When Spring begins in Pittsburgh it feels like the city has woken up with a really ugly hangover. The potholes are miles deep, getting deeper, and spewing out bits of loose asphalt for months before winter's bad decisions have been forgotten for good. The days are warmer and longer and so there's this feeling of hope and everyone's smiling and saying things like "The sunshine today turned my frown upside down!" but the fact remains that the hills are always gray and brown until May so it's like we're all just trying to convince ourselves that things are getting better. In Pittsburgh, Spring is a state of mind (barf) until it's definitely summer, potholes patched and black snow gone and it all kind of happens at once.
So needless to say, I'm still drinking red wine at night and hot coffee in the morning--I know it's definitely summer when I make the switch to white wine and iced coffee--and getting all hot and bothered by Fall 2010 RTW collections. I painted my nails with Tropical Temptation by Revlon last night as part of the convincing-myself-it's-spring process, but then I saw the Fall Hermes collection and I just want to wear leather and black tights and top hats again. A whole lot of good Tropical Temptation did. If there was such a place as Menswear for Broads Heaven, Hermes would own it:
Ok, fine. I will try harder. 3.1 Phillip Lim Spring 2010 RTW:
All photos via Style.com
