desire to meet any famous models or designers, although I think Michael Kors would make for lively conversation. I do want to meet Logan from the current season of Project Runway because like every other girl in the world, I think he is cuter than cute. And talented too.

Last: I want to find a magical place where I can take any pair of shoes I want and they will wave a wand and turn them into 12 hour walking shoes.

I second the tea/coffee cake and shopping with Angie

I would love front row at Chanel w/Angie

Mailee and I could hang with Christian Louboutin..and get a free pair!!

I would do Velvety Choc’s hair and she would feel like a million dollars

Hang with Danja at Manolos’.. and shoe shop together

Shop every designer for the perfect bag

Find the perfect 12 hour shoe for Maya..in every color:)

Angie-did you happen to catch the story about Mickey on CBS Sunday Morning a few months back? If not, you can catch it here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....3538.shtml

My fantasy involves a Chanel J12 white ceraamic watch, which I came dangerously close to purchasing while on vacation in Hawaii. I couldn’t justify the splurge though. Good thing there isn’t a Chanel store in Seattle because that would make it much harder to resist

Oh, I’m loving this blog and all of the subsequent posts.

Considering this is fantasy, I would move back in time to witness one of the meetings and fittings which took place with the ateliers at Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn.

I would by some means manage to purchase the Chanel dress I saw as a teenager which first triggered my interest in fashion. The dress was ankle length, the palest pink and had the most beautiful coloured flowers scattered over it, the spaghetti straps where made of strings of knotted cream pearls.

Finally, I would be involved in the reinvention of a classic British brand, even if I was only making the tea, to see the transformation of the next Burberry or Pringle of Scotland would be an experience worth more than money.

*happy sigh*

i would want to have Carrie’s clothes on Sex in the City – and be able to wear them with complete cool, just like she does! And, if the body came with it, that would be even better!

I’d love to be able to just buy good quality clothing when ever I want. I almost always shop at the Gap, Zara or H&M (and almost all my daughter’s clothing comes from Baby Gap — can’t go wrong there!) I would like to buy designer clothes if I wanted to without thinking of a budget or anything like that. That would be nice.

I suppose that would have to come with a babysitter for my daughter though She is fine when we’re shopping for her, but it seems as soon as I walk into an adult store she flips out

I love reading these and would join in many of the fantasies expressed. I’d also like to be able to influence the general public to take more pride in how they look (grooming, fit, etc.) and discourage sloppy dressing and wearing only super casual to everything.
Like others, my favorite fantasy is to shop with Angie and have her go through my closet so she can tell me what I should be wearing, what works for me and what doesn’t.

Great post. I’d have to agree with you on your first fantasy: Experiencing a Chanel fashion show in Paris, then visiting Coco’s apartment. I’d also die to see a Marc Jacobs show in NYC; do a photo shoot with Juergen Teller; and I dream of someday doing original photo shoots for my blog with the fashions I write about, possibly recruiting other bloggers as models.

Oooh – I have one more:

I wish that all the petite, plus and ‘regular’ clothes were all in the same stores and not in a separate section either. It would be fun to shop with my plus-sized Mom, my petite Grandma and so on, without having to split up and go off into different areas of the store, or to a different store altogether.

I used to wish that I would selected to be on What Not to Wear…I just wanted Stacey and Clinton to wisk me to NYC give me $5,000 and tell me what to get. But then….I found YLF! I really feel that Angie’s blogs are fashion education. I am really having fun and putting time into my personal style. I haven’t felt the excitment for “shopping” since high school. So this is my fantasy….lots of dough, lots of time to shop and a more coat hangers.

I have one more too:

I forgot to add that I would love to shop Kate Moss’s closet…she has some things I would like to add to my own .:)

No offense but “Twiggy and Kate Moss”? Twiggy and Kate Moss?!!

Oh my oh my – i’m so with you in the front row of the Chanel show – it’s going to be a big front row, from all these posts!
Custom made really beautiful shoes, that felt and looked incredible – pairs for every outfit.
Time to make more clothes for myself, instead of always for others, and fabulous fabric stores right around the corner instead of hours drives away.
Cute, edgy, lovely interesting clothes in my size (why are don’t they know us “real size” girls like interesting, etc stuff too and are NOT size 0 – and we have $$ and will pay for stuff that makes us feel good)
But on the other hand, I’d certainly not turn away the $5,000 card and a stylist.
And an incredible haircut, that’s the biggest item – how do you find that??
Thanks for the fun today Angie !!

What a fun post, Angie! I would love to see all your fantasies come true!

As for my fashion fantasy, I would love to have an occasion to wear a fancy ball gown at least twice a year. Whenever we watch the Oscars, I’m always a bit bummed that we have so few places to wear ball gowns and tuxes these days.

Have you told your darling Greg about that Valentino bag?

i guess mine would be a simple Fashion makeover. i am sooooo stuck in a kinda Gothic Victororian-ish way of dressing and really don’t know how to break away from it.

i just opened a Photobucket acct and hope to be posting some pics for fashion advice…..

i do fancy the waaaay out avant-garde, over-the-top, wild and creative pieces i see in some of the fashion shows that i watch on both t.v. and internet….i guess it is the artist in me.

Great post. Mine are as follows:

** Stealing from someone else, I would love to have met and talked to Edith Head.
** All my shoes and boots are custom-made. That way, I can have knee length boots that fit my calves, toe boxes that cradle my bunion, and the right width.
** I would love to have the figure to wear an Isabel Toledo jersey dress.
** Meeting Isabel and Ruben Toledo and spending a day in their workshop. I am a sewer and I’ve seen her dresses up close and I want to find out how she gets such flawless hems on that jersey.
** I would love to have a Rolex watch.
** A whole wardrobe of Prada

Mine are:

- have my own hair stylist who visits every morning to do my hair (and repeats in the evening if necessary).

- have a pair of shoes made for me

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I would love for Angie to come over to my house and put together loads of perfect outfits from the items in my closet, and take photos of all the combinations to put in a 3-ring binder so I can pick out something to wear in mere seconds!

I would love a huge walk in closet, so I can keep all my items together rather than spread out in 3 closets.

Oh…custom made shoes sounds lovely too.

A hairstylist at my house every morning like many of you already mentioned.

I’d like to feel that I had a sense of style in the first place. Lately I just feel frumpy and depressed about everything in my closet, and looking at the clothes on offer makes me even more depressed! I don’t like *anything*, not even the stuff that’s way out of my price range! I’ve needed some new pieces for a couple of years now but just can’t find anything I am willing to spend money on.

As a very plus size woman (size 24) I’d like to feel that I was actively being catered to by fashion designers, rather than being an afterthought or barely tolerated. There has been a lot of progress in this area but I still feel marginalized by the fashion world.

I wish there was a low-cost retailer selling throwaway trends that catered to us poverty-stricken large women (sort of like a plus-size Primark). Sometimes there are trendy things that I think would be fun to wear for a while but I wouldn’t be willing to spend a lot of money on them, because I am an unemployed graduate student and I have an extremely limited amount of money to spend on clothes. But it would be nice to be able to update with silly trends every once in a while.