Apparently America is snapping up the new Target line "by" Jean Paul Gaultier, with Target reporting out of stock warnings on various pieces of the slatternly ensemble items. But my fave, the conceptual "Look #4," is still available! It's sort of saucy in that "just popping out for a baguette and some antibiotics" way. TURNS OUT it's really cute if you coat it and belt it??
IF YOU LIKE IT THEN PUT A COAT-BELT ON IT. Or just a super-crop motorcycle half-jacket, like Gloria Estefan is getting set to hang out with a gang of hardcore Korean drifting enthusiasts!
I WANT TO EAT THAT DRESS ALKSFHLSFKHLKSFHLKFSHSLKh
That picture makes me practically taste the yeast infection...
SCENE REPORT: These items did not look as good on the racks as they do here.
I AM ABOUT TO BUY THE GREEN SCHMATTA, IS THIS A MISTAKE?
only if you wear it
Jolie, I don't know you but I beg you not to do it. That dress is deceptive - I guarantee you that it's one of those things that you think is going to be slinky and vintage, and then you touch it and it's that stiff poly blend like those dresses they sell at street fairs. Except it won't smell like patchouli, which is certainly a plus.
Agree with Mallory, Jolie. I went to target.com yesterday all excited to buy me some Gaultier, and every single comment said something like "cute design, material is shoddy and plastic." And it probably smells like petroleum product, only slightly up the aroma ladder from patchouli...
I was just at Target (Atlantic Center has plenty of Gautier in stock fyi)and this dress is crap. Granted, I don't think anything pink cocktails will stain it, the polka dots don't line up in a distracting way, and you will be cold on top, sweaty and clingy on the bottom. Plus, the whole collection is in juniors sizes.
All of the "high_end-designer" for Target clothes are like that, really crappy fabric and construction.
Kitten: I think that is true now, but some of the earlier collections were fantastic - the Luella Bartley, Temperley, Proenza and Patrick Robinson stuff was all well made and featured plenty of natural fibers. Over time, the price point has come up and the quality way, way down.
I still wear the two Temperley dresses I bought years ago -- the waffle-knit empire waist one is a fave of mine! And I love the fake leopard-skin Proenza Schouler jacket that I picked up back in the day.
A few months ago I picked up one of the Anna Sui dresses and while it's cute, there's definitely a difference in quality between it and the similarly styled one by Temperley.
I bought a miley cyrus top at Walmart for $3. I wear it all the time because it is awesome.
Maura, I have a black 3/4-length sleeve funnel-neck Persian lamb coat from the very first Isaac Mizrahi collection for Target. People run across streets to ask where I got it. Those days are gone.
And Carpet, I say you better WERQ (to quote my most flamboyant stylist friend) that Miley top! (double snap in a "z" shape)
I bought a $50 brown suede Mizrahi for Target jacket and a purple print Proenza for Target dress 7 or 8 years ago. Both still look awesome, but I still covet both the lamb coat and the Miley shirt. Maybe people sell the old Target stuff on eBay?
'Some Items Pictured May...'
1)Disintegrate after four washes.
2)Retain the slightly sweet scent of the sweat of Indochinese labor.
3)Not be suitable for use in public.
Is it me or does that white model look like Gaultier? She has that blond flat-top hairdo he had in the 80s.
My wife peed her pants the other day when she found out that Target are doing a line of Liberty products. Be a lot cheaper than taking her to London to drool over things we can't afford.
She can start with some new pants.
Where the hell is the betagged MHKC? Can the Awl suddenly no longer afford to not pay their interns?
This is a question in dire need of an answer.
Can we talk about Look #1? The last time I saw someone dressed like that I was in a Mexican nightclub. Which means it might be... EXACTLY what we need to usher in spring?
So...did that third model ride a motorcycle to the pool at the Senior Center or what?
Barbie. Barbie. Black Barbie.
I never would have thought that I'd see somebody one-up Dov Charney so well, and I never would have thought that somebody would be the place where my grandmother buys her Cherokee ("It's a brand name, you know!") skorts.